Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Arie Amaya-Akkermans

Arie Amaya-Akkermans is a writer based in the Princes Islands of Istanbul, interested in contemporary art and culture. His current research deals with the Greek heritage of Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean. 

Contributors

The Way We Live Now 1987-2020
June 4, 2020

Notes on art, HIV, and quarantine in Turkey.

On Hospitality and Hostility
November 6, 2019

A review of the art exhibition, "Deep Current"

Exorcising Images of the American West
October 16, 2019

A review of Katherina Olschbaur's 'The Divine Hermaphrodite'

Burak Ata and the Architecture of Alienation
October 7, 2019

A review of Ata's Carsick Sports Club exhibition

Life is Boring and Then You Die
June 20, 2019

A world with no meaning in Auguste Corteau's 'Sixteen'

Monads and Polyhedrons
December 5, 2014

Exploring the complex drawings of Hala Schoukair

The Here of the Elsewhere
September 2, 2014

How does one paint war? Is it possible?

Outside, Inside
July 3, 2014

It is but the privilege of traveling.

Damascus, Beirut
May 14, 2014

Meet the artists of these two communities.

Mapping Unstable Objects
May 13, 2014

How do objects appear in a painting? Do they simply appear?