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 whose work spans cultural, artistic, and curatorial fields. Her works center on understanding the complexity of transition processes with an emphasis on spatial and ecological subjects and the performances of power and resilience. Through archival and field research, she engages with the overlaying temporalities and spatialities, revealing intersections, frictions and knots. Her practice weaves these elements into compelling constellations, crafting narratives that open space for poetic and political dialogues.
With a background in architecture from Istanbul Technical University and a master’s of science in European Urban Studies from Bauhaus University Weimar, her work bridges research and artistic and design experimentation. Her collaborative practices, including The Garden of (not) Forgetting, Plankton Project likewise her individual practice was supported by various grants including the SALT Research Funds (2018), SAHA Sustainability Fund (2020, 2022, 2023), Prince Claus Seeds Awards (2023), and Culture CIVIC Grassroots Program (2022, 2023). These practices have been shown on diverse platforms such as Kunsthaus Hamburg (2020), DEPO Istanbul (2021), Franconia Jewish Museum (2022), Daadgalerie (2023), Salt Research and Programs (2023) and SAVVY Contemporary Berlin (2024).
She is the founder of the Mahsul [Yield] Initiative and a member of the newly founded ANATOPIA design and research constellation. Currently pursuing an artistic research PhD at the Bauhaus University Weimar, she investigates the spatial, material and seasonal interplays formed between nomadic pastoralism and water bodies in the South Anatolian context.
Selected Reviews