berlin. istanbul . vice versa
berlin . istanbul . vice versa
28.08.04 - 12.09.04
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Catalog
Information about the exhibition is here.
The new Istanbul is already full of itself and drowning in arrogance. The city has unequivocally shed its status as secondary city – second to the capital of the country, second to the “first-world” cities, [...]
Mediterraneans
Catalog text for the Mediterraneans. Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome at Mattatoio, Rome.
4 June - 19 September 2004.
The artists I had invited were Slaven Tolj, Wael Schawky, Khalil Rabah, Hussein Chalayan, and Sener Özmen and Erkan Özgen.
Links are at the bottom of the text.
Journey of an Exhibition
Vasif Kortun
When I received the invitation with nine [...]
Discussion with Serkan Özkaya
Lightly manipulated from an online conversation that took place between Serkan ‘Ozkaya (artist) and I (restlessincorporated)
Manifesta Magazine, 2004
Is it like giving someone a book you loved?
or more like reading an unknown writer and publishing him?
restlessincorporated: You know it is Sunday. Postcuratorial is the topic of the day.
artist: Plagiarist can utter a truth that [...]
On Gabriel Lester
For the brochure of Gabriel Lester’s Exhibition, IASPIS, Stockholm
Gabriel Lester employs the age-old tradition of installation practice. His installations make you feel like you are walking through an editing studio. All around you are sequences of single frames of film footage. They are arranged in particular orders; this order in which they are intentionally stacked [...]
A positively depressed view of the situation
Where Here
Text for the catalogue of where here exhibition at the Saitama Museum, 2004
Istanbul is getting busier each day. For many years the city had nothing but local artists and artist-organised exhibitions. From the end of 1980s, with the advent of the Istanbul Biennial, the city took great strides in developing relations with the international [...]