Ovul Durmusoglu

2005-06
Critical Studies, Post-graduate prog., Malmö Art Academy, Lund
University, Malmö, Sweden.
2002-05
MFA in Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, VA/VCD prog., Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
1996-01
BA in Translation and Interpreting, School of Foreign Languages, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2009
Curatorial trainee (with Lynne Cooke), Dia Art Foundation, New York City.
2006‐07
Curatorial trainee (with Sabine Breitwieser), Generali Foundation,
Vienna.

Texts in English and German

2011
Publication, Tête-à-tête in Solitude, Stuttgart: Akademie Schloss Solitude (in production process)
“Nilbar Gures,” in Rene Block (ed), At Home, Wherever, Istanbul: YKY.
“Untitled,” Format P: The Future of Art Criticism as Pure Fiction, 4th issue, Warsaw: fundacja bęc zmiana.
“History-in the Making,” in Hans Dickel, Lisa Puyplat (eds), Reading Susanne Kriemann, Berlin: Sternberg Press.
“Towards the Unknown Fields of Imagination: Nilbar Gures,” Nafas Online Art Magazine, Berlin. (http://universes-in universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2011/nilbar_gures/)

2010
Exhibition publication, Another Country – Eine andere Welt, Stuttgart: ifa.
“Easy,” Concrete Paper, Munich: Platform3: Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst.
2009
“Emre Huner,” Flash Art International, July‐September 2009.
“Interview with WHW,” Flash Art International, July‐September 2009.
2008
Exhibition publication, Data Recovery, Bergamo: GAMeC.
“Bitte nicht stören: Wie die Kulturpolitik die Bildende Kunst lähmt,”
Kulturaustausch–Zeitschrift für internationale Perspektiven, Atatürks
Erben Die Türkei im Aufbruch, ed. IV, Berlin: ifa.
2007
Contributor, For a Special Place: Works and Documents From Generali Foundation, New York City: Austrian Cultural Forum.
“Agenda,” 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary ‐ Optimism in the Age of Global War, Istanbul:
Istanbul Foundation of Arts and Culture.
“Marlene Dumas’ Private Views,” n.paradoxa, In/difference, January 07, London.
“So zeitgenössisch und privat wie nie. Kulturpolitische Fragen im Kontext der Istanbul Biennale 2007,” Kulturrise 0307, Vienna: IG Kultur.
“On the crisis of the Institutional: Interview with Isabell Dahlberg from Rooseum,” muhtelif , No:2, Istanbul/Berlin.
2006
“Functional Amnesia and Critical Positions”, Paletten, #265, no. 3,
2006, Gothenburg.

2004‐2010
Editor and columnist, “Görüntü” (The Image) in Altyazı Monthly
Cinema Magazine, Istanbul.
2001‐2010
Founder Board Member and regular contributor, Altyazı Monthly Cinema Magazine, Istanbul.

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