12.–13. 06.2025 & 18.06–19 .07. 2025 // The Atlas (of Creative Mechanisms): [Curating–Conducting], an ongoing art-based research project, unfolds its performative and discursive layers through two public chapters in Vienna: Dialogical Performances (June 12–13, 2025) and The Atlas exhibition (June 18–July 19, 2025) at kex–kunsthalle exnergasse, WUK. The project is structured through a collaborative framework…

12.–22.06.2025 // Basak Senova participates in the 10th anniversary programme of Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, titled 10 Years – 10 Days! which brings together artists, curators and cultural practitioners through a series of installations, performances, workshops, talks and panel discussions developed in collaboration with the institution over the past decade. In the context of this programme,…

01.05.2025, 11:00–13:00 // Conversation: ‘Intersecting Perspectives on Collective Strategies, Cross-Generational Views, and Curatorial Acts’ at De Appel, Amsterdam. Conducted by Basak Senova, the conversation is held with the Participants of De Appel Curatorial Programme: Denisse Vega de Santiago, Gerardo Contreras, Mili Herrera (Biquini Wax), Emili Allahbeigi, Tara Jamali (dash (-) collective), and rori (Level 5),…

29.04.2025, 17:30 // Book presentation will take place at the Auditorium of the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Barbara Putz-Plecko, Gerald Bast, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Sofia Bempeza, Annette Kraus, Ebba Fransen Waldhör, Basak Senova, Simona Koch, Alexander Damianisch, and contributions from the Departments of Art and Communicative Practice and Textile. Basak Senova contributed an article…

26.04.2025, 19:00–21:00 // Conversation: ‘On-going Research into Conducting and Curating’ with ecm – educating/curating/managing Postgraduate Programme Students at Flux 2, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Conducted by Basak Senova, the conversation is held with Julia Aldrian, Clara Arnold, Magdalena Bauer, Martin Grabner, Kristiina Löbl, Fulvia Modica, Elisabeth Paulhart, Elena Petukova, Brigitte Rohrmoser, Alissa Schertler, organised…

28.03.–03.05.2025 // As a collaboration with nexus_art + science, ‘Intangible’ exhibition is dedicated to the tension between art and science beyond common models of knowledge. The exhibition consisted of a dynamic dialogue between science, philosophy, and art, and invited visitors to think beyond conventional narratives and models of knowledge. The focus was on the question…

27.01.2025, 16:00-18:00 // Seminar by Basak Senova: ‘Passages from an Ongoing Research on Conducting and Curating’ at the Faistauer Saal. Organised by Eugen Banauch as part of the Staff Seminar: “Research and/in the Arts”, hosted by the Research Management Department [Abteilung Forschungsmanagement], Mozarteum University Salzburg. The seminar gives insight into the FWF PEEK project AR…

15.11.2024–08.02.2025 // The ‘Sediment’ project, developed by Basak Senova and Dicle Bestas, reflects on the impact of socio-political, ecological, and economic issues on the environments we inhabit. The project’s starting point was based on comprehensive curatorial research in the archive of Loading, a non-profit art space focused on Diyarbakir and its surrounding areas in southeastern…

11.11.2024, 15:30-17:30 // Conversation: ‘Unfolding Conducting and Curating through Keywords’ with Conducting Students at Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz. Conducted by Basak Senova, the conversation is held with Alfonso Sanchez, Andrii Opanaschuk, Julia Andersen, Stepan Vinichenko, Salvador Sinitsyn, Üla Paliokaitė, Viacheslav Obruchkov (KBA Dirigieren, KMA Dirigieren, LG Chorleitung, SP Chorleitung) organised by Georg Leopold. This event…

23.10.2024, 16:00 // The Saastamoinen Foundation presents The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories, edited by Basak Senova at PUBLICS in Helsinki. Senova will present the publication and the Octopus Programme (2019-2022). The Octopus Programme developed new critical perspectives to process artistic research and practices while bridging and acknowledging: the diversity…