Resmi Görüs

Interview with Peter Moertenboeck and  Helge Mooshammer in Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and The Politics of Space, NAI Publishers, 2008.
PM/HM: İstanbul has become a very popular site in the recent discourse on contested urban spaces, particularly in the art world. When you curated the 9th International Istanbul Biennial together with Charles Esche in 2005, you [...]

Unpublished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 [...]

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 [...]

Poliester, Vol.5, #16, Fall 1996
Big Biennials issue
A safe way to discuss a biennial is to base the argument on the biennial’s origins in the late nineteenth-century Venice model and world fairs. In this case, the (arbitrary) division of the exhibition according to countries becomes a no-win approach. The Venice pavilion approach where the exhibitions are [...]

Catalog, 3rd Istanbul Biennial, 1992
Megalopolis, which in Greek means “the great city” reveres the town  as a spiritual structure over and above its physical expansion. In the texts, the megalopolis is “transcendent” and is used to describe Athens and Troy. It is not alluded to as a “big city” but as an “insurmountable, transcendent town.”
The [...]