Exhibited: Back-Log
Exhibited, Catalog, 1994, Center for Curatorial Studies
All exhibitions have an individual dimension: they involve a public display of a private need. That they may move toward a collective end does not ultimately change their essentially private nature. But the desire to make public is not reducible to the desire to mediate art through one person’s [...]
Istanbul qua Istanbul
Vasif Kortun & Matthew Schum
Vasif Kortun: Istanbul qua Istanbul was first published in Fillip 6 in Summer 2007.
As Director of Platform Garanti, curator Vasif Kortun is a leading force behind art in Istanbul. Over the last fifteen years, Kortun has helped to define contemporary art in Turkey and abroad by curating exhibitions such as the 1993 and [...]
Interview with Dan Cameron
The decoded conversation with Dan Cameron, curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and director of the 8th Istanbul Biennial at the Yapi Kredi Cultural Center Sermet Çifter Gallery.
September 4th 2003
Vasıf Kortun: Dan Cameron is going to give other interviews and panels on the Biennial. This is going to be [...]
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 [...]
With Xandra Eden
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 [...]