m.dilsadaladag@gmail.com
Researcher and practitioner
on cultural, artistic and curatorial grounds.
She is a doctorate researcher at the Arts and Design
PhD program at the Bauhaus Uni. of Weimar. more
Mahsul Vakaları / Yield Events 2024
exhibition
Natives and Displaced Ones
A Fictive Dialogue on Dunes
RENK / TIMBRE
Mahsul [Yield] Project 2022 - ongoing
online platform
curated gatherings
printed publication
Taklak 2022 - ongoing
research and archive
performance
ALAN at Berlin 2022 - 2023
curated gatherings
Unutma Bahçesi 2017 - 2022
The Garden of (not) Forgetting
research
exhibition in İstanbul
exhibition in Fürth / Nürnberg
film
Nevşunema
a Sequence From a Garden
Many Places on the Trial of a Place 2021
printed publication
article series
Hajde 2021 installation and zine
Narrating the Discordant 2022 thesis
Belonging 2018 - 2019 design
Plankton Project 2015 - 2017
urban collective
Gölge Seferihisar
Durak Ovacık
WORKS as an employee
SALT Winter Garden
Visiting Scolars and Guest Artist Offices
Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul
Salt Reading Room
Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast
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Dilşad Aladağ is a researcher and practitioner working across cultural, artistic, architectural, and curatorial fields. Her work explores complex histories, focusing on spatial and ecological dynamics, performances of power and resilience. Through her research, she unravels overlapping temporalities and spatialities, weaving them into narratives that foster poetic and political dialogues.
With a background in architecture and urban studies, she bridges research with artistic and design experimentation. Her collaborative and individual practices, such as The Garden of (not) Forgetting Project and Mahsul Initiative, supported by grants like SALT Research Funds, SAHA Sustainability Fund, Culture CIVIC Grassroots Programme and Prince Claus Seeds Awards. Her work has been presented at Kunsthaus Hamburg, DEPO Istanbul, Jewish Museum of Franconia, SALT, Daadgalerie, and SAVVY Contemporary.
She is a doctorate researcher in the Arts and Design PhD programme at the Bauhaus University of Weimar and will be a visiting artist at IASPIS, Stockholm, PRAKSIS, Oslo and IMMA Dwell, Dublin in 2025. Her current research traces the entangled histories of landscape, nomadic pastoralism, and environmental transformations in southern Anatolia, drawing connections to nomadic ecologies in the globe. Through speculative storytelling and archival and material research, she explores how water bodies, vegetation, and pastoralist movements shape—and are shaped by—cultural and political structures.
Selected Reviews