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We salute our student, artist, writer, and researcher Rana Kelleci (DAI, 2026) whose practice navigates the intersections of space, memory, and knowledge-making. Through an interdisciplinary approach, she explores cultural and historical narratives weaving together embodied experience. Wonderful to know that Rana has been selected for the Spring 2025 Research Fellowships offered by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey! NIT Fellowships are research stays that take place in Istanbul. They are given to selected candidates affiliated with Dutch universities, whose research has a connection with the mission of the institute, broadly defined as the study of the history, cultures, and societies of Turkey in the past or present. 

| tag: Istanbul

Beloved former HTDTWT tutor Bassam El Baroni has written the preface to Alessandra Ferrini's new book Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality Across Italy and Libya, published by Archive Books and launched by Villa Romana. The book includes documentation of Ferrini’s major project Gaddafi in Rome, whose last iteration is currently exhibited at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa, as well as a series of works reflecting on positionality, censorship, and the erasure of the genocide perpetrated by the Italians in Libya. As a result, the book includes original contributions, reprints, and translations by writers, scholars, curators, and practitioners pivotal to the development of Ferrini’s work and thinking. This year at the DAI, Ferrini contributes to 2024-2025 COOP study group ~ Half Land, Half Sea: Transcartography of Resistance, in partnership with Archive.

| tags: Istanbul, Marseille, Tunis, Florence, Thessaloniki

We commend BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, for its brilliant selection of 2023/2024 Fellows as we are excited to know that Teresa Borasino (DAI, 2005), Iliada Charalambous (DAI, 2023) and Maoyi Qiu (DAI, 2022) will be working alongside other, equally purposeful artists~activists within the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice post-academic program, taking place in a federated constellation of two research cells in Istanbul and Utrecht. The Fellows have been selected on the basis of their proposals to develop experimental research within the expanded field of contemporary art and in connection with the overarching research trajectory “Alignment/Nonalignment”—a layered and urgent geopolitical proposition pertaining to the questions of organization, positionality, and solidarity. This research focus emerged in the context of the 2021/2022 edition of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice and was specifically prompted by the unjustifiable military invasion of Ukraine: a chain of events that strengthened the refusal of all forms of imperialism and amplified the need for practices of sharing and reconnection with collectivist initiatives, non-official histories, and subterranean legacies that have enacted and cultivated solidarities against the grain of imposed archives, identities, and structures. October 9, 2023–June 17, 2024.

| tags: Utrecht, Istanbul

A Finger for an Eye, group exhibition with Baha Görkem Yalım (DAI, 2018), Cansu Yıldıran, Dorian Sarı and Istanbul Queer Art Collective (Tuna Erdem & Seda Ergul), curated by Alper Turan. The artists respond to the ongoing violence materialized in the realm of the visual codes, symbols, and representations of queer existences in Turkey. All of these artists innovate a visual language that is both bold and invisible, evolving out of the famed rainbow which has recently become a target. Presented within the Emerging Curator Series 2021 by Protocinema, in partnership with Poşe Artist Run Space.

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THE UNIVERSE FLICKERS at SALT BEYOĞLU (till December 30). Featuring Anna Boghiguian, Merve Ünsal and DAI tutors Rana Hamadeh, Navine G. Khan-Dossos as well as Annie Fletcher who programmed the exhibitiion.

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2017 ~ DAI joins the protests against the arrest and imprisonment of Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s most prominent civil society activists and cultural ambassadors.

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The writing has been on the wall for several years ~ Today Ahmet tweeted a link.

| tags: Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir

Statement by the Jury for the Akbank Sanat International Curator Competition 2015: Bassam El Baroni, Paul O’Neill, Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ: "Given what we know of the situation, it remains important for us to note that although we understand the complexity of the current political conflicts in Turkey and their possible impact on the art context, we still cannot help but identify this as censorship."

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DAI ALUMNI URGENTLY CALL FOR OUR SOLIDARITY AND ASK US TO SIGN A PETITION launched and signed by 1128 academics in Turkey and supported by 356 international supporters including David Harvey, Noam Chomsky, Etienne Balibar, Erik Swyngedouw, Judith Butler and many others.

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WOMAN - LAND - CULTURE presentation by artist Avan Omar (DAI, 2016) and social psychologist Shara Tahir for INLAND Türkiye Extension Agency as part of SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms ~ The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

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