Senem is based in Stockholm and works as a cultural producer and illustrator on a freelance basis. She also has experience in working with production design for stage and screen. 

Clients include; Hjorthagens Kulturhus, Teater Gyllene Draken, Haninge kommun, Scenkonst Sörmland, Högskolan för Film och Foto Göteborg, Dansens Hus, Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm Early Music Festival, SVT, Stadsmissionen, Cirkus Prinsessan, Hoie, Almedahls, Dramatiska Institutet, Stockholms Stadsteater, Drottningholms Slottsteater, Atalante Göteborg, Gustaf Sjökvist Kammarkör, Stadsmuseet, Husman&Hagberg, Beymen Istanbul.

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Along with her professional career, Senem  earned an M.Phil in 2012 from Department of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Senem’s research ‘The Black Princess of Elegance’ focused on the characteristics of dandyism and its manifestations in women who worked in the fields of politics, literature, visual and performing arts, and lived in the context of the early feminist movement in turn-of-the-century Paris and London.

 

Furthermore, Senem holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design from Beckmans School of Design, and earned a Masters of Arts with distinction in 2008 from Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. Her thesis ‘The Constant Avant-Garde’ investigated the effects of displacement, alienation and colonialism on cultural identity while positioning the constructions of masculinity and femininity of all-female theatre Takarazuka Revue in the context of all-male theatre Kabuki. 

 

Recipient of numerous awards and grants, Senem was appointed to Swedish Arts Grants Committee and IASPIS delegation as a board member, as well as a member of staff to London College of Fashion while she was a PhD candidate.