Arts & Culture and their Institutions in Turkey in the last 25 Years, notes for navigation
Unpublished
On September 12 1980, Turkey had the third coup d’état carried out by the Turkish Army. The ruled for three years.1 Turkey’s last dictatorship. The coup became the glue of the neoliberal economic policy for decades to come.2 Neoliberal globalisation caused a profound transformation of the field of art and culture along with their institutions [...]
Interview with Paola Nicolin
Published in Abitare, May 2007
Paola Nicolin: how did you find when you came back to Istanbul from US?
Vasif Kortun: Except for the biennial, Istanbul was not all that different from those sluggish backwater towns that are now making competitive claims to global visibility. I want to dissociate two things: The congenital aspects of a city, [...]
Interview with David Elliott
Istanbul was lucky to have David Elliott as the director of the istanbul modern. I fely happy to have a generous and critical colleague around. Here is a short interview with David in the spring of 2006 only a few months after he had arrived.
The turkish version has been published by art-ist magazine.
Vasif Kortun: How [...]
On Platform Garanti
Gulf Art Fair, 2007
Global Art Forum Archive Program
Vasif Kortun, Director. Platform Garanti, TR.
Because of problems with the tapes, we must apologize to Vasif Kortun for not being able to provide the full transcript of the presentation of his impressive project in Istanbul, Platform Garanti.
As a presentation to this space, we would like to offer our [...]
The next ten years of contemporary art in the middle east
Middle East Focus
The next ten years of contemporary art in the middle east
Gulf Art Fair 2007
Moderator Vasif Kortun, Curator, Director, Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Saleh Barakat, Art Expert, Beirut, LB. Camilla Cañellas, International Arts Consultant, Writer and Critic Barcelona, ES. Bassam El-Baroni, Art Critic, Curator, EG. Hassan Khan, Editor, Bidoun Cairo, EG. Jack Persekian, Director [...]