Dr. Tijen Tunali

Tijen Tunali was a scholar in residence at the institute from June until August 2024. Tijen is an artist and art historian whose research focuses on contemporary aesthetico-political practices and relations. She has published numerous academic articles, book chapters and opinion pieces on the specific themes of contemporary art and activism; art and neoliberalism; art and politics of migration; alternative art forms, art spaces, and art communities; theory and practice of aesthetics and art in social movements; art in the urban public space; the aesthetics of the Zapatista Movement; queer aesthetics and museology; art and ecological critique. She is the founder and convener of the International Art and the City Conference since 2019. She is the editor of Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape (2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations (2023) and Art Against Authoritarianism in South West Asia and North Africa (2024). She is the editor of Routledge Companion to Art and the City upcoming in 2026 with 35 contributions of interdisciplinary scholars.