SELECTED WRITINGS & CATALOGUE TEXTS
2025
Third Text Online: Strangers Everywhere or Apocalypse is Always Now: Notes from the 60th Venice Biennial
Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on the After Hope Reading Group by Naz Cuguoglu, Mine Kaplangi and Serhat Cacekli, published in
Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times, Edited by Padma Dorje Maitland
Sanat Dünyamız: Archive and Care, Spring 2025, on Onur Karaoğlu's video work ‘Küvet Sokak Resim’ (Bathtub Street Painting) (2022)
2023
Commissioned exhibition text for Tina Kohlmann's solo exhibition disturbances in the realms of unrecorded past at Gold + Beton, Cologne, Germany
2022
Commissioned experimental text for SAY LESS publication project by Amanda Boachie in London, UK
Exhibition text for Ecem Yuksel's solo exhibition at Kairos Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey
Commissioned article for TOHU Magazine’s Politics of Love: Long Distance Relationship project in collaboration with curator/writer Naz Cuguoglu
Commissioned experimental text for Disco Journal’s inaugural issue on the digital annihilation of time in collaboration with artist Nicky Broekhuysen
Catalogue text for Under the Waqwaq Tree exhibition, curated by Naz Cuguoglu at slash art
2021
Exhibition text for SABO's solo exhibition "Time Machine" at Versus Art Project in Istanbul, Turkey
In response to Tina Kohlmann’s Artefakt & Phantasma exhibition text for Tina Kohlmann’s solo exhibition Paradoxical Passages, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany
Tina Kohlmann, Paradoxical Passages, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany. Image by Wolfgang Günzel, 2020
2020
Letter to A Zoo-Animal as part of the Zoo of the Future, drawing by Cansu Çakar and text by Mine Kaplangı
2019
HazMatLab collective’s soothing efficacy exhibition catalogue, 8.salon Hamburg, Germany
2017
Tweetrary of Babel: Can Twitter be a digital archive-library? essay on “After Alexandria, the Flood” publication for After Alexandria, the Flood exhibition catalogue curated by Naz Cuguoğlu at 5533 and Recai Mehmed Efendi Library, Istanbul, Turkey
2017
Contributor, Interviews with artists and curators for Artfridge publication I, Berlin, Germany
2016
Dig Deep Essay on Nicky Broekhuysen’s solo exhibition “The Digital Archaeologist” at The Bumiller Collection, University Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Germany
EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS
2019
Author of “Control Rooms: A self-critical introduction to artist Bager Akbay’s practice + fictitious essays” publication, edited by Merve Ünsal, published by Mas Matbaa, Istanbul, Turkey
Co-author of FLOW OUT collective-text together with Naz Cuguoğlu, Funa Ye and Istanbul Queer Art Collective members, published in Droste Effect Magazine as Bulletin #19
2017-18
Editor of Secret Interviews (Saklı Görüşmeler), a curated corner for a series of interviews by selected artists from Istanbul, Artunlimited magazine’s online platform unlimitedrag.com
2016
Co-editor with Anna Zizlsberger for Exhibist magazine on January 2017 (New Media Arts in Turkey issue)
LECTURES & TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2026
UPCOMING- Pirate Radio: Listening at the End(s) of the World Workshop for TANC | The Apocalypse is Not Coming A Transdisciplinary Conference | 12-15 May, 2026 | Barcelona
2025
ECREA Radio And Sound Postgraduate Conference/THINKING THROUGH SOUND, presenting The Apocalypse is Always Now: Queer/Trans Sonic World-Building(s) through Pirate Radio
- Rose Choreographic School þ thorns þ Mine Kaplangı & Eda Sancakdar Season 1, Ep. 9
2024-25
-Grant writing and Funding applications, in collaboration with Bayryam Bayryamali, as part of the lecture series of the Major Project 1, BA Photography at UAL London College of Communication
2023
-Non-institutional curatorial practices - a campy model - LSA as part of Design Think Tank modules programme
2022
- Guest Lecturer, Freie Universität Berlin in Anna-Lena Werner's seminar series 25.10.22, Online (Projektcolloquium) Mine Kaplangı, Kuratorin und Mitgründerin Collective Çukurcuma
2021
- Co-moderator of the online After Hope reading group as part of the Asian Art Museum’s After Hope programme
2020
- Moderator for the “Conversation with the director of #direnayol Rüzgâr Buski and activist Şevval Kılıç” as part of the Creating a 'we' exhibition’s public programme, BASIS Frankfurt, Germany
- Moderator of the Zoom conversation with the artist Daniel Stubenvoll and curator Naz Cuguoğlu on Daniel Stubenvoll’s Beyond Limit book launch, part of the Creating a 'we' exhibition’s public programme, BASIS Frankfurt, Germany
2019
- Organising the Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival screening at SALT Beyoğlu in collaboration with artist Merve Ünsal and Collective Çukurcuma Reading Group
- Control Rooms: On Text-Focused (Art)Work Readings, Mine Kaplangı, Merve Ünsal, Bager Akbay, poşe artist-run space, Istanbul
- Casa dei Saperi: Mine Kaplangı in conversation with Itamar Gov
Under the opening event of Fondazione Pini's Casa dei Saperi project, Milan, Italy
- Arts, Digital and Accessibility conference and exhibition launch Panel: The Digital as an Arts Space Moderator: Ryan Nelson, Arts Marketing Director, British Council Speakers: Elif Kamışlı, Ulya Soley, Mine Kaplangı
2018
- House of Wisdom: Cross-cultural Mobility and Post-gallery Curatorial Practice Panel Discussion, Primary, Nottingham United Kingdom Participants; Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar, Istanbul Queer Art Collective (Tuna Erdem, Seda Ergül), Işıl Eğrikavuk, Mine Kaplangı
- Moderator, Talk & Screening at Pera Museum, Burkinabé Rising: The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso documentary screening and talk with artist Naz Köktentürk on her latest exhibition about Burkina Faso
- “Another Curation: Artificial Intelligence and Art” talk at Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul. Participants; Bager Akbay, Dr Ebru Yetişkin, Deniz Yılmaz, Mine Kaplangı
2017
- Moderator, Talk & Workshop at FLAT Art Book Fair Public Program, Learning from Bayt-al Hikma (House of Wisdom), Collective Çukurcuma (Mine Kaplangı & Naz Cuguoğlu), Turin, Italყ
- Moderator, “What can the concept of ‘neighbour’ contribute to queer theory?- II” reading group discussion with Evren Savcı at 15th Istanbul Biennial’s Public Programme, IKSV Building, Istanbul
- Moderator, “What can the concept of ‘neighbour’ contribute to queer theory? - I” reading group discussion with Evren Savcı at 15th Istanbul Biennial’s Public Programme, IKSV Building, Istanbul
- Moderator, “When Contemporary Art Meets Architecture” Conference with id*d studio team at 7th International Design Week at East Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus
- Moderator, Simulating the Scent of Death: Amorphophallus titanium and the Military Training Complex” with artist Nadia Christidi, round table discussion, for “On Botany” exhibition seminar program, BLOK art space Çukurcuma
2016
- Moderator, ‘Methods of Seeing in Eastern Images” with artist Cansu Çakar on her exhibition “Both Sides” at BLOK art space Büyük Valide Han
- Moderator, 'The Dig' - A discussion on Digital Archaeology and the work of Nicky Broekhuysen Participants: Nicky Broekhuysen, Prof. Wendy Shaw and David Szauder, The Bumiller Collection, Berlin
- Moderator, “Resistance” in Contemporary Art Practices”, together with Collective Çukurcuma, Atölye Istanbul, Istanbul
INTERVIEWS
2025
INTERVIEW: BASSAM ISSA AL-SABAH & JENNIFER MEHIGAN for Artfridge
2021
"All my best Deaths": Interview with Dante Buu for Ankara Queer Art Program
Problem Tune: The Sea Said Yes - Video talk with artist Nilbar Güreş for Wêjegeh Amed (Diyarbakır Literature House)