published texts

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 

2024  
Yasemin Özcan: Wet Floor
The Pebble’s Precedence
Işın Önol
Soft Cover, September 2024
English & Turkish available
Arter Publications
Editors: Eda Berkmen & Süreyyya Evren
Design: Ayşe Bozkurt
ISBN: 978-605-73355-7-9 
 İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I
On the Perpetual Onset of Oblivion
Işın Önol
Hardcover, March 2024
English & Turkish available
Salt/Garanti Kültür A.Ş. (Istanbul), Mousse Publishing (Milan)
Editor: Vasıf Kortun
Design: Esen Karol
ISBN: 978-88-6749-420-0 
   
2022  
Mario Rizzi: Bayt
Conditions of Objection
Işın Önol
Softcover, September 2022
Bilingual edition (English & Italian)
Nero Publishers
The volume is co-produced by the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
ISBN: 978-88-8056-160-6 		  
 
   
2021  
A Knot in the Throat:
Foraging for a Vanishing Present
Livia Alexander & Işın Önol
Softcover, October 2021
Bilingual (German & English)
WUK/Kunsthalle Exnergasse (German/English)		  

 
2020  
Maja Vukoje. On the Edge
Flamboyant Transparency
Paperback, November 2020
Bilingual (German & English)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König
Editor: Luisa Ziaja
ISBN: 978-3-903327-03-0 		 Structures of Displacement
Structures of Displacement Symposium
Paperback, November 2020
Bilingual (German & English)
Birkhäuser Basel
Editors: Baerbel Mueller, Frida Robles
ISBN: 9783035623048
   
 2019  
Women Mobilizing Memory
B L A N K: an attempt at a conversation
Susan Meiselas & Işın Önol
Hardcover, August 2019
English
Columbia University Press
Editors: Ayşe Gül Altınay
María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch,
Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon
ISBN: 9780231191845		 Ne Oralı Ne Buralı
Interview with Işın Önol by Işıl Öz
Paperback, August 2019
Turkish
Karakarga Publications
Istanbul, Turkey
Editor: Işıl Öz
ISBN: 978-6057865311
   
2018  
Authoritarianism and Resistance in Turkey:
Conversations on Democratic and Social Challenges
Art Production in Turkey from 1980s to Today
Interview with Hale Tenger by Isin Önol
Hardcover – July 23, 2018,
Springer Publishing
Editors: Esra Özyürek, Gaye Özpınar, Emrah Altındis		 MEDIATIONS: SUSAN MEISELAS
A place a.k.a. Kurdistan. Time exposing the shadow of History
Hardcover, March  2018, Paris
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume,
Damiani, SFMOMA
Editor: Pia Viewing
   
2017  
ENDLESS BODIES OF WORK:
RICHARD JOCHUM
September 2017 , Austrian Frederick and
Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation
Vienna, Austria
Editors: Isin Önol & Richard Jochum		 A LIFE OVERFLOWING
Aziz Nesin 1915 – 2015
UNWRITTEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Hardcover, September 2015,
Istanbul, Turkey
Editors: Esin Pervane & Salih Bora
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2016  
WORDS NUMBERS LINES
BILGE FRIEDLAENDER
October 2016
ARTER
Istanbul, Turkey
Editor: Sureyya Evren		 WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY
Manuel Print, May 2016,
Angewandte,
Heiligenkreuzerhof
Vienna, Austria
Editor: Isin Önol
   
2015  
MOTHER TONGUE:
A visual journey inside
heritage, gender politics and  war
Hardcover , 2015
Oslo, Norway
Editor: Frida Rusnak		 The Challenges of Mobility:
Research, Debates and Practices
Hardcover, July 01, 2105,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Editors: Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, Serene Huleileh

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EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

 

     
THE NEW HUMAN AGENDA
April 2019
Akbank Sanat,
Istanbul		 NONLINEAR HISTORIES:
TRANSGENERATIONAL MEMORY OF
TRAUMA
March 2018
Reflect Art Space, Glandale, LA		 Fragility of _kin
Montclair State University College of Arts, MFA Program
Studio Art Thesis Show
May 2018
American Medium Gallery, NY
2017    
UNLEASHING
(In Progress – 2018)
Columbia University
Teachers College, NY		 BLACK NOISE
September 2017
Akbank Sanat,
Istanbul		 DIDEM ERK:
HOME IS A PLACE CALLED NEVER
September 2017, X-IST
Istanbul
 2016    2015
WORDS NUMBERS LINES
BILGE FRIEDLAENDER
October 2016
ARTER
Istanbul, Turkey		 WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY
Manuel Print, May 2016,
Angewandte,
Heiligenkreuzerhof
Vienna, Austria		 MOTHER TONGUE
A visual journey inside
heritage, gender
politics and  war
Hardcover, Oslo, Norway, 2015
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  2015    
A LIFE OVERFLOWING
Aziz Nesin 1915 – 2015
UNWRITTEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Hardcover, September 2015,
Istanbul		 UNWRITTEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
AZIZ NESIN 1925 – 2015
June 2015
Depo
Istanbul, Turkey		 YAZILMAMIS ÖZYASAMÖYKÜSÜ:
AZIZ NESIN 1915-2015
June 2015
Depo
Istanbul, Turkey
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 2015    
WOMEN MOBILIZING MEMORY
COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVES:
CONNECTIVE HISTORIES
September 2015
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, NY		 MOBILIZING MEMORY
– VIENNA
March 2015
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Vienna, Austria		 MOBILIZING MEMORY
– VIENNA (Booklet)
March 2015
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Vienna, Austria
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 2014    
MOBILIZING MEMORY:
WOMEN WITNESSING
September 2014
Columbia Global Centers, Istanbul
Columbia University, New York
Depo, Istanbul, Turkey		 LEARNED HELPLESSNESS:
ON AUTHORITY, OBEDIENCE,
AND CONTROL
April 2014
Muse Istanbul,
Turkey		 INATTENTIONAL
BLINDNESS
January 2014
Galeri Zilberman,
Istanbul,
Turkey
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 2012  2009  2008
TACTICAL TOPICS
TOPICAL TACTICS
September 2012
Media-Scape Biennale,
Zagreb,
Croatia		 SERIOUSLY IRONIC:
POSITIONS IN TURKISH
CONTEMPORARY ART SCENE
June 2009
Biel, Center Pasquart,
Switzerland		 L’ALBA DI DOMANI /
THE DOWN OF TOMORROW
March 2008,
Elgiz Museum
Istanbul,
Turkey
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OTHER PUBLISHED TEXTS:

 

 OTHER TEXT  
March 2018 Sinopale: A Local Biennial as an Alternative Model for Residencies and Spaces for Artistic and Cultural Production
Arts Everywhere-Musagetes
July 2016 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer ve Kolektif Bellek (Turkish)
Artful Living Online Journal
April 2015 On Bayram Candan, Meric Algün Ringborg, and Iz Oztat
Sabanci Museum “Reunion” Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN 978-605-4348-99-2
March 2015 Dissonance: Transgressed Boundaries between Desire and Fear
Kunsgeschichte Aktuell
Issue 1/15, p4
January 2015 ‘Mobilizing Memory: Interview with Ayse Gül Altinay and Isin Önol’
Interview by: Katy Deepwell
n.paradoxa, KT Press, volume 35, Jan 2015, War/Conflict, pp.31-39
September 2014 Women Mobilizing Memory: Unbroken Cameras
Exhibition Catalogue, “Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing”, Depo, Istanbul
April 2014 Learned Helplessness: On Authority, Obedience, and Control
Exhibition Catalogue, Muse Istanbul (co-writen with Tobias Nöbauer)
January 2014 Inattentional Blindness
Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery Zilberman, Istanbul
May 2013 Conversation with Bernhard Cella
Streulicht Magazine, Issue 2
April 2013 With/in/significant Other
Online Exhibition, Open Systems
March 2013 Signs
Exhibition review (Turkish)
Artful Living Journal
March 2013 Speculative Biologies II
Interview with Pinar Yoldas Part II (Turkish)
Artful Living Journal
February 2013 Speculative Biologies
Interview with Pinar Yoldas (Turkish)
Artful Living Journal
February 2013 Transmediale
Exhibition review (Turkish)
Artful Living Journal
December 2012 Vulnerability of the Invulnerable
Essay
The Curinity Project
October 2012 Shadows as Tools for Participation
Catalogue text
Media-Scape Biennial for Time-based Art
Topical Tactics – Tactical Topics
April 2012 Can Curating be Taught?
Article, co-written with Maja Ciric
Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? / Part II
oncurating.org, Issue 13, p.32
February 2012 Sustainability of Curatorial Practices in the Age of Mass Production
Article (Turkish)
Genc Sanat Art Magezine, Turkey Issue 202
September 2011 Transition
Catalogue text
Published at the museum collection book “Elgiz 10”
10th Anniversary of Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
February 2011 Challenges of Interaction between the Host and the Guest through Artistic Mobility
Essay
“Exploring Mobility around the Mediterranean”, 1st-2nd July, 2011
Amman, Jordan
December 2010 Investigating the Invisible: Hidden Information within Shadows
Essay
Published at the exhibition catalogue of the Pixxel Point 2010
11th International New Media Arts Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia/Nova Gorizia, Italia
November 2010 Interview with Ardan Ozmenoglu
ICE Istanbul Contemporary Etc., Quarterly Magazine, Issue 3
October 2010 Interview with Ardan Ozmenoglu
Catalogue text
Published at the exhibition catalogue Handle with Care, Uni Credit Studio, Milan
July 2010 Art as Touristic Activity
Essay
published at “Travels” Ed.by Louise Nilsson & Lisa Boström
June 2010 Unregistered Geographies
Previously written texts “Overjoyed Ones” and “Seriously Ironic” on the artistic work of Muruvvet Turkyilmaz republished at the Exhibition catalogue Unregistered Geographies, Istanbul
May 2010 Political Involvement as a Basis of Collaboration
Article – Interview
Interview with What, How and for Whom, Curatorial Collective
On-Curating e-Journal, Issue 5
December 2009 Gwangju and Its Biennials
Article (Turkish)
ICE Istanbul Contemporary Etc. Quarterly Magazine, Issue 1, (p. 70-72)
November 2009 Zu Nancy Atakan
Catalogue text
for the Exhibition Catalogue “Istanbul Next Wave”
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
October 2009 Amidst
Catalogue text
(text based on the work of Hale Tenger) for the Exhibition Catalogue
Golden Gates: Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Paris
October 2009 Tuesday Baazar
Catalogue text
Solo Exhibition by Sakir Gökcebag
Gallery Apel, Istanbul
September 2009 Viatico
Exhibition Curated by Vittorio Urbani, Siemens Art Gallery, Istanbul
June 2009 Seriously Ironic: Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art Scene
Catalogue text
Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
May 2009 Getting Even
Brochure text
Sabanci University, Kasa Gallery
November 2008 Privacy
Catalogue text
Artist: Assaf Gruber
La Giarina Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
October 2008 Accumulated: Put Aside, Left Aside
Brochure text (co-written with Asli Cetinkaya)
5533, Istanbul, Turkey
October 2008 Art
Translation
by Robert Cumming, Eyewitness Companions, 2005
ISBN 1-4053-1054-5
July 2008 Me/we
Art Review
Artishok Annual Exhibition Curated by Maarin Mürk
Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia
June 2008 The Sublime Figures of Leaping Heart
Catalogue Text
Ca’ Pesaro International Museum of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
ISBN978-975-6051-94-8
October 2006 – June 2008 Monthly articles
Roxy Gaste,  Arts and Culture Magazine, Istanbul, Turkey
December 2007 Öztoprak and His European Contemporaries
Article (Turkish)
Radikal Newspaper, Turkey
November 2007 Hard to Die, Hard to Encounter, Hard to Ignore
Catalogue text
Artist: Selda Asal, Berlin, Germany
Summer Issue, 2005 Judging Books by Their Covers
Translation
by Richard P. Feynman
Matematik Dunyasi, Mathematics Periodical Issue 3, Turkey
Editor: Ali Nesin
Winter Issue, 2005 Interview with Serge Lang
Translation
by Anthony Liversidge
Matematik Dunyasi, Mathematics Periodical Issue 4, Turkey
Editor: Ali Nesin
October Issue, 2004 Encounters
Article on Encounters Exhibition at V&A Museum, London
Hayallare Visa, Art and culture monthly magazine, Turkey