About

Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall work in collaborations across spatial, text, image, and sound practices. Their research-based projects engage architectural and urban histories/futures in order to rethink contemporary forms of spatial production and their underlying power relations. Informed by feminist perspectives, their work resists fixed forms and instead unfolds through variation, shifts in scale, and processes of transformation across physical and digital environments. The aim is to collectively (re)consider rejected knowledge and to find alternative modes of organizing our lives, schools, online and offline movements.

Serbest/Mahall exhibit and publish internationally, including at the Pera Museum Istanbul, Biennale di Venezia, Yunt Istanbul, Ural Biennial, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin, Riverrun Istanbul, Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, HKW Berlin, Vancouver Art Gallery, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, New Museum New York; in e-flux journal, Volume Magazine, Perspecta, Istanbul Art News, etc.

They are the editors of the independent magazine Junk Jet.

In 2019, they curated the 7th International Sinop Biennial under the title of "A Politics of Location." They live and work in Berlin.