56th Biennale of Venice Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures I love going to the biennale. It gives me a chance to go to Venice, where I get to eat cicchetti at my favorite place where there are no tourists, people watch at Harry’s Bar, and get to go to the Giardini and the Arsenale as well all the other venues and museums. I always think how it would be like to live to Venice. I do this for all the cities I like, cities where you can walk and really have a good time, and

Carry me Home... The opportunity to travel to Istanbul around the opening dates of the 14th Istanbul Biennial organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) came just a month before. I knew the four days there would just not be enough to see 30 venues with works of more than 80 artists given that the city is huge and one’s day is planned according to rush hour traffic; but I was happy to go back to my city of birth. When many are out of the city because of t

ZERO. Countdown to the Future in S.U. Sakip Sabanci Museum (SSM), Istanbul This exhibition opened at the start of the Istanbul Biennale which also coincided with the Art Istanbul Fair in September 2015, and will last until January 2016. I get to go Istanbul on the biennale years in September when it is still summer in Istanbul with the sunny clear skies. The other years I usually go in November and there is a small chance that the weather can be still good but that depends on

Dresden’s Military History Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind After a 2-hour drive from Berlin I was able to see Dresden’s Military History Museum. I had seen pictures of the outside of this museum after the museum re-opened with the newly designed Daniel Libeskind extension –a complete contrast to the old building. I actually like such juxtapositions in architectural design, a mix of the old and the new where old buildings can be made to be more relevant especially for youn