30.4.2026 10-11.30 on Zoom

Artist talk with Onur Tayranoğlu on “How can performance practice function as a lens for exposing, questioning, and intervening in the social, political, and cultural structures that produce reality?” at 10–11.30 on Zoom (request link via info@taidekoulumaa.fi)

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Onur Tayranoğlu is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates performativity within social, political, and cultural realities through site-situation specific performances and embodied research processes. They often work with various modes of documentation, using them both as raw artistic material and as a method for tracing the porous borders between lived experience and performance.

Since 2024, Onur produces a series of works within their long-term artistic project Queer Autonomous Zone Along the Pink-Line (QAZ) which serves as a conceptual and semi-fictional framework for their artistic practice and research dealing with ephemeral zones of queer resistance across geopolitical borders.

Onur has presented their work in the field of contemporary arts both as solo and in group exhibitions, performance programs, and festivals internationally. Some notable showcases are Finnish Museum of Photography (FI, 2025), Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art (NO, 2025), Performistanbul (TR, 2024), MUU Contemporary Art Center (FI, 2023), Grey Space in the Middle (NL, 2023), MadHouse Helsinki (FI,2022).