Didem Özbek is an artist and designer living in Istanbul. Didem is the co-director of PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space with artist Osman Bozkurt. PiST/// is a non-for-profit, independent art space in Istanbul. Since 2006, Özbek organized many projects for PiST/// such as ?PARK, PiST///? a stand at Frieze Art Fair (2008), The Armory Show (2010) and No Soul For Sale (Tate Modern, 2010). She has also developed and created many conceptual projects for PiST/// and writes and designs for the PiST/// publications as well. PiST/// started an international research and production in residency program named as P_RP_R (read as PIRPIR) on January 2011.