I Have Measured Out My Life With Coffee Spoons
Interview with Ieva Kotryna Ski Almost two months after the end of the Mahalla Festival, we had the opportunity to
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Mahalla Festival 2025: Reimagining the Midas Dilemma in Büyük Valide Han
From September 13 to 28, 2025, the Mahalla Festival transformed Büyük Valide Han in Istanbul into a living conversation between history, craftsmanship, and contemporary art. This year’s edition explored “The Re-Narration of the Midas Dilemma”—a meditation on value, transformation, and the cost of unchecked growth.
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Elena Urucatu – Sobremesa, an Exploration of Memory and Community
Elena Urucatu will be participating in the final Magic Carpets exhibition that will take place in Tartu, Estonia, as part of the European Capital of Culture program in fall 2024.
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Justyna Olszewska from Poland will be Artist in Residency in Gozo in June/July 2024
Emerging curator Paulina Brelińska-Garsztka from the Wroclaw Institute of Culture nominated the visual artist Justyna Olszewska to participate as an artist in residency in Beyond What Drifts Us Apart taking place this year in Gozo, Malta between 19th – 28th of July.
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Martinha Maia in Gozo – Malta 2024
The Portuguese visual artist Martinha Maia will travel to Gozo this summer to participate into Beyond What Drifts Us Apart
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Ona Juciūtė participates in the Mahalla Festival
Ona Juciūtė. Picture by Anna Melnykova Ona Juciūtė, born in Lithuania in 1988, is one of the artists participating in
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The Attempt of a Poem
The Italian concept artist Filippo Riniolo is participating into the next Mahalla Festival with an interactive performance/installation in the frame of a residency program by MagiC Carpets, a Creative Europe platform uniting 16 European cultural organisations.
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