Teike Asselbergs is a contemporary artist and conceptual designer focused on the topics of economy, organizations and art in public space. As PhD/DBA candidate at the department of Critical Organisational Studies of the University of Humanistics in Utrecht, The Netherlands, she currently focuses her research on the dialogue between artists and people in organisations.

Teike Asselbergs first worked together with Aslı during the Galata Visibility days in October 2006 where she presented a project with the light shop-owners of Galata. Thereafter Aslı and Teike continued working together on ‘Made in Şişhane’. After Aslı became active at the Sulukule Platform Teike took more responsibilities in the Şişhane project resulting in workshops with Dutch designers.

After she graduated at the ‘Voorheen Audio Visual’ department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (1997), Teike set up the artist initiative Orgacom with fellow artist Elias Tieleman during her Masters of Fine Art at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam(1999). Orgacom focuses on visualizing the culture of organizations (companies as well as non-profit organizations) and other groups through contemporary art.

In 1999 Orgacom received the Young Designers + Industry award for a project with Randstad Holding. Orgacom’s activities were covered by various national and local newspapers as well as international magazines, radio, public and professional media and design magazines. Orgacom has exhibited in various museum (for example: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam) and galleries (for example: Gallery Micheline Swajcer) and she has given (guest-)lectures at art schools and universities.

After she moved to Turkey in 2005, where she joined her Turkish husband, she left the boards of the cultural organizations she was chairing in the Netherlands: TransArtists, STROOM, HTV de IJsberg  and Young Designers + Industry, and started to give advise to small art organizations in the Netherlands and Turkey. She also set up the organizations Connectistanbul (for non-tourist groups) and Contactistanbul (for cultural projects) to further support the cultural scene in Istanbul and Turkey.