Resmi Görüs

Unpublished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 [...]

Brochure of Veronica Wiman’s satellite project in Istanbul during the 8th Istanbul Biennial. The project consisted of interventions in the public space.
I agree that the notion of “responsibility” harkens back to European religious art, but not to modernism. Modernism was the moment, I believe, when the artist was “liberated” from the notion of responsibility. [...]

Pedestrian Exhibitions I, Catalog, 2002
I want to start with a loose connection. The pedestrian exhibition project seems to me an uncanny reminder of the late 19th century Istanbul exhibitions. I am interested in the interplay of two notions; first, the emergence of painting in the European tradition in the Ottoman State and second, the untenable [...]

Becoming a Place Catalog, Proje4L, 2001
This text was written for the inaugural exhibition at Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art. The artists were Hüseyin Alptekin, Gülsün Karamustafa, Can Altay, Halil Altındere, Esra Ersen, Tina Carlsson, Erik Göngrich, Hakan Gürsoytrak, Aydan Murtezaoğlu, Bülent Şangar and ‘Oda Projesi’

One of the critical features of contemporary art in Turkey [...]