Ingo Arend
Ingo Arend is a political scientist and historian. Since the 1990s, Arend has worked as a cultural journalist for visual arts, literature and cultural policy at WDR, later as cultural editor at the weekly newspaper der Freitag, where he was head of the culture department and editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper. Since 2010, he has been working as a freelance critic, author and juror in Berlin, interrupted by cultural editorial positions at taz and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. His work focuses on global art, the relationship between art and politics, art and history and art and culture in Turkey. In 2011, he initiated the Turkish-German literature festival dildile at the Volksbühne in Berlin. From 2015-2023, he served on the board of the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin. There, together with the Berlin Senate for Culture, he initiated an exchange scholarship that allows artists living in Istanbul to live and work in Berlin for six months twice a year. Weblog: Aesthetics and Democracy.
Ingo Arend was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024.
Ingo Arend is a political scientist and historian. Since the 1990s, Arend has worked as a cultural journalist for visual arts, literature and cultural policy at WDR, later as cultural editor at the weekly newspaper der Freitag, where he was head of the culture department and editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper. Since 2010, he has been working as a freelance critic, author and juror in Berlin, interrupted by cultural editorial positions at taz and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. His work focuses on global art, the relationship between art and politics, art and history and art and culture in Turkey. In 2011, he initiated the Turkish-German literature festival dildile at the Volksbühne in Berlin. From 2015-2023, he served on the board of the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin. There, together with the Berlin Senate for Culture, he initiated an exchange scholarship that allows artists living in Istanbul to live and work in Berlin for six months twice a year. Weblog: Aesthetics and Democracy.
Ingo Arend was a fellow at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2024.