Book Launch in New York:
İpek Duben: The Skin, Body,
and I
May 8, 2025 18.00
![Ipek Duben Mockup Tr <i>İpek Duben: Ten, Beden, Ben</i>, Salt, 2024 [ön kapak]
Tasarım: Esen Karol](/directus/media/thumbnails/ipek_duben_mockup_tr-jpg-780-5000-false.jpg)
İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I, Salt & Mousse Publishing, 2024 [front cover]
Design: Esen Karol
Design: Esen Karol
The Drawing Center, New York
Salt is pleased to announce the upcoming launch event for the publication İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I, to be held at The Drawing Center in New York on Thursday, May 8 at 18.00. Released by Salt in collaboration with Mousse Publishing in March 2024, the publication offers an in-depth survey of İpek Duben’s practice, exploring gender, male violence, displacement, and migration.
The launch will feature a conversation between İpek Duben; the book’s editor, Vasıf Kortun; and designer Esen Karol, together with contributing authors Marianne Hirsch and Işın Önol. The discussion will be moderated by writer and educator Carol Becker.
Kortun and Duben will discuss how their long-term collaboration—including Duben’s exhibition and archive at Salt—informed the development of the publication. Karol will talk about her introduction to the artist’s practice through the design process and share insights into Duben’s artist books. Hirsch will elaborate on the artist’s manifold explorations of women’s embodiment, while Önol will address Duben’s experience of “in-betweenness” about the social, political, and artistic contexts of Turkey and the USA, where the artist has lived for extended periods.
The event is free and open to everyone.
About İpek Duben
Duben graduated from Arnavutköy American College for Girls (Robert College) and received her BA in Political Science from Agnes Scott College in 1963. After completing her MA in the same field at the University of Chicago in 1965, she abandoned her doctoral studies in 1969 to concentrate on art. She studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the New York Studio School between 1972–1976 and completed her PhD in art history at Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul) in 1984. Duben has also made significant contributions to art in Turkey with her texts and books. She was involved in institutions such as the Painting and Sculpture Museums Association and the International Association of Art (UPSD). She taught at Istanbul Technical University, Yıldız Technical University, Boğaziçi University, and Istanbul Bilgi University.
Selected solo exhibitions include The Skin, Body, and I (Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, 2021-2022), Angels and Clowns (Pi Artworks, Istanbul, 2020), in via incognito (Pi Artworks, London, 2018), They (Salt Galata, Istanbul, 2015 and Fabrica, Brighton, 2017), and LoveGame (Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul, 2017). She has also exhibited at the Social Work (Frieze Art Fair, London, 2018), 4th International Mardin Biennial (Mardin, 2018), Poetry and Exile (British Museum, London, 2014), 13th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2013), Dream and Reality (İstanbul Modern, 2011), and A Dream… But Not Yours (The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 2010).
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İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I
English, 272 pages ©2024 Salt/Garanti Kültür A.Ş. (Istanbul), Mousse Publishing (Milan)
ISBN: 978-88-6749-420-0
Editor: Vasıf Kortun
Publishing Coordinator: Sezin Romi
Texts: Işın Önol, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Marianne Hirsch
Interview: İpek Duben, Vasıf Kortun
Translation from Turkish to English: Çağla Özbek
Copy Editor: Laura Preston
Design: Esen Karol
Printing: Ofset Yapımevi
Available at: moussemagazine.it/shop and Robinson Crusoe 389 Bookstore (Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata)
This publication was produced and published with the support of Banu and Hakan Çarmıklı.
Salt is pleased to announce the upcoming launch event for the publication İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I, to be held at The Drawing Center in New York on Thursday, May 8 at 18.00. Released by Salt in collaboration with Mousse Publishing in March 2024, the publication offers an in-depth survey of İpek Duben’s practice, exploring gender, male violence, displacement, and migration.
The launch will feature a conversation between İpek Duben; the book’s editor, Vasıf Kortun; and designer Esen Karol, together with contributing authors Marianne Hirsch and Işın Önol. The discussion will be moderated by writer and educator Carol Becker.
Kortun and Duben will discuss how their long-term collaboration—including Duben’s exhibition and archive at Salt—informed the development of the publication. Karol will talk about her introduction to the artist’s practice through the design process and share insights into Duben’s artist books. Hirsch will elaborate on the artist’s manifold explorations of women’s embodiment, while Önol will address Duben’s experience of “in-betweenness” about the social, political, and artistic contexts of Turkey and the USA, where the artist has lived for extended periods.
The event is free and open to everyone.
About İpek Duben
Duben graduated from Arnavutköy American College for Girls (Robert College) and received her BA in Political Science from Agnes Scott College in 1963. After completing her MA in the same field at the University of Chicago in 1965, she abandoned her doctoral studies in 1969 to concentrate on art. She studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the New York Studio School between 1972–1976 and completed her PhD in art history at Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul) in 1984. Duben has also made significant contributions to art in Turkey with her texts and books. She was involved in institutions such as the Painting and Sculpture Museums Association and the International Association of Art (UPSD). She taught at Istanbul Technical University, Yıldız Technical University, Boğaziçi University, and Istanbul Bilgi University.
Selected solo exhibitions include The Skin, Body, and I (Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, 2021-2022), Angels and Clowns (Pi Artworks, Istanbul, 2020), in via incognito (Pi Artworks, London, 2018), They (Salt Galata, Istanbul, 2015 and Fabrica, Brighton, 2017), and LoveGame (Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul, 2017). She has also exhibited at the Social Work (Frieze Art Fair, London, 2018), 4th International Mardin Biennial (Mardin, 2018), Poetry and Exile (British Museum, London, 2014), 13th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2013), Dream and Reality (İstanbul Modern, 2011), and A Dream… But Not Yours (The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 2010).
İpek Duben: The Skin, Body, and I
English, 272 pages ©2024 Salt/Garanti Kültür A.Ş. (Istanbul), Mousse Publishing (Milan)
ISBN: 978-88-6749-420-0
Editor: Vasıf Kortun
Publishing Coordinator: Sezin Romi
Texts: Işın Önol, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Marianne Hirsch
Interview: İpek Duben, Vasıf Kortun
Translation from Turkish to English: Çağla Özbek
Copy Editor: Laura Preston
Design: Esen Karol
Printing: Ofset Yapımevi
Available at: moussemagazine.it/shop and Robinson Crusoe 389 Bookstore (Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata)
This publication was produced and published with the support of Banu and Hakan Çarmıklı.
