
Prof. Asli Serbest

- Studiengang Digitale Medien, Freie Kunst, Integriertes Design
- E-Mail asli.serbest@hfk-bremen.de
- Website http://aslimona.xyz
Vita
Asli Serbests kollaborative Arbeiten überspannen Raum-, Bild-, Sound- sowie Textpraktiken und entwickeln, je nach Prozess, Installationen, Objekte, temporäre Räume, Videos, Sound und Text. Sie spielen Architekturgeschichten, Ereignisse und Bewegungen neu durch, mit dem Ziel, Raumproduktion und damit verbundene Machtverhältnisse zu befragen. Ihrer feministischen Konstitution folgend, stellen sich diese Projekte weniger als fixierte Räume und Objekte dar, sondern als physische oder digitale Versionen, die ein Interesse an formaler Variation und maßstäblicher Verzerrung teilen.
Asli Serbest lehrte als Professorin in den Bereichen Architektur und Kunst, unter anderem an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart und der Rhode Island School of Design. Nach ihrem Studium in Istanbul promovierte sie über spekulative Raumstrategien und eine Kritik der Moderne.
Sie publiziert und stellt international aus, u.a. auf der Biennale di Venezia, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Riverrun Istanbul, Pinakothek der Moderne München, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, Pera Museum Istanbul, HKW Berlin, Vancouver Art Gallery, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, New Museum New York; in e-flux journal, Volume Magazine, Perspecta, The Gradient-Walker Art Center, Istanbul Art News, AArchitecture, Deutschlandfunk, etc.
Asli Serbest gibt Junk Jet, ein unabhängiges Magazin über Kunst, Architektur und Medien heraus.
Im Jahr 2019 ko-kuratierte sie die 7. Internationale Sinop Biennale 2019 unter dem Titel "A Politics of Location" - eine Ausstellung, die auf situierten Praktiken und kontextuellen Prozessen in der anatolischen Schwarzmeerregion basierte.
Aktuelle Kurse
- Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method ~ This project brings together the fields of Performance and New Musical Forms and Temporary Spaces to activate the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. Starting from the drifting boat, the project approaches the ship as a performative space shaped by infrastructures, regulations, urban dynamics, and cultural expectations, including historical maritime imaginaries, gendered mythologies, and notions of belonging. Based on Situationist analyses of spectacle and dérive, the project critically examines how artistic practices operate within temporary festival conditions and how institutions situate themselves in public space. We will develop individual or collective works at the intersection of spatial practices, performance, sound, installation, and time-based media, based on site-specific and situated research shaped by specific geographies, embodied experiences, and temporary encounters. The works are developed in direct relation to the ship and its temporary festival context. The project includes conceptual input, discussions, collective planning, and on-site production phases, concluding with the presentation of works during the Breminale (01.07. – 05.07.). Introduction: 09.04.2026, 10:00, Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4) --- This project brings together the fields of Performance and New Musical Forms and Temporary Spaces to activate the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. Starting from the drifting boat, the project approaches the ship as a performative space shaped by infrastructures, regulations, urban dynamics, and cultural expectations, including historical maritime imaginaries, gendered mythologies, and notions of belonging. Based on Situationist analyses of spectacle and dérive, the project critically examines how artistic practices operate within temporary festival conditions and how institutions situate themselves in public space. We will develop individual or collective works at the intersection of spatial practices, performance, sound, installation, and time-based media, based on site-specific and situated research shaped by specific geographies, embodied experiences, and temporary encounters. The works are developed in direct relation to the ship and its temporary festival context. The project includes conceptual input, discussions, collective planning, and on-site production phases, concluding with the presentation of works during the Breminale (01.07. – 05.07.). Introduction: 09.04.2026, 10:00, Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)
- Klasse Prof. Asli Serbest
- Integriertes Projekt + Workshop Asli Serbest As part of the Integrierendes Projekt, students may choose to participate in the Temporary Spaces Class program. Following a practice-based and research-oriented framework, the program includes workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, plenums, and a class exhibition. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4) --- As part of the Integrierendes Projekt, students may choose to participate in the Temporary Spaces Class program. Following a practice-based and research-oriented framework, the program includes workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, plenums, and a class exhibition. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)
- Betreuung Individuelles Mastervorhaben (erstes Semester) Asli Serbest For the development of their Individuelles Mastervorhaben, students may join the scheduled plenums and individual meetings of the Temporary Spaces Class program, which also includes other formats (workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, exhibitions) to support critical reflection, spatial exploration, and continuous development. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4) --- For the development of their Individuelles Mastervorhaben, students may join the scheduled plenums and individual meetings of the Temporary Spaces Class program, which also includes other formats (workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, exhibitions) to support critical reflection, spatial exploration, and continuous development. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)
- Betreuung Individuelles Mastervorhaben (zweites Semester) Asli Serbest For the development of their Individuelles Mastervorhaben, students may join the scheduled plenums and individual meetings of the Temporary Spaces Class program, which also includes other formats (workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, exhibitions) to support critical reflection, spatial exploration, and continuous development. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4) --- For the development of their Individuelles Mastervorhaben, students may join the scheduled plenums and individual meetings of the Temporary Spaces Class program, which also includes other formats (workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, exhibitions) to support critical reflection, spatial exploration, and continuous development. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)
- Integrierendes Projekt (zweites Semester) Asli Serbest As part of the Integrierendes Projekt, students may choose to participate in the Temporary Spaces Class program. Following a practice-based and research-oriented framework, the program includes workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, plenums, and a class exhibition. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4) --- As part of the Integrierendes Projekt, students may choose to participate in the Temporary Spaces Class program. Following a practice-based and research-oriented framework, the program includes workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, plenums, and a class exhibition. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)
- Mentoring bei Asli Serbest In continuously offered individual meetings, students will have the opportunity to discuss their ongoing projects and address diverse questions related to their studies. These sessions aim to support the development of their practice from conception to realization. In addition, students are encouraged to reach out whenever they have questions or concerns. --- In continuously offered individual meetings, students will have the opportunity to discuss their ongoing projects and address diverse questions related to their studies. These sessions aim to support the development of their practice from conception to realization. In addition, students are encouraged to reach out whenever they have questions or concerns.
- Spezialisierung Werkschau Asli Serbest The specialization focuses on the development, curation, and presentation of the final MA project within the context of the Werkschau. Students will work on spatial, conceptual, and communicative aspects of their thesis presentation through individual consultations, group meetings, and collective exhibition planning. If you are interested in joining this module, please contact me in advance. ---
- Werkschau und Begleitung BA bei Asli Serbest This module focuses on the development, curation, and presentation of the final BA project within the context of the Werkschau. Students will work on spatial, conceptual, and communicative aspects of their thesis presentation through individual consultations, group meetings, and collective exhibition planning. If you are interested in joining this module, please contact me in advance. --- This module focuses on the development, curation, and presentation of the final BA project within the context of the Werkschau. Students will work on spatial, conceptual, and communicative aspects of their thesis presentation through individual consultations, group meetings, and collective exhibition planning. If you are interested in joining this module, please contact me in advance.
- Temporary Spaces DM.M-MD (Media Design) With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces Class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures. Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces Class organizes participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester, Temporary Spaces Class engages in activating the ship Dauerwelle as a temporary artistic and institutional space within the context of the Breminale. For more information, please see the module description Dauerwelle ~ Drift as a Method. Previously, the class has collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. ****Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by April 04, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4) ---
Neuigkeiten
NeuigkeitDonnerstag | 20. Januar 2022MS „Dauerwelle“: Kunstraum in Bewegung
Die Hochschule für Künste Bremen eröffnet ein umgestaltetes Passagierschiff
NeuigkeitDienstag | 23. Juli 2019Live bei der „Sinopale 7“ (16.8.–6.9.)
Eindrücke von der kooperativen Biennale im nordtürkischen Sinop
NeuigkeitMittwoch | 6. Februar 2019„Wir publizieren“ – Master-Studio School of Visual Combinations
Projekt des Fachbereichs KuD der HfK mit der HKB zum Herausgeben, Vervielfältigen und Verteilen
ReviewMittwoch | 10. Oktober 2018Feierliche Semestereröffnung
225 Erstsemester starten in das Wintersemester


