Pelin Tan & Özge Çelikaslan
Pelin Tan is the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Award for Art and Activism (2019), based in Mardin. She is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the head of the Cultural Studies Master’s program at the University of Batman, Turkiye. Tan was a Roemer Fellow at the Orient Institute of Beirut (2024) and a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Social Sciences in Athes (2026). Since 2019, she has been on the curatorial board of IBA Stuttgart 2027. She is the editor of i press publication, Cambridge (USA). Her book: Forms of Non-Belonging, e-flux books&Sternberg Press, MIT Press, 2026.
She co-directed several short films with artist Anton Vidokle and got the Sharjah Film Prize (2020) for their last film Gılgamesh: She, Who Saw the Deep / Gilgamêş: Ewe ku kûrahî dît (2022). Short documentary Landscapes as Archives was shown at the Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (2023). Recently, her research video on the Ezdi women community and female labor Dimeşin/Walking was exhibited at the Zagreb Contemporary Art Museum. Tan’s works were exhibited at CIVA Brussel (2024), Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016), Bergen Assembly (2013), Istanbul Biennial (2007, 2015, 2022), Beijing Art Biennial (2023), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2014), Ashkal Alwan Homeworks, Istanbul Design Biennial (2021), and others. Tan is a member of Artıkİşler video collective and Mardin-based Arazi Assembly.
Özge Çelikaslan works across moving image, archival practice, and research-based art, engaging questions of memory, place, and archival ecologies through overlooked audiovisual materials. Her installations and archival assemblages explore how archival gaps can open space for silenced narratives and contested histories. She holds a PhD from Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). Her research on archives as commons led to the publication Archiving the Commons: Looking through the Lens of bak.ma (2024). She is co-founder of bak.ma, a collaborative digital archive of materials working with relational memory and participatory forms of documenting and reimagining histories. She has presented her works internationally at venues including Transmediale, Istanbul Biennial, HKW Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, and De Appel. She has received residencies and fellowships including those at AGIT Berlin, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and CAIS Bochum.
Pelin Tan and Özge Çelikaslan are in residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2026 as part of the German-Turkish co-production program supported by the Allianz Foundation.
Pelin Tan is the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Award for Art and Activism (2019), based in Mardin. She is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the head of the Cultural Studies Master’s program at the University of Batman, Turkiye. Tan was a Roemer Fellow at the Orient Institute of Beirut (2024) and a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Social Sciences in Athes (2026). Since 2019, she has been on the curatorial board of IBA Stuttgart 2027. She is the editor of i press publication, Cambridge (USA). Her book: Forms of Non-Belonging, e-flux books&Sternberg Press, MIT Press, 2026.
She co-directed several short films with artist Anton Vidokle and got the Sharjah Film Prize (2020) for their last film Gılgamesh: She, Who Saw the Deep / Gilgamêş: Ewe ku kûrahî dît (2022). Short documentary Landscapes as Archives was shown at the Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (2023). Recently, her research video on the Ezdi women community and female labor Dimeşin/Walking was exhibited at the Zagreb Contemporary Art Museum. Tan’s works were exhibited at CIVA Brussel (2024), Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016), Bergen Assembly (2013), Istanbul Biennial (2007, 2015, 2022), Beijing Art Biennial (2023), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2014), Ashkal Alwan Homeworks, Istanbul Design Biennial (2021), and others. Tan is a member of Artıkİşler video collective and Mardin-based Arazi Assembly.
Özge Çelikaslan works across moving image, archival practice, and research-based art, engaging questions of memory, place, and archival ecologies through overlooked audiovisual materials. Her installations and archival assemblages explore how archival gaps can open space for silenced narratives and contested histories. She holds a PhD from Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). Her research on archives as commons led to the publication Archiving the Commons: Looking through the Lens of bak.ma (2024). She is co-founder of bak.ma, a collaborative digital archive of materials working with relational memory and participatory forms of documenting and reimagining histories. She has presented her works internationally at venues including Transmediale, Istanbul Biennial, HKW Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, and De Appel. She has received residencies and fellowships including those at AGIT Berlin, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and CAIS Bochum.
Pelin Tan and Özge Çelikaslan are in residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from June to September 2026 as part of the German-Turkish co-production program supported by the Allianz Foundation.