The first public event of the exhibition “Timeless Curiosities,” curated by Nilay Dursun and Ümit Mesci will feature Basak Senova. Borrowing its title from the article written by Senova for the exhibition catalogue, the talk titled “Digital Culture Re-Visited” focuses on the transformations in this field since the mid-1990s. Having directly witnessed the effects of…

21.03.2024 // The Octopus Programme will be concluded with a book presentation at 18:00 at AIL (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab). The book, entitled, The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories, is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), which was designed as a guided research-based educational program that encouraged artistic research and production-based…

01.12.2023 // In 2022 William Kentridge made the film Oh To Believe in Another World to accompany Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in E Minor. The film was made to be seen alongside a live performance of the symphony following an invitation by the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. The book Oh To Believe in Another World – a publication…

01.12.2023 // Pushing the Boundaries Project presents the Lecture Performance On the making of ‘Oh to Believe in Another World’, Film to the 10th Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich by William Kentridge. In anticipation of his 2. December Wiener Konzerthaus event, William Kentridge will give a talk on the making of Oh to Believe in Another World…

13.11.2023 // Pushing the Boundaries Project presents the Lecture Performance: “Ontology of the Undefinable” by the ZoNE (Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter) at Zentrum Fokus Forschung. This lecture performance marks the kick-off of our public outreach activities for the research project “Pushing the Boundaries”, which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and hosted at the…

28.04.2023/17.06.2023 // Organised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Basak Senova and Prof. Dr. Johan Thom, the five-day special program in Austria with the active participation from Teboho Lebakeng, Caz Peffer, Alet Pretorius, and Dylan Graham, who are from the University of Pretoria. Events encompassed meetings, visits to museums, galleries, and universities, studio tours, excursions, and participation in the…

17.11.2023 // Pushing the Boundaries Project features the “Studio Exhibition/Atelierausstellung” in the coverage of Vienna Art Week 2023 with Bronwyn Lace & Marcus Neustetter. The exhibition features past moments and current work-in-progress by Bronwyn Lace and Marcus Neustetter in response to the philosophical and scientific pursuit of their collaborators. Reflecting on recent projects in Austria, France,…

28.04.2023-18.06.2023 // Curated by Basak Senova, “Simurgh. Ten Women Artists from Iran” focuses on the distinctive positions and strong works of women artists of the Iranian diaspora: the exhibiton features Yalda Afsah, Mehraneh Atashi, Ramesch Daha, Nooshin Farhid, Parastou Forouhar, Mona Kasra, Anahita Razmi, Neda Saeedi, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, and Soheila Sokhanvari at Galerie Crone, Berlin. Inspired…

2022/2026 // Senior Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Leader of the Arts-based Research Programme (PEEK) project “the Atlas” (co-leader: Dr. David Chisholm) at University of Applied Arts, awarded by FWF Austrian Science Fund.

23/09/2022-22/01/2022 // “Liquid Saturation” exhibition of Art Rethinks Transformation for Training (ART4T) by the MeNO Association with the University of Aarhus, funded by the EU Erasmus+ Programme at Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo. Engaged for 10 days in non-formal training, co-creation and artistic practice with Danish artist Gry Worre Hallberg, Italian artist Egle Oddo and Turkish curator Basak…