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Exhibition Histories: Vasıf Kortun speaks to Christian Kobald about the 3rd Istanbul Biennial (1992)

04/2024
No Means and No Ends

03/2024
The Big Bummer

03/2024
The Exception on the Upper Floor: Atatürk Cultural Center Art Gallery

04/2023
Exchange between Vasıf Kortun and Gülsün Karamustafa

03/2022
The Threshold

10/2021
“What Do We Do Now?,” Acts of Political Imagination

09/2021
“Overlapping Diasporas: Vasıf Kortun interviews Shahzia Sikander”

03/2021
Questions on Institutions

07/2020
Gazi Education Institute and Cengiz Çekil

03/2020
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection

03/2019
On Public Mindedness: In Conversation with Vasıf Kortun

03/2019
Gülsün Karamustafa: A Life of Care

03/2019
The Orphan Archive

03/2018
“A Residual”, Glossary of Common Knowledge, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

03/2017
In Turkish The Word “Public” Doesn’t Exist

01/2017
Post-Curatorial: Testing Site

01/2017
Cengiz Çekil (1945–2015)

01/2016
A discussion about SALT with an astute colleague from Scotland

05/2015
The Potential of Plurality: A Discussion with the Directors of L’Internationale

05/2015
In Conversation with Jun Yang

04/2015
An Unpublished Interview with a colleague from the region

05/2014
Caring for where it hurts: Gülsün Karamustafa

05/2014
Travels in Making Space

04/2014
How I respond to Art Fair Invitations

04/2014
The institution cannot take sides, but it has to have a position

03/2014
Tall Tales and True: Talking about Turkish Contemporary Art

03/2013
The Failure of a Project: Gezi Park and More

03/2013
In Conversation: Halil Altındere and Vasıf Kortun

03/2013
SALT: Beyond the Classical Broadcasting Role Interview with Vasıf Kortun

05/2012
A conversation with Arsalan Mohammed

04/2012
A View from Somewhere: An Unfinished Conversation

04/2012
Vasıf Kortun in conversation with Can Elgiz

04/2011
A Conversation between Vahap Avşar and Vasıf Kortun

04/2011
Kader Attia, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Vasıf Kortun and Wael Shawky on art in the Middle East

04/2011
As if it Never Existed: Sibel Horada

04/2011
‘Special like that’

04/2011
9th Istanbul Biennial

03/2011
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun

03/2011
Looking Back At the Influential Summer of 1977

04/2010
Molecular Production and the Cultural Mainstream

04/2010
Periphery After Neoliberal Globalization

05/2009
Biennale man: art in a global age

04/2009
An Unpublished Discussion on Platform with Ahmet Öğüt

05/2008
A Discussion with Vasıf Kortun

04/2008
Ahmet Öğüt: Clear Blue Sky versus Generous Earth

04/2008
An Interview with Hüseyin Alptekin about his installation for the pavilion of Turkey, 52nd Venice Biennial

05/2007
Istanbul qua Istanbul with Matthew Schum,

05/2007
Notes on the Biennial

05/2007
Like the “Sex Pistols to My Way” or Gabriel Lester reinvents the wheel

04/2007
Notes on the Biennial

04/2007
Recollection: About a “Fight Specific” project at Isola in Milan

03/2007
Local Vision – Interview with Vasıf Kortun by Dobrilla Denegri

05/2006
Living with the Private Sector : Some notes on “Pera” in Istanbul

05/2006
Doing the Homework

05/2006
Istanbul

04/2006
Interregnum

04/2006
A Discussion with Ahmet Öğüt

04/2006
Fikret Atay

04/2006
We’re not going for universalism” Charles Esche and Vasıf Kortun on the Istanbul Biennial

05/2005
“The World Can Be Transformed by Action”

04/2005
A discussion between Seçil Yersel and Vasıf Kortun

04/2005
“We’re not going for universalism”Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun on the Istanbul Biennial

04/2005
Ahmet Öğüt

04/2005
A Discussion with Erden Kosova

04/2005
The World is Yours

04/2005
One, Two, Many Biennials: How Do Local Conditions Prompt and Shape the Spread of the Global Salon?

04/2005
Undesire

04/2004
New Internationalism 2004

04/2004
Around the 8th Istanbul Biennial

05/2003
A positively depressed view of the situation

05/2003
Interview with Xandra Eden

05/2003
Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art

05/2003
Is it like giving someone a book you loved? Or more like reading an unknown writer and publishing him?

04/2003
Night Notes

05/2002
Underground Trends – The New Art Museum, Istanbul: Irina Cios interviews Vasıf Kortun

05/2001
Interview with Vasıf Kortun

05/1999
Interview on “Kriz Viva Vaia” exhibition with Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin

04/1999
Turkey

04/1998
Conflict-Sharing-Consensus-Complicity-And Back Again

03/1997
Suyun Öteki Yanı: (The Other Side of the Water)

04/1994
Istanbul As Raumgeist

04/1992
The Colonial Harem By Malek Alloula

04/1987