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 the fields of culture, art, architecture and curation. Her work explores the politics of landscapes and their relationship to knowledge production, focusing on spatial and ecological dynamics, and the performances of power and resilience. Through archival and embodied research, she reveals overlapping temporalities and spatialities, weaving them into speculative spatial narratives that foster poetic and political dialogue.
With a background in architecture and urban studies, she combines research with artistic and design practices. Her collaborative and individual projects, such as the 'Garden of (Not) Forgetting' project and the 'Mahsul' initiative, have been supported by grants including the SALT Research Fund, the SAHA Sustainability Fund, the Culture CIVIC Grassroots Programme, and the Prince Claus Seeds Award. Her artistic and curatorial work has been presented at Kunsthaus Hamburg (2020), DEPO Istanbul (2021), the Jewish Museum of Franconia (2022), DAADgalerie Berlin (2023), SALT Istanbul (2023), Bayetav Art (2024) and SAVVY Contemporary (2024), as well as various other galleries and project spaces, particularly in Turkey and Germany. She is the co-author of Bir Yerin İzinde Pek Çok Yer (2021) and the author of the book Mahsul (2024). Her upcoming artist book, Taklak, is due to be published in winter 2025. She has been invited to be a visiting artist at IASPIS in Stockholm, Praksis in Oslo, and IMMA Dwell in Dublin in 2025.
Dilşad is a PhD student on the Arts and Design programme at Bauhaus University Weimar, studying as a Heinrich Böll Foundation Fellow. Her doctoral research explores the entangled histories of landscapes, nomadic pastoralism and environmental changes in southern Anatolia, establishing links with nomadic ecologies around the world. Using speculative storytelling, archival research and analysis of material culture, she explores how bodies of water, vegetation and pastoralist movements shape—and are shaped by—cultural and political structures.
Selected Reviews