Dilşad Aladağ

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


Dilşad Aladağ

m.dilsadaladag@gmail.com


Researcher and practitioner
whose work spans cultural,
artistic, and curatorial fields.

She is a doctorate researcher at the
Arts and Design PhD program at the
Bauhaus Uni. of Weimar.  
more

Weaving Reeds Between Two Rivers 2024

    research

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




Nevşünema
Artistic research / Natural Science Museum of St Joseph High School, İstanbul / with Eda Aslan

In the summer of 1939, a group of scientists, including Alfred Heilbronn and Mehpare Başarman Heilbronn, made a trip to the eastern and southeastern Anatolian regions. The aim of the botanists was to observe and record the diversity of flora in this region. The trip, which began on August 7 from Elazığ to Harput, lasted until September 3 and included stops in the Eupharetes region, where the construction of various dams and hydroelectric power plants was planned in the 20th century. Nevşünema focuses on their botanical excursion by tracing the photographic and written travel diaries left behind.

In the same years, the Republican Regime was having various military operations in the area and planning to build various Dams and Hydroelectric power plants on the visited rivers and
basins in the following decades.
The following photo album was prepared by Alfred Heilbronn and an additional diary was kept by Mehpare Başarman Heilbronn became a source for Nevşünema.

Produced for the  Saint Joseph: Beats of a Fabulous Machine Exhibition curated by Aslı Seven.



Exhibition photos: Zeynep Fırat
All other images: Heilbronn Archive

Selected Reviews:
Daily Sabah Jan 17, 2022
On the mechanics of pedagogy: Aslı Seven curates Saint Joseph

Studies in Ottoman Science Feb 23, 2022
Saint-Joseph: Battements d’une Machine Fabuleuse - An Artistic Approach to the History of Education in Turkey