completed his second Master's degree in Visual and Media Anthropology at HMKW/Berlin recently. Prior to this, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Information and Document Management, followed by Master's degree in Museum Management, both from Istanbul University. For his thesis, he followed protest movements/groups such as Occupy Museums, Liberate Tate, Gulf Labor, Decolonize This Place, the Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the Humboldt Forum and Barazani.Berlin. He continues to publish academic articles in various print and online journals, mostly focusing on the topic of decolonization of museums.
THE DEADLOCK OF THE DECOLONIZATION OF MUSEUMS
WHEN THE COLONIZER BECOMES THE DECOLONIZER
Urban People, Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024)
"Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums: Provenance Research and Restitution Politics
in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe"
Charles University / Prague
“Looting became something new during the three decades between the Berlin Conference of 1884 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, through the actions of anthropology museums. This is the brutish museum: a prolongation of violence in the name of sovereignty. These colonial museums became the infrastructure for a new kind of white supremacy.”
Dan Hicks
VISITOR OF A MUSEUM
FWD: Museums - Manifesto 2022
University of Illinois / Chicago
“The German word ‘museal’ [‘museumlike’] has unpleasant overtones. It describes objects to which the observer no longer has a vital relationship and which are in process of dying. They owe their preservation more to historical respect than to the needs of the present. Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association. Museums are like the family sepulchers of works of art.”
Theodor W. Adorno