Red Thread Issue 6 aims to expand on the discussion initiated with the Thorn Shelter exhibition held at Depo on the 60th anniversary of the bilateral Recruitment Agreement between Turkey and Germany.

We strongly reject the aggravated life sentence handed down by the court against Osman Kavala, the founder and Chair of the Executive Board of Anadolu Kültür, following his unlawful detention of over four and a half years, as well as 18-year-prison sentences and arrest orders issued against ex- and current members of Anadolu Kültür’s Executive…

2025/2026 This stipend is one feature of the active sister city relations between Berlin and Istanbul. The office of the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery will support these efforts on a long-term basis. Partner institutions for this stipend are Anadolu Kültür/Depo in Istanbul and the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin…

March – May 2024 Eleni Mouzourou ELENI MOUZOUROU is a visual artist and art therapist from Cyprus based in Berlin. Her research based practice focuses on mapping perspectives often overlooked in mainstream narratives as a way to counteract totalising worldviews while highlighting the ‘particular’ in the context of larger sociopolitical questions. Using multiple media, like…

We were equally shocked and saddened to learn about the detention of our chairman and colleague, Osman Kavala. We are still trying to process the news of his arrest and what that means for our community and what it says about the current environment in which we must operate. In all of our collaborations and…