Vasıf Kortun

Description

Vasıf Kortun is a curator, writer, and teacher in contemporary visual art, its institutions, and spatial practices. He was the founding director of Research & Programs of SALT in Istanbul. A recipient of the Award for Curatorial Excellence from CCS, Kortun has worked on many biennials, including the Taipei Biennale (2008) with ManRay Hsu and the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005) with Charles Esche. Recent publications include: İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I (Salt & Mousse Publications, 2024), and the biography How did we get here: reading Vasıf Kortun, Archive Books 2026). In 2025, he co-curated We Refuse_d with Nadia Radwan for Mathaf Museum of Arab Modern Art, in Doha, and traveled to M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. In 2026 he co-curated with Tuğçe Kaplan, Özer Kabaş and his Times for SALT.