Dilek Winchester, Untitled (Kendinibeğen . . . ), 2012 – 2025, installation view 18th Istanbul Biennial, photo: Sahir Ugur Eren
The Commissions
Dilek Winchester
The Wound is Our Place
Curated by Chus Martínez
Curatorial assistance Marion Ritzmann
Exhibition 13 – 21 June 2026
Special Opening Wednesday 17 June 2026, 6 – 9 pm
As part of Art @ Dreispitz
Opening hours:
Sat 13 and Sun 14 June 2026, 2 – 6 pm
During Art Basel:
Wed 17 June 2026, 10 am – 9 pm
Thur 18 to Sun 21 June 2026, 2 – 7 pm
→ And by appointment
Istanbul-based artist Dilek Winchester works primarily with language. She treats language as a material, freed from the imposition of fixed meaning. Too often, language is conceived as an essential element of one’s identity, a means of including—and, more frequently, excluding—others. In her hands, alphabets become tools available to all, ready to express a sense of commonality and togetherness that is lacking in today’s political language. Her installations become expressive spaces—sites where we, collectively, can invent what needs to be said and appeal to a language that embodies mutual respect and non-aggression. Language emerges as a field of hope and potential, far removed from the hateful discourse so often experienced in the present day.
The Wound is Our Place at der TANK is Winchester’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland. She is currently a resident at Atelier Mondial in Basel/Münchenstein, in immediate proximity to der TANK and Campus Dreispitz, by invitation from the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW, as part of HGK Basel @ Atelier Mondial. Both the exhibition and residency are supported by SAHA.
