The Absent Question Mark: How Have We Got Here?
Vasıf Kortun and Sezin Romi, How Did We Get Here: Reading Vasıf Kortun. Edited by Sezin Romi. Berlin: Archive Books, 2026. 288 pp.
Few curatorial practices are as intimately bound up with the development of contemporary art in their geography as Vasıf Kortun’s. Any attempt to think through the trajectory of art practices in Turkey in the last thirty years must inevitably contend with the interventions he staged through the exhibitions he curated, texts he authored, and institutions he founded. In March 2017, he stepped down from his directorship at SALT, the interdisciplinary research and cultural institution he founded … Read more
