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Time to testify the synchronizing chaos

All systems, identifications, inventory records and habitudes that got desynchronized in the world of 2021, induce a harmonious chaos on loop, as seen in ten video works selected from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection.

Close Reading Series IV –
Burak Bedenlier: Bystander

This series of Close Readings emerged from a deficiency I observed both in contemporary art criticism and in my own writing practice: Although exhibition criticism, interviews, and monographic artist texts are produced regularly, focusing on a single work, interpreting, and analyzing that one work is a form we encounter less often.

Histories and Monsters: An Essay on the new collection exhibition of Borusan Contemporary, “Water Reverie”

“I see stares all day long, sundry stares” ¹
Bakmalar Denizi, Edip Cansever

Fully-intended But Non-Explanatory: An Interview with Frank Thiel

Frank Thiel is a German photographer who was born in the 1960s, in Kleinmachnow near Berlin, where he moved in the late 1980s to study photography.

Another Place / Another Present

Remembering Our Physicality:
An Interview with Mika Tajima

Those discerned by words, in the light of darkness

The neon text-image-sculpture of Sarkis, The Light of Darkness (2010) featured in the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, diffuses a persistent light that embodies dependence, independence, immunity, consecution and, commitment.

Bitter Medicine Conversations:
Hybrid Reality, Immateriality Again in 21st Century

The conversation below, available online on YouTube here in Turkish, was edited for clarity.

Landscape is the perfect topic to fail: An Interview with Axel Hütte