Fikret Atay
Brochure, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
January 24 - April 19, 2006
In 1997 the fifth Istanbul Biennial broke once and for all the domination of the secular, Western artistic elite in Turkey. Halil Altındere, a young artist from the southeast of the country, enlarged is national identity card to placard scale and duplicated it six times. [...]
Becoming Dutch / Text of the Panel Contribution
Becoming Dutch
VanAbbeMuseum, With Dick Pels, Rosi Braiditti
December 1, 2007
Video of the Event
I would like to start with an introduction to the general context of art in Turkey over the last twenty years. I was asked by the organisers of the caucus to talk about exhibitions from Turkey in Europe; the way in which they have [...]
The Colonial Harem By Malek Alloula
Book Review, August/ September 1987, Art & Artists
The Colonial Harem, Malek Alloula
Intro. by Barbara Harlow
University of Minnesota Press, Theory and History of Literature,
Volume 21, Minneapolis, 1986
In the past few years there has appeared a plethora of new books—in most cases accompanying exhibitions—on late 19th-century photography of the Middle East. While one has come to welcome [...]
Istanbul
A PRIOR MAGAZINE
Making Sense in the City, 2006
INTERREGNUM
Istanbul: Memories and the City is an auto-biography of Orhan Pamuk , and a wayward look on the city. Pamuk as a library writer, explores the city through writers who wrote on Istanbul from the late Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century. Working through texts, memoirs and photographs, he [...]
Kemal Önsoy: Cité Roumelie
1989
Kemal Onsoy: Rumeli Hanı / Cite Roumelie, Galeri Nev Yayınları/Publications, Istanbul
These are the paintings of the city. They observe the city as it comes into being, lives and vanishes.
Önsoy calls this series of paintings, Cité Roumelie. Cité Roumelie, one of the prominent buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, witnesses only the cheapest [...]