Salt Beyoğlu
İstiklal Caddesi 136
Beyoğlu Istanbul
Turkey
Salt Galata
Bankalar Caddesi 11
Karaköy Istanbul
Turkey
Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program 2024-2025 Projects
In collaboration with the BBVA Foundation
Salt, in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation, is pleased to announce the recipients of the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program.
This year’s selection committee comprised Vasıf Kortun (Curator), Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Manuel Segade (Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Ala Younis (Artistic Director, Akademie der Künste der Welt), Fatma Çolakoğlu (Director, Salt Research and Programs), and Juan Pujol Rodríguez (Assistant Director, BBVA Foundation).
After evaluating 193 applications, the committee selected Aslı Uludağ’s project Geothermalisms for the Artistic Research Grant. The committee awarded two projects for the Production Grant: Ali Taptık’s Looking at Osmanbey: Social and Spatial Entanglements of Fashion Trade and Merve Mepa’s An Interwoven Network: Threads and Trace.
Regarding the selections, the committee has stated: “The Research Grant has been unanimously awarded to Aslı Uludağ for her project on the material politics of geothermal energy development in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The proposal stood out for its exceptional depth, commitment to the research topic, and scholarly elaborateness of its approach. Both finalists for the Production Grant, Ali Taptık on fashion trade in Osmanbey and Merve Mepa on the interactions and intersections between humans, craft, and technology, presented compelling proposals with substantial artistic merit. The jurors opted to support both projects, considering their exceptional nature. We acknowledge that their projects represent different artistic approaches, and we believe funding both will contribute to a more diverse artistic landscape.”
Aslı Uludağ will receive 20,000 Euros for the Artistic Research Grant; Ali Taptık and Merve Mepa will receive 10,000 Euros each for the Production Grant in funding support for their projects. The artists will present their work at Salt (Türkiye) and the BBVA Foundation (Spain) in 2025.
Founded in 2011 by Garanti BBVA, Salt is a not-for-profit cultural institution engaging in research, exhibitions, publications, web projects, and public programs at the intersections of visual practices, the built environment, social life, and economic history. The BBVA Foundation, as the corporate social responsibility of the BBVA Group, is committed to advancing society by promoting and disseminating knowledge through research-based, artistic, cultural, and scientific projects.
