Dilşad Aladağ is a researcher and practitioner working across the fields of culture, art, architecture and curation. Her work explores the politics of landscapes and their relationship to knowledge production, focusing on spatial and ecological dynamics, and the performances of power and resilience. Through archival and embodied research, she reveals overlapping temporalities and spatialities, weaving them into speculative spatial narratives that foster poetic and political dialogue.
With a background in architecture and urban studies, she combines research with artistic and design practices. Her collaborative and individual projects, such as the Garden of (Not) Forgetting, Taklak projects and the Mahsul initiative, have been supported by grants including the SALT Research Fund, the SAHA Sustainability Fund, the Culture CIVIC Grassroots Programme, and the Prince Claus Seeds Award. Her artistic and curatorial work has been presented at Kunsthaus Hamburg (2020), DEPO Istanbul (2021), the Jewish Museum of Franconia (2022), DAADgalerie Berlin (2023), SALT Istanbul (2023), Bayetav Art (2024) and SAVVY Contemporary (2024), as well as various other galleries and project spaces, particularly in Turkey and Germany. She is the co-author of Bir Yerin İzinde Pek Çok Yer (2021) and the author of the book Mahsul (2024). Her upcoming artist book, Taklak, is due to be published in winter 2025. She has been invited to be a visiting artist at IASPIS in Stockholm, Praksis in Oslo, and IMMA Dwell in Dublin in 2025.
Dilşad is a PhD student on the Arts and Design programme at Bauhaus University Weimar, studying as a Heinrich Böll Foundation Fellow. Her doctoral research explores the entangled histories of landscapes, nomadic pastoralism and environmental changes in southern Anatolia, establishing links with nomadic ecologies around the world. Using speculative storytelling, archival research and analysis of material culture, she explores how bodies of water, vegetation and pastoralist movements shape—and are shaped by—cultural and political structures.
1: The route as an interclimatic habitat, 2023, diagram, Dilşad Aladağ
2: ‘The Ones Who Moves Slowly’, 2024, film still, 8 mm film, Dilşad Aladağ
3: ‘Natives and Displaced Ones’, 2024, installation view from Yield Events exhibition, Bayetav Sanat, İzmir. Photographed by Kayhan Kaygusuz
4: ‘On nomadic threads’, 2025, studio view from IASPIS, Stockholm, Dilşad Aladağ
5: Gathering around the ‘Nomadic atlas’, 2025, workshop organized at IASPIS, Stockholm, Dilşad Aladağ
