6th Mardin Biennial announces Ali Akay as this year’s curator. Ali Akay (b. 1957, Istanbul) is a professor of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, curator, writer, and critic (contemporary art, philosophy and sociology) He studied at Paris VIII University where he completed his PhD in Sociology in 1986,and has is teaching at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul for over 29 years, serving as the head of the Department of Sociology since 2004. He worked in Berlin (Humboldt University); Paris (Paris VIII University, İNHA, Sorbonne University, Jeu de Paume), New York (Columbia University)
Akay has written numerous articles on contemporary art, sociology and philosophy for publications in Turkey and abroad, including berlinerpool, Eurozine, The third text; co-author of books: İstanbul “Emergeance d’une société civile” (autrement Pres 2005); “Placing Turkey on the Map of Europe” (Boğazici University Press, 2005); “Model Turkei”, (Wallstein, Verlag, 2006); “Postmodernisme,et après ?”(Editions Kimé, 2010), “Unleashed” (Times and Hudson,2010); “Sweet Sixtees” (Stenberg Press,2014) .
The last books: “Seza Paker Reflexive Fludities”2015 (Masa Editions); “Minor Politic”, (Otonom Editions),2015, “Michel Foucault Power and Resistence Centers”(2016) Doğu Batı Editions, “Singular Thaught” (2016)Doğu Batı editions), “The Gift” (2016)(Doğu Batı Editions) “The art loves us” (Doğu Batı Editions),2017, “Félix Guattari, Spheres of Subjectivities” Otonom Editions) 2018. “The curve of tympanum” (Belge Editions),2018;“Capitalism and Pop Culture”, Belge Editions (2018)
The lastest exhibitions include, Kuandu Bienali co-curator, “Asian is-it global!, Taipei, Taiwan 2018; Bettina Hutschek, Visite surpirise, Açıkekran 2018; Susan Kleinberg- Equilibrium /Disequilibria, Açıkekran 2018; Murmuring, Mestna Galeria Lublijana, Citiy Museum 2017; Crystal Seed, Açıkekran 2017; A light through the word:Hey,Wait, Krank Gallery, 2017; Historical Encounters, Krank Gallery, 2016
