THIRDSPACE Public Artist Talk: Erdem Tasdelen

    Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM until 7:00 PMEastern Daylight Time UTC -04:00


    115 McCaul Street, 2nd floor
    115 Mccaul Street Toronto On
    Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
    Canada



    Join us for an artist talk by Erdem Taşdelen, marking the culmination of his two-month residency as OCAD U’s THIRDSPACE Summer Artist & Mentor-in-Residence. 

    Working across video, performance, installation, and text, his practice explores narrative as a fluid, constructed form. During his residency, he led a month-long thematic program with emerging artists, alongside workshops and studio visits. This talk shares insights into his interdisciplinary approach, recent projects, and the ideas developed through collaboration, experimentation, and storytelling across media.


    About Erdem Taşdelen:

    Erdem Taşdelen is an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Through the use of diverse materials and media, he constructs semi-fictional narratives that incorporate unique historical figures, events and texts to implicate contemporary sociopolitical realities. At the core of his artistic practice lies an exploration of how narrative interacts with its form, and how different forms “stage” narratives. 

    Taşdelen has exhibited at venues including The Power Plant, Aga Khan Museum and Mercer Union in Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; VOX, Montréal; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg; and Pera Museum, Istanbul. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation and Studio Voltaire, London; Hangar, Lisbon; Rupert, Vilnius; and KulturKontakt, Vienna. He was awarded the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Visual Arts by the Canada Council in 2016, the Charles Pachter Prize by Hnatyshyn Foundation in 2014, long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2019, and selected as a finalist for the Taoyuan International Art Award in 2025. 


    About THIRDSPACE:

    THIRDSPACE: Emerging Artist Summer Residency is a month-long residency program at OCAD University that brings together a dynamic group of interdisciplinary emerging artists, including those in the early stages of their careers and those embarking on new directions in their creative practices. Each year, this emerging artist residency is led by an established artist appointed as THIRDSPACE Summer Artist & Mentor-in-Residence.
     
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