Resmi Görüs

Brochure of Veronica Wiman’s satellite project in Istanbul during the 8th Istanbul Biennial. The project consisted of interventions in the public space.
I agree that the notion of “responsibility” harkens back to European religious art, but not to modernism. Modernism was the moment, I believe, when the artist was “liberated” from the notion of responsibility. [...]

Catalog Text was for the 2nd Ceramics Biennale in Albisola that I was one of the curators of.
Hale Tenger, Nedko Solakov, Bjorn Kjeltoff and Gabriel Lester.
You can never say to a child that raisins are candy and get away with it. ceramic art is like the raisins of the artworld.
Bjorn Kjeltoff
During my first trip to [...]

Brochure of Apex Art
Undesire
curated by Vasif Kortun
April 18 - May 17, 2003
Artists: Fikret Atay, Phil Collins, Inci Eviner and Dan Perjovschi
Undesire came on the heels of the so-called coalition forces’ invasion of Iraq. The war prompted me to seek a different exhibition altogether; I was already extremely worried with the swift [...]

On Füsun Onur, Hale Tenger, Aydan Murtezaoglu, 2003
You will not find them in the coveted stables of the Istanbul’s commercial galleries. You could however occasion upon them once in a few years in gallery institutions that that have willingly removed themselves, at the risk of marginalization, from the crass commercialization of the marketplace that better [...]

C Magazine, Canada, 2003
At Power Plant, Toronto
Xandra Eden. On the way to your lecture in Toronto you asked me, “What is the strength of the arts in Toronto?” I replied that it was the artists and the activism of artists collectives that drives Toronto’s art scene. I want to ask you the same question about [...]