Living with the Private Sector
In Going public ’06 : atlante mediterraneo = mediterranean atlas / Edited by Claudia Zanfi, 2006
Some notes on “Péra” in Istanbul
Most of Istanbul’s art and cultural institutions are located on and around the avenue between Taksim and Tünel. The avenue’s original name was Grande Rue de Péra, later changed to
”Avenue of independence” after the establishment [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Interview with Dobrilla Denegri
Interview for art-spaces, 2006
Dobrila Denegri
Vasif Kortun
DD: How you see the development of the art scene since the beginning of the ‘90s when, as a curator of 3rd biennial, you tried to interconnect Istanbul and other cities and cultural contexts in the Balkan / Mediterranean region. Would you say that since then a system of contemporary [...]