Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship, with Ahmet Öğüt (2025) (EMPIRE LINES x Moderna galerija, Art on the Underground)

In this episode, conceptual artist Ahmet Öğüt travels by train through Ottoman Turkey, the former Yugoslavia and Western Balkans, to the London Underground, navigating histories and contemporary expressions of solidarity via the 2025 programme, Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship.

Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship was organised by the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Podgorica in August 2025.

Ahmet Öğüt: Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art is at Stratford Station in London until December 2026, commissioned by Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries.

Museum Yet to Be is at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro in Pogdorica until 15 March 2026.

Translated into Socialism was at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana until 8 February 2026.

The East Remains Possible is at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (MoCA – Skopje) until March 29, 2026.

For more from Art on the Underground, listen to contemporary artist Barby Asante on her collective choral performance, Declaration of Independence (2023), at Stratford Station in London: pod.link/1533637675/episode/aa2803b68933ab974ca584cf6a18479c

And on migrations between Turkey and France, hear Nil Yalter, awardee of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2024, at Ab-Anbar Galleryduring London Gallery Weekend 2023, with Exile is a Hard Job (1974-Now): pod.link/1533637675/episode/36b8c7d8d613b78262e54e38ac62e70f

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