Resmi Görüs

A Foreigner A Traveller
Vahap Avşar,
Gülsün Karamustafa,
Hale Tenger,
H.Alptekin/M.Morris,
Bedri Baykam,
Mehmet İleri
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 1993
The exhibition offers neither an exotic taste, nor conforms to predispositions, but it may nevertheless give certain clues regarding where the works come from. The works offer neither a fluent international reading, nor display ‘fantasy-mythological’ roots. Away from provincialism and outside imagined centers, they [...]

Short Stories / Play, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 2001
Artists: Fernando Arias Gaviria, Artemio, Davide Bertocchi, Iñaki Bonillas, Nathalie Bookchin, Tania Bruguera, Maya Churi, Alison Cornyn & Sue Johnson, Nick Crowe, Darío Escobar, Kendell Geers, Prapon Joe Kumjim, Marcello Maloberti, Ottonella Mocellin, Gabinete Ordo Amoris, Serkan Özkaya, Sener Özmen, Adrian Paci, Araya Rasjarmreansook, Josè Alejandro Restrepo, [...]

Becoming Dutch
VanAbbeMuseum, With Dick Pels, Rosi Braiditti
December 1, 2007
Video of the Event
I would like to start with an introduction to the general context of art in Turkey over the last twenty years. I was asked by the organisers of the caucus to talk about exhibitions from Turkey in Europe; the way in which they have [...]

Out from Nowhere
Bülent Şangar
Halil Altındere
Canan Şenol
Neriman Polat
Aydan Murtezaoğlu
Vahit Tuna
Hakan Gürsoytrak
Centrem Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, Schiedam, Leiden
The Netherlands, 1999
The following texts are not edited. They were notes for the curator of the exhibition, tools for him to check the translation from Turkish to Dutch. Think of them as loose drafts.
The discipline and the presentation of the body [...]

berlin . istanbul . vice versa
28.08.04 - 12.09.04
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Catalog
Information about the exhibition is here.
The new Istanbul is already full of itself and drowning in arrogance. The city has unequivocally shed its status as secondary city – second to the capital of the country, second to the “first-world” cities, [...]