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Désiré Feuerle & Manuel Rabaté, Tricia Tuttle in conversation with Daniele Maruca

25 November 2025

The fifth panel of the 15th Anniversary Edition of the Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival — IST.FESTIVAL — featured Désiré Feuerle, Manuel Rabaté, and Tricia Tuttle in conversation with Daniele Maruca, titled Sacred Realities: Curating the Invisible. Their dialogue delved into the unseen frameworks that shape perception in museums and private collections, reflecting on

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Flavin Judd & Benjamin Paulin in conversation with Josh Hickey

18 November 2025

The fourth panel of the 15th Anniversary Edition of the Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival — IST.FESTIVAL — brought together Flavin Judd and Benjamin Paulin in conversation with Josh Hickey, titled Inheriting the Real: Legacy, Memory, and the Present. The discussion examined artistic legacies, archives, and family histories, exploring how memory can remain vital

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Lou Doillon in conversation with Timothée Verrecchia

9 November 2025

The third panel of the 15th Anniversary Edition of the Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival — IST.FESTIVAL — featured a conversation between Lou Doillon and Timothée Verrecchia, titled Between Song and Silence: The Fragile Real of Performance. Doillon shared her perspective as a multidimensional artist, exploring how performance and voice navigate intimacy and exposure.

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Stefan Sagmeister in conversation with Julia Halperin

9 November 2025

15th Anniversary Edition of the Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival — IST.FESTIVAL, featured a conversation between Stefan Sagmeister and Julia Halperin, titled Designing the Real: From Album Covers to Algorithms. They explored the relationship between design, music, and technology, revisiting iconic album covers while considering what it means to create something tangible and real

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Jeff Koons in conversation with Timothée Verrecchia

5 November 2025

Jeff Koons, alongside Timothée Verrecchia, reflected on how everyday objects can be transformed into extraordinary works of art—from mirrored balloons to monumental icons. They discussed how notions of originality and authenticity evolve in an era shaped by AI and digital reproduction, and how art continues to assert its presence in the real.

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Sinem Çelik in conversation with Nazlıcan Yöney

11 July 2021

House of Sól Creative Director Nazlıcan Yöney talks to BluProjects founder Sinem Çelik about the core values of her brand, its strong bonds with woman empowerment, and inspirations and the sustainability mindset behind the design process.

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On “Tuire Kayapó” (First Contact) and more: A Conversation with Pınar Yolaçan

9 April 2021

Before the online screening of a moving portrait of “Tuire Kayapó” (First Contact), we talked with the artist Pınar Yolaçan about the preparation process behind her video piece, the shifts in her artistic practice, and her particular interest in the indigenous communities. You are most known for your Maria and Perishables series and as a

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Art’s Response On Climate Emergency & Sustainability Issues: Sinem Çelik in conversation with Art Curator Begüm Alkoçlar

28 November 2020

Rapid production hence the rapid consumption as an acquired habit, while destroying natural resources on the planet, causes the fundamental problems of the earth: climate change and global warming. A group of people trying to act with the awareness of this exploitation, develop concepts and events -through whatever the medium may be- towards renewable resource

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Brimming with youthful energy: Q&A with Ali Latif

3 September 2020

Tunisian-born French rapper and model Ali Latif tells life stories with his eclectic music with a positive touch, yet without naivety, drawing inspirations from both Georges Brassens and Frank Ocean. His latest single “Roko C’est le Texas” brings together his multicultural background often making references to his Tunisian heritage. The 23-year-old Latif’s music video is as

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Spontaneous and Timeless: In conversation with Magdalena Wosinska

29 July 2020

Magdalena Wosinska’s California aesthetic invites us to a world of her own- raw, timeless, and free. Growing around the skate culture in the USA, her early works feature the documentation of the lives of her close friends and alternative music scenes. Brimming with the energy of endless summers, Magdalena’s maturing style is vibrant and edgy.

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Public Art: Demet Muftuoglu Eseli in conversation with Bryce Wolkowitz

8 June 2020

Fascinated by the blend of art with various disciplines and out-of-the-box forms of display, Bryce Wolkowitz, Founder of Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York, dedicated his career to support an array of innovative and multi-disciplinary practices on art. ‘74 Co-Founder Demet Muftuoglu Eseli asked Wolkowitz how he got involved in the field of public art,

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Interview with Marit Ostberg by Goksu Kunak

1 June 2020

Marit Ostberg is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sweden. Her visual world has been described as uncompromising – uncompromisingly current and uncompromisingly sexy. How did you start directing queer feminist porn?I was asked to make a short porn for the Swedish feminist-porn-DVD compilation called “Dirty Diaries”. I was excited to do something that I

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A Touch of Absurdity | Interview with Andrew B. Myers by Mert Gafuroglu

1 June 2020

Canadian photographer Andrew B. Myers is based in New York City. He has collaborated with many brands and publications such as American Express, Airbnb, Apple, Vogue, Google, Time magazine, GQ and The New Yorker. Source Let’s jump straight into the conversation; what are you focused on nowadays?Right now I’m focused on settling into New York life and trying

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Interview with Hanne Lippard by Goksu Kunak

1 June 2020

Hanne Lippard (1984, Milton Keynes, England) is a writer and visual artist working with text in the idioms of concrete poetry and text art, using her own voice as her main medium. She lives and works in Berlin. Considering the constant move that we are all dealing with in our era, are you on this

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Interview with JR by Demet Muftuoglu Eseli on L’officiel Hommes Turkey

1 June 2020

JR is an artist who is in equal measures, a photographer and a graffiti artist. By fly posting black and white photographic images in public locations such as buildings, he states that the street is “the largest art gallery in the world. Initially beginning his career as a teenage graffiti artist on the streets of

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Interview with Johan Lindeberg by Demet Muftuoglu Eseli on L’officiel Hommes Turkey

1 June 2020

Swedish fashion designer Johan Lindeberg is the founder of J. Lindeberg, Paris68, and BLK DNM. He has previously worked with Hans Brindfors Annonsbyra ad agency, Justin Timberlake, Diesel, William Rast, and Absolut. Johan has a daughter, Blue Lindeberg, who is a model. Source Tell us a little bit about your background. What was it like to pursue an interest in

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Interview with Sven Schumann by Demet Muftuoglu Eseli on L’officiel Hommes Turkey

1 June 2020

German journalist Sven Schumann is co-founder of the online interview magazine The Talks. Schumann is also editor of Purple Magazine and started his own company, Black Ink. Source How did you end up with this profession?I always enjoyed talking to people, so it came to me pretty naturally. I started working with magazines around the world first

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Interview with Alain Passard by Etem Postacioglu Fot L’officiel Hommes Turkey

1 June 2020

In 1986, Alain Passard opened his restaurant Arpege, previously run by his own master Alain Senderens under the name Archestrate. He named it so to pay tribute to music, his second passion and decorated the restaurant in an Art Deco style. Source First and Foremost thank you for welcoming me here today. It is such an

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Interview with José Parlá by Demet Muftuoglu Eseli on L’officiel Hommes Turkey

1 June 2020

José Parlá (born 1973) has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. Parlá is a documentarian of city life. Using the backdrop of New York City and many other

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Interview with Joseph Dirand by Demet Muftuoglu Eseli on L’officiel Hommes Turkey

1 June 2020

Joseph Dirand has been sharpening his eye since childhood, he knows how to see, a rare quality indeed. He sees the space and perspective of a place. His sense for composition comes from his creative family background, he has a scenographer’s eye and frames volume with extreme precision. Dirand is sensitive to the way light

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Ali Akay | Lecturer, Critic Writer & Curator

1 June 2020

Prof. Dr. Ali Akay was born in Istanbul in 1957. He studied sociology, philosophy and politics at Paris VIII University, and graduated in 1979. He completed his doctoral degree in philosophy at his alma mater in 1986. Akay has taught at the Sociology Department of Mimar Sinan University. He received a title of Associate Professor

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Gilles Peterson | Dj, Record Label Owner & Record Collector

1 June 2020

Gilles Peterson is a broadcaster, DJ and record collector who’s played a pivotal role in supporting forward-thinking underground music in the UK and beyond over the past three decades. He hosts weekly primetime Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music that’s one of the broadcaster’s most popular music shows, helms independent record label Brownswood

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Done Otyam | Curator

1 June 2020

A graduate of French Language and Literature from Hacettepe University, Done Otyam also attended art courses in Bilkent and Hacettepe Universities. She founded Abitus and Zon galleries, she has also been the director of various other galleries and opened many exhibitions. Otyam has worked for various TV corporations as art director producing art related programs.

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Zeynep Moroglu | Pastry Chef

1 June 2020

After completing her education; including St. George’s Austrian High School, Koc University and UC Berkeley, Zeynep Moroglu took part in variety of financial institutions in Turkey and abroad. Zeynep Moroglu started in the food and beverage sector in 2004 as the cofounder of the brand “biriki” and she went back to San Francisco to study

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