12.10.2024, 15:00 // There will be a book launch of Barbara Holub – Stiller Aktivismus / Silent Activism, edited by Basak Senova at Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna. The book was published by De Gruyter, Edition Angewandte, 2023

12.09.2024 // As part of SO Academy’s September PRACTICE & TÊTE-À-TÊTE session, it is led by Vienna-based curator and designer Başak Şenova. Organised by the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, the session is directed towards practitioners working in the visual arts, arts education, and curatorial practice.

11.09.2024, 11:00 // The School of the Arts, University of Pretoria is delighted to present The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories, published in the book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna Edition Angewandte by De Gruyter. Edited by Basak Senova, the book shares contributions by Ruth Anderwald +…

29.06.2024 // Basak Senova participates in the panel discussion Art in Times of Crisis, organised within the framework of the Biennial D-0 ARK Underground. She was one of the curators of both the second and fifth editions. The Biennial D-0 ARK Underground is an international contemporary art biennial held in a former nuclear bunker in…

19–20.06.2024 // The two-day event “The Atlas Meeting — Agents” taking place at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and bringing together the six Agents of the project: Yane Calovski, Hristina Ivanoska, Bronwyn Lace, Isa Rosenberger, Timo Tuhkanen and Ilan Volkov for a series of meetings The sessions, moderated by Basak Senova and David Chisholm…

20.05.2024, 16:30// Curated by Başak Şenova and presented at the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna, Insàturo by Egle Oddo is a performative project that explores soil as a dynamic site of biological, social, and symbolic relations. Performed in collaboration with musician Rebecca Minten, the work builds on Oddo’s long-term practice of creating living…

28.04.–18.06.2025 // Inspired by this legend, the Simurgh exhibition focuses on the distinctive positions and works of women artists of the Iranian diaspora: Yalda Afsah, Mehraneh Atashi, Ramesch Daha, Nooshin Farhid, Parastou Forouhar, Mona Kasra, Anahita Razmi, Neda Saeedi, Farkhondeh Shahroudi and Soheila Sokhanvari. Diasporic existence designates a state of inhabiting two places at the…

01.12.2023, 16:00–17:00 // Book launch: ‘Oh To Believe in Another World’ by William Kentridge at Flux 2, University of Applied Arts Vienna. This book launch event, along with Kentridge’s reflective and process-oriented talk, will serve as a compelling example of the ways in which visual art and classical music can intersect within a shared temporal…

19.09.2023, 14:00–17:00 // Conversation: ‘On-going Research into Conducting and Curating’ with Conducting Students at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki. Conducted by Basak Senova, the conversation is held with Konstantinos Vallios, Mikael Loponen, Vincent Siret, Mateusz Gwizdalla, Elisara Riddelin, Adomas Morkūnas-Budrys, Kristian Sallinen, Julie Røssland, Kasmir Uusitupa, accompanied by Kaisa Holopainen and Timo Tuhkanen. This…

17.04.2023, 18:00–19:30 // Talk by David Chisholm: ‘Labyrinth as Composition: Multicursal Processes and the Composer’s Body’ in ‘Understanding Practice’ Series of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Using peripheral architectural forms, composer David Chisholm recently commenced an exploration of how we might locate the composer in such spaces. The respective spatial and…