A warm welcome to Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk's Visiting Artist Lecture in the Fine Art Department.
This lecture draws on Berlin-based artist and academic Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk's recent book Global Protest Through Art: Collaboration, Co-Creation and Interconnectedness and exams how artistic practices operate within and longside contemporary global protest movements. The talk reflections on consolidation and co-creation as political methods that generate collective agency and interconnected forms of resistance beyond symbolic representation, centering recent symbolic representation, centering.
Building on this framework, the lecture focuses on the other garden, an ongoing artistic research project initiated by Eğrikavuk and her students within UdK Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin), where she has been teaching since 2017. Developed inside a major art institution, the other garden functions as an alternative and counter-institutional structure that contains pedagogy, ecology, ecology, and community from within the university system itself.
Through these examples, the lecture prophecies art as a form of social infrastructure: a space where protest, resilience, and collective imagination generate new institutional possibilities from within.
Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk is a Turkish-born international artist and academic based in Berlin, Germany. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Ph.D. in Communication from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Eğrikavuk has been working as a faculty member at Berlin University of Arts (UdK), Media and Communication Department. She is the founder of the other garden, an artistic research space and a garden on the intersections of art, ecology, diversity and care. In 2025 she was Postdoctoral Researcher at Käte Hamburger Research Center global disaster:conne at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Dr. Eğrikavuk's visit is supported by Erasmus+.