Istanbul Performance Art is the First International Performance Art Platform in Turkey established in January 2015. It has a sister platform which is Stockholm Performance Art. It is curated by Pınar Derin Gençer.

Pınar Derin Gençer is an artist, curator, medical doctor based in Istanbul and Stockholm. She works mainly on performance art, visual arts, installation, writing and objects. Her art studies the relationship between the physical, psychological, historical field of the life, of the nature, of the city and the human. The power, identity, belonging, gender, space, ideology, human mind, body and soul feature as her research subjects.

Istanbul Performance Art curated an exhibition as a part of PAWA 2018.