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DRIVING FORCE
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|November 2025
As director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Bengi Ünsal is steering the cultural space in a more ambitious, eclectic and interdisciplinary direction

'What was crucial to me upon becoming director was putting the artists and the audiences at the heart of everything,' says Bengi Ünsal, who took the reins of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2022.
This story is from the November 2025 edition of Wallpaper.
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