Special Tour with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu and Yener Bayramoğlu

of the exhibition “Zanele Muholi”

Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, © Christina Dimitriadis / Yener Bayramoğlu

Certain vocabularies unite LGBTQIA+ communities across geographies and citizenships. For her guided tour through the exhibition Zanele Muholi, Övül Ö. Durmusoglu desires to trace these vocabularies in connection with Turkish speaking LGBTQIA+ struggles and addresses how tender the question of visibility is today. She invited media and communications scientist Yener Bayramoğlu, who has long been engaged with LGBTQIA+ activism in Turkey, currently working at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin for a walking conversation that will flow between English and Turkish.

The tour is fully booked.

Every struggle generates hope in the conditions of hopelessness and becomes a site of learning for the subsequent one. Zanele Muholi’s visual activism is a site of confrontation, negotiation and collectivism that functions across borders.

Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is an independent curator, educator and writer, currently guest professor and program co-leader in the Graduate School, UdK Berlin and visiting professor in the HBK Braunschweig. Focused on the intersectional narratives around contemporary political subjectivities, she acts between singular languages and collective energies, worldly immersions and historical cosmologies. Övül has recently co-curated the 3rd Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo, 12th Survival Kit Festival in Riga, Latvia and “Die Balkone: Life, Art, Pandemic and Proximity” in Berlin (2020-21) with Joanna Warsza. In the past, she was curator at Steirischer Herbst; co-curated different sections of 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials; and organised Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13), among others. Continuing her co-curatorship for the 4th edition of the Autostrada Biennale in 2023, she is engaged with CA2M Madrid, Kunsthalle Wien and Martin Gropius Bau for her future projects.

Yener Bayramoğlu is Visiting Professor of Gender and Queer Studies at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and a senior researcher in the research project “Digitaler Hass: Digitale Hassreden und Verschwörungstheorien in Zeiten der COVID-19 Pandemie”. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the Free University of Berlin and his research on queer theory, intersectionality, digital media and migration has been awarded grants and fellowships from institutions such as the DFG, the DAAD, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Margherita von Brentano Zentrum. He has published in several international academic journals such as Ethnic & Racial Studies and Sexuality & Culture. His co-authored book with María do Mar Castro Post/pandemisches Leben: Eine neue Theorie der Fragilität was published by Transcript Verlag in 2021.