Marina Papazyan

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Marina Papazyan is a writer and artist from Istanbul. Their writing and work often deal with the afterlives of Ottoman imperialism, particularly as it relates to conditions of queer life and ethnic marginalization in West Asia.

marinapapazyan [at] tutamail [dot] com

Book(s)

A Tatavla Gothic (Tavros Press, 2026)

Publications

“Umudum hayal kırıklığına mı uğradı?” [Is my hope disappointed?], K24, January 1, 2026 (with Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui)
“Yokluğuna İşaret Ediyor” [Signals Its Absence], Sanat Dünyamız, no. 204 (2025)
“lubunşah,” in Narrative Power Alliance: Exhibition, ed. Onur Karaoğlu and Alper Turan (Narrative Power Alliance, 2025)
“Betraying normalcy: Red lines, the big prison, and the long middle,” K24, July 18, 2024
“Zabel Yesayan, My Soul in Exile (1922),” Metropolis M Books (2023)
“Kültür Sığınağına Yerleşmek” [Settling for the Culture Bunker], Sanat Dünyamız, no. 192 (2023)
“edible guts,” in On the Edge of Seeing (Sevil Tunaboylu, 2022)
“mâzîk,” in mâzîk (Depo, 2022)
“Beyoğlu’nun yeni failleri” [Beyoğlu’s new perpetrators], 1+1 Express, June 13, 2022 (with Eda Hisarlıoğlu)
“Eşikte Vücut Bulmak: Canavarın Queer Etiği” [Embodied at the Threshold: The Queer Ethics of Monstrosity], Kaos GL, no. 179 (2021)
“minor-K,” in On Celestial Bodies, ed. Kevser Güler and Süreyyya Evren (Arter, 2021)
“Sweating Milk,” in Abstract Lies (Chapter 1), ed. Huo Rf and Abdi Cadani (Bilsart, 2019)

Solo exhibitions

Trou de loup [Wolf hole], 5533, Istanbul, 2023
Haemoglobins & Ants, poşe, Istanbul, 2021

Group exhibitions

AMAN, AMAN, Tavros, Athens, 2026
Landscapes of Erasure, poşe — Depo, Istanbul, 2026
Narrative Power Alliance: Exhibition, Barın Han, Istanbul, 2025
All water falls into language, Kıraathane İstanbul Edebiyat Evi, Istanbul, 2022
The Hauntologists, BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2022
I heard it from the valleys, Haus N Athen, Athens, 2021
This Place, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul, 2021
Finding a Cure in Istanbul, Karşı Sanat — Yaklaşım Tüneli, Istanbul, 2021
flesh and bone, Operation Room, Istanbul, 2019

Fellowships

Richard B. Fisher Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2026
Fellowship for Situated Practice, BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Istanbul — Jakarta — Utrecht, 2021–2022
Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme, İKSV – Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, 2018–2019

Reviews and interviews

Merve Ünsal, “Marina Papazyan ile vızıltılar, nefes alışlar ve musallat olanlar üzerine,” Gaipten Sesler, Açık Radyo, August 23, 2023
Merve Şen, “Sevgili Şimdi, Bedenimde Bir Aradalık Var,” Cogito, no. 109 (2023)
Merve Şen, “Care as a Living Terrain in My Body,” Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, December 28, 2022
Kevser Güler, “Vampir ve hayaletler arasında: Hemoglobinler & Karıncalar,” Argonotlar, May 18, 2021

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Program Coordinator, Depo, Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul, 2023–2025
Project Coordinator, Depo, Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul, 2021–2023
Co-coordinator, BAS Artists’ Book Collection, Istanbul, 2020–2025

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