25 September 2026ISSN 3150-0757
1. Who is Omer Eken, and what defines your artistic practice? There is a journey that begins with your childhood in Silvan, continues through Diyarbakir Fine Arts High School and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, and leads to your studio…
1. For a reader encountering Delal Tekin and your work for the first time, could you tell us a little about yourself? How did your relationship with art begin, and what keeps you painting today? My relationship with art was…
French director Tony Gatlif, who brought Romani culture, migration, exile and the search for freedom together with music, has died at the age of 77. When Tony Gatlif comes to mind, what emerges first is not a particular cinematic genre…
The death of Yayoi Kusama is not only the end of a long artistic life, but also an opportunity to look again at the legacy left by one of contemporary art’s most recognisable figures. Dots, mirrors, nets and pumpkins are…
1. Let’s begin by getting to know you. We met at the 6th Mardin Biennial, but I would like to hear you describe yourself in your own words. Looking back from your childhood to today, what was at the beginning…
Memory, Space and the Human in Gunes Kaplan’s Photography Beyond the Photograph: A Way of Looking Some photographs do not simply show a place; they make us feel what once happened there. In the surface of a wall, the texture…
