Mehtap Baydu is a performance and installation artist. She focuses on gender roles and sensitive religious and political issues in multicultural contexts. She involves the audience in her performances and challenges them with symbolic objects and situations. Baydu studied sculpture at Hacettepe University and at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. She has received numerous awards, including scholarships from the Robert Wilson Foundation and the Tarabya Cultural Academy as well as the Art Prize of the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn 2021. Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, including Cuma, Edition Block, Berlin, 2018. Baydu lives and works in Berlin.

As of April 2025