Saturday, November 07
1 p.m.-6 p.m.
Platform Garanti CAC hosts an open studio day to share the work of current Istanbul Residency Program artists: Jesper Alvaer, Vangelis Vlahos, Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, Francesco Mattuzzi, Kalle Brolin, İnci Furni, Barbara Musil, Atılkunst, Soren Thilo Funder, and Sofie van der Linden.
Jesper Alvaer
Platform Garanti 3rd floor, Studio 4
1 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
Jesper Alvaer will present his ongoing project “From Zagros to Zagreb”, which is an attempt to present a guitar-string theory based on the Iranian origin of the Croats. The project includes the apparent lines that separate earth from sky, etnogenesis and acousticecology in spacetime.
Jesper Alvaer studied at the University of Oslo, in History of Ideas (91-93); then Cooper Union School of Art, NY (00-01), University of Oslo, Development Studies (08-09). He has participated in various group exhibitions in Oslo, Prague, Vienna and Miami. He recently had a solo presentation of his work at Galerie Jeleni, Prague.
Vangelis Vlahos
Platform Garanti 3rd floor, Studio 5
1:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Vlahos' recent work, focusing on different fragments of recent history and using archival material from various sources, questions the relevance of this material as a tool to rethink historical concepts that still seem to influence and shape the way we understand our present. For the open studios Vhalos will present “The differences between the parts are the subject of the composition”. The work is part of a series of projects realised under the same title that is again based on found images.
Vangelis Vlahos was born in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Recent exhibitions include: 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009); Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague (2009); After Architecture, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (2009); ISLANDS+GHETTOS, NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2009). Vlahos has also held solo exhibitions at Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan and Blow de la Barra Gallery, London, both in 2008.
Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 1
2:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure are working on a script for a new film based on the lives of the members of their own family. The story of their family will be mixed with stories that they have discovered in Istanbul after talking to many people and the resulting interviews are mixed with fictional elements of their own imagination.
Witte van Hulzen graduated from the Academy of Fine arts and design at Artez Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2009. Sander Breure has been studying at the composition department of the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. They have participated in group exhibitions including Made in Arnhem, Modern Museum of Art, Arnhem the Netherlands; Altijd Bewegen, Gemak, the Hague, Netherlands this year. They have worked collaboratively together since 2006.
Francesco Mattuzzi
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 2
2:30 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Francesco Mattuzzi will present his ongoing project “Startrucks”. The project concentrates on the lives of truck drivers who spend most of their lives on the road travelling the regions that border the Mediterranean. Mattuzi considers how to explore such a symbolic and cultural aspect of the “travel experience” within East and West freight transport and has continued research on this topic in Istanbul.
Francesco Mattuzzi graduated from Arts in Design at University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. He has participated in group exhibitions in Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. An early version of “Startrucks” was shown at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy this year.
Kalle Brolin
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 3
3:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Kalle Brolin will present two recent works: the first features a wall of posters and a performance on child labor unions in America (O! Children!); the other is a video that pitches Swedish skinheads and immigrants against each other on stage through the act of reading insulting poetry (Battla 2010). He will also talk about his project in Istanbul, which consists of two connected videos, both featuring deaf actors that speak in sign language (Mafiya). The videos reconstruct some events Kalle was involved in while staying in Moscow in 2003.
Kalle Brolin is an artist from Sweden. He works with both documentary material, in video, installation, and social projects. He is a board member of gallery Box in Gothenburg, Sweden. He will participate at the Bucharest Biennale in the summer of 2010.
İnci Furni
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 4
3:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
İnci Furni will present a fanzine titled “I made a new human” designed specially for the open studio day. Furni's recent works have been shaped under her project “The Control Room and Imaginations”. She says: “Control Room and Imaginations” allows me ask questions such as: What is the meaning of the act of imagining? When do we start to imagine? Why do we need to imagine? What is the source of our imagination? Is it the world that we know? Can we imagine something we have never seen or known? Is imagination itself a language? Or, how does language affect the imagination?”
Inci Furni's recent exhibitions include “I Don’t Believe in Personal Isolation, I Believe in Building!”, Masa Project, Istanbul (2009) and “Spirit”, Apartment Project, Istanbul (2007). Selected group exhibitions include “Unfair Provocation”, Hafriyat-Karaköy, Istanbul (2009) and “Connect The Dots 2”, Fargfabriken, Stockholm. She is currently participating in the 11th International Biennial.
Sofie van der Linden
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 5
1 p.m.- 6 p.m.
Sofie van der Linden's works focus on the relation between the city and the people. During the open studio day, she will present her recent project realised in Ghent where she visited residents living in social houses and made sketches of their apartments. After this research period she made a large-scale detailed drawing of all the different flats based on her sketches and on memory.
Sofie van der Linden received a masters in Multimedia from Kask, Ghent, Belgium. Recently she had a one person show in Gallery Gyga in Antwerp, Belgium (2009) and participated in group exhibitions at SMAK, Ghent, Belgium (2009), KUVA, Helsinki, Finland (2007)
Barbara Musil
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 6
4:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Although a variety of techniques and media are involved in the work of Barbara Musil, two areas of focus can be recognized in her work: experimentation in and with public space and a preference for video/video installation based on available raw materials. Both of these spheres of activity are continually intertwined with one another. Realised in a medium suitable for the respective context, the works all have one thing in common: a conceptual approach. For the open studios she will present three ongoing projects.
Barbara Musil lives in Linz and Vienna. She studied human medicine in Graz, then experimental design in Linz. She has undertaken residencies in Cluj, Romania; Vilnius, Lithuania; Tallinn, Estonia; Tenno, Italy and Istanbul, Turkey.
Atılkunst
Platform Garanti 5th floor, Studio 3
4:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Atılkunst will present a new video work titled “Agenda Exercises”. They will also make a sticker intervention on a daily newspaper.
Atılkunst is an artist collective run by three women artists since 2006. The main activity of Atılkunst focuses on current events, and the agendas of the day. They send out one e-mail every week with the subject “Surplus of Agenda”, consisting of one image called “Decal” which is inspired by political topics that have been raised throughout that week.
Soren Thilo Funder
Platform Garanti 5th floor, Studio 4
5:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
“Focusing on the literary realm of counter-culture and political-(militant)-activism, Soren Thilo Funder is currently engaged in an investigation of a possible connecting-space between the literary allegory and the political antagonistic action. It is a myth-making, storytelling attempt to fuse critique, subversion and exposure with mythification, dislocation and fictionalization, in order to enable a new potential allegorical space to encounter the "reals" of our contemporary society and propose new possibilities for the future.” Soren Thilo Funder will show one of his videos during the open studio day, and will talk about his current project.
Soren Thilo Funder studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2002-2008) and The School of Art and Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2006-2007). He participated in exhibitions in Denmark, Iran, Serbia, Vietnam, USA, Spain. He had a one person show at Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.
5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Studios open wide!
Artists at Open Studio Day are supported by OCA (Norway), IASPIS (Sweden), DAC (Denmark), FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands), Flemish Government (Belgium), GAI-PARC-D.E.M.O (Italy), European Union grant, Creative Collaboration Grant (British Council, UK) and Platform Garanti.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
"Benim Kentim" Konuk Sanatçı Programı
Benim Kentim Programına konuk sanatçı olarak seçilen Türkiyeli sanatçılar ve sanatçıların çalışmalara katılacağı kurumların adı ve bulundukları kentler 11 Eylül 2009, Cuma, günü açıklandı.
o Caner Aslan, Berlin, Berliner Künstlerprogramm
o Işıl Eğrikavuk, Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein & Künstlerhaus Dortmund
o Leyla Gediz, Helsinki, Näyttelyvaihtokeskus FRAME
o Güneş Terkol, Londra, Gasworks: Exhibitions, International Residencies & Studios
o Can Atay , Varşova, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski
o Gülsun Karamustafa, Viyana, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
o Caner Aslan, Berlin, Berliner Künstlerprogramm
o Işıl Eğrikavuk, Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein & Künstlerhaus Dortmund
o Leyla Gediz, Helsinki, Näyttelyvaihtokeskus FRAME
o Güneş Terkol, Londra, Gasworks: Exhibitions, International Residencies & Studios
o Can Atay , Varşova, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski
o Gülsun Karamustafa, Viyana, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Towelflag
Friday, August 28 2009, 6:30 pm
Former Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
Istiklal Cad. No: 136, Beyoglu,
Towelflag is a temporary intervention in the public space of Istanbul. A 60-meter piece of white towel fabric hangs from two pre-existing flagpoles on the façade of the former Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center headquarters. From the flagpoles located on the third floor, the white flags drop and enter through the first floor windows, crossing rooms and corridors until they meet in the toilet where hanging from a towel rack they can be used as a hand towel.
Towelflag will be exhibited on the façade of the building, currently undergoing renovation, and located on the pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, one of the most populous streets in Istanbul (said to have nearly six million people walking through it on weekends). Amidst blasting loud vendors, neon lights and all the visual and acoustical overwhelming cacophony of this street, Towelflag stands as a fairly quiet and partially hidden work, accessible in its entirety only to the building’s security guard, the one person able to use the flag as a towel.
Spanish born, Berlin based Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons are an artist collective working together since 2002 across the fields of installation, object sculpture and art in public space. They are currently artists in residence at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center.
Towelflag has been realized with the generous support by Can Xalant, Mataró and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Thursday, July 23, 2009
"Benim Kentim" Konuk Sanatçı Programı
Türkiye ile Avrupa arasındaki kültürel bağları ilerletmeyi planlayan proje kapsamında Avrupa’dan beş saygın ve tecrübeli sanatçı, Türkiye’ye, ülkenin 21. yüzyıldaki kültürel zenginliğini ve çeşitliliğini tecrübe etmek üzere davet edilecek.
Aynı zamanda buna paralel olarak Türkiye’den beş sanatçı da Avrupa’nın ileri gelen kültür kurumlarında konuk sanatçı programlarına katılarak yeni işlerini sergileme olanağı bulacaktır. Berlin, Dortmund, Helsinki, Londra, Varşova ve Viyana'da gerçekleşecek olan programların son başvuru tarihi 21 Ağustos 2009'dur.
Programlara seçilen sanatçılar Eylül ayında gerçekleştirilecek olan 11. İstanbul Bienali sırasında açıklanacaktır.
'Benim Kentim'', Avrupa Komisyonu tarafından desteklenmektedir ve Anadolu Kültür, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile işbirliği içinde British Council tarafından yürütülmektedir.
Başvuru formlarını buradan indirebilir ya da platform@garanti.com.tr adresinden isteyebilirsiniz.
My City European Residencies [MCER]
MCER, is a one-off programme to be realized between 2010 and 2011 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to develop their work in six prominent host institutions across Europe through residencies.
It forms part of My City, a new cultural initiative funded through the European Commission’s Cultural Bridges Programme, designed and run by the British Council in Turkey. The programme’s aim is to establish partnerships between artists and institutions in Turkey and Europe.
The My City programme has two strands: MCER and a programme of activities in Turkey around the theme of art in public space, including seminars, conferences and new commissions. Starting in 2009, five artists from Europe will be invited to Turkey to develop a unique work of public art for a specific city in Turkey. The selected cities are Canakkale, Istanbul, Konya, Mardin and Trabzon. Each of these cities has a unique story to tell and this project will give the artists the opportunity to take part in residencies and show their work at some of Europe’s leading cultural venues. The names of all participants will be announced during the International Istanbul Biennale in September.
My City has been conceived by the British Council together with Anadolu Kultur and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is funded by the European Commission and the British Council.
Goal The project goal is to enable visual artists to develop and reflect upon their work in a different European environment and culture. The residency also generates opportunities for making or extending contacts and for exploring and/or developing a new context as well as producing new work.
Who Can Apply?
My City European Residencies [MCER] grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi-disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the MCER.
In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. A good command of English and other relevant languages of the place of residence are required.
For precise details of the conditions, applicants are referred to the explanation accompanying the application form. If you require more information please contact: platform@garanti.com.tr.
Selection Process
MCER Applications will be reviewed by a committee of six professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have the experience in international residencies. There will be one representative each from Platform Garanti and the British Council.
The committee will prepare a short-list of three candidates for each institution for which the application was made. The final selection will be made by the European host institutions in consultation with the committee.
Host Institutions
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw , Poland is the premier interdisciplinary contemporary art centre in Poland and one of the most vibrant art centres in Central and Eastern Europe. The CCA has been supporting, documenting and presenting art since 1989. The audience consists of professionals, artists, students but also people unacquainted with art on an everyday basis.
The a-i-r programme, created in 2002 in the frame of the CCA international activity, is an extension and a complement of the ongoing dialogue between artists from around the world. The small scale of the a-i-r laboratory has allowed for an individual approach to each visiting artist by working in close dialogue with a curator. The CCA is interested in both site-specific projects and further work on projects initiated before arrival. The institution encourages an exchange between artists from different cultures and the local milieu. Publications (artist books, posters, catalogues) created during the residency stays at a-i-r laboratory are of great importance.
Presentations of the visiting artists’ works are incorporated into the CCA’s programme of events in the form of lectures, screenings, discussions, exhibitions and performances. Artists are encouraged to work in public space.
Workrooms are designed both for artists using traditional techniques and for those employing new media. There is a bedroom, a kitchen, a studio and a film workshop equipped with a camera, microports, lighting and editing computers at the disposal of the residents. Furthermore, a-i-r laboratory residents can benefit from the CCA’s technical background, library, reading room and videotheque.
Gasworks: Exhibitions, International Residencies & Studios, London , UK
Founded in 1994, Gasworks is an art organization located in a three-story Victorian building in South London, between Vauxhall and Oval underground stations. It houses 12 artists’ studios – of which nine are rented by London based artists and three are dedicated to residencies – and offers a programme of exhibitions and events, artists’ residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.
Gasworks focuses on visual arts practice in its broadest sense, working discursively with UK-based and international artists to facilitate the development of their work. Gasworks’ programme is committed to providing a responsive context and to disseminating critical practices to a wider audience. Gasworks is part of the Triangle Arts Trust, an international network of artists and organisations.
As part of the My City programme, one Turkish or Turkey-based artist will be selected for a residency and a solo exhibition at Gasworks in Spring 2010. The residency will take place between 1 April and 30 June 2010, offering the selected artist a studio at Gasworks, accommodation and living expenses. The exhibition will open at the end of the residency, on 25 June 2010 and remain open for seven weeks, until 15 August 2010.
The artist will receive pastoral and curatorial support from both the residencies coordinator and exhibitions curator throughout the period of residency at Gasworks. The exhibition will be the result of a dialogue between the artist and the two curators and is expected to start prior to the residency period.
DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin Dates 3 months in the first half of 2010
The Berliner Künstlerprogramm was found in 1963 by the Ford Foundation as an artist-in-residence programme. In 1965 it was taken over by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). As part of the My City programme, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm is offering a three month residency in Berlin in the first half of 2010.
The aim of this programme is to promote an exchange of experience among artists and to foster their involvement with current cultural issues in other countries. Through numerous internal meetings and projects which are carried out in the DAAD Gallery or in cooperation with other cultural institutions, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm aims to establish contacts with local artists and personalities involved in Germany’s cultural life.
With their expertise, the visual arts team of the Künstlerprogramm will support the selected guest artist to realize a project developed during his/her stay in Berlin (for example a new piece, an exhibition, a public work, a publication etc.). In Berlin, the guest artist will have the opportunity to continue his/her work undisturbed and to participate actively in the city’s cultural life.
Visual artists who live and work in Turkey are encouraged to apply. They should be at the beginning of their career or not yet be widely internationally known. The invitation is issued in conjunction with a grant that allows for an adequate standard of living. It also includes a furnished apartment and a production budget. Artists who accept the invitation take up permanent residence in Berlin for the duration of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm grant.
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna , Austria
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has been a leading European training centre for artists for more than 300 years. The Academy offers a renowned team of professors in the arts and cultural studies department, including Pawel Althamer, Sabeth Buchmann, Martin Beck, Monica Bonvicini, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harun Farocki, Marina Grizinic, Matthias Herrmann, Tom Holert, Dorit Margreiter, Marion van Osten, Daniel Richter, Constanze Ruhm, Amelie von Wulffen, Heimo Zobernig and others. Theory and practice are regarded as necessary for the transdisciplinarity that is a common agenda in the arts and theoretical research. Disciplines such as painting, photography, sculpture, video, digital media, sound, film, conceptual art, performance, art in public space, gender studies, postcolonial studies, philosophy and aesthetic theory, art history are, among others, to be found at the Academy.
As part of the My City programme, this residency provides accommodation in the heart of Vienna, next to the Museumquartier (MQ) and the Academy. The apartment (89m²) has two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen. The resident will have access to the labs and studios, ranging from drawing, printing and painting to photography, sound, video, digital media, performance and as well as the libraries. The Academy is interested in applicants with a strong international track record.
FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Helsinki
FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange provides services and acts as an expert body in international exchanges relating to the visual arts. FRAME, established in 1992, works within the Finnish Fine Arts Academy Foundation and is primarily funded by the Finnish Ministry of Culture.
FRAME currently collaborates with HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme) for artists’ residencies. HIAP offers a residency on Suomenlinna island from for a period still to be negotiated from Spring 2010 onwards.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund & Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
As part of the MyCity programme, one Turkish or Turkey-based artist will be selected for a residency at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund in spring 2010. The residency will take place between 1 April and 30 June 2010, offering the selected artist a studio at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, accommodation and living expenses. The residency takes place in the context of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein and Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund are inviting visual artists exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media to apply for the residency. However, media art is not understood as a technical genre. Rather, it is the topical and conceptual discussion of our contemporary world based increasingly on media and technological structures that makes for the contemporaneity of media art.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
Founded in 1996 in Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) serves as a platform for the production, presentation, mediation and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. Since 1996 HMKV has realized over 70 exhibitions, film and video programs, workshops, lectures, symposia, performance programs and conferences at various venues in Dortmund (currently in the PHOENIX Halle, a spectacular 1895 factory hall measuring 2.200 square meters belonging to the giant former steel production plant of hoenix-West) as well as in other cities in Germany and abroad. Among the 40 exhibitions of the last thirteen years there were seminal projects such as „Reservate der Sehnsucht“ (1998), games. Computer games by artists“ (2003), „History Will Repeat Itself“ (2007/2008) and „Anna Kournikova ... Art in the Age of Intellectual Property“ (2008). Through its strong commitment to the field of media art over the past decade HMKV has developed into a unique institution in Germany. HMKV’s exhibitions are characterised by their broad definition of media art and by positioning media art in the context of contemporary art. HMKV’s activities have received international recognition. In 2007 and 2008 HMKV has been nominated for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Art Associations. HMKV hosts since 2000 the grant program of the State of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) for media artists (f) from NRW. Since 2006 HMKV functions as the branch office of Medienwerk NRW which will host the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) RUHR 2010.
Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Since 1983 the artists' organization Künstlerhaus Dortmund has been a non-profit space for contemporary and experimental arts. It is a place for all kinds of contemporary visual arts: Painting, sculpture, graphic as well as photography, film, video, installation and new
media. This spectrum can be found in the working fields of the members as well as in the group exhibitions, organized by the members exclusively for artists who are not members of the Künstlerhaus. By focusing on contemporary and experimental art, especially young, not
yet established artists are supported. In this way, the Künstlerhaus enriches the cultural scene of the city of Dortmund - consisting of museums and galleries with their economic interests, featuring mainly solo exhibitions - in a unique way. The Künstlerhaus creates free space for arts, offers optimal working conditions for artists from Germany and abroad and attempts to reach the interested public through direct and personal mediation. The Künstlerhaus frequently serves as a workstation for international guests to realize new and site-specific work. The interdisciplinary orientation of the Künstlerhaus Dortmund creates a constantly growing network of contacts to various national and international cultural institutions. Since 1993, the association "MeX" for experimental music is a continuous guest in the basement for intermedia and experimental sound projects. In addition, the Künstlerhaus cultivates the contact to the Hartware MedienKunstVerein, also located in Dortmund.
Friday, June 26, 2009
İstanbul Misafirleri Programı Açık Atölye Günü
27 Haziran '09 / Cumartesi, 14:00-18:00
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 2003'den beri devam eden İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da bulunan sanatçılar atölyelerini ve üzerinde çalıştıkları projeleri ziyaretçilerle paylaşacaklar.
Katherine Hymers:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:5
14:00-14:15
Katherine Hymers'ın işlerindeki görüntü kullanımı sinemadaki anlatım alışkanlıklarına şiddetle direnmekte. Açık Atölye Günü'nde Hymers, üzerinde çalıştığı Untitled'ı (Abandon) sunacak. İki ekranlı video sanatçının İstanbul'da çektiği birbirinden bağımsız iki görüntüyü, ortak bir anlatının parçalarıymış gibi bir araya getiriyor. Hareket ya da hareketsizlik, zamanın akışında hissedilir bir gerilim yaratmak için kullanılıyor. İki imaj arasındaki çelişki sergilenirken, aynı zamanda izleyicilerin bu görüntüyü bir bütün içinde algılamaları yüreklendiriliyor.
Can Altay:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:4
14:20-14:35
Can Altay, kendisiyle aynı dönem içerisinde Platform'da bulunan Jeremiah Day ile geliştirdikleri ortak proje hakkında konuşacak. Popüler ama bir o kadar da riskli bir sokak yemeği olan midye dolma üzerinden İstanbul'un çeşitli dinamiklerine bir bakış niteliği taşıyan bu çalışmada, ikili, birbirinden bağımsız gözüken anlatı parçalarını biraraya getiriyor. İkili, "Boğaz'ın Böbrekleri" olarak da bilinen midyelerin içlerinden geçen suyu filtrelerken tuttukları kimyasal izlerin yanısıra daha soyut ve kentin sosyal, ekonomik ve siyasi coğrafyalarına dair izler de barındırdığı kanısında.
Frenchmottershead:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:3
14:40-14:55
Rebecca French ve Andrew Mottershead kimlik, sosyal gelenekler, günlük kamusal ve özel alan üzerine işler üretiyor. Şimdiye kadar Brezilya, Çin, İngiltere, Finlandiya, Romanya ve Slovenya'da gerçekleştirdikleri “SHOPS -DÜKKANLAR” projesini İstanbul'da sürdürmekteler. Farklı dükkan sahipleri ile görüşerek bu dükkanlar çevresinde örülen iletişim ağlarını, kültürü, günlük yaşam unsurlarını incedikleri fotoğraf projesi 2009 yılı sonunda bir sergi ve yayın olarak tamamlanacak.
http://shopsproject.blogspot.com
Stefanos Tsivopoulos:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:1&2
15:00-15:15
“Filmlerim, arşivlerin ve sinemanın, tarihi ve politik olayları araştırmak üzere kullanılması şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Yeni projem “As Others Continue to Fall” (Diğerleri Düşmeye Devam Ederken), miras kalan anıtların topluma yakınlığı sorusunu ortaya atıyor. Anıt (monument) kelimesi, latince 'monere' den geliyor, yani 'uyarmak', 'hatırlatmak' anlamını taşıyor. Bu durumda, etrafımızda gördüğümüz anıtlar bize tarihsel olayları hatırlatmak yerine politik gücün nasıl kötüye kullanabileceği konusunda bizi uyarmak üzere yapıldığında ne olur?”
Hans Rosenström:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:3
15:20-15:35
Hans Rosenström, Hasankeyf'te kamerayı Dicle nehrinin akışına bırakarak çektiği videosunu Açık Atölye'de sunuyor. Nehrin doğal akışı kamerayı Hasankeyf'in içinde taşırken görüntüler manzarayı tanımlıyor. Video, doğal ve kültürel oluşumların birbirinin içine geçtiği, uzun zamandır değişim içinde olan bir bölgeyi gösteriyor.
Asli Cavusoglu:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:4
15:40-15:55
Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Açık Atölye Günü'ne son işleri ile katılıyor. Dünyayı Nasıl Dolaştım? Sanatçının hazır seyahat turları görüntülerinden yararlanarak yeniden kurguladığı bir video. William Blake okudum, orjinali bir Karadeniz türküsü olan şarkının sözlerinin sanatçı tarafından yazılmış ve kaydı payvon müzisyenleri eşliğinde yapılmış hali. Dünya saati ve Hiçbirşey İstemeyen Adam ise el yapımı iki adet kitap.
Alina Viola Grumiller:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:5
16:00-16.15
Alina Viola Grumiller, Açık Atölye Günü'nde City Dialogues (Kent Dialogları) isimli işini gösterecek. Bu iş, sanatçının Viyana, New York ve İstanbul'da çeşitli kişilerle gerçekleştirdiği konuşmaların ses kayıtlarının metinlerinden oluşuyor. Platform'daki dönem içinde yazıya dökülen bu konuşmalar, bir video ya da kitap olarak tamamlanacak. Sanatçı ayrıca The Tree on the Hill ve The Serpentine Road isimli iki resmini de gösterecek.
Emre Hüner:
Platform Garanti 5. kat, Stüdyo no:3
16:20-16:35
“Şu anda özellikle soğuk savaş dönemi Amerikan ve Rus kültürü, edebiyatı ve sineması referanslı yeni işimin araştırma safhasındayım. Bu iş, propoganda filmleri, mimarisi ve bilimiyle ilişkili. Özellikle NASA uzay programları, Walt Disney animasyonları, dünya fuarları, 80'li yılların Hollywood kült bilim kurgu filmlerini inceliyorum. Araştırmam için, bazen işlerimin çıkış noktasını oluşturan internet üzerindeki görsel, kitap, dergi, koleksiyon malzemeleri sitelerini tarıyorum”.
Karolin Fişekçi:
Platform Garanti 5. kat, Stüdyo no:4
16:40-16:55
Sanatçı, Platform'daki çalışma dönemi sırasında yaptığı resimler üzerine bir sunum yapacak.
ha za vu zu:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:6
17:30
Sanatçı kollektifi ha za vu zu stüdyolarında bir performans gerçekleştirecekler.
Açık Atölye Günü'ne katılan sanatçılar Arts Council, İngiltere; EU Culture Fund, FONDS BKVB, Hollanda; FRAME, Finlandiya ve Platform Garanti tarafından destekleniyor.
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 2003'den beri devam eden İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da bulunan sanatçılar atölyelerini ve üzerinde çalıştıkları projeleri ziyaretçilerle paylaşacaklar.
Katherine Hymers:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:5
14:00-14:15
Katherine Hymers'ın işlerindeki görüntü kullanımı sinemadaki anlatım alışkanlıklarına şiddetle direnmekte. Açık Atölye Günü'nde Hymers, üzerinde çalıştığı Untitled'ı (Abandon) sunacak. İki ekranlı video sanatçının İstanbul'da çektiği birbirinden bağımsız iki görüntüyü, ortak bir anlatının parçalarıymış gibi bir araya getiriyor. Hareket ya da hareketsizlik, zamanın akışında hissedilir bir gerilim yaratmak için kullanılıyor. İki imaj arasındaki çelişki sergilenirken, aynı zamanda izleyicilerin bu görüntüyü bir bütün içinde algılamaları yüreklendiriliyor.
Can Altay:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:4
14:20-14:35
Can Altay, kendisiyle aynı dönem içerisinde Platform'da bulunan Jeremiah Day ile geliştirdikleri ortak proje hakkında konuşacak. Popüler ama bir o kadar da riskli bir sokak yemeği olan midye dolma üzerinden İstanbul'un çeşitli dinamiklerine bir bakış niteliği taşıyan bu çalışmada, ikili, birbirinden bağımsız gözüken anlatı parçalarını biraraya getiriyor. İkili, "Boğaz'ın Böbrekleri" olarak da bilinen midyelerin içlerinden geçen suyu filtrelerken tuttukları kimyasal izlerin yanısıra daha soyut ve kentin sosyal, ekonomik ve siyasi coğrafyalarına dair izler de barındırdığı kanısında.
Frenchmottershead:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:3
14:40-14:55
Rebecca French ve Andrew Mottershead kimlik, sosyal gelenekler, günlük kamusal ve özel alan üzerine işler üretiyor. Şimdiye kadar Brezilya, Çin, İngiltere, Finlandiya, Romanya ve Slovenya'da gerçekleştirdikleri “SHOPS -DÜKKANLAR” projesini İstanbul'da sürdürmekteler. Farklı dükkan sahipleri ile görüşerek bu dükkanlar çevresinde örülen iletişim ağlarını, kültürü, günlük yaşam unsurlarını incedikleri fotoğraf projesi 2009 yılı sonunda bir sergi ve yayın olarak tamamlanacak.
http://shopsproject.blogspot.com
Stefanos Tsivopoulos:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:1&2
15:00-15:15
“Filmlerim, arşivlerin ve sinemanın, tarihi ve politik olayları araştırmak üzere kullanılması şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Yeni projem “As Others Continue to Fall” (Diğerleri Düşmeye Devam Ederken), miras kalan anıtların topluma yakınlığı sorusunu ortaya atıyor. Anıt (monument) kelimesi, latince 'monere' den geliyor, yani 'uyarmak', 'hatırlatmak' anlamını taşıyor. Bu durumda, etrafımızda gördüğümüz anıtlar bize tarihsel olayları hatırlatmak yerine politik gücün nasıl kötüye kullanabileceği konusunda bizi uyarmak üzere yapıldığında ne olur?”
Hans Rosenström:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:3
15:20-15:35
Hans Rosenström, Hasankeyf'te kamerayı Dicle nehrinin akışına bırakarak çektiği videosunu Açık Atölye'de sunuyor. Nehrin doğal akışı kamerayı Hasankeyf'in içinde taşırken görüntüler manzarayı tanımlıyor. Video, doğal ve kültürel oluşumların birbirinin içine geçtiği, uzun zamandır değişim içinde olan bir bölgeyi gösteriyor.
Asli Cavusoglu:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:4
15:40-15:55
Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Açık Atölye Günü'ne son işleri ile katılıyor. Dünyayı Nasıl Dolaştım? Sanatçının hazır seyahat turları görüntülerinden yararlanarak yeniden kurguladığı bir video. William Blake okudum, orjinali bir Karadeniz türküsü olan şarkının sözlerinin sanatçı tarafından yazılmış ve kaydı payvon müzisyenleri eşliğinde yapılmış hali. Dünya saati ve Hiçbirşey İstemeyen Adam ise el yapımı iki adet kitap.
Alina Viola Grumiller:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:5
16:00-16.15
Alina Viola Grumiller, Açık Atölye Günü'nde City Dialogues (Kent Dialogları) isimli işini gösterecek. Bu iş, sanatçının Viyana, New York ve İstanbul'da çeşitli kişilerle gerçekleştirdiği konuşmaların ses kayıtlarının metinlerinden oluşuyor. Platform'daki dönem içinde yazıya dökülen bu konuşmalar, bir video ya da kitap olarak tamamlanacak. Sanatçı ayrıca The Tree on the Hill ve The Serpentine Road isimli iki resmini de gösterecek.
Emre Hüner:
Platform Garanti 5. kat, Stüdyo no:3
16:20-16:35
“Şu anda özellikle soğuk savaş dönemi Amerikan ve Rus kültürü, edebiyatı ve sineması referanslı yeni işimin araştırma safhasındayım. Bu iş, propoganda filmleri, mimarisi ve bilimiyle ilişkili. Özellikle NASA uzay programları, Walt Disney animasyonları, dünya fuarları, 80'li yılların Hollywood kült bilim kurgu filmlerini inceliyorum. Araştırmam için, bazen işlerimin çıkış noktasını oluşturan internet üzerindeki görsel, kitap, dergi, koleksiyon malzemeleri sitelerini tarıyorum”.
Karolin Fişekçi:
Platform Garanti 5. kat, Stüdyo no:4
16:40-16:55
Sanatçı, Platform'daki çalışma dönemi sırasında yaptığı resimler üzerine bir sunum yapacak.
ha za vu zu:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:6
17:30
Sanatçı kollektifi ha za vu zu stüdyolarında bir performans gerçekleştirecekler.
Açık Atölye Günü'ne katılan sanatçılar Arts Council, İngiltere; EU Culture Fund, FONDS BKVB, Hollanda; FRAME, Finlandiya ve Platform Garanti tarafından destekleniyor.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant Misafir Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro'daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Sonbahar 2009 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır.
Özellikle video ve ses üretimiyle ilgilenen, yeni medyayla çalışan sanatçılar için hazırlanmış olan Can Xalant Programı için son dosya teslim tarihi 1 Temmuz Çarşamba 2009'dur.
Programın süresi 6 haftadır (Eylül - Ekim 2009). Seyahat, İspanya içi dolaşım, yaşam, konaklama ve kısmi üretim giderleri Platform ve Can Xalant tarafından karşılanmaktadır.
Can Xalant görsel sanatların ve güncel tartışmaların üretimi üzerine Mataro'da kurulmuş ilk merkezdir. Can Xalant'ın amacı görsel sanatların araştırılması ve üretimi sırasında gerekli olan programları sunmaktır. Merkez bu amacını, düzenlediği atöyle çalışmaları, sergiler, eğitim programları, misafir sanatçı programı, değişim programları ve yayınladığı basılı malzemeler ile sürdürmektedir.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 5 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Can Xalant yapacaktır. Başvuracak olan sanatçı ve küratörlerden program süresince yapmayı düşündükleri proje ya da araştırma hakkında bir dosya sunmaları beklenmektedir.
Programa bir sanatçı seçilmesi durumunda Can Xalant'daki stüdyolardan, video/ses kaydı, post-prodüksiyon ekipmanlarından yararlanabileceği gibi ihtiyaç halinde merkez tarafından teknik ekip de sanatçıya sağlanacaktır.
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant değişim programına birinci yılda Cevdet Erek, ikinci yılda ise Erkan Özgen katıldılar.
Başvuru detaylarını burada bulabilirsiniz.
Internet yoluyla başvuru ve URL kabul edilmemektedir. Başvuru dosyaları geri yollanmaz.
Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Garanti Galeri - Platform Garanti
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27
Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 - 18:00
Özellikle video ve ses üretimiyle ilgilenen, yeni medyayla çalışan sanatçılar için hazırlanmış olan Can Xalant Programı için son dosya teslim tarihi 1 Temmuz Çarşamba 2009'dur.
Programın süresi 6 haftadır (Eylül - Ekim 2009). Seyahat, İspanya içi dolaşım, yaşam, konaklama ve kısmi üretim giderleri Platform ve Can Xalant tarafından karşılanmaktadır.
Can Xalant görsel sanatların ve güncel tartışmaların üretimi üzerine Mataro'da kurulmuş ilk merkezdir. Can Xalant'ın amacı görsel sanatların araştırılması ve üretimi sırasında gerekli olan programları sunmaktır. Merkez bu amacını, düzenlediği atöyle çalışmaları, sergiler, eğitim programları, misafir sanatçı programı, değişim programları ve yayınladığı basılı malzemeler ile sürdürmektedir.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 5 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Can Xalant yapacaktır. Başvuracak olan sanatçı ve küratörlerden program süresince yapmayı düşündükleri proje ya da araştırma hakkında bir dosya sunmaları beklenmektedir.
Programa bir sanatçı seçilmesi durumunda Can Xalant'daki stüdyolardan, video/ses kaydı, post-prodüksiyon ekipmanlarından yararlanabileceği gibi ihtiyaç halinde merkez tarafından teknik ekip de sanatçıya sağlanacaktır.
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant değişim programına birinci yılda Cevdet Erek, ikinci yılda ise Erkan Özgen katıldılar.
Başvuru detaylarını burada bulabilirsiniz.
Internet yoluyla başvuru ve URL kabul edilmemektedir. Başvuru dosyaları geri yollanmaz.
Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Garanti Galeri - Platform Garanti
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27
Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 - 18:00
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Urban Interventions: Artistic Perspectives (UIAP)
Residency Program
UIAP is a one-off project to be realized in 2009 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to attend a residency program in Linz, Austria, from July to September, 2009, and again from October to December, 2009. The program will be reciprocated in 2010 in Istanbul.
Goal:
The project “Urban Interventions” aims at inviting artists from Europe to explore various urban landscapes in different cities. It creates, within the framework of artist residency programs and activities, a platform for interaction and exchange both on a local level, as well as within a broader, inter-regional spectrum.
The project will include artists from 5 countries from Europe (Liverpool-UK, Dortmund-GE, Tallinn-EE, Istanbul-TR, And Linz-AT), developing urban art projects within the span of 3 to 6 month residencies at one of the project partner cities.
Who Can Apply:
Urban Interventions Artistic Perspectives (UIAP) grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi-disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the UIAP. In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. For precise details of the conditions, applicants are referred to the explanation accompanying the application form.
If you require more information please contact oykuozsoy@gmail.com / OykuOzs@garanti.com.tr.
Host Institutions for artists from Turkey:
Cultural Dept of Linz, Austria
Dates:
1 artist July-Sept 2009
1 artist Oct-Dec 2009
Selection Process:
UIAP Applications will be reviewed by a committee of five professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have experience in international residencies. There will be one representative from Platform Garanti.
Selection Criteria:
Artists who have a demonstrable interest in public spaces, urban initiatives and interventions, as well as mobilization of artistic practices and exchanges.
Detailed information about the institution:
Atelierhaus Salzamt (International Studio House Linz)
The former Salt Authority in Linz’s city has been converted into an international meeting place for artists by the Cultural Department of Linz, Austria.
Atelierhaus Salzamt is a brand new renovated 300 year old building beside the Danube. The ground floor has a 200 sqm exhibition room and a cafe/bistro.
Accommodation (around 30qm) and studio (30-70qm) is in Atelierhaus Salzamt, is free of charge for the artists-in-residence. There is also a recreation room with an extra kitchen, a small library. Internet is provided.
Selected artists will receive a stipend for living expenses Euro 800 per month and Euro 1,000 for material subsidy once.
Institutions of Interest in Linz:
Ars electronica
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
lentos
ok centrum
Kunstraum GoethestraBe
afo architectureforum oberosterreich
salzamt – atelier haus
design center Linz
kapu
kepler salon
nordico
medienkulturhaus
artpark
The application must include a statement/motivation letter for the residency. Please forward the application form and your CV, along with sufficient visual material such as slides, Cds/DVDs, web addresses, images and/or printed material of work no older than four years. The material will not be returned, please do not send in any original work.
All visual documentation must be accompanied by a specific information sheet on the visuals that lists the medium, date, and other necessary details.
It is important that you choose a documentation medium with which your work can be assessed best.
Please take into account that the committee may not view a video for longer than 15 minutes. If necessary, please provide an explanation no longer than a single A4 sheet.
Your materials must be delivered to Platform Garanti by June 2, 2009
Important Note:
If you have already applied for the:
Accented Residency, or the Can Xalant Residency programs, you do not have to send your file again.
Please send only a letter of intent specific to the application.
The application can be found here
UIAP is a one-off project to be realized in 2009 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to attend a residency program in Linz, Austria, from July to September, 2009, and again from October to December, 2009. The program will be reciprocated in 2010 in Istanbul.
Goal:
The project “Urban Interventions” aims at inviting artists from Europe to explore various urban landscapes in different cities. It creates, within the framework of artist residency programs and activities, a platform for interaction and exchange both on a local level, as well as within a broader, inter-regional spectrum.
The project will include artists from 5 countries from Europe (Liverpool-UK, Dortmund-GE, Tallinn-EE, Istanbul-TR, And Linz-AT), developing urban art projects within the span of 3 to 6 month residencies at one of the project partner cities.
Who Can Apply:
Urban Interventions Artistic Perspectives (UIAP) grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi-disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the UIAP. In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. For precise details of the conditions, applicants are referred to the explanation accompanying the application form.
If you require more information please contact oykuozsoy@gmail.com / OykuOzs@garanti.com.tr.
Host Institutions for artists from Turkey:
Cultural Dept of Linz, Austria
Dates:
1 artist July-Sept 2009
1 artist Oct-Dec 2009
Selection Process:
UIAP Applications will be reviewed by a committee of five professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have experience in international residencies. There will be one representative from Platform Garanti.
Selection Criteria:
Artists who have a demonstrable interest in public spaces, urban initiatives and interventions, as well as mobilization of artistic practices and exchanges.
Detailed information about the institution:
Atelierhaus Salzamt (International Studio House Linz)
The former Salt Authority in Linz’s city has been converted into an international meeting place for artists by the Cultural Department of Linz, Austria.
Atelierhaus Salzamt is a brand new renovated 300 year old building beside the Danube. The ground floor has a 200 sqm exhibition room and a cafe/bistro.
Accommodation (around 30qm) and studio (30-70qm) is in Atelierhaus Salzamt, is free of charge for the artists-in-residence. There is also a recreation room with an extra kitchen, a small library. Internet is provided.
Selected artists will receive a stipend for living expenses Euro 800 per month and Euro 1,000 for material subsidy once.
Institutions of Interest in Linz:
Ars electronica
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
lentos
ok centrum
Kunstraum GoethestraBe
afo architectureforum oberosterreich
salzamt – atelier haus
design center Linz
kapu
kepler salon
nordico
medienkulturhaus
artpark
The application must include a statement/motivation letter for the residency. Please forward the application form and your CV, along with sufficient visual material such as slides, Cds/DVDs, web addresses, images and/or printed material of work no older than four years. The material will not be returned, please do not send in any original work.
All visual documentation must be accompanied by a specific information sheet on the visuals that lists the medium, date, and other necessary details.
It is important that you choose a documentation medium with which your work can be assessed best.
Please take into account that the committee may not view a video for longer than 15 minutes. If necessary, please provide an explanation no longer than a single A4 sheet.
Your materials must be delivered to Platform Garanti by June 2, 2009
Important Note:
If you have already applied for the:
Accented Residency, or the Can Xalant Residency programs, you do not have to send your file again.
Please send only a letter of intent specific to the application.
The application can be found here
Monday, April 13, 2009
Accented
Accented aims to develop co-operations in South East Europe (SEE), and the East Mediterranean (EM), North Africa, the Gulf Countries and the United Kingdom with key institutions that focus on artistic research.
The initiative will be administered through a relationship between six institutions that include Platform Garanti CAC (Istanbul, Turkey), Vector Association (Iasi, Romania), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Delfina Foundation (London, UK) and Spike Island (Bristol, UK).
Creative Collaboration grants will be made available to artists, curators and writers from countries in SEE, EM, the Gulf and the UK. Over a course of two years 20 professionals selected will be offered six to eight-week residencies at one of the participating institutions.
The initiative is open to applicants from the following countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Gulf Region, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Syria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Accented is generously supported by the British Council under the Creative Collaboration Project Funds.
Detailed information can be found here
Download the application form from here
For further information please contact:
Oyku Ozsoy: oykuozs@garanti.com.tr
Friday, March 27, 2009
Book Preview / Kitap Sunumu
Jeremiah Day / Simone Forti
28 Mart Cumartesi, 17:30
Garanti Galeri - Platform Garanti
Istiklal Cad. no:115A, Beyoglu/Ist., 5. Kat
Geçtiğimiz sene Project Arts Center'da (Dublin, İrlanda) düzenlenen bir grup sergisinden yola çıkarak oluşmaya başlayan bu kitap, farklı dönemlerden gelen ve farklı malzemeleri kullanan; fakat aynı konuyu ve duyarlılığı paylaşan iki sanatçının çalışmalarını belgeliyor. Simone Forti'nin gazetelerdeki günlük haberleri kullandığı doğaçlama performanslarına ve Jeremiah Day'in fotoğraf/alan araştırmalarına odaklanan kitap, hem bir katalog hem de bir sanatçı kitabı niteliğinde. Sanatçı Can Altay ile işbirliğiyle hazırlanan bu kitap, Day'in İstanbul'da üzerinde çalıştığı ana proje niteliğinde.
UCLA'dan (California, ABD) mezun olduktan ve hem sanatla ilgili hem de sanat dışında Los Angeles'da çalıştıktan sonra Day, 2003 yılında Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten'e (Amsterdam, Hollanda) katılmak için Avrupa'ya taşındı. Day'in slide gösterileri, yayınları ve enstelasyonları; fotoğraf, performans ve araştırmanın bir araya getirilmesi ile oluşuyor. Jeremiah Day, işleri 1960'larda Judson Kilisesi'ndeki postmodern danstan, hareket halinde konuşan doğaçlamaların evrimine, ve yazarlığa kadar uzanan Simone Forti'den etkilenmiştir.
Jeremiah Day, Kasım 2008'den beri FONDS BKVB (Hollanda) desteğiyle İstanbul Misafirleri Programı kapsamında Platform Garanti'de misafir sanatçı olarak yer almaktadır.
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Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah Day / Simone Forti
Saturday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m.
Garanti Galeri - Platform Garanti
Istiklal Str. no:115A, Beyoglu/Ist.; 5th Floor
Developed from last year's collaborative exhibition at Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland), this book documents the practice of two artists of different generations and mediums, but with shared subject matter and sensibility. Focussed on Simone Forti's improvisational performances working with stories from the daily news, and Jeremiah Day's photo/site investigations, the book is part catalogue, part artist's book. In addition to working collaboratively with Can Altay, this book has been Day's major project while here in Istanbul.
After graduating from UCLA and working in Los Angeles both in and out of the art context, in 2003 Jeremiah Day moved to Europe to attend Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Day's slide-shows, publications and installations combine photography, performance and research, and are critically informed by his experience working with an artist of an earlier generation, Simone Forti, whose practice has spanned from the origins of post-modern dance at Judson Church in the early 1960's, to the evolution of her moving-speaking improvisations, and increasingly as a writer.
Jeremiah Day, current resident at Platform Garanti supported by FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands) since November 2008.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Platform Residents at OPEN e v+ a 2009
March 14 - May 24, Limerick Irelans
Nevin ALADAG Andreas BUNTE Lynda DEVENNY Willie DOHERTY Andrea FACIU Andreas FOGARASI Jan FREUCHEN Garvan GALLAGHER William HAMILTON Diango HERNANDEZ Michele HORRIGAN Florian HÜTTNER Luis JACOB Daniel KNORR Jakob KOLDING Nicky LARKIN An Te LIU Sean LYNCH Eduardo Daniel NAVARRO Vulkasin NEDELJOVIC Seamus NOLAN Isabella OBERTANDER Eoin O’CONAILL Siobhan OGILVY David O’KANE Eamonn O’KANE John O’REILLY Alan PHELAN Marjetica POTRC Gavin REDMOND Tom RYAN Jochen SCHMITH Donal SHEEHAN Nicole SIX / Paul PETRITSCH Stefanos TSIVOPOULOS Olaf NVERZART
OPEN e v+ a, as Ireland's pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, is an open submission exhibition, open to all artists world-wide, working in all media, materials, styles and genres which will be exhibted in varios locations throughout Limerick City Centre.
The 33rd annual OPEN e v+ a will in 2009 for the first time since 1978 be a co-curated exhibition. The two designated curators, Angelika Nollert / Yilmaz Dziewior, have worked well together in the past are sharing the responsibilities for adjudicating the submissions, selecting the works and venues, designing the exhibition and its budget allocations, determining the OPEN e v+ a awards and contributing their thoughts to the catalogue essay.
Nevin ALADAG Andreas BUNTE Lynda DEVENNY Willie DOHERTY Andrea FACIU Andreas FOGARASI Jan FREUCHEN Garvan GALLAGHER William HAMILTON Diango HERNANDEZ Michele HORRIGAN Florian HÜTTNER Luis JACOB Daniel KNORR Jakob KOLDING Nicky LARKIN An Te LIU Sean LYNCH Eduardo Daniel NAVARRO Vulkasin NEDELJOVIC Seamus NOLAN Isabella OBERTANDER Eoin O’CONAILL Siobhan OGILVY David O’KANE Eamonn O’KANE John O’REILLY Alan PHELAN Marjetica POTRC Gavin REDMOND Tom RYAN Jochen SCHMITH Donal SHEEHAN Nicole SIX / Paul PETRITSCH Stefanos TSIVOPOULOS Olaf NVERZART
OPEN e v+ a, as Ireland's pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, is an open submission exhibition, open to all artists world-wide, working in all media, materials, styles and genres which will be exhibted in varios locations throughout Limerick City Centre.
The 33rd annual OPEN e v+ a will in 2009 for the first time since 1978 be a co-curated exhibition. The two designated curators, Angelika Nollert / Yilmaz Dziewior, have worked well together in the past are sharing the responsibilities for adjudicating the submissions, selecting the works and venues, designing the exhibition and its budget allocations, determining the OPEN e v+ a awards and contributing their thoughts to the catalogue essay.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Artist Talk: Larissa Sansour
Friday, February 27 at 6:30 p.m.
Platform Garanti CAC
Istiklal Str. no:115A
Beyoglu/Ist.
5th Floor
Larissa Sansour current resident at Platform Garanti supported by Danish Arts Council since January will speak about her work and current projects.
Larissa Sansour’s work tackles difficult political situations through unorthodox means. During the talk, she will introduce some of her videos that deal specifically with the situation in Palestine.
Sansour will also be joined by Oreet Ashery to talk about their latest book project, “Nonel and Vovel”. The book is a collaborative work in which Ashery, an Israeli born artist and Sansour, a Palestinian born artist engage in a surreal dialogue that addresses issues ranging from art and politics to the problematic nature of their collaboration. The book is a graphic novel in which both artists contract a virus that gives them super human powers yet rids them of their creative creativity. The adventure lies in the dilemma of such a scenario and the consequences of the artists’ decisions.
Born 1973 in Jerusalem, Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York, and earned her MA from New York University. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilizes video art, digital photography, experimental documentary, the book form and the web.
Sansour’s work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums and film festivals. Her most notable shows include the Tate Modern in London and the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Her work was shown in last year’s Third Guangzhou Triennial in China, the Contemporary Art Biennale in Nîmes, France and the Busan Biennale in South Korea. Her latest film “A Space Exodus” was nominated for the Muhr Awards for short film at the Dubai International Film Festival. In 2009, Sansour will launch the graphic novel “Nonel and Vovel” which she is working on with artist Oreet Ashery. She will also have her first oneiperson exhibition in New York.
Platform Garanti CAC
Istiklal Str. no:115A
Beyoglu/Ist.
5th Floor
Larissa Sansour current resident at Platform Garanti supported by Danish Arts Council since January will speak about her work and current projects.
Larissa Sansour’s work tackles difficult political situations through unorthodox means. During the talk, she will introduce some of her videos that deal specifically with the situation in Palestine.
Sansour will also be joined by Oreet Ashery to talk about their latest book project, “Nonel and Vovel”. The book is a collaborative work in which Ashery, an Israeli born artist and Sansour, a Palestinian born artist engage in a surreal dialogue that addresses issues ranging from art and politics to the problematic nature of their collaboration. The book is a graphic novel in which both artists contract a virus that gives them super human powers yet rids them of their creative creativity. The adventure lies in the dilemma of such a scenario and the consequences of the artists’ decisions.
Born 1973 in Jerusalem, Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York, and earned her MA from New York University. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilizes video art, digital photography, experimental documentary, the book form and the web.
Sansour’s work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums and film festivals. Her most notable shows include the Tate Modern in London and the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Her work was shown in last year’s Third Guangzhou Triennial in China, the Contemporary Art Biennale in Nîmes, France and the Busan Biennale in South Korea. Her latest film “A Space Exodus” was nominated for the Muhr Awards for short film at the Dubai International Film Festival. In 2009, Sansour will launch the graphic novel “Nonel and Vovel” which she is working on with artist Oreet Ashery. She will also have her first oneiperson exhibition in New York.
Sanatçı Konuşması: Larissa Sansour
27 Şubat Cuma, 18:30
Platform Garanti GSM
Istiklal Cad. no:115A
Beyoglu/Ist.
5. Kat
Platform Garanti bünyesinde yer alan İstanbul Misafirleri Programı'da Danish Arts Council desteğiyle, Ocak ayından beri konuk olan Larissa Sansour, işleri ve üzerinde çalıştığı projeler hakkında konuşacak.
Larissa Sansour’un işleri, zor altındaki politik durumları alışılmışın dışında araçlar yardımıyla inceler. Platform Garanti’de gerçekleştireceği konuşma sırasında sanatçı, Filistin’deki duruma yönelik videolarından bir seçki sunacak. Sansour sanat pratiğini daha karşılıklı hale getiren yeni alanlar ile kamusal katmana ulaşmayı hedefleyen yeni stratejiler kullandığı son projeleri hakkında da konuşacak.
Konuşma sırasında Sansour’a yeni kitap projesi “Nonel and Vovel” da birlikte çalıştığı sanatçı Oreet Ashery de eşlik edecek. Israil doğumlu sanatçı Ashery ile Filistin doğumlu Sansour’u bir araya getiren kitap projesi, iki sanatçıyı sanat ve politikadan kendi ortaklıklarının problemli doğasına kadar bir çok konuyu ele aldıkları, gerçeküstü bir söyleşi içinde tanımlıyor.
1973 yılında Kudüs’te doğan Larissa Sansour Kopenhag, Londra ve New York’ta güzel sanatlar eğitimi, New York Üniversitesi’nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. Sanatçı, halihazırdaki politik durum üzerine farklı malzemeler kullanarak çalışıyor. Sansour’un işleri farklı ülkelerde galerilerde, müzelerde ve film festivallerinde gösterildi. Bunlar arasında Tate Modern (Londra), Arken Museum of Modern Art (Danimarka), 3. Guangzhou Trienali (Çin), Güncel Sanat Bienali (Nîmes, Fransa) ve BusanBienali (G. Kore) sayılabilir. Sansour 2009 yılında New York’ta ilk kişisel sergisini açacaktır.
Platform Garanti GSM
Istiklal Cad. no:115A
Beyoglu/Ist.
5. Kat
Platform Garanti bünyesinde yer alan İstanbul Misafirleri Programı'da Danish Arts Council desteğiyle, Ocak ayından beri konuk olan Larissa Sansour, işleri ve üzerinde çalıştığı projeler hakkında konuşacak.
Larissa Sansour’un işleri, zor altındaki politik durumları alışılmışın dışında araçlar yardımıyla inceler. Platform Garanti’de gerçekleştireceği konuşma sırasında sanatçı, Filistin’deki duruma yönelik videolarından bir seçki sunacak. Sansour sanat pratiğini daha karşılıklı hale getiren yeni alanlar ile kamusal katmana ulaşmayı hedefleyen yeni stratejiler kullandığı son projeleri hakkında da konuşacak.
Konuşma sırasında Sansour’a yeni kitap projesi “Nonel and Vovel” da birlikte çalıştığı sanatçı Oreet Ashery de eşlik edecek. Israil doğumlu sanatçı Ashery ile Filistin doğumlu Sansour’u bir araya getiren kitap projesi, iki sanatçıyı sanat ve politikadan kendi ortaklıklarının problemli doğasına kadar bir çok konuyu ele aldıkları, gerçeküstü bir söyleşi içinde tanımlıyor.
1973 yılında Kudüs’te doğan Larissa Sansour Kopenhag, Londra ve New York’ta güzel sanatlar eğitimi, New York Üniversitesi’nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. Sanatçı, halihazırdaki politik durum üzerine farklı malzemeler kullanarak çalışıyor. Sansour’un işleri farklı ülkelerde galerilerde, müzelerde ve film festivallerinde gösterildi. Bunlar arasında Tate Modern (Londra), Arken Museum of Modern Art (Danimarka), 3. Guangzhou Trienali (Çin), Güncel Sanat Bienali (Nîmes, Fransa) ve BusanBienali (G. Kore) sayılabilir. Sansour 2009 yılında New York’ta ilk kişisel sergisini açacaktır.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Artist Talk / Jacopo Miliani
Friday, January 16, 6:30 p.m.
Jacopo Miliani, current resident at Platform Garanti supported by the Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists (GAI), the Italian Ministry of Culture - PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture), and the Ministry for Youth Policies, since November 2008 will speak about his work and his engagement with the residency program.
Using a broad range of different references, Jacopo Miliani's work focuses on the relation between image and representation and their role in the contemporary debate. His research involves the reuse and distortion of images from the art world and cinema and it focuses on topics such as magic, popular culture and collective imagination.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Deniz Gül
Tokyo Wonder Site Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
Fall 2008
Deniz Gül lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey where she received her BA in Visual Arts and Communication Design from Sabanci University.
Gül’s artistic practice involves public interventions or site-specific productions ans she uses photography, video, objects and text to create works of art that examine the construction of identity and space through social roles, urban myths and representation. Dealing with a matter’s condition of existence, she deconstructs her subjects to capture and develop a new reality. In her recent video series Mama Stop! (2008, Tokyo) she depicts forms of parental control over a child in different settings and reproduces codes of behaviour via spatial arguments on identities and roles of women in society. Gül’s latest photographic series Backyard and Façade (2008, Istanbul) exposes the use of an early 19th century style of architectural structure composed of counterfeit combination of baroque and western styles by a narrative which imagines fictive characters circulating in the contemporary cultural, social and practical rituals. This series reproduces the cult of western influence on the orient and locates cultural artefacts in a staged wedding celebration.
In addition to her artistic practice, Gül writes for various magazines and blogs about contemporary culture, arts, design and urban life. In 2008, Gul’s fictive-documentary Zeytinburnu Monologues was published as a part of “Urban Makers- Parallel Narratives of Grassroots Practices and Tensions” by Bbooks, Germany. In the same year, she exhibited in “Post-it Cities”, Centre De Cultura Contemporania (Barcelona) and “Bodig 08”, Hafriyat (Istanbul).
Fall 2008
Deniz Gül lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey where she received her BA in Visual Arts and Communication Design from Sabanci University.
Gül’s artistic practice involves public interventions or site-specific productions ans she uses photography, video, objects and text to create works of art that examine the construction of identity and space through social roles, urban myths and representation. Dealing with a matter’s condition of existence, she deconstructs her subjects to capture and develop a new reality. In her recent video series Mama Stop! (2008, Tokyo) she depicts forms of parental control over a child in different settings and reproduces codes of behaviour via spatial arguments on identities and roles of women in society. Gül’s latest photographic series Backyard and Façade (2008, Istanbul) exposes the use of an early 19th century style of architectural structure composed of counterfeit combination of baroque and western styles by a narrative which imagines fictive characters circulating in the contemporary cultural, social and practical rituals. This series reproduces the cult of western influence on the orient and locates cultural artefacts in a staged wedding celebration.
In addition to her artistic practice, Gül writes for various magazines and blogs about contemporary culture, arts, design and urban life. In 2008, Gul’s fictive-documentary Zeytinburnu Monologues was published as a part of “Urban Makers- Parallel Narratives of Grassroots Practices and Tensions” by Bbooks, Germany. In the same year, she exhibited in “Post-it Cities”, Centre De Cultura Contemporania (Barcelona) and “Bodig 08”, Hafriyat (Istanbul).
Friday, December 26, 2008
Artist Talk: Jeremiah Day
Contact Improvisation / News Animations
The work of Steve Paxton and Simone Forti
Wednesday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Postmodern dance emerged in a unique moment of interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange in American arts – composers like Terry Riley, Steve Reich mingled with sculptors like Richard Serra, and visual artists like Robert Morris and Walter de Maria worked in dance. This unstable moment produced new forms and models in all of the arts, but the underlying shared assumption that there would be some new relationship to the public was ultimately proved wrong – we still go to theaters and white cube galleries. With the brief exception of Earthworks, really only one art form was able to break away from "the art world" – Steve Paxton's invention Contact Improvisation.
In this informal presentation, Jeremiah Day will show videos of Contact Improvisation and discuss Steve Paxton's artistic evolution. Also, he will present the work of Paxton's peer Simone Forti. Forti's work differed from the rest of her minimalist peers in that she ultimately returned to the problem of "subject matter." Day will show a few examples of her "News Animations" which offer a unique model for engaging politics in art.
Platform Garanti
Contemporary Art Center
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu
Istanbul, 34430, Turkey
The work of Steve Paxton and Simone Forti
Wednesday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Postmodern dance emerged in a unique moment of interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange in American arts – composers like Terry Riley, Steve Reich mingled with sculptors like Richard Serra, and visual artists like Robert Morris and Walter de Maria worked in dance. This unstable moment produced new forms and models in all of the arts, but the underlying shared assumption that there would be some new relationship to the public was ultimately proved wrong – we still go to theaters and white cube galleries. With the brief exception of Earthworks, really only one art form was able to break away from "the art world" – Steve Paxton's invention Contact Improvisation.
In this informal presentation, Jeremiah Day will show videos of Contact Improvisation and discuss Steve Paxton's artistic evolution. Also, he will present the work of Paxton's peer Simone Forti. Forti's work differed from the rest of her minimalist peers in that she ultimately returned to the problem of "subject matter." Day will show a few examples of her "News Animations" which offer a unique model for engaging politics in art.
Platform Garanti
Contemporary Art Center
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu
Istanbul, 34430, Turkey
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Do you believe in magic?
workshop*
Held by IRP artist Jacopo Miliani
December 20 Saturday and December 21 Sunday 2-6 p.m.
Platform Garanti at Jacopo Miliani's studio: 3rd floor Studio:4
Supported by the Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists (GAI), the Italian Ministry of Culture - PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture), and the Ministry for Youth Policies
The workshop aims to be a direct confrontation with the vast and allegorical topic of magic in contemporary art. Magic will be a thin line and not a border in grouping different persons, categories or issues. Magic, alchemy, esotericism find more and more significance in contemporary art, and this interest shows an alternative to the system of representation in crisis. We are witnessing the collapse of the original symbolism, property of a close system of knowledge, in favor of a different scene full of references, quotations, metamorphosis and suspension of belief.
The workshop aims to be an open discussion starting from a personal research in the field and the practice of contemporary art. The workshop would also be a link between some researches, which till now have been developed in a european context, and the reality/unreality of Istanbul. The work of different artists will be observed, and supported by ‘special contributors’.
The workshop is open to artists, curators, critics, filmmakers, curious, people interest in contemporary art, people interested in magic ...
Keywords:
_illusion _hallucination _reality/ipereality/parallel reality _ time _double _image _alterated status _oral prophecy
_belief/disbelief _cult / occult _monte verità _mirror and mirrors _smoke _disappearance _absence/presence
_performativity _ceremony _ritual _place vs space _Futurism/Avantgarde _representation _reflection _ superstition
_uncanny ...
Special Contributors:
Jen de Nike, Form Content/ THE MOCK, FruitandFlowerDeli, Trisha Donnelly, THISISAMAGAZINE, BROWN,
Simone Menegoi, Francesca Pagliuca, Marco Tagliafierro and Miroslava Hajek, Matija Ferlin, Francesca di Nardo, Luigi Presicce, Sandrine Nicoletta, Christoph Keller...
LINK:
www.jmiliani.com
www.brownmagazine.it/
www.themock.co.uk
www.fruitandflowerdeli.com
www.thisisamagazine.com
Project realized with the contribution of DE.MO.- Movin’up GAI/ Residenze 2008
*Everyone is interested in taking part to the workshop could please send an email to: LPMPROJECT@YAHOO.IT or text/call +905546253281.
Held by IRP artist Jacopo Miliani
December 20 Saturday and December 21 Sunday 2-6 p.m.
Platform Garanti at Jacopo Miliani's studio: 3rd floor Studio:4
Supported by the Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists (GAI), the Italian Ministry of Culture - PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture), and the Ministry for Youth Policies
The workshop aims to be a direct confrontation with the vast and allegorical topic of magic in contemporary art. Magic will be a thin line and not a border in grouping different persons, categories or issues. Magic, alchemy, esotericism find more and more significance in contemporary art, and this interest shows an alternative to the system of representation in crisis. We are witnessing the collapse of the original symbolism, property of a close system of knowledge, in favor of a different scene full of references, quotations, metamorphosis and suspension of belief.
The workshop aims to be an open discussion starting from a personal research in the field and the practice of contemporary art. The workshop would also be a link between some researches, which till now have been developed in a european context, and the reality/unreality of Istanbul. The work of different artists will be observed, and supported by ‘special contributors’.
The workshop is open to artists, curators, critics, filmmakers, curious, people interest in contemporary art, people interested in magic ...
Keywords:
_illusion _hallucination _reality/ipereality/parallel reality _ time _double _image _alterated status _oral prophecy
_belief/disbelief _cult / occult _monte verità _mirror and mirrors _smoke _disappearance _absence/presence
_performativity _ceremony _ritual _place vs space _Futurism/Avantgarde _representation _reflection _ superstition
_uncanny ...
Special Contributors:
Jen de Nike, Form Content/ THE MOCK, FruitandFlowerDeli, Trisha Donnelly, THISISAMAGAZINE, BROWN,
Simone Menegoi, Francesca Pagliuca, Marco Tagliafierro and Miroslava Hajek, Matija Ferlin, Francesca di Nardo, Luigi Presicce, Sandrine Nicoletta, Christoph Keller...
LINK:
www.jmiliani.com
www.brownmagazine.it/
www.themock.co.uk
www.fruitandflowerdeli.com
www.thisisamagazine.com
Project realized with the contribution of DE.MO.- Movin’up GAI/ Residenze 2008
*Everyone is interested in taking part to the workshop could please send an email to: LPMPROJECT@YAHOO.IT or text/call +905546253281.
Els Vanden Meersch: Exchanging Icons
Wednesday, December 17, 18:30
Book Launch, 2007 Residency Artist
Els Vanden Meersch: Exchanging Icons
Garanti Galeri
Exchanging icons / Occasionally dressing-up
Double-sided photo-poster, 2008.
‘Occasionally dressing-up’ makes a connection between different cities. The city of temporary residence, Istanbul, and the city of permanent residence, Antwerp (and other Belgium cities), become interwoven by means of subjective associations.
Experiencing memory as a generating force, one place is involved with the other through similarities and differences. Continuously searching for possible links in the mental act of adjustment, apparent different locations imply and reflect one another. This mental process of connecting allows the possibility of exchanging and mixing local icons in a mutual narrative.
These cities are experienced as both obsessively changeable and invariable. Observed public space and monumentalized buildings are part of everyday flow, hardly noticed by a preoccupied citizen but obvious for a visitor.
Buildings play their role as stone protagonists of a cityscape, both containing elements for cultural or national identity and serving as facades to increase the cities international appeal.
‘Occasionally dressing-up’ can be seen as and other Belgium cities a temporary fashion show.
Book Launch, 2007 Residency Artist
Els Vanden Meersch: Exchanging Icons
Garanti Galeri
Exchanging icons / Occasionally dressing-up
Double-sided photo-poster, 2008.
‘Occasionally dressing-up’ makes a connection between different cities. The city of temporary residence, Istanbul, and the city of permanent residence, Antwerp (and other Belgium cities), become interwoven by means of subjective associations.
Experiencing memory as a generating force, one place is involved with the other through similarities and differences. Continuously searching for possible links in the mental act of adjustment, apparent different locations imply and reflect one another. This mental process of connecting allows the possibility of exchanging and mixing local icons in a mutual narrative.
These cities are experienced as both obsessively changeable and invariable. Observed public space and monumentalized buildings are part of everyday flow, hardly noticed by a preoccupied citizen but obvious for a visitor.
Buildings play their role as stone protagonists of a cityscape, both containing elements for cultural or national identity and serving as facades to increase the cities international appeal.
‘Occasionally dressing-up’ can be seen as and other Belgium cities a temporary fashion show.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Platform/IAAB guest artist İnci Furni
Open Studio
Sunday, December 14, 2008
St. Alban-Tal 40A, studios 1-4, 4052 Basel
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan
At the Project Arts Centre, Dublin
with Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland
Project Arts Centre will present the newly commissioned installation of two films by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, in the exhibition Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland.
Triggered by the invitation to make a new work for Dublin, the two collaborating Dutch artists followed a trail of migrating Celts to Berlin, where a victory monument commemorates a battle of this ancient people. The artists’ 35mm black and white film slowly follows the surface of the monument’s frieze bringing us into an intimate encounter with a global treasure. Depicting the gigantomachy, or struggle between gods and giants. The frieze is also the receptacle of another tale – that of imperialism, cultural looting and the re-appropriation of national treasures, cultural heritage and the spoils of war.
Initially they planned to film the sculptural battle scene in the Pergamonmuseum, however the museum did not want to collaborate with an art project addressing the fact that the monument originates from somewhere else. This might ‘stir the debate about repatriation’, something the museum was ‘not interested in’.
Numerous images of Pergamon’s Gigantomachia frieze circulate in academic books and guides that have been published throughout the years. Appropriating these existing reproductions, which were printed in different epochs and different periods, with their diverse grids, qualities and illumination, the artists reconstructed the entire sculptural battlefield, and this is what we see on film.
The second element in the Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland exhibition, is another tonal interpretation of the sculptural relief, presented this time not in image but in language. The artists have collaborated with participants of an integration class in the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul. Motivated by rising nationalism and in response to integration lagging behind, many European countries have recently introduced a proficiency integration exam. Only after passing this exam can applicants obtain their papers for migration. This prepares new migrants for the difficult task of learning the language and culture of their new fatherland, in their country of origin. While on residency with Platform Garanti, van Brummelen & de Haan asked these prospective Germans, who were preparing themselves for the integration exam and still knew only very basic German vocabulary, to read out loud a German art historical description of the sculpted myth that travelled ahead of them. In front of a 16mm camera, and whilst grappling with difficult pronunciation and terms that are not taught in the course (such as serpent’s leg) the aspirant migrants describe each of the scenes of the sculptural battlefield in their fledgling German.
As with many of van Brummelen & de Haan’s collaborative works there is a long and twisting tale behind these films. As the migrants in Istanbul’s Goethe Institut argued about the relevance of them describing a ‘Greek’ sculpture, and the Pergamonmuseum denied their request to film the frieze, the artists’ formal trajectory developed into an increasingly layered illustration of the complex historical subject matter. In an age of globalization, the relationships we have to language and to national artistic and academic heritage have becoming increasingly nuanced and conflicted, creating open spaces for artistic reading and interpretation. The artworks of van Brummelen and de Haan actively inhabit these disputed grounds.
Curated by Tessa Giblin
Saturday 31st January from 1pm
The new films of van Brummelen and de Haan have been supported in their production by the Dutch Film Fund, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Platform Garanti, Kodak: Global Images in Motion and Project Arts Centre.
Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland has been generously supported by the Mondriaan Foundation.
Project Arts Centre | 39 East Essex Street | Temple Bar | Dublin 2 | Ireland
Gallery open Monday – Saturday, 11am – 8pm
with Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland
Project Arts Centre will present the newly commissioned installation of two films by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, in the exhibition Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland.
Triggered by the invitation to make a new work for Dublin, the two collaborating Dutch artists followed a trail of migrating Celts to Berlin, where a victory monument commemorates a battle of this ancient people. The artists’ 35mm black and white film slowly follows the surface of the monument’s frieze bringing us into an intimate encounter with a global treasure. Depicting the gigantomachy, or struggle between gods and giants. The frieze is also the receptacle of another tale – that of imperialism, cultural looting and the re-appropriation of national treasures, cultural heritage and the spoils of war.
Initially they planned to film the sculptural battle scene in the Pergamonmuseum, however the museum did not want to collaborate with an art project addressing the fact that the monument originates from somewhere else. This might ‘stir the debate about repatriation’, something the museum was ‘not interested in’.
Numerous images of Pergamon’s Gigantomachia frieze circulate in academic books and guides that have been published throughout the years. Appropriating these existing reproductions, which were printed in different epochs and different periods, with their diverse grids, qualities and illumination, the artists reconstructed the entire sculptural battlefield, and this is what we see on film.
The second element in the Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland exhibition, is another tonal interpretation of the sculptural relief, presented this time not in image but in language. The artists have collaborated with participants of an integration class in the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul. Motivated by rising nationalism and in response to integration lagging behind, many European countries have recently introduced a proficiency integration exam. Only after passing this exam can applicants obtain their papers for migration. This prepares new migrants for the difficult task of learning the language and culture of their new fatherland, in their country of origin. While on residency with Platform Garanti, van Brummelen & de Haan asked these prospective Germans, who were preparing themselves for the integration exam and still knew only very basic German vocabulary, to read out loud a German art historical description of the sculpted myth that travelled ahead of them. In front of a 16mm camera, and whilst grappling with difficult pronunciation and terms that are not taught in the course (such as serpent’s leg) the aspirant migrants describe each of the scenes of the sculptural battlefield in their fledgling German.
As with many of van Brummelen & de Haan’s collaborative works there is a long and twisting tale behind these films. As the migrants in Istanbul’s Goethe Institut argued about the relevance of them describing a ‘Greek’ sculpture, and the Pergamonmuseum denied their request to film the frieze, the artists’ formal trajectory developed into an increasingly layered illustration of the complex historical subject matter. In an age of globalization, the relationships we have to language and to national artistic and academic heritage have becoming increasingly nuanced and conflicted, creating open spaces for artistic reading and interpretation. The artworks of van Brummelen and de Haan actively inhabit these disputed grounds.
Curated by Tessa Giblin
Saturday 31st January from 1pm
The new films of van Brummelen and de Haan have been supported in their production by the Dutch Film Fund, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Platform Garanti, Kodak: Global Images in Motion and Project Arts Centre.
Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland has been generously supported by the Mondriaan Foundation.
Project Arts Centre | 39 East Essex Street | Temple Bar | Dublin 2 | Ireland
Gallery open Monday – Saturday, 11am – 8pm
Fatma Çiftçi at Spike Island
Platform Garanti CAC/Visiting Arts Residency Exhibition
Spike Island Project Space
31 January - 15 March 2009
Fatma Çiftçi
Turkish artist Fatma Çiftçi returns to Spike Island after completing a three month residency summer 2008 which has been funded by Visiting Arts.
This residency is an on-going collaboration with Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul and had previously been awarded to Can Altay. Fatma graduated at Bilkent University Fine Arts Department in Ankara and her work spans photography, video, performance, animation and drawing. This will be her first solo show in the UK .
16 May 2008: Second Spike Island artist selected
26 February 2008: Spike Island Production Residency ‘08 in the UK in partnership with Platform Garanti
5 February 2007: Can Altay, First Spike Island artist exhibition
Spike Island Project Space
31 January - 15 March 2009
Fatma Çiftçi
Turkish artist Fatma Çiftçi returns to Spike Island after completing a three month residency summer 2008 which has been funded by Visiting Arts.
This residency is an on-going collaboration with Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul and had previously been awarded to Can Altay. Fatma graduated at Bilkent University Fine Arts Department in Ankara and her work spans photography, video, performance, animation and drawing. This will be her first solo show in the UK .
16 May 2008: Second Spike Island artist selected
26 February 2008: Spike Island Production Residency ‘08 in the UK in partnership with Platform Garanti
5 February 2007: Can Altay, First Spike Island artist exhibition
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Collaborations 2008
IAAB (International Exchange and Studio Programme Basel) Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
October-December 2008 2008
Inci Furni born in Bursa, she studied at the Mimar Sinan Üniversity between 1996 and 2002, Fine Art Department at Istanbul.
Furni' s work is made of drawings, object and words; as she asserts, most of her works are informed by her walks around Istanbul, collecting impressions and object and taking notes, turning them later into "fictions where everything is in the wrong place". Furni's research focuses on the analysis of the role of language - both verbal and visual - in contemporary society. She is interests in the ideology and fundamental ideas behind symbols derived from pop culture and political statements. Emblematic is her last body of work, Fazin, a series of drawings that are to a large extent comical, and in which she compiles symbols and figures, draws from contemporary culture, and makes declaratory sentences such as, Imagination and control, Cerebral fingerprint or This machine is reading my thoughts.
In 2008 she was a resident at the Atelier Frankfurt's Residency programme and at the IAAB, International Exchange and Studio Programme Basel.
In recent years, Inci Furni has participated in exhibition such as Made in Turkey, Atelier Frankfurt, 2008; Connect The Dot 1 and Zig Zag Indipendent Drawing Gig 4, both in Hafriyat-Karakoy, Istanbul, 2008; You would gobble down the world yet not have enough, 10 International Istanbul Bienal Special Project", Istanbul, 2007; Explosion Wheel, K2, Izmir, 2007.
October-December 2008 2008
Inci Furni born in Bursa, she studied at the Mimar Sinan Üniversity between 1996 and 2002, Fine Art Department at Istanbul.
Furni' s work is made of drawings, object and words; as she asserts, most of her works are informed by her walks around Istanbul, collecting impressions and object and taking notes, turning them later into "fictions where everything is in the wrong place". Furni's research focuses on the analysis of the role of language - both verbal and visual - in contemporary society. She is interests in the ideology and fundamental ideas behind symbols derived from pop culture and political statements. Emblematic is her last body of work, Fazin, a series of drawings that are to a large extent comical, and in which she compiles symbols and figures, draws from contemporary culture, and makes declaratory sentences such as, Imagination and control, Cerebral fingerprint or This machine is reading my thoughts.
In 2008 she was a resident at the Atelier Frankfurt's Residency programme and at the IAAB, International Exchange and Studio Programme Basel.
In recent years, Inci Furni has participated in exhibition such as Made in Turkey, Atelier Frankfurt, 2008; Connect The Dot 1 and Zig Zag Indipendent Drawing Gig 4, both in Hafriyat-Karakoy, Istanbul, 2008; You would gobble down the world yet not have enough, 10 International Istanbul Bienal Special Project", Istanbul, 2007; Explosion Wheel, K2, Izmir, 2007.
Collaborations 2008
Spike Island Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
Fall 2008
Fatma Ciftci was born in Amasya in 1981 and now lives and works in Istanbul. She graduated from the Bilkent University Fine Arts Department of Ankara in 2005.
Cifti works with photography, video, performance, animation and drawing, merging these different media within her artistic practice. She often introduces found images and objects to her works in order to invent games that blur reality and fiction, as well as modes of representation and creativity. In her recent works Cifti's interest has focused on political and military issues. For example I will be a soldier is a series of eight embroidered drawings that each depict the black silhouette of a soldier in a different military position. The inspiration for this series is a toy soldier and the childish expression 'when I grow up I want to be a solder'. The relationship between the influence of such a toy and a child's imagined dream can be seen as both ironic and paradoxical.
Once Upon a Time in Istanbul is a video project in which Cifti overlays a found amateur 16mm film with dialogue from old Turkish movies. The video was shot in the 1970s in Istanbul and it presents scenes of people and their social activities of that period. Cifti's layering of periods and subjects creates a complex sequence that sees change condensed into one act.
In 2008 Cifti attended the Spike Island Residency programme in Bristol for three months. Her work was presented on the YAMA public screen in Istanbul in 2008 and in Asia Art Now, Arario Beijing, China, 2007; Mom's Livingroom, Goyang Art Studio Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea, 2007; freekick (hospitality zone of 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, 2005; and in the 23rd Exhibition of Contemporary Artists of Istanbul and of Diyarbakir, Turkey, 2004.
Fall 2008
Fatma Ciftci was born in Amasya in 1981 and now lives and works in Istanbul. She graduated from the Bilkent University Fine Arts Department of Ankara in 2005.
Cifti works with photography, video, performance, animation and drawing, merging these different media within her artistic practice. She often introduces found images and objects to her works in order to invent games that blur reality and fiction, as well as modes of representation and creativity. In her recent works Cifti's interest has focused on political and military issues. For example I will be a soldier is a series of eight embroidered drawings that each depict the black silhouette of a soldier in a different military position. The inspiration for this series is a toy soldier and the childish expression 'when I grow up I want to be a solder'. The relationship between the influence of such a toy and a child's imagined dream can be seen as both ironic and paradoxical.
Once Upon a Time in Istanbul is a video project in which Cifti overlays a found amateur 16mm film with dialogue from old Turkish movies. The video was shot in the 1970s in Istanbul and it presents scenes of people and their social activities of that period. Cifti's layering of periods and subjects creates a complex sequence that sees change condensed into one act.
In 2008 Cifti attended the Spike Island Residency programme in Bristol for three months. Her work was presented on the YAMA public screen in Istanbul in 2008 and in Asia Art Now, Arario Beijing, China, 2007; Mom's Livingroom, Goyang Art Studio Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea, 2007; freekick (hospitality zone of 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, 2005; and in the 23rd Exhibition of Contemporary Artists of Istanbul and of Diyarbakir, Turkey, 2004.
Collaborations 2008
San Servolo ArtLab Venice Residency is in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
Fall 2008
Erdem Ergaz was born in Izmir in 1977 and lives and works in Istanbul. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Academy, Department of Painting and received his MFA degree from the same university in 2005.
As curator Claudia Di Lecce stated: “The painting of Erdem Ergaz admits us to a cold world regulated by religious lines, a scientific universe catalogued by a schematising rationality”. Ergaz creates this world using cold flat colours and schematic and technical drawings, which remind us of industrial design and architectural plans. The subject of his paintings is the human figure, but these figures appear small, anonymous and alienated by their contexts. Ergaz investigates the role and identity of people, interpersonal relationships and social interaction. In addition, he is interested in the role of science and religion in society, especially in the seeming incapability of preventing violence within these systems. These topics form the inspiration and themes of his works which include Metaphysics II (2008), Exercises for the family (2007), and Dynamic of mass suicide (2007).
In 2008 Erdem Ergaz was invited to the San Servolo Residency Programme in Venice for two months. He has participated in many exhibitions including No man is an Island, Venice (2008); Zig Zag, Independent Drawing Gig 4, Hafriyat, Istanbul (2008); Contemporary Istanbul, Gallery Splendid, Istanbul (2008); Makul, Hafriyat, Istanbul (2008); "Connect the Dots 1.5", Fargfabriken, Stockholm (2008).
Fall 2008
Erdem Ergaz was born in Izmir in 1977 and lives and works in Istanbul. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Academy, Department of Painting and received his MFA degree from the same university in 2005.
As curator Claudia Di Lecce stated: “The painting of Erdem Ergaz admits us to a cold world regulated by religious lines, a scientific universe catalogued by a schematising rationality”. Ergaz creates this world using cold flat colours and schematic and technical drawings, which remind us of industrial design and architectural plans. The subject of his paintings is the human figure, but these figures appear small, anonymous and alienated by their contexts. Ergaz investigates the role and identity of people, interpersonal relationships and social interaction. In addition, he is interested in the role of science and religion in society, especially in the seeming incapability of preventing violence within these systems. These topics form the inspiration and themes of his works which include Metaphysics II (2008), Exercises for the family (2007), and Dynamic of mass suicide (2007).
In 2008 Erdem Ergaz was invited to the San Servolo Residency Programme in Venice for two months. He has participated in many exhibitions including No man is an Island, Venice (2008); Zig Zag, Independent Drawing Gig 4, Hafriyat, Istanbul (2008); Contemporary Istanbul, Gallery Splendid, Istanbul (2008); Makul, Hafriyat, Istanbul (2008); "Connect the Dots 1.5", Fargfabriken, Stockholm (2008).
Collaborations 2008
Can Xalant Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
September 7- October 12 2008
Erkan Ozgen was born in Derik, Mardin in 1971. He graduated from the University of Cukurova, Department of Painting. He lives and works in Diyarbakir.
Erkan Ozgen is interested in political and social issues. He believes that the language of art can play an active role in social processes. His works are influenced by his experience of living in the problematic city of Diyarbakir, in the south-west of Turkey, where the cultural relationship between the Turkish and Kurdish communities is intense. Erkan uses video and photography as a tool to show his resistance to constrictions and contradictions, as well as a strong sense of denial that form political and military power in contemporary Turkish society. He often confronts the problem of attempting to define an identity for those living in dislocated border towns, or for strangers who live in foreign countries, as we can see in his two last videos Robben and Origin, both shot in 2008. In order to understand the practice of Ozgen, it is important to mention his participation both as an artist and organiser in the workshop Here as the Centre of the World, between 2006 and 2007, in which six artists from six different cities (Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei) shared their reflections about the architecture, the social history, and the current issues pertaining to the cities that they came from.
In 2008 Erkan Ozgen participated in Can Xalant-Center for Creating and Contemporary Thought Residency Programme. His works were shown in Beyond Paradise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, 2008; The New York Arab and South Asian Film Festivals, New York, 2008; Article 23, Galerija Skuk, Ljubljana, 2008; Catching Breath, Kunsthalle Basel, 2008; Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, 2007; and No Future, Bloomberg Space, London, 2007.
September 7- October 12 2008
Erkan Ozgen was born in Derik, Mardin in 1971. He graduated from the University of Cukurova, Department of Painting. He lives and works in Diyarbakir.
Erkan Ozgen is interested in political and social issues. He believes that the language of art can play an active role in social processes. His works are influenced by his experience of living in the problematic city of Diyarbakir, in the south-west of Turkey, where the cultural relationship between the Turkish and Kurdish communities is intense. Erkan uses video and photography as a tool to show his resistance to constrictions and contradictions, as well as a strong sense of denial that form political and military power in contemporary Turkish society. He often confronts the problem of attempting to define an identity for those living in dislocated border towns, or for strangers who live in foreign countries, as we can see in his two last videos Robben and Origin, both shot in 2008. In order to understand the practice of Ozgen, it is important to mention his participation both as an artist and organiser in the workshop Here as the Centre of the World, between 2006 and 2007, in which six artists from six different cities (Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei) shared their reflections about the architecture, the social history, and the current issues pertaining to the cities that they came from.
In 2008 Erkan Ozgen participated in Can Xalant-Center for Creating and Contemporary Thought Residency Programme. His works were shown in Beyond Paradise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, 2008; The New York Arab and South Asian Film Festivals, New York, 2008; Article 23, Galerija Skuk, Ljubljana, 2008; Catching Breath, Kunsthalle Basel, 2008; Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, 2007; and No Future, Bloomberg Space, London, 2007.
Collaborations 2008
Atelier Frankfurt Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
October-November 2008
Ilgin Seymen after studying sculpture at the Marmara University of Istanbul, she attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA MFA, Sculpture.
Ilgin Seymen works with various mediums such as video, photography and installations. Her research engages in an analysis of everyday life within ordinary activities – like smoking and shopping – and utilizes common objects, such as home furniture. She carefully selects and then utilizes in her works those objects and images which have no personal style and in which the homologating of people's lifestyles is evident; in this way she wants to disclose the rules of the social and cultural structures of our consumer society. To explain her work, Seymen has said, "I make art as a reaction to certain structures of existing manmade society. I react to the restrictions of unspoken rules and behavior, as well as manipulation of mass culture that shapes urban life".
In the installation Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?,
Seymen creates an archive/catalogue of home furniture from IKEA. She uses these to create miniature replicas, which she then arranges in ways that emphasize their relations to one another. In a sense, the artist creates a correlative association between each piece to symbolize the homogenization processes that take place in society at large. In the video she produced during her residency period in Frankfurt, she analyzes her personal, daily life, and documents in rapid sequences everything she does in a given day.
Ilgin Seymen was invited to the Frankfurt Artist in Residence programme in autumn 2008 for two months. She had her first solo exhibition Nothing Personal at the Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco in 2007. Seymen has participated in several group exhibitions, including the Urban Jealousy, the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, 2008; Post-Post card 10, The LAB, San Francisco, 2006; SF Open Studios Exhibition, SomARTS, San Francisco, 2006.
October-November 2008
Ilgin Seymen after studying sculpture at the Marmara University of Istanbul, she attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA MFA, Sculpture.
Ilgin Seymen works with various mediums such as video, photography and installations. Her research engages in an analysis of everyday life within ordinary activities – like smoking and shopping – and utilizes common objects, such as home furniture. She carefully selects and then utilizes in her works those objects and images which have no personal style and in which the homologating of people's lifestyles is evident; in this way she wants to disclose the rules of the social and cultural structures of our consumer society. To explain her work, Seymen has said, "I make art as a reaction to certain structures of existing manmade society. I react to the restrictions of unspoken rules and behavior, as well as manipulation of mass culture that shapes urban life".
In the installation Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?,
Seymen creates an archive/catalogue of home furniture from IKEA. She uses these to create miniature replicas, which she then arranges in ways that emphasize their relations to one another. In a sense, the artist creates a correlative association between each piece to symbolize the homogenization processes that take place in society at large. In the video she produced during her residency period in Frankfurt, she analyzes her personal, daily life, and documents in rapid sequences everything she does in a given day.
Ilgin Seymen was invited to the Frankfurt Artist in Residence programme in autumn 2008 for two months. She had her first solo exhibition Nothing Personal at the Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco in 2007. Seymen has participated in several group exhibitions, including the Urban Jealousy, the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, 2008; Post-Post card 10, The LAB, San Francisco, 2006; SF Open Studios Exhibition, SomARTS, San Francisco, 2006.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Open Studio Day at Istanbul Residency Program
Saturday, October 18, 2008
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Platform Garanti CAC hosts an open studio event with its Istanbul Residency Program artists: Can Altay, Tunç Ali Çam, Celine Condorelli, Jan Freuchen, Schirin Kretschmann, Judith Raum, and Nis Rømer.
Can Altay
Born in Ankara, Turkey. Altay received his PhD in Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University in 2004. Although Altay continues to teach and move in architectural circles, he is better known as an artist. His installations of videos, mappings, textbooks and photographs incorporate different forms of research on human interaction in urban environments. He has had solo exhibitions in Sala Rekalde, Spain (2006); Spike Island, U.K. (2007); and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2008). His work has been included in exhibitions such as the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003), Havana Biennial (2003), Busan Biennial (2006); and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (USA, 2003), VanAbbe Museum (The Netherlands, 2005), ZKM (Germany, 2004), P.S.1 MoMA (USA, 2005), and Platform Garanti (Turkey, 2005). He is currently working on an exhibition for the Rotterdam Architecture Biennial 2009 with Philip Misselwitz.
Can Altay will be showing documentation from his recent projects together with a display of his ongoing publication project Ahali at Open Studio Day.
Supported by Platform Garanti.
Tunç Ali Çam
Tunç Ali Çam has participated in Genç Etkinlik- Yersizyurtsuzlaşma (1996), Performans Günleri (1996), Maçka Sanat Galerisi (1997) exhibitions. He will contribute to the Open Studio Day with the demo video of his ongoing project since 2005 entitled "Tunç Ali Çam Museum".
Supported by Platform Garanti.
Celine Condorelli
Celine Condorelli’s practice is concerned with the notion of support, developing critical models towards exhibition making and public spaces. Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, she is currently architect-curator for Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Her exhibitions include Park Nights at the Serpentine (London, 2008) Far-West at Arnolfini (Bristol 2008), Hidden Curriculum at Casco, (Utrecht, 2007), the GIL Biennial (Ghuang Zhou, Shanghai, Beijing, 2007), 4'33'' at Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein (2007), Revisits (Linz 2007, Graz 2008) and Theatre pieces at the Tate Triennial (2006).
Among her recent projects, she developed Support Structure, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with artist-curator Gavin Wade, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson (Subcontingency, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin 2006; Public Structures, GuangZhou Triennial, 2005, and The thin line PEAM and and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, 2005; and published in Did Someone Say Participate, MIT Press 2006).
Together with Beatrice Gibson, Celine Condorelli is part of Support Band and is PhD candidate in Research Architecture, Goldsmith London.
Supported by Platform Garanti and the British Council, Istanbul.
Jan Freuchen
In his recent works Jan Freuchen has focused on questions concerning individuality and originality within art practices, incorporating the idea of a personal "core" and the eclectic contemporary individuality. The artist traces this "engineering of the self" to various sources like Joseph Conrad Lord Jim and John Frankenheimer's film Seconds and create complex installations using video, collages, sculptures and paintings.
Jan Freuchen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen in 2004. The artist has participated in various groups shows, such as If you destroy the image, you'll destroy the thing itself at the Bergen Kunsthall, Lights On at Astrup Fearnley Moma, Oslo and the 1st Athens Biennial entitled Destroy Athens. His work has also benefited from several monographic exhibitions, such as Self Assembly at Erik Steen Gallery (Oslo, 2007) Objet Perdu with Lutz-Rainer Müller at Pierogi (Leipzig, 2007).
Supported by Office of Contemporary Art (OCA), Norway.
Judith Raum
Being interested in structural kinships between mental and material acts, Judith Raum's work includes painting, objects and writing. Since 2006, she has been coordinator of the participatory project The Contemporary Arts Library Prishtina-Berlin and currently teaches a course on text production and artistic practice at the University of Fine Arts Berlin.
Judith Raum studied visual art at Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M and Cooper Union, New York City as well as philosophy and psychoanalysis at the university of Frankfurt/M. Her exhibitions inlude Contemporary Arts Library Services (2008) and UFO UNO (2006) at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Sammlung Rausch (2007) and Academy Remix (2005) at Portikus Frankfurt/M, as well as Videonale 10 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2007).
Supported by Frankfurt Artist in Residence and Platform Garanti.
Nis Rømer
Nis Rømer works with public art in the city, on the web and in the news media. He has a special interest in the social and political organization of space and in how processes of globalization affects the city and our natural environment. His works has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States of America.
Upon graduation at The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in Århus (DK), Nis Rømer studied in the audio-visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam for one year, followed by a two-year postgraduate urban planning program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He regularly lectures and organizes workshops on the relationships between art, pubic space and ecology.
He is a founding member of Field Work, an international collaboration of artists, activists, researchers and gardeners who take a participatory role in the transformation of the environment and PUBLIK, an organization for art in public spaces. As a curator, he organised many projects such as Public Picnic: gardens as sites for critique, counterculture and sociality, (Copenhagen, 2007), Free Culture (Rum 46, Århus, 2006), Hot Summer of Urban Farming (Copenhagen, 2006).
Supported by Danish Art Council.
Schirin Kretschmann
Schirin Kretschmann's artistic practice settles at the liminal space of painting, and her work can be considered as a constant defiance of the medium's specific conditions. Hers is an investigative approach to the medium combined with a search for the presence of the medium, in fact, the notion of epiphany. Her works are mainly abstract, formally defined sculptural in situ installations, built into public and institutional spaces, in which her artworks are understood as ephemeral occurrences depending on the spectators' points of view.
Schirin Kretschmann studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe and is currently enrolled as a PhD student in Fine Arts at the Universität Basel. Her exhibitions include Once in a Lifetime at the ZKM, Karlsruhe (2007), Samt und Sonders at the Museum of Fine Arts Tianjin (2007), Regionale 7 at Kunstverein Freiburg and M54 in Basel (2006)
Supported by Iaab, Basel, Switzerland.
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Platform Garanti CAC hosts an open studio event with its Istanbul Residency Program artists: Can Altay, Tunç Ali Çam, Celine Condorelli, Jan Freuchen, Schirin Kretschmann, Judith Raum, and Nis Rømer.
Can Altay
Born in Ankara, Turkey. Altay received his PhD in Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University in 2004. Although Altay continues to teach and move in architectural circles, he is better known as an artist. His installations of videos, mappings, textbooks and photographs incorporate different forms of research on human interaction in urban environments. He has had solo exhibitions in Sala Rekalde, Spain (2006); Spike Island, U.K. (2007); and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2008). His work has been included in exhibitions such as the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003), Havana Biennial (2003), Busan Biennial (2006); and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (USA, 2003), VanAbbe Museum (The Netherlands, 2005), ZKM (Germany, 2004), P.S.1 MoMA (USA, 2005), and Platform Garanti (Turkey, 2005). He is currently working on an exhibition for the Rotterdam Architecture Biennial 2009 with Philip Misselwitz.
Can Altay will be showing documentation from his recent projects together with a display of his ongoing publication project Ahali at Open Studio Day.
Supported by Platform Garanti.
Tunç Ali Çam
Tunç Ali Çam has participated in Genç Etkinlik- Yersizyurtsuzlaşma (1996), Performans Günleri (1996), Maçka Sanat Galerisi (1997) exhibitions. He will contribute to the Open Studio Day with the demo video of his ongoing project since 2005 entitled "Tunç Ali Çam Museum".
Supported by Platform Garanti.
Celine Condorelli
Celine Condorelli’s practice is concerned with the notion of support, developing critical models towards exhibition making and public spaces. Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, she is currently architect-curator for Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Her exhibitions include Park Nights at the Serpentine (London, 2008) Far-West at Arnolfini (Bristol 2008), Hidden Curriculum at Casco, (Utrecht, 2007), the GIL Biennial (Ghuang Zhou, Shanghai, Beijing, 2007), 4'33'' at Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein (2007), Revisits (Linz 2007, Graz 2008) and Theatre pieces at the Tate Triennial (2006).
Among her recent projects, she developed Support Structure, an RSA Art for Architecture and Arts Council England project with artist-curator Gavin Wade, as well as taxi_onomy with artist Beatrice Gibson (Subcontingency, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Turin 2006; Public Structures, GuangZhou Triennial, 2005, and The thin line PEAM and and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, 2005; and published in Did Someone Say Participate, MIT Press 2006).
Together with Beatrice Gibson, Celine Condorelli is part of Support Band and is PhD candidate in Research Architecture, Goldsmith London.
Supported by Platform Garanti and the British Council, Istanbul.
Jan Freuchen
In his recent works Jan Freuchen has focused on questions concerning individuality and originality within art practices, incorporating the idea of a personal "core" and the eclectic contemporary individuality. The artist traces this "engineering of the self" to various sources like Joseph Conrad Lord Jim and John Frankenheimer's film Seconds and create complex installations using video, collages, sculptures and paintings.
Jan Freuchen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen in 2004. The artist has participated in various groups shows, such as If you destroy the image, you'll destroy the thing itself at the Bergen Kunsthall, Lights On at Astrup Fearnley Moma, Oslo and the 1st Athens Biennial entitled Destroy Athens. His work has also benefited from several monographic exhibitions, such as Self Assembly at Erik Steen Gallery (Oslo, 2007) Objet Perdu with Lutz-Rainer Müller at Pierogi (Leipzig, 2007).
Supported by Office of Contemporary Art (OCA), Norway.
Judith Raum
Being interested in structural kinships between mental and material acts, Judith Raum's work includes painting, objects and writing. Since 2006, she has been coordinator of the participatory project The Contemporary Arts Library Prishtina-Berlin and currently teaches a course on text production and artistic practice at the University of Fine Arts Berlin.
Judith Raum studied visual art at Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M and Cooper Union, New York City as well as philosophy and psychoanalysis at the university of Frankfurt/M. Her exhibitions inlude Contemporary Arts Library Services (2008) and UFO UNO (2006) at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Sammlung Rausch (2007) and Academy Remix (2005) at Portikus Frankfurt/M, as well as Videonale 10 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2007).
Supported by Frankfurt Artist in Residence and Platform Garanti.
Nis Rømer
Nis Rømer works with public art in the city, on the web and in the news media. He has a special interest in the social and political organization of space and in how processes of globalization affects the city and our natural environment. His works has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States of America.
Upon graduation at The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in Århus (DK), Nis Rømer studied in the audio-visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam for one year, followed by a two-year postgraduate urban planning program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He regularly lectures and organizes workshops on the relationships between art, pubic space and ecology.
He is a founding member of Field Work, an international collaboration of artists, activists, researchers and gardeners who take a participatory role in the transformation of the environment and PUBLIK, an organization for art in public spaces. As a curator, he organised many projects such as Public Picnic: gardens as sites for critique, counterculture and sociality, (Copenhagen, 2007), Free Culture (Rum 46, Århus, 2006), Hot Summer of Urban Farming (Copenhagen, 2006).
Supported by Danish Art Council.
Schirin Kretschmann
Schirin Kretschmann's artistic practice settles at the liminal space of painting, and her work can be considered as a constant defiance of the medium's specific conditions. Hers is an investigative approach to the medium combined with a search for the presence of the medium, in fact, the notion of epiphany. Her works are mainly abstract, formally defined sculptural in situ installations, built into public and institutional spaces, in which her artworks are understood as ephemeral occurrences depending on the spectators' points of view.
Schirin Kretschmann studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe and is currently enrolled as a PhD student in Fine Arts at the Universität Basel. Her exhibitions include Once in a Lifetime at the ZKM, Karlsruhe (2007), Samt und Sonders at the Museum of Fine Arts Tianjin (2007), Regionale 7 at Kunstverein Freiburg and M54 in Basel (2006)
Supported by Iaab, Basel, Switzerland.
İstanbul Misafirleri Programı Açık Atölye Günü
18 Ekim 2008, Cumartesi
14:00-18:00 Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 5. yılını dolduran İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da bulunan sanatçılar atölyelerini ve üzerinde çalıştıkları projeleri ziyaretçilerle paylaşacaklar.
Can Altay
Doktora derecesini 2004 yılında Bilkent Üniversitesi, Sanat, Tasarım ve Mimarlık Enstitüsü’nden aldı. Halen mimarlık ve tasarım üzerine çalışmaya ve ders vermeye devam etmekle birlikte, daha çok sanatçı olarak tanınıyor. Kentsel durumlarla ilgili videolar, haritalamalar, yayınlar ve fotoğraflar içeren yerleştirmeleri pek çok bienalde ve sanat mekanlarında sunuldu. Bunlar arasında 8. İstanbul Bienali (2003), Havana Bienali (2003), Busan Bienali (2006), Walker Art Center (ABD, 2003), Van Abbe Museum (Hollanda, 2005), ZKM (Almanya, 2004), P.S.1 MoMA (ABD, 2005) ve Platform Garanti GSM sayılabilir. Can Altay, Sala Rekalde, İspanya (2006); Spike Island, İngiltere (2007) ve Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Almanya’da (2008) kişisel sergiler açtı. Halen Philipp Misselwitz’le birlikte, 2009 Rotterdam Mimarlık Bienali kapsamında gerçekleşecek bir sergi üzerine çalışmaktadır. Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Tunç Ali Çam
Genç Etkinlik- Yersizyurtsuzlaşma (1996), Performans Günleri (1996), Maçka Sanat Galerisi (1997) sergilerine katılan sanatçı; 2005 yılından beri üzerinde çalıştığı ve halen inşaat halinde olan "Tunç Ali Çam Museum"un demo videosuyla Açık Atölye Günü'ne katılıyor. Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Celine Condorelli
Celine Condorelli, sergi yapımı ve kamusal alan üzerine eleştirel modeller geliştirme ve destek kavramları ile ilgileniyor. London Metropolitan University’de ders veren Condorelli, aynı zamanda Birmingham Eastside Projects’de mimar-küratör olarak çalışıyor. Katıldığı sergiler arasında Park Nights, Serpentine (Londra, 2008) Far-West, Arnolfini (Bristol 2008), Hidden Curriculum, Casco, (Utrecht, 2007), GIL Bienali (Ghuang Zhou, Shanghai, Pekin, 2007), 4'33'', Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein (2007), Revisits (Linz 2007, Graz 2008) ve Theatre pieces, The Tate Triennial (2006) bulunmaktadır. Sanatçının son işleri arasında; sanatçı / küratör Gavin Wade ile beraber RSA Art for Architecture ve Arts Council England ile projelendirdiği Support Structure, sanatçı Beatrice Gibson ile gerçekleştirdiği taxi_onomy (Subcontingency, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Torino 2006) Public Structures, GuangZhou Triennial, 2005 ve The thin line PEAM ve Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, 2005 bulunuyor. Celine Condorelli, Beatrice Gibson ile beraber Support Band'de çalışmakta ve Goldsmith University (Londra) Mimari Araştırmalar Bölümü'nde doktora yapmaktadır. Platform Garanti ve The British Council, İstanbul desteğiyle.
Jan Freuchen
Sanat üretimi içinde orjinallik ve bireysellik kavramlarını sorgulayan sanatçı, son işlerinde bunu ‘’öz’’ fikri ve günümüzün eklektik bireysellik kavramı ile birleştiriyor. Sanatçı ‘’kendinin mühendisliğini yapma’’nın, Joseph Conrad'ın Lord Jim and John Frankenheimer'ın Seconds filmlerinde olduğu gibi izini sürüyor; video, heykel, resim kullanarak enstelasyonlar yapıyor. 2004'de Academy of Fine Arts'dan (Bergen, Norveç) mezun olan sanatçı, çeşitli sergilerine dahil oldu. Bunlardan bazıları; If you destroy the image, you'll destroy the thing itself, Bergen Kunsthall; Lights On Astrup Fearnley Moma, Oslo ve Destroy Athens 1. Atina Bienali'dir. Jan Freuchen'ın kişisel sergileri arasında Self Assembly, Erik Steen Gallery (Oslo, 2007) Objet Perdu Lutz-Rainer Müller ile beraber, Pierogi (Leipzig, 2007) bulunmaktadır. Office of Contemporary Art (OCA), Norveç desteğiyle.
Judith Raum
Maddi ve düşünsel hareketler arasındaki yapısal ilişkiden beslenen Judith Raum; resim, nesne ve yazı ile çalışıyor. 2006’dan beri katılımcılık esasına dayanan Priştina-Berlin Güncel Sanat Kütüphanesi projesinin koordinatörlüğünü yapan sanatçı, aynı zamanda Berlin Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi’nde yazı ve sanatsal üretim dersi vermektedir. Judith Raum; Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M ve Cooper Union, New York City'de görsel sanatlar ve Frankfurt/M Üniversitesi’nde felsefe ve psikanaliz eğitimi aldı. Sergileri arasında Contemporary Arts Library Services (2008) and UFO UNO (2006), Frankfurter Kunstverein; Sammlung Rausch (2007) ve Academy Remix (2005) Portikus, Frankfurt/M ve Videonale 10 Kunstmuseum Bonn (2007) bulunuyor. Frankfurt Artist in Residence ve Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Nis Rømer
Nis Rømer; kentte, internette ve yeni medyada kamusal sanatla çalışıyor. Mekanın politik ve sosyal düzenlenmesi üzerine ve küreselleşmenin şehir ve doğal çevreyi nasıl etkilediği ile ilgileniyor. Çalışmaları Avrupa ve ABD'de çeşitli mekanlarda sergilendi. The Jutland Güzel Sanatlar Akademisini (Arhus, Danimarka) bitirdikten sonra Nis Rømer Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Akademi’de bir sene boyunca audio-visual eğitimi aldıktan sonra Rotterdam Berlage Enstitüsü Şehir Planlama Bölümü'nde yüksek lisans yaptı. Sanatçı; çevre, kamusal alan ve sanat arasındaki ilişki üzerine atölye çalışmaları ve konuşmalar düzenliyor. Uluslararası bir sanatçı, aktivist, araştırmacı ve bahçeciler birliği olan Field Work’ün kurucu üyelerinden olan sanatçı, kamusal alanda sanata odaklı The transformation of the environment (www.free-soil.org) and PUBLIK’de (www.publik.dk) katılımcı olarak yer alıyor. Küratörlüğünü yaptığı bazı projeler; Public Picnic: gardens as sites for critique, counterculture and sociality, (Kopenhag, 2007), Free Culture (Rum 46, Århus, 2006), Hot Summer of Urban Farming (Kopenhag, 2006) yer almaktadır. Danish Art Council desteğiyle.
Schirin Kretschmann
Schirin Kretschmann'ın sanat pratiği, resmin mekan algısında konumlanır ve işleri malzemenin belirgin koşullarına sürekli bir meydan okuma şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Sanatçının yaklaşımı, malzemenin doğasını göz önünde bulundururken, olanaklarını araştıran bir yaklaşımdır. İşleri temel olarak soyut, kamusal ve kurumsal mekanlarda inşaa ettiği, izleyenlerin işe bakışına göre geçici bir karakter taşıyan, mekana yönelik heykel benzeri formlar olarak tanımlanabilir. Schirin Kretschmann, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe'de (Almanya) eğitim gördü. Halen Universität Basel (İsviçre) Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nde doktora yapmaktadır. Katıldığı sergiler arasında, Once in a Lifetime, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2007), Samt und Sonders, Museum of Fine Arts Tianjin (2007), Regionale 7, Kunstverein Freiburg ve M54 Basel (2006) bulunmaktadır. Iaab, Basel, İsviçre desteğiyle.
14:00-18:00 Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 5. yılını dolduran İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da bulunan sanatçılar atölyelerini ve üzerinde çalıştıkları projeleri ziyaretçilerle paylaşacaklar.
Can Altay
Doktora derecesini 2004 yılında Bilkent Üniversitesi, Sanat, Tasarım ve Mimarlık Enstitüsü’nden aldı. Halen mimarlık ve tasarım üzerine çalışmaya ve ders vermeye devam etmekle birlikte, daha çok sanatçı olarak tanınıyor. Kentsel durumlarla ilgili videolar, haritalamalar, yayınlar ve fotoğraflar içeren yerleştirmeleri pek çok bienalde ve sanat mekanlarında sunuldu. Bunlar arasında 8. İstanbul Bienali (2003), Havana Bienali (2003), Busan Bienali (2006), Walker Art Center (ABD, 2003), Van Abbe Museum (Hollanda, 2005), ZKM (Almanya, 2004), P.S.1 MoMA (ABD, 2005) ve Platform Garanti GSM sayılabilir. Can Altay, Sala Rekalde, İspanya (2006); Spike Island, İngiltere (2007) ve Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Almanya’da (2008) kişisel sergiler açtı. Halen Philipp Misselwitz’le birlikte, 2009 Rotterdam Mimarlık Bienali kapsamında gerçekleşecek bir sergi üzerine çalışmaktadır. Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Tunç Ali Çam
Genç Etkinlik- Yersizyurtsuzlaşma (1996), Performans Günleri (1996), Maçka Sanat Galerisi (1997) sergilerine katılan sanatçı; 2005 yılından beri üzerinde çalıştığı ve halen inşaat halinde olan "Tunç Ali Çam Museum"un demo videosuyla Açık Atölye Günü'ne katılıyor. Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Celine Condorelli
Celine Condorelli, sergi yapımı ve kamusal alan üzerine eleştirel modeller geliştirme ve destek kavramları ile ilgileniyor. London Metropolitan University’de ders veren Condorelli, aynı zamanda Birmingham Eastside Projects’de mimar-küratör olarak çalışıyor. Katıldığı sergiler arasında Park Nights, Serpentine (Londra, 2008) Far-West, Arnolfini (Bristol 2008), Hidden Curriculum, Casco, (Utrecht, 2007), GIL Bienali (Ghuang Zhou, Shanghai, Pekin, 2007), 4'33'', Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein (2007), Revisits (Linz 2007, Graz 2008) ve Theatre pieces, The Tate Triennial (2006) bulunmaktadır. Sanatçının son işleri arasında; sanatçı / küratör Gavin Wade ile beraber RSA Art for Architecture ve Arts Council England ile projelendirdiği Support Structure, sanatçı Beatrice Gibson ile gerçekleştirdiği taxi_onomy (Subcontingency, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Torino 2006) Public Structures, GuangZhou Triennial, 2005 ve The thin line PEAM ve Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, 2005 bulunuyor. Celine Condorelli, Beatrice Gibson ile beraber Support Band'de çalışmakta ve Goldsmith University (Londra) Mimari Araştırmalar Bölümü'nde doktora yapmaktadır. Platform Garanti ve The British Council, İstanbul desteğiyle.
Jan Freuchen
Sanat üretimi içinde orjinallik ve bireysellik kavramlarını sorgulayan sanatçı, son işlerinde bunu ‘’öz’’ fikri ve günümüzün eklektik bireysellik kavramı ile birleştiriyor. Sanatçı ‘’kendinin mühendisliğini yapma’’nın, Joseph Conrad'ın Lord Jim and John Frankenheimer'ın Seconds filmlerinde olduğu gibi izini sürüyor; video, heykel, resim kullanarak enstelasyonlar yapıyor. 2004'de Academy of Fine Arts'dan (Bergen, Norveç) mezun olan sanatçı, çeşitli sergilerine dahil oldu. Bunlardan bazıları; If you destroy the image, you'll destroy the thing itself, Bergen Kunsthall; Lights On Astrup Fearnley Moma, Oslo ve Destroy Athens 1. Atina Bienali'dir. Jan Freuchen'ın kişisel sergileri arasında Self Assembly, Erik Steen Gallery (Oslo, 2007) Objet Perdu Lutz-Rainer Müller ile beraber, Pierogi (Leipzig, 2007) bulunmaktadır. Office of Contemporary Art (OCA), Norveç desteğiyle.
Judith Raum
Maddi ve düşünsel hareketler arasındaki yapısal ilişkiden beslenen Judith Raum; resim, nesne ve yazı ile çalışıyor. 2006’dan beri katılımcılık esasına dayanan Priştina-Berlin Güncel Sanat Kütüphanesi projesinin koordinatörlüğünü yapan sanatçı, aynı zamanda Berlin Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi’nde yazı ve sanatsal üretim dersi vermektedir. Judith Raum; Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M ve Cooper Union, New York City'de görsel sanatlar ve Frankfurt/M Üniversitesi’nde felsefe ve psikanaliz eğitimi aldı. Sergileri arasında Contemporary Arts Library Services (2008) and UFO UNO (2006), Frankfurter Kunstverein; Sammlung Rausch (2007) ve Academy Remix (2005) Portikus, Frankfurt/M ve Videonale 10 Kunstmuseum Bonn (2007) bulunuyor. Frankfurt Artist in Residence ve Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Nis Rømer
Nis Rømer; kentte, internette ve yeni medyada kamusal sanatla çalışıyor. Mekanın politik ve sosyal düzenlenmesi üzerine ve küreselleşmenin şehir ve doğal çevreyi nasıl etkilediği ile ilgileniyor. Çalışmaları Avrupa ve ABD'de çeşitli mekanlarda sergilendi. The Jutland Güzel Sanatlar Akademisini (Arhus, Danimarka) bitirdikten sonra Nis Rømer Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Akademi’de bir sene boyunca audio-visual eğitimi aldıktan sonra Rotterdam Berlage Enstitüsü Şehir Planlama Bölümü'nde yüksek lisans yaptı. Sanatçı; çevre, kamusal alan ve sanat arasındaki ilişki üzerine atölye çalışmaları ve konuşmalar düzenliyor. Uluslararası bir sanatçı, aktivist, araştırmacı ve bahçeciler birliği olan Field Work’ün kurucu üyelerinden olan sanatçı, kamusal alanda sanata odaklı The transformation of the environment (www.free-soil.org) and PUBLIK’de (www.publik.dk) katılımcı olarak yer alıyor. Küratörlüğünü yaptığı bazı projeler; Public Picnic: gardens as sites for critique, counterculture and sociality, (Kopenhag, 2007), Free Culture (Rum 46, Århus, 2006), Hot Summer of Urban Farming (Kopenhag, 2006) yer almaktadır. Danish Art Council desteğiyle.
Schirin Kretschmann
Schirin Kretschmann'ın sanat pratiği, resmin mekan algısında konumlanır ve işleri malzemenin belirgin koşullarına sürekli bir meydan okuma şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Sanatçının yaklaşımı, malzemenin doğasını göz önünde bulundururken, olanaklarını araştıran bir yaklaşımdır. İşleri temel olarak soyut, kamusal ve kurumsal mekanlarda inşaa ettiği, izleyenlerin işe bakışına göre geçici bir karakter taşıyan, mekana yönelik heykel benzeri formlar olarak tanımlanabilir. Schirin Kretschmann, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe'de (Almanya) eğitim gördü. Halen Universität Basel (İsviçre) Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nde doktora yapmaktadır. Katıldığı sergiler arasında, Once in a Lifetime, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2007), Samt und Sonders, Museum of Fine Arts Tianjin (2007), Regionale 7, Kunstverein Freiburg ve M54 Basel (2006) bulunmaktadır. Iaab, Basel, İsviçre desteğiyle.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
İstanbul Misafirleri Programı Açık Atölye Günü
14 Haziran ’08 / Cumartesi
Açık Atölye: 13:00-18:00
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 5. yılını dolduran İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da yaşayan ve çalışan sanatçılar, Can Altay, Richard Bartle, Tunç Ali Çam, Elmas Deniz, Diana Page Muller, Lonnie van Brummelen ve Michael van den Abeele atölyelerini ziyaretçilere açacak.
İMP Katılımcıları:
Can Altay:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 3 nolu atölye
16:30 – 17:00
Doktora derecesini 2004 yılında Bilkent Üniversitesi, Sanat, Tasarım ve Mimarlık Enstitüsü’nden aldı. Halen mimarlık ve tasarım üzerine çalışmaya ve ders vermeye devam etmekle birlikte, daha çok sanatçı olarak tanınıyor. Kentsel durumlarla ilgili videolar, haritalamalar, yayınlar ve fotoğraflar içeren yerleştirmeleri pek çok bienalde ve sanat mekanlarında sunuldu. Bunlar arasında 8. İstanbul Bienali (2003), Havana Bienali (2003), Busan Bienali (2006), Walker Art Center (ABD, 2003), Van Abbe Museum (Hollanda, 2005), ZKM (Almanya, 2004), P.S.1 MoMA (ABD, 2005) ve Platform Garanti GSM sayılabilir. Can Altay, Sala Rekalde, İspanya (2006); Spike Island, İngiltere (2007) ve Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Almanya’da (2008) kişisel sergiler açtı. Halen Philipp Misselwitz’le birlikte, 2009 Rotterdam Mimarlık Bienali kapsamında gerçekleşecek bir sergi üzerine çalışmaktadır.
Can Altay Açık Atölye Günü kapsamında son dönem projelerinin dökümantasyonunu sunacak ve halen üzerinde çalıştığı yayım projesi “Ahali”yi gösterecek.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Richard Bartle:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 2 nolu atölye
Mart ayından beri İMP'de konuk olan sanatçı Richard Bartle altı senedir düzenli olarak Türkiye'yi ziyaret ediyor. Sanatçı kimliği dışında Bloc Projects, Bloc Studios ve Sheffield Güncel Sanat Forumu'nun kurucusu ve direktörlüğü yapmaktadır. 1996 yılında Leeds Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü'nden mezun olan sanatçı, Sheffield Hallam Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı.
Bartle'ın işleri; sosyal, çevresel ve politik içerikli halihazırdaki objeler, imajlar ve metinler ve bunlar arasındaki ilişki ağını araştırma isteğinden besleniyor. Genellikle enstelasyon olarak sunduğu, hiper-gerçeklik duygusu taşıyan işler genellikle desen ya da obje ağırlıklı ve geleneksel ve sanat olarak obje kavramlarıyla ilintilidir.
Ürettiği kamusal heykeller dışında Bartle, 2008 yılında İngiltere'de kişisel bir sergi açacak. Farklı projeler üzerinde çalışan sanatçı, Küçük Çiftlik Lunaparkı'nda düzenlenecek ve 13 Haziran'da açılacak olan sergi Sanat Benim Oyun Alanım için yazar ve eleştirmen Evrim Altuğ ile beraber bir proje hazırlıyor. Platform Garanti'deki misafirlik dönemi boyunca Siyah-Kalem projesine yoğunlaşan Bartle, bu proje hakkında şunları söylüyor: “ Dört yıl önce, Londra Royal Academy’deki “The Turks” sergisini ziyaret ettim. Bu sergide 14. yy minyatür sanatçısı Mehmet Siyah Kalem'in işleri dikkatimi çekti. İstanbul'da Topkapı Sarayı'nı defalarca ziyaret ettim ve Siyah Kalem'in işlerindeki belgeleme tekniği ve içeriği keşfetmeye başladım. Siyah-Kalem projemde transfer tekniği kullanarak, günümüz şehrindeki insanların hayatına odaklanan ve orijinal imajlardan beslenen tekrar yaratıları kullanacağım. Bu proje ile zaman ve kültür kavramları ötesinde varolan benzerliklere dikkati çekmek, Siyah Kalem'in figürlerinden beslenen yeni yaratılarla günümüz şehrini gözlemlemek istiyorum.”
The Arts Council of England desteğiyle.
Tunç Ali Çam:
Platform Garanti 3. kat / mutfak
Tunç Ali Çam "Açık Mutfak" ile ziyaretçileri Platform Garanti'nin mutfağında birlikte pizza pişirmeye (ya da sadece yemeğe) davet ediyor. Sanatçı ile projeleri üstüne mutfakta sohbet edebilirsiniz.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Elmas Deniz:
Platform Garanti 3. kat 5 nolu atölye
15:30-16:00
1981 doğumlu sanatçı Elmas Deniz, Mart ayından beri İMP konuğu olarak çalışmalarına devam ediyor. Deniz; Pakistan, Lübnan, Ermenistan, Danimarka, Almanya, Avusturya, Hollanda ve Türkiye'de çeşitli sergi, misafir programları ve projelerde yeraldı. Katıldığı sergiler arasında Uzaktan Sineğe Benzeyenler (Platform Garanti GSM, 2005), Üretebilmek Üzerine (Altı Aylık, 2007), Gyumri Bienali (Ermenistan, 2006), Amstelkring Müzesi (Hollanda, 2006), Galeria Nouva (Romanya, 2007) sayılabilir. CPH Air (2007) ve Goethe Institute Kültür Programı bursu ile Berlin'de misafir programlarına katılan sanatçı, Haziran ortası itibariyle üç aylık DIVA (Danimarka) misafir programına katılacak. KUTU ve İzmir'de faaliyet gösteren K2 girişimi kurucu sanatçılarından olan Deniz, 2003-2007 yılları arasında K2 Güncel Sanat Merkezi Proje Eş Direktörlüğü görevini üstlendi.
Sanatçı, yanlızca sanat üreticisi olmak değil sanatın operasyonel olan yönüne katılma ve kendi sanat üretimi ile desteklediği aktif ve çok yönlü sanatçı olma pozisyonunu önemsiyor. Sanatsal pratiğini anti-otoriter bir kanaldan, tarihsel olayların/durumların günümüzde yarattığı değişiklikler, temsiliyetler açısından dilin kullanımı üzerine çeşitleyen kavramsal bir yaklaşım üzerine kuruyor.
Elmas Deniz, Açık Atölye Günü'nde Kopenhag'da çektiği yeni videosu Turist Olmak İsteyen Adam'ı gösterecek. Video basitçe günlük yaşamda insanları ayırma ve etiketleme biçimlerimiz ve dil üzerine kurulu. Sanatçı işi hakkında şunları söylüyor: “Turist ve göçmen kelimelerinin sözlük anlamı “bir yere ve kültüre yabancı kişileri” tarif ediyor ancak gerçekte, günlük hayatta turist ve göçmen kimlikleri adaletsiz bir ayrımı işaretliyor. Küreselleşmenin olanakları veya dünya üzerinde dolaşımın kolaylaştığı fikri aslında hala elit bir faaliyet olarak kalıyor. Benzer ayrımcılığı sınır politikalarında da gözlemleyebiliriz. Sokakta gördüğün birisini turist veya göçmen olarak adlandırmanın arkasında yatanları görmek için; sanatçı aynı hasarlı bakışı ödünç alıp, etiketleri yer değiştiriyor, turistler ve göçmenler, finalde ise ironik bir hikaye ile bir şehir turundan parçalar görülüyor”.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Diana Page Muller:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 5 nolu atölye
14:30 – 15:00
Diana Page Muller, Cape Town, Güney Afrika'dan İstanbul'a yerleşen ve iki senedir burada yaşayan bir ressam. Farklı malzemeler ve ülkeler arasında dolaşan sanatçı, Mayıs ayında New York'lu performans sanatçıları ile ortaklaşa gerçekleştirdiği ses projesi Pitch Blue'yu Brooklyn'de bir binanın terasında gerçekleştirdi. Bu iş, ev ve sürgün, özlem ve bir yere ait olma kavramlarını araştırıyor. Bu işle bağlantılı diğer bir projesi Kadının Sesleri ise Galata'da iki farklı binanın terasında üretilmişti. Kadının Sesleri İstanbul çevresindeki tınılardan ilham alırken, kadın seslerini kamusal alana taşımayı amaçlıyordu. Açık Atölye Günü'nde sanatçı, iki işinin ham çekimlerini bir arada gösterecek ve projesi hakkında ziyaretçilerle bir söyleşi gerçekleştirecek. İstanbul görüntülerini yakalayan yeni resimleri stüdyosunda ziyaretçilere açık olacak.
1986 yılında University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) Güzel Sanatlar ve Sanat Tarihi bölümünden mezun olan sanatçı, 1992 yılında Rhodes Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü'nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Londra, New York'ta kişisel sergiler açtı ve grup sergilerine katıldı.
Lonnie van Brummelen:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 1 nolu atölye
17:00 – 18:00
1969 Hollanda doğumlu sanatçı Argos (Brüksel, 2007), Palais de Tokyo, Module, (Paris, 2007), SMBA (Amsterdam, 2005) kişisel sergiler açtı. Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürih, İsviçre, 2008), SITE Gallery (Düsseldorf, Almanya, 2008), Gwangju Bienali (Kore, 2006) grup sergilerine katıldı. 2005 yılında Prix de Rome ödülünü kazanan sanatçı bu sene Project Arts Centre’da (Dublin, İrlanda) bir kişisel sergi açacak ve Shanghai Bienali’ne katılacak. Van Brummelen 2004 yılından beri sanatçı Siebren de Haan ile beraber çalışıyor.
Açık Atölye Günü kapsamında sanatçı, Siebren de Haan ile ortaklaşa gerçekleştirdiği iki yeni projesini sunacak. 16 mm film projesi Monument of Sugar (Şeker Anıtı), iki sanatçının sübvanse edilen Avrupa şekerinin Hollanda’da başlayıp Polonya üzerinden Lagos, Nijerya’ya uzanan hikayesinin peşine düşmesi üzerine. Üretim fazlası Avrupa menşeeli şekeri Nijerya’da daha ucuza satın alıp Avrupa’ya geri getirmek isteyen sanatçılar, Avrupa’daki şeker ithali yasalarından dolayı şekeri “anıt” şeklinde geri getirmek istiyorlar. Film, bu süreçte yaşanan olayları aktarırken aynı zamanda küresel ticaretin gözden ırak üretim birimlerini de araştırıyor.
İki sanatçının 2004 yılından beri kendi evlerinde başlattıkları sanatçı inisiyatifi VRIZA hakkında yapacakları sunumla beraber, Mayıs ayında sanatçı Marjetica Potrč ile
FONDS BKVB, Hollanda desteğiyle
Michael van den Abeele:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 4 nolu atölye
1974 Belçika doğumlu sanatçı Michael van den Abeele, çizimden animasyon videolarına, farklı objeleri kullandığı yerleştirmelerden şarkı performanslarına uzanan, değişik tavırları içinde barındıran bir çok malzeme ile çalışır. Animasyonları genellikle minimal ve statik bir karakter taşırken, çizimleri ve resimleri ise dinamiklerin değişken ve acınası formlarını sunar. Animasyonlarının dilinde hissedilen yavanlık bir araştırma ya da fikir biçimi olarak algılanabilir. Animasyon videoları sigarayı, seks ve nostaljiyi yüceltirken, sosyal birlikteliğin temelini teşkil eden regresyonla ilgilenir. Çizimleri ve resimleri ise paranoyak bir algının sınırlarına yapılan seyahatlerin izdüşümü olarak tanımlanabilir. Bu resimlerin görsel anlatısı kozmik ve sindirme süreçleri, atomik figürler, hayalete benzer görüntüler, patlamalar, sarsıntılar, kasılmalar ve her türlü boşaltıma gönderme yapar.
Michael van den Abeele’nin son dönemde katıldığı sergiler arasında: Museo de Arte Moderno (Meksika, 2008), Rencontres Internationaux (Centre Pompidou, Paris, Fransa, 2007), GHB (Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Hollanda, 2007), Emergency Biennal, Matrix Art Projects, (Brüksel -Madrid – Grozny, 2005) sayılabilir. Brüksel’de bulunan sanatçı girişimi Etablissement d’en face‘in kurucularından olan van den Abeele ABD’de ve Fransa’da sanatçı misafir programlarına katıldı.
www.pilotlondon.org
www.etablissementdenfaceprojects.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXzrjVHj_M
Flaman Hükümeti desteğiyle
Açık Atölye: 13:00-18:00
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nin 5. yılını dolduran İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da yaşayan ve çalışan sanatçılar, Can Altay, Richard Bartle, Tunç Ali Çam, Elmas Deniz, Diana Page Muller, Lonnie van Brummelen ve Michael van den Abeele atölyelerini ziyaretçilere açacak.
İMP Katılımcıları:
Can Altay:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 3 nolu atölye
16:30 – 17:00
Doktora derecesini 2004 yılında Bilkent Üniversitesi, Sanat, Tasarım ve Mimarlık Enstitüsü’nden aldı. Halen mimarlık ve tasarım üzerine çalışmaya ve ders vermeye devam etmekle birlikte, daha çok sanatçı olarak tanınıyor. Kentsel durumlarla ilgili videolar, haritalamalar, yayınlar ve fotoğraflar içeren yerleştirmeleri pek çok bienalde ve sanat mekanlarında sunuldu. Bunlar arasında 8. İstanbul Bienali (2003), Havana Bienali (2003), Busan Bienali (2006), Walker Art Center (ABD, 2003), Van Abbe Museum (Hollanda, 2005), ZKM (Almanya, 2004), P.S.1 MoMA (ABD, 2005) ve Platform Garanti GSM sayılabilir. Can Altay, Sala Rekalde, İspanya (2006); Spike Island, İngiltere (2007) ve Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Almanya’da (2008) kişisel sergiler açtı. Halen Philipp Misselwitz’le birlikte, 2009 Rotterdam Mimarlık Bienali kapsamında gerçekleşecek bir sergi üzerine çalışmaktadır.
Can Altay Açık Atölye Günü kapsamında son dönem projelerinin dökümantasyonunu sunacak ve halen üzerinde çalıştığı yayım projesi “Ahali”yi gösterecek.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle.
Richard Bartle:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 2 nolu atölye
Mart ayından beri İMP'de konuk olan sanatçı Richard Bartle altı senedir düzenli olarak Türkiye'yi ziyaret ediyor. Sanatçı kimliği dışında Bloc Projects, Bloc Studios ve Sheffield Güncel Sanat Forumu'nun kurucusu ve direktörlüğü yapmaktadır. 1996 yılında Leeds Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü'nden mezun olan sanatçı, Sheffield Hallam Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı.
Bartle'ın işleri; sosyal, çevresel ve politik içerikli halihazırdaki objeler, imajlar ve metinler ve bunlar arasındaki ilişki ağını araştırma isteğinden besleniyor. Genellikle enstelasyon olarak sunduğu, hiper-gerçeklik duygusu taşıyan işler genellikle desen ya da obje ağırlıklı ve geleneksel ve sanat olarak obje kavramlarıyla ilintilidir.
Ürettiği kamusal heykeller dışında Bartle, 2008 yılında İngiltere'de kişisel bir sergi açacak. Farklı projeler üzerinde çalışan sanatçı, Küçük Çiftlik Lunaparkı'nda düzenlenecek ve 13 Haziran'da açılacak olan sergi Sanat Benim Oyun Alanım için yazar ve eleştirmen Evrim Altuğ ile beraber bir proje hazırlıyor. Platform Garanti'deki misafirlik dönemi boyunca Siyah-Kalem projesine yoğunlaşan Bartle, bu proje hakkında şunları söylüyor: “ Dört yıl önce, Londra Royal Academy’deki “The Turks” sergisini ziyaret ettim. Bu sergide 14. yy minyatür sanatçısı Mehmet Siyah Kalem'in işleri dikkatimi çekti. İstanbul'da Topkapı Sarayı'nı defalarca ziyaret ettim ve Siyah Kalem'in işlerindeki belgeleme tekniği ve içeriği keşfetmeye başladım. Siyah-Kalem projemde transfer tekniği kullanarak, günümüz şehrindeki insanların hayatına odaklanan ve orijinal imajlardan beslenen tekrar yaratıları kullanacağım. Bu proje ile zaman ve kültür kavramları ötesinde varolan benzerliklere dikkati çekmek, Siyah Kalem'in figürlerinden beslenen yeni yaratılarla günümüz şehrini gözlemlemek istiyorum.”
The Arts Council of England desteğiyle.
Tunç Ali Çam:
Platform Garanti 3. kat / mutfak
Tunç Ali Çam "Açık Mutfak" ile ziyaretçileri Platform Garanti'nin mutfağında birlikte pizza pişirmeye (ya da sadece yemeğe) davet ediyor. Sanatçı ile projeleri üstüne mutfakta sohbet edebilirsiniz.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Elmas Deniz:
Platform Garanti 3. kat 5 nolu atölye
15:30-16:00
1981 doğumlu sanatçı Elmas Deniz, Mart ayından beri İMP konuğu olarak çalışmalarına devam ediyor. Deniz; Pakistan, Lübnan, Ermenistan, Danimarka, Almanya, Avusturya, Hollanda ve Türkiye'de çeşitli sergi, misafir programları ve projelerde yeraldı. Katıldığı sergiler arasında Uzaktan Sineğe Benzeyenler (Platform Garanti GSM, 2005), Üretebilmek Üzerine (Altı Aylık, 2007), Gyumri Bienali (Ermenistan, 2006), Amstelkring Müzesi (Hollanda, 2006), Galeria Nouva (Romanya, 2007) sayılabilir. CPH Air (2007) ve Goethe Institute Kültür Programı bursu ile Berlin'de misafir programlarına katılan sanatçı, Haziran ortası itibariyle üç aylık DIVA (Danimarka) misafir programına katılacak. KUTU ve İzmir'de faaliyet gösteren K2 girişimi kurucu sanatçılarından olan Deniz, 2003-2007 yılları arasında K2 Güncel Sanat Merkezi Proje Eş Direktörlüğü görevini üstlendi.
Sanatçı, yanlızca sanat üreticisi olmak değil sanatın operasyonel olan yönüne katılma ve kendi sanat üretimi ile desteklediği aktif ve çok yönlü sanatçı olma pozisyonunu önemsiyor. Sanatsal pratiğini anti-otoriter bir kanaldan, tarihsel olayların/durumların günümüzde yarattığı değişiklikler, temsiliyetler açısından dilin kullanımı üzerine çeşitleyen kavramsal bir yaklaşım üzerine kuruyor.
Elmas Deniz, Açık Atölye Günü'nde Kopenhag'da çektiği yeni videosu Turist Olmak İsteyen Adam'ı gösterecek. Video basitçe günlük yaşamda insanları ayırma ve etiketleme biçimlerimiz ve dil üzerine kurulu. Sanatçı işi hakkında şunları söylüyor: “Turist ve göçmen kelimelerinin sözlük anlamı “bir yere ve kültüre yabancı kişileri” tarif ediyor ancak gerçekte, günlük hayatta turist ve göçmen kimlikleri adaletsiz bir ayrımı işaretliyor. Küreselleşmenin olanakları veya dünya üzerinde dolaşımın kolaylaştığı fikri aslında hala elit bir faaliyet olarak kalıyor. Benzer ayrımcılığı sınır politikalarında da gözlemleyebiliriz. Sokakta gördüğün birisini turist veya göçmen olarak adlandırmanın arkasında yatanları görmek için; sanatçı aynı hasarlı bakışı ödünç alıp, etiketleri yer değiştiriyor, turistler ve göçmenler, finalde ise ironik bir hikaye ile bir şehir turundan parçalar görülüyor”.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Diana Page Muller:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 5 nolu atölye
14:30 – 15:00
Diana Page Muller, Cape Town, Güney Afrika'dan İstanbul'a yerleşen ve iki senedir burada yaşayan bir ressam. Farklı malzemeler ve ülkeler arasında dolaşan sanatçı, Mayıs ayında New York'lu performans sanatçıları ile ortaklaşa gerçekleştirdiği ses projesi Pitch Blue'yu Brooklyn'de bir binanın terasında gerçekleştirdi. Bu iş, ev ve sürgün, özlem ve bir yere ait olma kavramlarını araştırıyor. Bu işle bağlantılı diğer bir projesi Kadının Sesleri ise Galata'da iki farklı binanın terasında üretilmişti. Kadının Sesleri İstanbul çevresindeki tınılardan ilham alırken, kadın seslerini kamusal alana taşımayı amaçlıyordu. Açık Atölye Günü'nde sanatçı, iki işinin ham çekimlerini bir arada gösterecek ve projesi hakkında ziyaretçilerle bir söyleşi gerçekleştirecek. İstanbul görüntülerini yakalayan yeni resimleri stüdyosunda ziyaretçilere açık olacak.
1986 yılında University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) Güzel Sanatlar ve Sanat Tarihi bölümünden mezun olan sanatçı, 1992 yılında Rhodes Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü'nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Londra, New York'ta kişisel sergiler açtı ve grup sergilerine katıldı.
Lonnie van Brummelen:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 1 nolu atölye
17:00 – 18:00
1969 Hollanda doğumlu sanatçı Argos (Brüksel, 2007), Palais de Tokyo, Module, (Paris, 2007), SMBA (Amsterdam, 2005) kişisel sergiler açtı. Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürih, İsviçre, 2008), SITE Gallery (Düsseldorf, Almanya, 2008), Gwangju Bienali (Kore, 2006) grup sergilerine katıldı. 2005 yılında Prix de Rome ödülünü kazanan sanatçı bu sene Project Arts Centre’da (Dublin, İrlanda) bir kişisel sergi açacak ve Shanghai Bienali’ne katılacak. Van Brummelen 2004 yılından beri sanatçı Siebren de Haan ile beraber çalışıyor.
Açık Atölye Günü kapsamında sanatçı, Siebren de Haan ile ortaklaşa gerçekleştirdiği iki yeni projesini sunacak. 16 mm film projesi Monument of Sugar (Şeker Anıtı), iki sanatçının sübvanse edilen Avrupa şekerinin Hollanda’da başlayıp Polonya üzerinden Lagos, Nijerya’ya uzanan hikayesinin peşine düşmesi üzerine. Üretim fazlası Avrupa menşeeli şekeri Nijerya’da daha ucuza satın alıp Avrupa’ya geri getirmek isteyen sanatçılar, Avrupa’daki şeker ithali yasalarından dolayı şekeri “anıt” şeklinde geri getirmek istiyorlar. Film, bu süreçte yaşanan olayları aktarırken aynı zamanda küresel ticaretin gözden ırak üretim birimlerini de araştırıyor.
İki sanatçının 2004 yılından beri kendi evlerinde başlattıkları sanatçı inisiyatifi VRIZA hakkında yapacakları sunumla beraber, Mayıs ayında sanatçı Marjetica Potrč ile
FONDS BKVB, Hollanda desteğiyle
Michael van den Abeele:
Platform Garanti 4. kat 4 nolu atölye
1974 Belçika doğumlu sanatçı Michael van den Abeele, çizimden animasyon videolarına, farklı objeleri kullandığı yerleştirmelerden şarkı performanslarına uzanan, değişik tavırları içinde barındıran bir çok malzeme ile çalışır. Animasyonları genellikle minimal ve statik bir karakter taşırken, çizimleri ve resimleri ise dinamiklerin değişken ve acınası formlarını sunar. Animasyonlarının dilinde hissedilen yavanlık bir araştırma ya da fikir biçimi olarak algılanabilir. Animasyon videoları sigarayı, seks ve nostaljiyi yüceltirken, sosyal birlikteliğin temelini teşkil eden regresyonla ilgilenir. Çizimleri ve resimleri ise paranoyak bir algının sınırlarına yapılan seyahatlerin izdüşümü olarak tanımlanabilir. Bu resimlerin görsel anlatısı kozmik ve sindirme süreçleri, atomik figürler, hayalete benzer görüntüler, patlamalar, sarsıntılar, kasılmalar ve her türlü boşaltıma gönderme yapar.
Michael van den Abeele’nin son dönemde katıldığı sergiler arasında: Museo de Arte Moderno (Meksika, 2008), Rencontres Internationaux (Centre Pompidou, Paris, Fransa, 2007), GHB (Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Hollanda, 2007), Emergency Biennal, Matrix Art Projects, (Brüksel -Madrid – Grozny, 2005) sayılabilir. Brüksel’de bulunan sanatçı girişimi Etablissement d’en face‘in kurucularından olan van den Abeele ABD’de ve Fransa’da sanatçı misafir programlarına katıldı.
www.pilotlondon.org
www.etablissementdenfaceprojects.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXzrjVHj_M
Flaman Hükümeti desteğiyle
Friday, May 16, 2008
Spike Island Sanatçısı Seçildi
Fatma Çiftçi
Temmuz – Eylül 2008 tarihleri arasında Spike Island Misafir Sanatçı Programı'na katılacak olan sanatçı Fatma Çiftçi, Bilkent Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü'nden mezun oldu. İstanbul, İzmir, Ankara, Eskişehir ve Diyarbakır'da grup sergilerine katılan sanatçı, 2006 yılında Seul'de bulunan Chandong Misafir Sanatçı Programı'na katıldı.
Çiftçi'nin son dönemde gerçekleştirdiği sergiler arasında Asia Art Now (Ssamzie Space, Seul; Arario, Pekin; 2006), “Falling F-16” YAMA, İstanbul sayılabilir.
Sanatçı, Spike Island'da gerçekleştireceği çalışmaları 2009 yılı başında kurumun galerisindeki kişisel bir sergide gösterecek.
Temmuz – Eylül 2008 tarihleri arasında Spike Island Misafir Sanatçı Programı'na katılacak olan sanatçı Fatma Çiftçi, Bilkent Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü'nden mezun oldu. İstanbul, İzmir, Ankara, Eskişehir ve Diyarbakır'da grup sergilerine katılan sanatçı, 2006 yılında Seul'de bulunan Chandong Misafir Sanatçı Programı'na katıldı.
Çiftçi'nin son dönemde gerçekleştirdiği sergiler arasında Asia Art Now (Ssamzie Space, Seul; Arario, Pekin; 2006), “Falling F-16” YAMA, İstanbul sayılabilir.
Sanatçı, Spike Island'da gerçekleştireceği çalışmaları 2009 yılı başında kurumun galerisindeki kişisel bir sergide gösterecek.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant
Misafir Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro'daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Sonbahar 2008 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır.
Özellikle video ve ses üretimiyle ilgilenen, yeni medyayla çalışan sanatçılar için hazırlanmış olan Can Xalant Programı için son dosya teslim tarihi 7 Haziran Cumartesi 2008'dir. Programın süresi 6 haftadır (Eylül- Ekim 2008). Seyahat, İspanya içi dolaşım, yaşam, konaklama ve kısmi üretim giderleri Platform ve Can Xalant tarafından karşılanmaktadır.
Can Xalant görsel sanatların ve güncel tartışmaların üretimi üzerine Mataro'da kurulmuş ilk merkezdir. Can Xalant'ın amacı görsel sanatların araştırılması ve üretimi sırasında gerekli olan programları sunmaktır. Merkez bu amacını, düzenlediği atöyle çalışmaları, sergiler, eğitim programları, misafir sanatçı programı, değişim programları ve yayınladığı basılı malzemeler ile sürdürmektedir.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 4 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Can Xalant yapacaktır. Başvuracak olan sanatçı ve küratörlerden program süresince yapmayı düşündükleri proje ya da araştırma hakkında bir dosya sunmaları beklenmektedir.
Programa bir sanatçı seçilmesi durumunda Can Xalant'daki stüdyolardan, video/ses kaydı, post-prodüksiyon ekipmanlarından yararlanabileceği gibi ihtiyaç halinde merkez tarafından teknik ekip de sanatçıya sağlanacaktır.
Başvuru Detayları için
Internet yoluyla başvuru ve URL kabul edilmemektedir. Başvuru dosyaları geri yollanmaz.
Başvuru detaylarını burada bulabilirsiniz.
Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27
Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 - 18:00
Misafir Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro'daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Sonbahar 2008 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır.
Özellikle video ve ses üretimiyle ilgilenen, yeni medyayla çalışan sanatçılar için hazırlanmış olan Can Xalant Programı için son dosya teslim tarihi 7 Haziran Cumartesi 2008'dir. Programın süresi 6 haftadır (Eylül- Ekim 2008). Seyahat, İspanya içi dolaşım, yaşam, konaklama ve kısmi üretim giderleri Platform ve Can Xalant tarafından karşılanmaktadır.
Can Xalant görsel sanatların ve güncel tartışmaların üretimi üzerine Mataro'da kurulmuş ilk merkezdir. Can Xalant'ın amacı görsel sanatların araştırılması ve üretimi sırasında gerekli olan programları sunmaktır. Merkez bu amacını, düzenlediği atöyle çalışmaları, sergiler, eğitim programları, misafir sanatçı programı, değişim programları ve yayınladığı basılı malzemeler ile sürdürmektedir.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 4 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Can Xalant yapacaktır. Başvuracak olan sanatçı ve küratörlerden program süresince yapmayı düşündükleri proje ya da araştırma hakkında bir dosya sunmaları beklenmektedir.
Programa bir sanatçı seçilmesi durumunda Can Xalant'daki stüdyolardan, video/ses kaydı, post-prodüksiyon ekipmanlarından yararlanabileceği gibi ihtiyaç halinde merkez tarafından teknik ekip de sanatçıya sağlanacaktır.
Başvuru Detayları için
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Başvuru detaylarını burada bulabilirsiniz.
Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Platform Garanti GSM
Ofisler / Kütüphane /ArşivIstiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27
Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 - 18:00
Platform Garanti ve Frankfurt Artist in Residence
Platform Garanti ve Frankfurt Artist in Residence
Konuk Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ve Frankfurt Artist-in-Residence konuk sanatçı programları sanatçı değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Eylül Ekim 2008 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır. Son dosya teslim tarihi 7 Haziran Cumartesi 2008'dir.
1990 yılından beri Frankfurt Kültür Bölümü tarafından desteklenen konuk programı, sekiz değişik kentle işbirliğindedir. 2005 yılından itibaren sanatçı değişim programı çercevesinde, “Kulturbunker” isimli binada her biri 80 metrekare olmak üzere iki stüdyoyu uluslararası sanatçılara, üç stüdyoyu da Frankfurt'ta yaşayan sanatçılara tahsis etmiştir. Stüdyolar çalışma ve yaşam alanlarından oluşmakta ve tek bir sanatçı tarafından kullanılmaktadır. Her bir stüdyoda gerekli mobilyalar dışında, mutfak, banyo, internet bağlantılı bir bilgisayar ve telefon yer almaktadır.
Eylül-Ekim 2008 tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek program dahilinde, sanatçılara stüdyo dışında yaşam masraflarını karşılamak üzere toplam €1,600 harcırah ayrılmıştır. Frankfurt-Istanbul.-Frankfurt uçak bileti Platform Garanti GSM tarafından karşılanacaktır.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan bir komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından FrankfurtArtist-in-Residence'a toplam 6 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Frankfurt Artist-in-Residence yapacaktır.
Programa başvuracak olan sanatçıların işlerine dair görsel, yazılı malzemelerin yer aldığı kapsamlı bir dosya hazırlamaları gerekmektedir. Internet yoluyla başvuru ve URL kabul edilmemektedir. Başvuru dosyaları geri yollanmaz.
Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Platform Garanti GSM
Ofisler / Kütüphane /Arşiv
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27
Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 - 18:00
Konuk Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ve Frankfurt Artist-in-Residence konuk sanatçı programları sanatçı değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Eylül Ekim 2008 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır. Son dosya teslim tarihi 7 Haziran Cumartesi 2008'dir.
1990 yılından beri Frankfurt Kültür Bölümü tarafından desteklenen konuk programı, sekiz değişik kentle işbirliğindedir. 2005 yılından itibaren sanatçı değişim programı çercevesinde, “Kulturbunker” isimli binada her biri 80 metrekare olmak üzere iki stüdyoyu uluslararası sanatçılara, üç stüdyoyu da Frankfurt'ta yaşayan sanatçılara tahsis etmiştir. Stüdyolar çalışma ve yaşam alanlarından oluşmakta ve tek bir sanatçı tarafından kullanılmaktadır. Her bir stüdyoda gerekli mobilyalar dışında, mutfak, banyo, internet bağlantılı bir bilgisayar ve telefon yer almaktadır.
Eylül-Ekim 2008 tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek program dahilinde, sanatçılara stüdyo dışında yaşam masraflarını karşılamak üzere toplam €1,600 harcırah ayrılmıştır. Frankfurt-Istanbul.-Frankfurt uçak bileti Platform Garanti GSM tarafından karşılanacaktır.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan bir komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından FrankfurtArtist-in-Residence'a toplam 6 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Frankfurt Artist-in-Residence yapacaktır.
Programa başvuracak olan sanatçıların işlerine dair görsel, yazılı malzemelerin yer aldığı kapsamlı bir dosya hazırlamaları gerekmektedir. Internet yoluyla başvuru ve URL kabul edilmemektedir. Başvuru dosyaları geri yollanmaz.
Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Platform Garanti GSM
Ofisler / Kütüphane /Arşiv
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27
Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Isabel Schmiga
“Kamuflaj”
25, 03 - 24, 04 2008
Saat: 18.00-21.00
Yer: BAS, Meşrutiyet Cad. N0: 92/A Beyoğlu
MASA, Isabel Schmiga’nin Kamuflaj adlı sergisini Bas ile ortaklaşa gerçekleştiriyor. Toplam iki işin yer alacağı sergideki işlerden “Polis”, sanatçının 2006 yılında Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi’nin misafir sanatçı programında kaldığı altı aylık dilimde oluşturduğu düzenlemeleri içeriyor. “Haydutlar” ise, Masa için gerçekleştirilen mekana özgü bir montaj çalışması.
“Gündelik hayattaki daimi varlıkları yüzünden ihmal edilebilir addedilen şeyler neredeyse görünmez hale gelirler. Isabel Schmiga’nın sanatsal müdahalesinin temeli tanıdık durumlardaki önemsiz öğelerin bağlamlarında yapılan makas değişikliklerine dayanıyor. Sanatçı, bugüne kadar gerçekleştirdiği işlerde; geçişlere, her günkü çevresinin hassalarına, uzlaşmaz zıtlıklar gibi gözüken şeylerin çarpışmalarına, özlere ve sembolik niteliklerine, biçime ve kelimeye yoğunlaştı.
Malzemenin belagati, tanıdık şeylerin ve simgelerin çokdilliliği ile bedenin ve mekanın ilişkisi sanatçının bakışını iki anlamda belirliyor: bunlar hem düz anlamlarıyla motivasyondırlar hem de sanatçının tanıdık göstergelerin belirsizliğiyle ilişkiye geçme girişiminin motifleridirler, dolayısıyla anlamın sebatla hakedilmiş gizli potansiyellerini yüzeye getirirler:
Örnegin oyun tahtasında oynanan Ludo İsviçre bayrağında görünürleşir (MENSCH ÄRGERE DICH NICHT, 2003)”
Isabel Schmiga (1971) Paris’te yaşıyor ve çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Braunschweig Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nde (MFA) ve Basel Üniversitesi’nde Sanat tarihi bölümünde görevlerine devam eden sanatçının kazandığı cok sayıda burs ve katıldığı misafir sanatçı programı arasında Isviçre’nin Basel sehrindeki DAAD, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi’ndeki iaab ve 2008 yılında Paris Cité Internationale des Arts’daki iaab sayilabilir
“Kamuflaj”
25, 03 - 24, 04 2008
Saat: 18.00-21.00
Yer: BAS, Meşrutiyet Cad. N0: 92/A Beyoğlu
MASA, Isabel Schmiga’nin Kamuflaj adlı sergisini Bas ile ortaklaşa gerçekleştiriyor. Toplam iki işin yer alacağı sergideki işlerden “Polis”, sanatçının 2006 yılında Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi’nin misafir sanatçı programında kaldığı altı aylık dilimde oluşturduğu düzenlemeleri içeriyor. “Haydutlar” ise, Masa için gerçekleştirilen mekana özgü bir montaj çalışması.
“Gündelik hayattaki daimi varlıkları yüzünden ihmal edilebilir addedilen şeyler neredeyse görünmez hale gelirler. Isabel Schmiga’nın sanatsal müdahalesinin temeli tanıdık durumlardaki önemsiz öğelerin bağlamlarında yapılan makas değişikliklerine dayanıyor. Sanatçı, bugüne kadar gerçekleştirdiği işlerde; geçişlere, her günkü çevresinin hassalarına, uzlaşmaz zıtlıklar gibi gözüken şeylerin çarpışmalarına, özlere ve sembolik niteliklerine, biçime ve kelimeye yoğunlaştı.
Malzemenin belagati, tanıdık şeylerin ve simgelerin çokdilliliği ile bedenin ve mekanın ilişkisi sanatçının bakışını iki anlamda belirliyor: bunlar hem düz anlamlarıyla motivasyondırlar hem de sanatçının tanıdık göstergelerin belirsizliğiyle ilişkiye geçme girişiminin motifleridirler, dolayısıyla anlamın sebatla hakedilmiş gizli potansiyellerini yüzeye getirirler:
Örnegin oyun tahtasında oynanan Ludo İsviçre bayrağında görünürleşir (MENSCH ÄRGERE DICH NICHT, 2003)”
Isabel Schmiga (1971) Paris’te yaşıyor ve çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Braunschweig Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nde (MFA) ve Basel Üniversitesi’nde Sanat tarihi bölümünde görevlerine devam eden sanatçının kazandığı cok sayıda burs ve katıldığı misafir sanatçı programı arasında Isviçre’nin Basel sehrindeki DAAD, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi’ndeki iaab ve 2008 yılında Paris Cité Internationale des Arts’daki iaab sayilabilir
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Production Residency in the UK
Spike Island Applications are now Closed
Production Residency ‘08 in the UK Selected in partnerships with Platform Garanti
Spike Island, in Bristol, UK is offering a three months residency Production Residency for an Artist from Turkey to start Summer ‘08.
The residency includes a stipend and production budget. Studio and Living Accommodation are provided.
The selected artist will make new work for a show at Spike Island.
Application deadline February 22th2008
for application see www.spikeisland.org.uk see under research
or e mail
marie-anne.mcquay@spikeisland.org.uk at Spike Island
platformgaranti.gsm@gmail.com at Platform Garanti.
Details
Background
Application Form
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Open Call for Applications
UNIDEE in Residence 2008: 16 June - 16 October 2008
Application Deadline: 29 February 2008
They arrive to UNIDEE in the middle of June.
They begin to question, to look around, to inquire.
They observe you with eyes in stereovision; one eye keeps close watch, the river rush by the foot of Cittadellarte, the textile factories, the city of Biella extending up into the mountains and its social fabric and cultural institutions. The other eye looks into the distance, watching the world, their own city woven by its inhabitants, living organisms and institutions, and the planet itself immersed in one grand illusion.
They want to understand what this Cittadellarte is. They have their own Cittadellarte in mind, maybe a rough sketch, an idea, or a dream. They will talk about it and discuss at length, filling these spaces where textiles were once produced with the energy of the water, enterprise, and the labor of an entire generation.
They are artists, curators, managers of socio-cultural projects; perhaps all these roles together. They question, try to understand and then act; producing ideas, elaborating on them and discussing their thoughts. They develop these thoughts into working plans, projects, and then transform them into a concrete practice. They are activators of creative processes for social responsible change.
They live in Cittadellarte, day and night. They have their private rooms, but the work space is open and common. The experience is shared in group of 20 young people from various cultures, together they form a micro-society.
Then in the middle of October the residence concludes. But the University of Ideas continues and changes course. They return to their epicenter where they input their accumulated potential, no longer alone but rather participating in a global movement that advances as one tide; gaining energy from the everyday practice and work of tens, hundreds, and thousands of individuals and organizations.
t is in their epicenter where they can get engaged rather as activators than as individual artists or curators. Where they can step in the game interacting with existing structures, or creating new initiatives, while giving rise to their own Cittadellarte.
Application Deadline: 29 February 2008
They arrive to UNIDEE in the middle of June.
They begin to question, to look around, to inquire.
They observe you with eyes in stereovision; one eye keeps close watch, the river rush by the foot of Cittadellarte, the textile factories, the city of Biella extending up into the mountains and its social fabric and cultural institutions. The other eye looks into the distance, watching the world, their own city woven by its inhabitants, living organisms and institutions, and the planet itself immersed in one grand illusion.
They want to understand what this Cittadellarte is. They have their own Cittadellarte in mind, maybe a rough sketch, an idea, or a dream. They will talk about it and discuss at length, filling these spaces where textiles were once produced with the energy of the water, enterprise, and the labor of an entire generation.
They are artists, curators, managers of socio-cultural projects; perhaps all these roles together. They question, try to understand and then act; producing ideas, elaborating on them and discussing their thoughts. They develop these thoughts into working plans, projects, and then transform them into a concrete practice. They are activators of creative processes for social responsible change.
They live in Cittadellarte, day and night. They have their private rooms, but the work space is open and common. The experience is shared in group of 20 young people from various cultures, together they form a micro-society.
Then in the middle of October the residence concludes. But the University of Ideas continues and changes course. They return to their epicenter where they input their accumulated potential, no longer alone but rather participating in a global movement that advances as one tide; gaining energy from the everyday practice and work of tens, hundreds, and thousands of individuals and organizations.
t is in their epicenter where they can get engaged rather as activators than as individual artists or curators. Where they can step in the game interacting with existing structures, or creating new initiatives, while giving rise to their own Cittadellarte.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
2007 Winter Resident at Platform
Erlea Maneros, Diagram 1021, 2008
(from the microfilm series)
Laserprint, 118.9 x 84.1 cm
Los Angeles-based artist Erlea Maneros critically engages with the mechanisms of visual representation. Maneros' conceptual approach to painting reflects on and questions the conditions and conventions of the medium, and the ways these relate to contemporary image production. Maneros’ practice is focused on producing images politically instead of illustrating the political, adopting image-making as the subject itself. Her work draws attention to how we consume images and the way these shape our understanding of the content that they represent.
Maneros is founder and co-director of the non-profit art organization ART2102 in Los Angeles.
This residency is supported by the Department of Culture of Diputación Foral de Bizkaia and Sala Rekalde, Spain for artists coming from the Basque Region of Spain.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Open Studio with Els Vanden Meersch
January 12, 2008
10:00 - 18:00
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
Istanbul Residency Programme artist Els Vanden Meersch will present an installation of a series of photographs in progress. The works include images of construction towers, armoured buildings and several sites. She will also present her photo books, Paranoid obstructions and Implants . The presentation will include in addition a screening of her earlier projects: Radiant Green and Excluded Interiors.
Els Vanden Meersch's works investigate the psychological content of architectural constructions. She uses installations and photomontages of places that express a high degree of hierarchy and paranoia. Her work treats architecture as portraiture. She examines how architecture (in a broad sense) reflects social tendencies such as nationalism and the construction of cultural and personal identity. For further information about the artist, please visit: http://www.elsvandenmeersch.be/CMS/
Initiated in January 2003, the Istanbul Residency Programme is open to artists, critics and curators in the field contemporary art. Vanden Meersch's residency is supported by the Flemish Community, Belgium.
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Partner Residencies
Gökçe Süvari
Gökçe Süvari has been one of the resident artists at the International exchange and studio program in Basel, Switzerland for six months. She will participate open studio day on December 12, 6 to 9p.m.. with the projects developed during the residency.
Platform Garanti supports artists from Turkey to participate in residency programs. Program partners are Can Xalant / Spain, Spike Island / United Kingdom, iaab (supported by Pro Helvetia) / Switzerland, and AIR / Belgium.
Gökçe Süvari has been one of the resident artists at the International exchange and studio program in Basel, Switzerland for six months. She will participate open studio day on December 12, 6 to 9p.m.. with the projects developed during the residency.
Platform Garanti supports artists from Turkey to participate in residency programs. Program partners are Can Xalant / Spain, Spike Island / United Kingdom, iaab (supported by Pro Helvetia) / Switzerland, and AIR / Belgium.
Former Residents
Wael Shawky
2004 resident artist supported by the American Center Foundation/
Wael Shawky from Alexandria, Egypt opened a one-person exhibition, "TELEMATCH SADAT" curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi in Italy at Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea. Wael Shawky has participated major international exhibitions including the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003, and at the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005. He also took part in group exhibitions in important institutions for contemporary art such as Artists Space, New York (2003), MACRO, Rome (2004), Platform Garanti of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (2005), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2005), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2006).
Asier Mendizabal
with the support of Sala Rekalde, Basque Country in 2006/
Asier Mendizabal exhibits at Artis Den Bosch, The Netherlands. The show titled as "Not all that moves (is red)" can be visited between December 2-January 13. Mendizabal has participated group exhibitions in various countries such as Guggenheim Bilbao (2007), Manifesta 5 - San Sebastian (2004), Taipei Biennial (2002).
2004 resident artist supported by the American Center Foundation/
Wael Shawky from Alexandria, Egypt opened a one-person exhibition, "TELEMATCH SADAT" curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi in Italy at Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea. Wael Shawky has participated major international exhibitions including the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003, and at the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005. He also took part in group exhibitions in important institutions for contemporary art such as Artists Space, New York (2003), MACRO, Rome (2004), Platform Garanti of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (2005), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2005), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2006).
Asier Mendizabal
with the support of Sala Rekalde, Basque Country in 2006/
Asier Mendizabal exhibits at Artis Den Bosch, The Netherlands. The show titled as "Not all that moves (is red)" can be visited between December 2-January 13. Mendizabal has participated group exhibitions in various countries such as Guggenheim Bilbao (2007), Manifesta 5 - San Sebastian (2004), Taipei Biennial (2002).
Saturday, November 17, 2007
2007 Fall Residents at Platform
Felice Hapetzeder, IASPIS, Sweden
Els Vanden Meersch, Flemish Community, Belgium
Kilian Rüthemann, IAAB, Zwitzerland
Jennifer Teets, Texas / Mexico City, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. Fundación / Colección Jumex
Bas van Beek, Rotterdam, FONDS BKVB / The Netherlands
Els Vanden Meersch, Flemish Community, Belgium
Kilian Rüthemann, IAAB, Zwitzerland
Jennifer Teets, Texas / Mexico City, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. Fundación / Colección Jumex
Bas van Beek, Rotterdam, FONDS BKVB / The Netherlands
Sunday, October 14, 2007
'Simon and the Radioactive Flesh' at Arcola Theatre London
Residency artist Mark Aerial Waller exhibits 'Simon and the Radioactive Flesh' at Arcola Theatre London in conjunction with LUX on 14th October. The project was conceived and first exhibited in Istanbul during his residency at Platform Garanti as part of his ongoing project The Wayward Canon. Simon and The Radioactive Flesh is a co production with artist Giles Round.
A film and intermittent art video screening that transcends into a purgatorial nightclub setting.
Simon and the RadioactiveFlesh uses Louis Bunuel's 45 minute film of an ascetic, Simon, a devotee of Simon Stylites, who proclaims his faith through standing on a column in the desert. The devil visits on several occasions to lure him from his duty, eventually succeeding in transposing him to purgatory; an existential beat nightclub in 1960's New York. In this reworking of the original film, each time the devil appears the narrative is interrupted by the insertion of a contemporary video art work. The interruptions continue throughout the film until finally we too are spatially interrupted, finding ourselves in a parallel to the purgatorial nightclub setting of the film's last dance, Carne Radioactivo ( the RadioactiveFlesh).
Artists' videos in running order:
Sophie Brown & Catherine Evelid / It's Time to Give In, Bernhard Willhelm & Dirk Bonn / The Rose, Pablo Bronstein / Trojan Horse, Benjamin Callaway / Plane, Omer Ali Kazma / She has had it, Mark Leckey / We are (untitled), Assume Vivid Astro Focus/ Relevee.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Can Altay at Spike Island
Spike Island Autumn Exhibitions Opening:
October 5th, 18:00
Galeri 1: Can Altay, EY AHALI! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go
October 6 sees the launch of Spike Island's Autumn Show, presenting three exhibitions of new work by artists Can Altay, Henry VIII's Wives and André Sousa. All of the artists have created their work through Spike Island's internationally acclaimed residency programme. Their projects are loosely connected through the artists' individualized responses to location and their use of collaboration as a mode of contemporary artistic practice.
Istanbul artist, Can Altay, is currently undertaking a three month residency at Spike Island, selected from an open submission call for applications to Turkish artists, in partnership with Platform Garanti, Contemporary Art Centre in Istanbul.
Can's project, EY AHALI! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go , initiates a series of themed discussions in the gallery. The title indicates the course of action that the artist will take: "Ey Ahali!" is the typical phrase of the traditional introduction to a public announcement, verbally made by shouting on the streets; this will announce the artist's intentions to generate debate in the gallery. 'Setting a Setting' asks whether it is possible to generate a setting for ideas and discussions to take place. 'Letting a Setting Go' is the aspiration that the discussions will follow their own course. Can is also producing objects, films and audio works that reveal the processes of making the exhibition. This includes an interactive sound stage and self assembly journals, directly engaging the viewer. In order to continuously animate the space, the artist will inhabit the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, inviting numerous participants (academics, artists, musicians) to join the project. He will also draw on the wider urban community which surrounds Spike Island and its hidden eco-systems.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
PLATFORM GARANTİ GÜNCEL SANAT MERKEZİ'NDE AKŞAMÜSTÜ
7 Eylül / 16:00-18:00AKŞAMÜSTÜ, 7 Eylül günü 16:00-18:00 saatleri arasında, yenileme çalışmaları nedeniyle kapanacak olan Platform binasına veda etkinliğidir.
Ahmet Öğüt'ün Tarihte Bugün isimli kitap tanıtımını 16:00-16:30, Giriş katı
We all laughed at Christopher Columbus ve
The Mousetrap isimli yayınların tanıtımı izleyecek.
UTURN SLOW SHOW! 16:30-16:45, Giriş katı
ÜST KATLAR 16:00-17:30, Üst katlar
NEKROPSİ 4/4 17:30-17:50 Binanın dört katında
KİTAP TANITIMLARI: 16:00-16:30
Platform etkinlikleri kitap tanıtımları ile başlıyor. İlk tanıtım, sanatçı Ahmet Öğüt'ün, Türk basınından seçilen otuz hikayeyi içeren Tarihte Bugün / Today in History isimli kitabı olacak. 1961 yılından günümüze kadar uzanan bu hikayeler, sanatçı tarafından seçilerek resimlendirildi. Book Works, Londra ve Platform'un ortak yayın projesi olan bu kitap, aynı zamanda Book Works tarafından başlatılan “Fabrications” ortak yayın serisinin üçüncü kitabıdır. Fabrications; Grants for the Arts, Arts Council of England ve bu kitap projesi için Platform tarafından desteklenmektedir.
Küratörlüğü, Krist Gruijthuijsen ve November Paynter tarafından yapılan We All Laughed at Christopher Columbus ’un ilk iki sergilenişi Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam and Platform 'da gerçekleşmişti. Dokuz sanatçının katılımıyla oluşan bu yayın sergide, her bir sanatçı tarihsel bir olayı baz alarak bir hikaye anlatıyor, bu şekilde birbirinden ayrı fakat ilişkili bölümler dizisi biraraya geliyor. İlk tanıtımı 9 Haziran'da Venedik Bienali Türkiye Pavyonu'nda yapılan yayıma Mieke Bal, Matthew Buckingham, Jeremiah Day, Omer Fast, Leyla Gediz, Runo Lagomarsino, Deimantas Narkevicius ve Florian Wüst görsel malzeme ve metinle katkıda bulundular. Tasarımı Roosje Klap tarafından yapılan kitap Platform Garanti, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam ve the Mondriaan Foundation desteğiyle gerçekleşti.
Mousetrap, güncel sanat kurumlarındaki küratörlük pratikleri üzerine aynı isimle 15-16 Ekim 2005 tarihlerinde, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk (Polonya) da, Büro Kopernicus, Berlin işbirliği ile düzenlenen konferansla aynı ismi taşıyan bir yayım. Projenin küratörlüğü Aneta Szyłak and Andrzej Szczerski tarafından yapıldı. Yazarlar: Barnabas Bencsik, Sebastian Cichocki, Hedwig Fijen, Maria Hussakowska, Maria Lind, Nina Montmann, Dorota Monkiewicz, Vanessa Joan Müller, Barbara Steiner, Andrzej Szczerski, Aneta Szyłak, Thomas Wulffen. Editörler: Aneta Szyłak, Andrzej Szczerski Yayımcılar: Wyspa Institute of Art/Wyspa Progress Foundation ve Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst. Büro Kopernicus'un işbirliği ve finansal desteğiyle.
THE SLOW SHOW! SUNUMU: 16:30-16:45
Projenin sanat yönetmenlerinden Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Güncel Sanat Quadrenniali U-TURN'ü sunuyor. İlki tam bir yıl sonra Kopenhag'da açılacak olan etkinlik, Platform Garanti'de hep beraber içilecek bir içki ile başlıyor. Quadrennial, diğer yenilikçi ve çığır açan bienaller gibi bir sergi olacak sadece, formatı daha yavaş! Quadrennial, dört yıllık aralıklarla gerçekleşerek kendisine YAVAŞ SERGİ tarzını uygun görüyor. İlki 5 Eylül 2008'de açılacak olan serginin küratörleri Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Judith Schwarzbart ve Solvej Helweg Ovesen. Bunun dışında U-TURN yeni websitesinin tanıtımını da aynı gün yapıyor: www.uturn-copenhagen.dk
ÜST KATLARI ZİYARET EDİN: 16:00-17:30 Platform'un misafir sanatçıları Justin Bennett (NL), Osman Bozkurt (TR), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (TR), hazavuzu (TR), Fahrettin Örenli (TR), Jooyeon Park (KOR), Canan Şenol (TR), Kilian Rüthemann (CZ) ve Mark Aerial Waller (UK) proje ve performanslarını Platform binasının en üst katında ziyaretçilerle paylaşacaklar.
Binanın en üst katı bir süre öncesine kadar Anavatan partisi tarafından kullanılıyordu. Misafir sanatçılar, projelerini mekana yönelik performatif bir tavır içinde sunacaklar. Justin Bennett, Sundial (2003-07) isimli projesiyle etkinliğe katılacak. Sanatçı bu proje için 24 saat boyunca tek bir noktada ses kaydı yapıyor. Daha sonra bu kayıtlar 8 dakikalık bir iş olarak düzenleniyor ve tek bir günün ritmini yakalıyor. Bennett, aynı projeyi Barselona, (2003), Den Haag, Roma, Guangzhou ve Paris (2005), Viyana (2006) ve son olarak İstanbul'da (2007) gerçekleştirdi. Osman Bozkurt, İstanbul'un günlük yaşamından imajları içeren yeni bir fotoğraf serisini gösterecek. Bozkurt, video ve fotoğraf işleri aracılığıyla varoluşumuzun ve kültürümüzün bir parçası olan günlük hayatın kırılganlığını vurguluyor. “A Slight Hesitation of Petra Nacht”, sanatçı Aslı Çavuşoğlu'nun Temmuz 2007'de basılan üçüncü kitabı, “The Unsubscribed Life of Peter Böse”nin devamı niteliğindeki yeni kitabı etkinlikte ücretsiz olarak dağıtılacak. Sanatçı kolektifi HAZAVUZU, gerçekleştirecekleri ses performansı ile mekana müdahale edecekler. Fahrettin Örenli eski projelerden biriyle etkinliğe katılacak. Sanatçı, gerçekliğin farklı katmanları arasındaki kesişim noktaları üzerine çalışıyor ve fotoğraf, resim, video, enstelasyon, şiir gibi farklı malzemelerin kullanımıyla, yeni gerçekliğin hayat bulmasına aracı olabileceğine inanıyor. Jooyeon Park, İstanbul'un kentsel ve sosyal yapısı üzerine merakını celbeden araştırmaları sunacak. Park'ın işleri, farklı dil ve anlayışların karşılaşması sonucunda yaşanan sıçramaları inceliyor. Canan Şenol, “Hicap” isimli bir performans gerçekleştirecek. “Hicap” , polemik yaratan bir konu olan “örtünme” çevresinde gelişen, dinsel ve laik çatışmalar ile bu politikalar tarafından vücut üzerine uygulanmaya çalışılan terbiye, kontrol altına almaya çalışma üzerine. ("Hicap" is a literal shedding of the religious and secularist politics around the controversy of the "veil," and the discipline of the body.) Killian Rüthemann, kendine özgü minimal değişikliklerle mekanı dönüştürecek. Sanatçının işleri, mekandaki günlük, ham malzemedeki heykel kalitesini araştırırken, aynı zamanda yer çekimini alt etmek ile rastlantı ve müdahale arasındaki ilişkiyle ilgileniyor. Mark Aerial Waller, "Resistance domination secret" (2007) isimli videosunu gösterecek. Waller, sinema tarihini, hem yeniden yorumlayan hem de kesintiye uğratan filmler ve videolar gerçekleştiriyor.
4/4 NEKROPSİ: 90'ların en unutulmaz gruplarından Nekropsi, 2007 başlarında “2. Bölüm – Her on senede bir çıkar” isimli albümleriyle geri döndü. Grup, binaya özgü bir performans gerçekleştirecek. Grup elemanları, her biri farklı bir katta enstrümanlarını çalarak 4/4 isimli eserlerini icraa edecekler. Ziyaretçiler, binanın katları arasında dolaşıp, her biri tek başına enstrümanını çalan grup üyelerini görebilirken, tüm eser bütün olarak sadece arka avluda dinlenebilecek.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Lala Rascic
Platform Garanti's 2005 ACF Resident Lala Rascic is based between Edinburgh and Perth during Summer 2007, creating new process-based work as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
Source
Lala Rascic Weblog
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant Misafir Programları
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant Misafir Programları Arasında
Değişim Programı Seçimleri Sonuçlandı
Programa Türkiye'den Cevdet Erek
ve
İspanya'dan Montse Romani katılacaklar.
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro'daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi sonuçlandı.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelendi ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 5 dosya gönderildi. Cevdet Erek, Domenec Pilar Bonet, Cristina Riera,Delicia Burset, Xavier Arenós, Gisel Noé ve Pep Dardanyà'dan oluşan bir komite tarafından seçildi.
Değişim Programı Seçimleri Sonuçlandı
Programa Türkiye'den Cevdet Erek
ve
İspanya'dan Montse Romani katılacaklar.
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro'daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi sonuçlandı.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelendi ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 5 dosya gönderildi. Cevdet Erek, Domenec Pilar Bonet, Cristina Riera,Delicia Burset, Xavier Arenós, Gisel Noé ve Pep Dardanyà'dan oluşan bir komite tarafından seçildi.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Artists in Residence Summer - Autumn 2006
Can Altay
International Artist's Fellowship in partnership with Platform Garanti, Istanbul in residence July - October at Spike Island.
Can Altay, Making Space, Platform Garanti, July 2003
International Artist's Fellowship in partnership with Platform Garanti, Istanbul in residence July - October at Spike Island.
Can Altay, Making Space, Platform Garanti, July 2003
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Ahmet Öğüt & Pilvi Takala
June 19
The marriage of 2 former IRP participants, friends, colleagues and partners. Platform wishes them happiness.
The marriage of 2 former IRP participants, friends, colleagues and partners. Platform wishes them happiness.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Collaboration between Platform Garanti and Can Xalant
A 6 week residency exchange between Platform Garanti and Can Xalant in the autumn of 2007
Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro'daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Sonbahar 2007 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır.
Özellikle video ve ses üretimiyle ilgilenen, yeni medyayla çalışan sanatçılar için hazırlanmış olan Can Xalant Programı için son dosya teslim tarihi 30 Haziran Cumartesi 2007'dir. Programın süresi 6 haftadır. Seyahat, İspanya içi dolaşım, yaşam, konaklama ve kısmi üretim giderleri Platform ve Can Xalant tarafından karşılanmaktadır.
Can Xalant görsel sanatların ve güncel tartışmaların üretimi üzerine Mataro'da kurulmuş ilk merkezdir. Can Xalant'ın amacı görsel sanatların araştırılması ve üretimi sırasında gerekli olan programları sunmaktır. Merkez bu amacını, düzenlediği atöyle çalışmaları, sergiler, eğitim programları, misafir sanatçı programı, değişim programları ve yayınladığı basılı malzemeler ile sürdürmektedir.
Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi'nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından Can Xalant'a toplam 4 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Can Xalant yapacaktır. Aday sanatçı ve küratörlerden program süresince yapmayı düşündükleri proje ya da araştırma hakkında bir dosya sunmaları beklenmektedir.
Programa bir sanatçı seçilmesi durumunda Can Xalant'daki stüdyolardan, video/ses kaydı, post-prodüksiyon ekipmanlarından yararlanabileceği gibi ihtiyaç halinde merkez tarafından teknik ekip de sanatçıya sağlanacaktır.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
2006 Platform Resident: Fahrettin Örenli
Fahrettin Örenli, (Pertek-Turkiye, 1969), Eylül 2006 - Subat 2007 arasında Istanbul Platform Garanti'de yapılan değişik disiplinlerdeki yeni çalışmalar ;fotograf, şiir, çizim, yaglıboya ve video enstelasyonları.
Fahrettin Orenli- Solo Exhibition "MUDMAN" 24 March 2007 - 21 April 2007 Opening Reception: 17.00 - 21.00 p.m. 24 March 2007
Dubbelbee Gallery, Gerard Doustraat 142 - 144, 1073 VX Amsterdam
Fahrettin Orenli (Pertek/Turkey, 1969), new photos, poetry, drawings, paintings and video installations produced during the the Istanbul Residency Program funded by Fonds BKVB.
Monday, March 26, 2007
2004 Platform Resident: Wael Shawky
Wael Shawky
The Forty Days Road. Wet Culture – Dry Culture
23 march 2007 - 22 april 2007
Curator: Anna Smolak
Wael Shawky’s exhibition, entitled The Forty Days Road. Wet Culture – Dry Culture, is the third part of the Transculture project. This time Bunkier Sztuki will present an artist who, being from Egypt, does not belong to European culture circle. What is more, he did not experience emigration, which was typical of other artists invited to take part in Transculture.
Detailed information is here
Bunkier Sztuki
pl. Szczepański 3a, 31-011 Kraków,
tel.: (+48/12) 422 40 21, 422 10 52
fax: (+48/12) 422 83 03
bunkier@bunkier.com.pl
Friday, March 23, 2007
2006 Platform Resident: Juul Hondius
Layers
Galerie Akıncı
Istanbul background
Lijnbaansgracht 317
1017 WZ Amsterdam
tel:+31(0)20 6380480
info@akinci.nl
March 24 - April 21 2007
Juul Hondius is showing at Galerie Akinci a series of photographs he made during his stay in Istanbul last year. Hondius went to Istanbul for an artist-in-residency period at Platform Garanti CAC. In June 2007 this series will also be exhibited at Platform Garanti in Istanbul. The project has been realised with the financial support of the Fonds BKVB in Amsterdam.
These photo works of Juul Hondius approach places in Istanbul by revealing detailed information about locations without showing them. He is referring to classical methods of studio photography. Similar to a film director Hondius composes his sets creating the conditions for the photographic moment. All photographs are taken in the outside space and focus on people on travel. The city is reduced to a background for people who move around in it and whose identity and status are enigmatic.
Juul Hondius’ photographs can be related to documentary photography. The men and women on his photographs seem to be frozen in a ‘moving environment’: they are mostly placed in vehicles. Hondius creates a mise en scène which comes close to reality. But this is one aspect. The most important thing in this photo series forms the dramatic moment. The protagonists of his photographs seem to have fixed their gaze on something they see in a distance or somebody they seem to communicate with. They seem to be confronting a decisive moment.
Recent shows: Huis Marseille in 2002, participation at the Busan Biennial, South Korea in 2004; Oponthoud, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 2004; Harmless in Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam in 2004, InSight, Chicago Art Instiute in 2005; Paranoia, Leeds City Art Institute, Leeds in 2006, Maison de la Photographie, Paris in 2006.
In 2007 exhibitions are planned in Platform Garanti Istanbul, Tate Liverpool Museum and in the Institut Néerlandais in Paris.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Mobility: How do residencies affect artistic production?
Tendencies in time: Iaspis series of seminars on production, presentation and preservation of contemporary art continues
Part 6 Mobility: How do residencies affect artistic production?
Friday 23 March, 6-9 pm
Marabouparken, Vasagatan 4A, Sundbyberg-STOCKHOLM
Participants: Lisi Raskin (Brooklyn/New York), artist; Julieta Aranda (New Mexico/New York/Berlin), artist, Berlin; Martin Gustavsson, (London/Stockholm), artist and Chus Martinez (Bilbao / Frankfurt), director Frankfurter Kunstverein.
Moderator: Adnan Yildiz (Istanbul/Stockholm), artist and curator.
The relationship between international residencies and artists as travellers is at the core of this seminar. The life style of today's artists is often similar to that of the nomad; artists' careers are no longer deeply-rooted in nationality but may be regarded as rootless. Artists can move to specific places where the work continues, just like journalists or explorers who make expeditions in order to study new cultures and places. In this way, artists are ascribed an idea which has been lying latent in the colonial world view, in which the subject is separated from the object, north from south. Can artists be held responsible for the complex of colonial problems that arises from the short stays in cultures that are unknown to individual artists? What function do residencies have in this discussion, and what function should they have?
Tendencies in time continues to trace and discuss current tendencies in the production, presentation and preservation of contemporary art, as regards both Swedish and international developments. What these key
discussions share is that they all have palpable effects on artistic practice, as well as on how art is made publicly accessible. Several of these tendencies are completely new, while others are recast in new forms, and some have been known for a long time. Today's conventional knowledge systems have become inefficient in at the same time managing and probing contemporary art's new alliances with politics, business, bureaucracy and mass media. In order to discuss this some of the most inspiring people of the international art scene have been invited to Stockholm. Each seminar will be contextually located in an institution particularly pertinent to the issues raised. During the spring of 2007 the hosting institutions will be Liljevalchs Konsthall, Magasin 3 and Marabouparken.
Part 6 Mobility: How do residencies affect artistic production?
Friday 23 March, 6-9 pm
Marabouparken, Vasagatan 4A, Sundbyberg-STOCKHOLM
Participants: Lisi Raskin (Brooklyn/New York), artist; Julieta Aranda (New Mexico/New York/Berlin), artist, Berlin; Martin Gustavsson, (London/Stockholm), artist and Chus Martinez (Bilbao / Frankfurt), director Frankfurter Kunstverein.
Moderator: Adnan Yildiz (Istanbul/Stockholm), artist and curator.
The relationship between international residencies and artists as travellers is at the core of this seminar. The life style of today's artists is often similar to that of the nomad; artists' careers are no longer deeply-rooted in nationality but may be regarded as rootless. Artists can move to specific places where the work continues, just like journalists or explorers who make expeditions in order to study new cultures and places. In this way, artists are ascribed an idea which has been lying latent in the colonial world view, in which the subject is separated from the object, north from south. Can artists be held responsible for the complex of colonial problems that arises from the short stays in cultures that are unknown to individual artists? What function do residencies have in this discussion, and what function should they have?
Tendencies in time continues to trace and discuss current tendencies in the production, presentation and preservation of contemporary art, as regards both Swedish and international developments. What these key
discussions share is that they all have palpable effects on artistic practice, as well as on how art is made publicly accessible. Several of these tendencies are completely new, while others are recast in new forms, and some have been known for a long time. Today's conventional knowledge systems have become inefficient in at the same time managing and probing contemporary art's new alliances with politics, business, bureaucracy and mass media. In order to discuss this some of the most inspiring people of the international art scene have been invited to Stockholm. Each seminar will be contextually located in an institution particularly pertinent to the issues raised. During the spring of 2007 the hosting institutions will be Liljevalchs Konsthall, Magasin 3 and Marabouparken.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Açık Atölye, 22 Mart Perşembe, 13:00 - 18:00
Platform'un İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) sanatçı ve eleştirmenleri; Vahram Aghasyan, Bik van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik ve Jos van der Pol), Oda Projesi, Sezgin Boynik, Ayguerim Issabek, Aura Seikkula, Helene Sommer ve Katarina Zdjelar 22 Mart Perşembe günü saat 13:00 - 18:00 arasında atölyelerini ziyaretçilere açıyor. Katarina Zdjelar, aynı gün 18:30'da konuşma yapacak.
İMP Katılımcıları
Vahram Aghasyan: 1974’de Ermenistan’da dogan Vahram Aghasyan, 1999’da Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts’dan yuksek lisans derecesi aldi. Avrupa'da bir çok grup sergisine katilan sanatcinin isleri 2005 yilinda Venedik Bienali’nde, Ermenistan Pavyonu’nunda sergilendi. Ayni yil ACCEA (Erivan, Ermenistan)’da “Ghost City” isimli kisisel sergisini acti. Halen Lyon’da Musee d’art Contemporain’de devam eden ‘Ermenistan’dan Guncel Video Sanatı’ adlı serginin ve İstanbul’da Feshane-i Amire’de devam etmekte olan ‘Komşular Söyleşiyor’ adlı serginin katılımcılarındandır. Aghasyan isleri hakkinda soyle diyor: “Ermenistan’da belki de Sovyetler Birliği’nden kalan en belirgin miras, modern mimaridir. Bazı bölgelerdeki Sovyet inşaatları halen bitmemiş halde durmakta. Video enstelasyonlarımda ve dijital fotoğraflarımda bu bölgeleri inceleyip yerel modernliğin sosyal gorünümünü ortaya koymaktayim.”
OSI (Open Society Institute) destegiyle
Bik Van der Pol: Liesbeth Bik ve Jos van der Pol, 1995’ten bu yana Bik Van der Pol adı altında beraber çalışıyorlar. Isleri, bilgi ve tarihe ait sorular yardımıyla hafizanin yeniden canlandirilmasi uzerine yogunlasiyor. Bu sekilde, cevremizdeki durumlara ait yenilikci bir soylem gelistirmeyi amacliyorlar.
İslevsellik, kullanılabilirlik ve mekansal duyarlılık ile baglantili isleri, yerel düzeyde bir diyalog gelistirmekle ilgileniyor. Noksan olanı eklemeyi, karanlıkta kalanı öne çıkarmayı ve saklamaktansa görünür kilmayi hedefliyorlar. Çalışma metodu olarak işbirliğini kullaniyor, farklı düşünme şekillerini içinde barındıran platformlar oluşturmayı hedefliyorlar.
FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture) destegiyle
Sezgin Boynik: 1977’de Kosova’da dogan Sezgin Boynik, Istanbul’da sosyoloji egitimi aldi ve “ Situasyonist Enternasyonel’in Estetik ve Politik Stratejileri” uzerine tezini hazirladi. Pristina’da Oryantalizm ve Türkiye Çalışmaları bolumunde ders vermekte, Arta dergisinde editorluk yapmakta ve 1960-70’lerde Yugoslavya’daki baskici rejime karsi direnis stratejileri, radikal politikalar gibi konular uzerine yazmaktadir. Sosyolojik ve politik konular disinda, muzik dergileri ve fanzinlere de yazar olarak katkida bulunmaktadir. Chapa Churek isimli bir muzik grubunun da kurucusudur. Şu anda ACF (American Center Foundation) destegi ile 1968-1988 arasında İstanbul’da Punk Underground” aktivitlerini temel alan bir kitap hazırlamaktadır. Bu kitap sanatci Banu Cennetoglu’nun kurdugu, sanatci kitaplari uzerine yogunlasan BAS tarafından Haziran ayında yayınlanacaktır.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Aigerim Issabekova: 1983’de Kazakistan’da dogan Aigerim Issabekova, Karaganda Sanat Okulu’ndan mezun oldu. 2004-2005 yillari arasinda yine ayni okulda fotograf ve video uzerine egitim aldi. 2004 yilinda Karaganda Sanat Muzesi’nde genc sanatcilarin katildigi “03” ve “New Mythology” isimli iki sergiye video ve fotograf isleriyle katildi. Acik Atolye’de gosterecegi videosu ‘Shadows are afraid of Darkness” (Golgeler Karanliktan Korkar), gorevi golgeleri korumak olan bir erkek cocugunun hikayesini anlatiyor.
OSI (Open Society Institute) destegiyle
Oda Projesi: 2000 yılında kurulan sanatçı inisiyatifi Oda Projesi, 2005 yılına kadar Galata Şahkulu Sokak’ta yer alan bir dairede faaliyetlerini devam ettirdi ve projelerinde bu mahallede yaşayanlarla uzun soluklu bir ilişki içinde sanat üretimlerine devam etti. 9. Uluslararası İstanbul Bienali’ne bir kitap projesiyle katılan Oda Projesi, Açık Atölye’de işlerinden örnekler sunacak.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Aura Seikkula: 1977 doğumlu Aura Seikkula aktivist ve kuratör olarak calismakta. Finlandiya Fotoğraf Müzesi'nin kuratörlugu yaninda The European Economic and Social Committee'nin Brüksel'deki sergi programinin ve Mali'deki Afrika Fotoğraf Bienali'nin ulusal bölümünün kuratorlüğünü yapmakta.
Seikkula'nın uluslararası STK aktivistliği geçmişinin kuratoryel uygulamalarında büyük bir rolü var. Rethinking Nordic Colonialism. A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006, NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art), Public Opinion (2005 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art), Media & Politics (2005 Finnish Academy of fine Arts), ipeg.Bild.Ton.Maschine (2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien). gibi birçok uluslararası ve disiplinlerarasi serginin hazirlanis surecinde kurator ve organizasyon boyutunda yer almıştır.
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange) destegiyle
Helene Sommer: 1978 yilinda Oslo’da dogan Helene Sommer, Oslo ve Berlin’de yasamakta ve calismakta. 2003 yilinda National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo’dan mezun olan sanatci, Paris, Berlin, Oslo’da grup sergilerine katildi. 2005 yilinda IASPIS (Isvec)’te misafir programinda bulunan Sommer, Platform Garanti’den sonra 2007-2009 yillari arasinda Akademie Schloss Solitude (Almanya)’daki uluslararasi misafir programina katilacak.
Sommer isleri hakkinda soyle diyor: “Birçok çalışmam doğanın, üretim ekonomisini oluşturan ve etkileyen, algılanması yanında nakleden yapısının-politik, bilimsel, medyatik bazda- öyküsel bir bakış ile sunumunu içeriyor. Benim ilgi alanım, bu geniş kapsamlı konunun evrensellik, gerçeklik duygusu ve bu benzer konuların değişmez işbirliğinin arzusu; toplumu nasıl etkilediği ve ilham verdiği üzerine. Video, fotoğraf, enstalasyon, metin gibi birçok araç ile çalışıyorum ve İstanbul’da da yeni bir proje üzerine yoğunlaşmayı amacliyorum.”
OCA (Office for Contemporary Art, Norvec) desteğiyle
Katarina Zdjelar: Katarina Zdjelar (Belgrad, 1979) Rotterdam kökenli bir sanatçıdır. Sanatçının son donem isleri arasinda "There Is No Is", (video, 2006); "Untitled as Mrs. Laker" (ses, 2006); "Ooo!", (video, 2007) bulunmaktadir. Gerceklestirdigi kisisel sergiler ve projeler arasinda: "Working Progress. Open call for a closed meeting", tartışma, Platform Garanti, Güncel Sanat Merkezi, Istanbul (2007), Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2006), ve HWW Rotterdam (2005) bulunmaktadir. "Paranoia", Freud Museum, Londra (2007); "Beauty Unrealized", PSWAR, Amsterdam (2006); "AudioLab", IAO Gallery, Montreal (2006) son donemde katildigi grup sergileri arasindadir.
"Son yıllarda, dil ile nasıl başa çıktığımızı; dilin şifrelenebilen ve çözülebilen bir olgu olarak, dil kodları ve konuşma yeteneğinin fiziksel boyutu arasında nasıl arabuluculuk rolü oynadığını araştıran bir dizi proje ile ilgilenmektedir. Zdjelar ayrıca dilin konuşma anında vücudumuzu biçimlendirdiğini, bizi topluluklar haline getirip birleştirme, uzaklaştırma ve yakınlaştırma işlevini araştırmaktadır. (Steve Rushton'ın yazısından alıntı).
İMP Katılımcıları
Vahram Aghasyan: 1974’de Ermenistan’da dogan Vahram Aghasyan, 1999’da Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts’dan yuksek lisans derecesi aldi. Avrupa'da bir çok grup sergisine katilan sanatcinin isleri 2005 yilinda Venedik Bienali’nde, Ermenistan Pavyonu’nunda sergilendi. Ayni yil ACCEA (Erivan, Ermenistan)’da “Ghost City” isimli kisisel sergisini acti. Halen Lyon’da Musee d’art Contemporain’de devam eden ‘Ermenistan’dan Guncel Video Sanatı’ adlı serginin ve İstanbul’da Feshane-i Amire’de devam etmekte olan ‘Komşular Söyleşiyor’ adlı serginin katılımcılarındandır. Aghasyan isleri hakkinda soyle diyor: “Ermenistan’da belki de Sovyetler Birliği’nden kalan en belirgin miras, modern mimaridir. Bazı bölgelerdeki Sovyet inşaatları halen bitmemiş halde durmakta. Video enstelasyonlarımda ve dijital fotoğraflarımda bu bölgeleri inceleyip yerel modernliğin sosyal gorünümünü ortaya koymaktayim.”
OSI (Open Society Institute) destegiyle
Bik Van der Pol: Liesbeth Bik ve Jos van der Pol, 1995’ten bu yana Bik Van der Pol adı altında beraber çalışıyorlar. Isleri, bilgi ve tarihe ait sorular yardımıyla hafizanin yeniden canlandirilmasi uzerine yogunlasiyor. Bu sekilde, cevremizdeki durumlara ait yenilikci bir soylem gelistirmeyi amacliyorlar.
İslevsellik, kullanılabilirlik ve mekansal duyarlılık ile baglantili isleri, yerel düzeyde bir diyalog gelistirmekle ilgileniyor. Noksan olanı eklemeyi, karanlıkta kalanı öne çıkarmayı ve saklamaktansa görünür kilmayi hedefliyorlar. Çalışma metodu olarak işbirliğini kullaniyor, farklı düşünme şekillerini içinde barındıran platformlar oluşturmayı hedefliyorlar.
FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture) destegiyle
Sezgin Boynik: 1977’de Kosova’da dogan Sezgin Boynik, Istanbul’da sosyoloji egitimi aldi ve “ Situasyonist Enternasyonel’in Estetik ve Politik Stratejileri” uzerine tezini hazirladi. Pristina’da Oryantalizm ve Türkiye Çalışmaları bolumunde ders vermekte, Arta dergisinde editorluk yapmakta ve 1960-70’lerde Yugoslavya’daki baskici rejime karsi direnis stratejileri, radikal politikalar gibi konular uzerine yazmaktadir. Sosyolojik ve politik konular disinda, muzik dergileri ve fanzinlere de yazar olarak katkida bulunmaktadir. Chapa Churek isimli bir muzik grubunun da kurucusudur. Şu anda ACF (American Center Foundation) destegi ile 1968-1988 arasında İstanbul’da Punk Underground” aktivitlerini temel alan bir kitap hazırlamaktadır. Bu kitap sanatci Banu Cennetoglu’nun kurdugu, sanatci kitaplari uzerine yogunlasan BAS tarafından Haziran ayında yayınlanacaktır.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Aigerim Issabekova: 1983’de Kazakistan’da dogan Aigerim Issabekova, Karaganda Sanat Okulu’ndan mezun oldu. 2004-2005 yillari arasinda yine ayni okulda fotograf ve video uzerine egitim aldi. 2004 yilinda Karaganda Sanat Muzesi’nde genc sanatcilarin katildigi “03” ve “New Mythology” isimli iki sergiye video ve fotograf isleriyle katildi. Acik Atolye’de gosterecegi videosu ‘Shadows are afraid of Darkness” (Golgeler Karanliktan Korkar), gorevi golgeleri korumak olan bir erkek cocugunun hikayesini anlatiyor.
OSI (Open Society Institute) destegiyle
Oda Projesi: 2000 yılında kurulan sanatçı inisiyatifi Oda Projesi, 2005 yılına kadar Galata Şahkulu Sokak’ta yer alan bir dairede faaliyetlerini devam ettirdi ve projelerinde bu mahallede yaşayanlarla uzun soluklu bir ilişki içinde sanat üretimlerine devam etti. 9. Uluslararası İstanbul Bienali’ne bir kitap projesiyle katılan Oda Projesi, Açık Atölye’de işlerinden örnekler sunacak.
Platform Garanti desteğiyle
Aura Seikkula: 1977 doğumlu Aura Seikkula aktivist ve kuratör olarak calismakta. Finlandiya Fotoğraf Müzesi'nin kuratörlugu yaninda The European Economic and Social Committee'nin Brüksel'deki sergi programinin ve Mali'deki Afrika Fotoğraf Bienali'nin ulusal bölümünün kuratorlüğünü yapmakta.
Seikkula'nın uluslararası STK aktivistliği geçmişinin kuratoryel uygulamalarında büyük bir rolü var. Rethinking Nordic Colonialism. A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006, NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art), Public Opinion (2005 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art), Media & Politics (2005 Finnish Academy of fine Arts), ipeg.Bild.Ton.Maschine (2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien). gibi birçok uluslararası ve disiplinlerarasi serginin hazirlanis surecinde kurator ve organizasyon boyutunda yer almıştır.
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange) destegiyle
Helene Sommer: 1978 yilinda Oslo’da dogan Helene Sommer, Oslo ve Berlin’de yasamakta ve calismakta. 2003 yilinda National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo’dan mezun olan sanatci, Paris, Berlin, Oslo’da grup sergilerine katildi. 2005 yilinda IASPIS (Isvec)’te misafir programinda bulunan Sommer, Platform Garanti’den sonra 2007-2009 yillari arasinda Akademie Schloss Solitude (Almanya)’daki uluslararasi misafir programina katilacak.
Sommer isleri hakkinda soyle diyor: “Birçok çalışmam doğanın, üretim ekonomisini oluşturan ve etkileyen, algılanması yanında nakleden yapısının-politik, bilimsel, medyatik bazda- öyküsel bir bakış ile sunumunu içeriyor. Benim ilgi alanım, bu geniş kapsamlı konunun evrensellik, gerçeklik duygusu ve bu benzer konuların değişmez işbirliğinin arzusu; toplumu nasıl etkilediği ve ilham verdiği üzerine. Video, fotoğraf, enstalasyon, metin gibi birçok araç ile çalışıyorum ve İstanbul’da da yeni bir proje üzerine yoğunlaşmayı amacliyorum.”
OCA (Office for Contemporary Art, Norvec) desteğiyle
Katarina Zdjelar: Katarina Zdjelar (Belgrad, 1979) Rotterdam kökenli bir sanatçıdır. Sanatçının son donem isleri arasinda "There Is No Is", (video, 2006); "Untitled as Mrs. Laker" (ses, 2006); "Ooo!", (video, 2007) bulunmaktadir. Gerceklestirdigi kisisel sergiler ve projeler arasinda: "Working Progress. Open call for a closed meeting", tartışma, Platform Garanti, Güncel Sanat Merkezi, Istanbul (2007), Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2006), ve HWW Rotterdam (2005) bulunmaktadir. "Paranoia", Freud Museum, Londra (2007); "Beauty Unrealized", PSWAR, Amsterdam (2006); "AudioLab", IAO Gallery, Montreal (2006) son donemde katildigi grup sergileri arasindadir.
"Son yıllarda, dil ile nasıl başa çıktığımızı; dilin şifrelenebilen ve çözülebilen bir olgu olarak, dil kodları ve konuşma yeteneğinin fiziksel boyutu arasında nasıl arabuluculuk rolü oynadığını araştıran bir dizi proje ile ilgilenmektedir. Zdjelar ayrıca dilin konuşma anında vücudumuzu biçimlendirdiğini, bizi topluluklar haline getirip birleştirme, uzaklaştırma ve yakınlaştırma işlevini araştırmaktadır. (Steve Rushton'ın yazısından alıntı).
Summer Seminars for Art Curators
World of Art - School of Contemporary Arts
Between Exposition and Mediation
July 23-August 7, 2007, Yerevan, Armenia
The 2007 summer seminars and the workshop for art curators will center on the relation of the art critic and curator on the one hand and curator-artist on the other, in the face of globalization/westernization of the art market and big exhibitions; i. e. biennales, art fairs and festivals as one of the outcomes of these processes that have penetrated into former socialist countries since the mid-1990's. The program will focus on curating as a critical practice, and particularly, the curator as someone who combines the management of relations (artist-curator, artist-critics and artist-society) with the function of evaluation. We will discuss historically and culturally unique art events and practices where the curator combining the roles of a presenter and a critic has chosen different strategies of display and mediation.
The summer seminars' program 2007 is organized by the National Association of Art Critics (NAAC) in collaboration with SCCA-Ljubljana, Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Alma Aty and BM Center for Contemporary Art, Istanbul.
The deadline for submitting applications is April 15, 2007.
National Association of Art Critics, Summer School 2007:
Between Exposition and Mediation
July 23-August 7, 2007, Yerevan, Armenia
The 2007 summer seminars and the workshop for art curators will center on the relation of the art critic and curator on the one hand and curator-artist on the other, in the face of globalization/westernization of the art market and big exhibitions; i. e. biennales, art fairs and festivals as one of the outcomes of these processes that have penetrated into former socialist countries since the mid-1990's. The program will focus on curating as a critical practice, and particularly, the curator as someone who combines the management of relations (artist-curator, artist-critics and artist-society) with the function of evaluation. We will discuss historically and culturally unique art events and practices where the curator combining the roles of a presenter and a critic has chosen different strategies of display and mediation.
The summer seminars' program 2007 is organized by the National Association of Art Critics (NAAC) in collaboration with SCCA-Ljubljana, Soros Center for Contemporary Art - Alma Aty and BM Center for Contemporary Art, Istanbul.
The deadline for submitting applications is April 15, 2007.
National Association of Art Critics, Summer School 2007:
Friday, February 09, 2007
"Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting "
Deadline Today!
Katarina Zdjelar and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center cordially invite you to participate in the forthcoming discussion session of "Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting " initiated by Katarina Zdjelar.
Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting is a series of semi-public discussions initiated by Katarina Zdjelar. Zdjelar is interested in the incidental or potential transfer and exchange of
knowledge that occurs within a group of individuals who come together around a shared subject of interest. Instead of offering an artwork about universality in culture, language and cultural translation, the audience is invited to participate in a discussion on this topic while this discussion, in itself, involves a negotiation of language and translation between the participants. The starting point for the joint discussions is a text "Universality in culture" by Judith Butler, which is sent to the participants who sign up for one of the discussions in advance. There is no additional audience but everyone participate.
Please note that the number of participants is limited. Therefore the reservation is essential. Please sign up for a session by sending an email to: platformgaranti.gsm@gmail.com Upon your confirmation of participation the text for the discussion will be send to you. Please note that working language is English.
Deadline for signing up is February 9.
Location: Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istiklal Caddesi
276, Beyoglu, Istanbul
Date & time: Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 19h
Katarina Zdjelar (Belgrade, 1979) is an artist based in Rotterdam. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include: Being Here Two, a video screening curated by Katarina Zdjelar, TENT., Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam (2006), Back to Back by Heart, Mirta Demare gallery,
Rotterdam (2006); Would that be alright with you if I bring my cat along, Hedah, Centre for Contemporary Art Maastricht (2006), Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2006), HWW Rotterdam (2005). Recent group exhibitions include: Paranoia, Freud Museum, London (2007); Beauty Unrealized,
PSWAR, Amsterdam (2006); AudioLab, IAO Gallery, Montreal (2006);Wherein certain persons , TENT., Center for Visual Art, Rotterdam (2006);The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA(2006); Rotterdam (inter)national,
Artstore, Rotterdam(2006); Paranoia, Leeds City Arts Gallery, Leeds (2006); Paranoia, Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2006); Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam (2005); Belgrade in the Past and Present, Prodajna Galerija Beograd, Belgrade (2005); Relocated Identities I:
Overexposure, PSWAR, Amsterdam (2005); Think performance, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade (2005); and Untitled (As Yet), VI Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac & Belgrade (2004). She also contributed to the publication Black Friday, Revolver Books, Frankfurt (2005); and is co-editor, with Renée Ridgway, of Another Project, a book project (published by the Piet Zwart Institute and Revolver), an exhibition and series of symposiums (forthcoming 2007, Casco Projects, Utrecht and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade).
Katarina Zdjelar is currently artist in residence at Platform Garanti.
Katarina Zdjelar and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center cordially invite you to participate in the forthcoming discussion session of "Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting " initiated by Katarina Zdjelar.
Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting is a series of semi-public discussions initiated by Katarina Zdjelar. Zdjelar is interested in the incidental or potential transfer and exchange of
knowledge that occurs within a group of individuals who come together around a shared subject of interest. Instead of offering an artwork about universality in culture, language and cultural translation, the audience is invited to participate in a discussion on this topic while this discussion, in itself, involves a negotiation of language and translation between the participants. The starting point for the joint discussions is a text "Universality in culture" by Judith Butler, which is sent to the participants who sign up for one of the discussions in advance. There is no additional audience but everyone participate.
Please note that the number of participants is limited. Therefore the reservation is essential. Please sign up for a session by sending an email to: platformgaranti.gsm@gmail.com Upon your confirmation of participation the text for the discussion will be send to you. Please note that working language is English.
Deadline for signing up is February 9.
Location: Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istiklal Caddesi
276, Beyoglu, Istanbul
Date & time: Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 19h
Katarina Zdjelar (Belgrade, 1979) is an artist based in Rotterdam. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include: Being Here Two, a video screening curated by Katarina Zdjelar, TENT., Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam (2006), Back to Back by Heart, Mirta Demare gallery,
Rotterdam (2006); Would that be alright with you if I bring my cat along, Hedah, Centre for Contemporary Art Maastricht (2006), Workin Progress. Open call for a closed meeting, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2006), HWW Rotterdam (2005). Recent group exhibitions include: Paranoia, Freud Museum, London (2007); Beauty Unrealized,
PSWAR, Amsterdam (2006); AudioLab, IAO Gallery, Montreal (2006);Wherein certain persons , TENT., Center for Visual Art, Rotterdam (2006);The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA(2006); Rotterdam (inter)national,
Artstore, Rotterdam(2006); Paranoia, Leeds City Arts Gallery, Leeds (2006); Paranoia, Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2006); Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam (2005); Belgrade in the Past and Present, Prodajna Galerija Beograd, Belgrade (2005); Relocated Identities I:
Overexposure, PSWAR, Amsterdam (2005); Think performance, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade (2005); and Untitled (As Yet), VI Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac & Belgrade (2004). She also contributed to the publication Black Friday, Revolver Books, Frankfurt (2005); and is co-editor, with Renée Ridgway, of Another Project, a book project (published by the Piet Zwart Institute and Revolver), an exhibition and series of symposiums (forthcoming 2007, Casco Projects, Utrecht and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade).
Katarina Zdjelar is currently artist in residence at Platform Garanti.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Platform at U3, Ljubljana
5th Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Art
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
28 December 2006 – 4 March 2007
The presentations of various artist-in-residence programmes by the representatives of international art institutions, centers, organisations and networks continue:
Tuesday, 30 January, 6 p.m.: Pavel Smetana / Ciant, CZ; Frederique Gobert / Triangle, FR; Horst Hoertner, Christopher Lindinger / Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT
Wednesday, 31 January, 6 p.m.: Minna Henriksson / Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, TR; Ieva Auzina / RIXC - Riga Center for New Media Culture, LV; Marta de Menezes / Gulbenkian Institute for Science, PT
Thursday, 1 February, 6 p.m.: Noel Kelly / Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, IR; Nicola Triscott / Arts Catalyst, UK; Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol, SI
Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
28 December 2006 – 4 March 2007
The presentations of various artist-in-residence programmes by the representatives of international art institutions, centers, organisations and networks continue:
Tuesday, 30 January, 6 p.m.: Pavel Smetana / Ciant, CZ; Frederique Gobert / Triangle, FR; Horst Hoertner, Christopher Lindinger / Ars Electronica Futurelab, AT
Wednesday, 31 January, 6 p.m.: Minna Henriksson / Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, TR; Ieva Auzina / RIXC - Riga Center for New Media Culture, LV; Marta de Menezes / Gulbenkian Institute for Science, PT
Thursday, 1 February, 6 p.m.: Noel Kelly / Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, IR; Nicola Triscott / Arts Catalyst, UK; Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol, SI
Monday, October 30, 2006
PROJECTIONS
Platform Resident (2006) Katleen Vermeir at
PROJECTIONS
MUSEE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL
November 1st - December 1st / 2006
Sylvie Laliberte
Manon de Pauw
Pipilotti Rist
Althea Thauberger
Katleen Vermeir
PROJECTIONS
MUSEE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL
November 1st - December 1st / 2006
Sylvie Laliberte
Manon de Pauw
Pipilotti Rist
Althea Thauberger
Katleen Vermeir
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Power Ekroth
İstanbul Misafirleri Programı’ndan [2004] Power Ekroth, 2002 yazında Gift of Gab adlı sergisini yaptığımız Gabriel Lester ve gene IMP’den Johan Thurfjell’in katıldıkları [2004] Skellefteå Konsthall, İsveç’te In Moment adlı bir sergi açıyor. Sergideki diğer sanatçılar Pierre Bismuth ve Clemens von Wedemeyer.
Power Ekroth is an independent curator and writer as well as an editor of the magazine SITE. She is a contributor to Artforum.com, Contemporary, Flash Art and frieze. She was one of the collaborating curators for the Expanded Painting section of this years Prague Biennial 2, and was the curator of the Scandinavian pavilion of the biennial of Artist's Book Biennial in the Library of Alexandria in 2004.
Power Ekroth is an independent curator and writer as well as an editor of the magazine SITE. She is a contributor to Artforum.com, Contemporary, Flash Art and frieze. She was one of the collaborating curators for the Expanded Painting section of this years Prague Biennial 2, and was the curator of the Scandinavian pavilion of the biennial of Artist's Book Biennial in the Library of Alexandria in 2004.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Istanbul Misafirleri Programı sanatçılarımızdan Christodoulos Panayiotou Museum of Modern Art, Oxford'da. Panayiotou'nun bir işi The Marmara Taksim'de Yama'nın Projesinde sergilenmişti.
Christodoulos Panayiotou crafts concise videos out of ephemeral situations. The artist presents Truly, a sensuous video and sound installation that suggests dramatic encounters and offers a beguiling invitation to dance. During the last week of the exhibition Panayiotou fills the space with a new sound work, Prologue: Quoting Absence based on a recorded conversation in July 2006 between four Oxford thinkers. Born in 1978, Christodoulos Panayiotou is based in Limassol, Cyprus. In 2005 he was awarded the DESTE Prize for Contemporary Art.
Christodoulos Panayiotou crafts concise videos out of ephemeral situations. The artist presents Truly, a sensuous video and sound installation that suggests dramatic encounters and offers a beguiling invitation to dance. During the last week of the exhibition Panayiotou fills the space with a new sound work, Prologue: Quoting Absence based on a recorded conversation in July 2006 between four Oxford thinkers. Born in 1978, Christodoulos Panayiotou is based in Limassol, Cyprus. In 2005 he was awarded the DESTE Prize for Contemporary Art.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
ARRIVALS>CYPRUS: Christodoulos Panayiotou
ARRIVALS>CYPRUS: Christodoulos Panayiotou
Modern Art Oxford
25 July to 9 September 2006
Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou crafts concise videos out of ephemeral situations. For ARRIVALS>CYPRUS at Modern Art Oxford the artist presents Truly, 2005, a sensuous video and sound installation in which water fountains spray jets of pure colour and fighter planes sketch vapour-trail hearts in a clear blue sky. Set to an enticing sound track, the work suggests dramatic encounters and offers a beguiling invitation to dance.
The exhibition also includes a new work by Panayiotou based on the classical structure of Prologue, Exposition and Epilogue. The Prologue: Quoting Absence is presented for the first time within the framework of ARRIVALS>CYPRUS. A recording of a conversation between four Oxford-based scholars and thinkers, from the fields of science, philosophy, arts and theology, on the theme of absence will be played on a four-channel system in the gallery space, replacing the presentation of Truly during the last week of the exhibition. The transcript of this recording will be produced as a book.
“Christodoulos Panayiotou is an artist who incisively explores the complex interconnections between our most innate desires and their cultural constructions…At once ironic yet tender, analytic but deeply felt, his work is that of a savvy cultural consumer who is not afraid – every now and then – to fall for the very romantic myths and pop productions he so deftly probes” 4th Deste Prize Jury Committee.
The DESTE Prize Jury Committee members are: Dakis Joannou – President, DESTE Foundation, Nicolas Bourriaud – Director, Palais de Tokyo, Urs Fischer – Artist, Pauline Karpidas – Collector and Scott Rothkopf – Senior Editor ARTFORUM.
Christodoulos Panayiotou is the sixth artist to feature in ARRIVALS>NEW ART FROM THE EU, a series of ten exhibitions over two years at Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary, Margate introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union.
The corresponding exhibition at Turner Contemporary is a new installation by Nikos Charalambidis, 29 July to 10 September 2006 (opening preview Friday 28 July). Please call +44 (0)1843 297899 for more information.
Ends
For press enquiries about ARRIVALS>CYPRUS please call Sara Dewsbery on +44 (0)1865 813813 or email sara.dewsbery@modernartoxford.org.uk
Note to Editors
Christodoulous Panayiotou was born in Limassol on the south-east coast of Cyprus in 1978. He trained in dance and performing arts in Lyon and in London. His finely tuned videos and sculptural installations are the result of carefully orchestrated yet ephemeral situations, generally involving the collaboration of others. He is especially interested in what he describes as “the amorous dialectic” – the contradictions of love and its associations with romantic myth and sentimentality.
His solo shows and performances include Slow dance marathon, Central Square of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv (2006), Christodoulos Panayiotou Video Works, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Umjetnicka Galerija), Sarajevo (2006), Slow dance marathon, Residency of the Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki (2005) Forever is gonna start tonight, Medieval Castle of Limassol, Limassol and You make me feel brand new, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (2004).
Group exhibitions include (selected) While we were sleeping, Platform-Garanti, Istanbul (2006) Sunday, The Gesture, Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, 4th DESTE Prize, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Accidental Meetings, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Nicosia (2005), HyperLinks, Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Bodyworks, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, 20 Rooms (St. George Lycabettus Hotel), Kappatos Gallery, Athens (2004). Panayiotou is currently in residence at Platform-Garanti in Istanbul. ARRIVALS>CYPRUS is the first exhibition of his work in the UK.
Panayiotou completed an MA/ MAITRISE in Performing Arts (Dance Department) / Arts du spectacle, University of Surrey, 2001-2003 / Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, receiving a scholarship from the French Government and the EU, and Dance Studies at the London Contemporary Dance School, 2001-2002. In 2005 Panayiotou was awarded the 4th DESTE Prize by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece for Truly, 2005.
Modern Art Oxford
25 July to 9 September 2006
Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou crafts concise videos out of ephemeral situations. For ARRIVALS>CYPRUS at Modern Art Oxford the artist presents Truly, 2005, a sensuous video and sound installation in which water fountains spray jets of pure colour and fighter planes sketch vapour-trail hearts in a clear blue sky. Set to an enticing sound track, the work suggests dramatic encounters and offers a beguiling invitation to dance.
The exhibition also includes a new work by Panayiotou based on the classical structure of Prologue, Exposition and Epilogue. The Prologue: Quoting Absence is presented for the first time within the framework of ARRIVALS>CYPRUS. A recording of a conversation between four Oxford-based scholars and thinkers, from the fields of science, philosophy, arts and theology, on the theme of absence will be played on a four-channel system in the gallery space, replacing the presentation of Truly during the last week of the exhibition. The transcript of this recording will be produced as a book.
“Christodoulos Panayiotou is an artist who incisively explores the complex interconnections between our most innate desires and their cultural constructions…At once ironic yet tender, analytic but deeply felt, his work is that of a savvy cultural consumer who is not afraid – every now and then – to fall for the very romantic myths and pop productions he so deftly probes” 4th Deste Prize Jury Committee.
The DESTE Prize Jury Committee members are: Dakis Joannou – President, DESTE Foundation, Nicolas Bourriaud – Director, Palais de Tokyo, Urs Fischer – Artist, Pauline Karpidas – Collector and Scott Rothkopf – Senior Editor ARTFORUM.
Christodoulos Panayiotou is the sixth artist to feature in ARRIVALS>NEW ART FROM THE EU, a series of ten exhibitions over two years at Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary, Margate introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union.
The corresponding exhibition at Turner Contemporary is a new installation by Nikos Charalambidis, 29 July to 10 September 2006 (opening preview Friday 28 July). Please call +44 (0)1843 297899 for more information.
Ends
For press enquiries about ARRIVALS>CYPRUS please call Sara Dewsbery on +44 (0)1865 813813 or email sara.dewsbery@modernartoxford.org.uk
Note to Editors
Christodoulous Panayiotou was born in Limassol on the south-east coast of Cyprus in 1978. He trained in dance and performing arts in Lyon and in London. His finely tuned videos and sculptural installations are the result of carefully orchestrated yet ephemeral situations, generally involving the collaboration of others. He is especially interested in what he describes as “the amorous dialectic” – the contradictions of love and its associations with romantic myth and sentimentality.
His solo shows and performances include Slow dance marathon, Central Square of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv (2006), Christodoulos Panayiotou Video Works, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Umjetnicka Galerija), Sarajevo (2006), Slow dance marathon, Residency of the Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki (2005) Forever is gonna start tonight, Medieval Castle of Limassol, Limassol and You make me feel brand new, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (2004).
Group exhibitions include (selected) While we were sleeping, Platform-Garanti, Istanbul (2006) Sunday, The Gesture, Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, 4th DESTE Prize, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Accidental Meetings, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Nicosia (2005), HyperLinks, Evagoras & Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Bodyworks, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, 20 Rooms (St. George Lycabettus Hotel), Kappatos Gallery, Athens (2004). Panayiotou is currently in residence at Platform-Garanti in Istanbul. ARRIVALS>CYPRUS is the first exhibition of his work in the UK.
Panayiotou completed an MA/ MAITRISE in Performing Arts (Dance Department) / Arts du spectacle, University of Surrey, 2001-2003 / Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, receiving a scholarship from the French Government and the EU, and Dance Studies at the London Contemporary Dance School, 2001-2002. In 2005 Panayiotou was awarded the 4th DESTE Prize by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece for Truly, 2005.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Platform'da Açık Atölye, 14:00 - 18:00
İstanbul Misafirleri Programı sanatçıları
Açık Atölyesi
Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Son:DA
Juul Hondius
Sophie Nys
Bertrand Ivanoff
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Konuyla ilgili radikal gazetesinde çıkan haber
Açık Atölyesi
Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Son:DA
Juul Hondius
Sophie Nys
Bertrand Ivanoff
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Konuyla ilgili radikal gazetesinde çıkan haber
Friday, March 03, 2006
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: BACKYARD RESIDENCIES!
Başvuru formları Platform'dan temin edilebilir. E-mail yoluyla teslim almak için platform@garanti.com.tr'ye yazınız.
Başvuru son tarih: 5 Mayıs 2006'dır.
New Media Center_kuda.org
Social implications of new media
New Media Center_kuda.org Kurum Bilgisi:
New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent organization which brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. In this respect, kuda.org is dedicated to the research of new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice, and social issues.
Kuda.org's work focuses on questions concerning the influence of the electronic media on society, on the creative use of new communication technologies, and on contemporary cultural and social policy. Some of the main issues include interpretation and analysis of the history and significance of the information society, the potential of information itself, and the diffusion of its influence on political, economic and cultural relationships in contemporary society. New Media Center_kuda.org opens space for both cultural dialog and alternative methods of education and research. A social question, media culture, new technologies art, and the Open Source and Free Software principal are areas in which kuda.org is engaged.
Programs:
kuda.info / infocentar
Provides information in the field of new media, contemporary art, social phenomena, research and education by means of a library, mediatheque and digital archive. For all visitors of kuda.org, Internet access is free as a free beer.
kuda.lounge / presentation and lectures
Consists of lectures, workshops, talks, and public presentations of artists, media activists, theorists, scientists and researchers. kuda.lounge is a place of active participatory dialog. From 2000 onwards over 100 events have been organised . The center boasts its own venue for public events and workshops (real time recording of programs, digital archiving and Internet uploading).
kuda.production / production and publishing
Creates a matrix for non-profit artistic production in the field of new media and technologies, interdisciplinary research and experiment. Besides organizing many exhibitions and conferences, from 2004 onwards, kuda.org offers free web space on the kuda server for artists, activists and the NGO sector.
new media center_kuda.org
Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Brace Mogin 2
PO BOX 22
office@kuda.org
http://www.kuda.org
Başvuru son tarih: 5 Mayıs 2006'dır.
New Media Center_kuda.org
Social implications of new media
New Media Center_kuda.org Kurum Bilgisi:
New Media Center_kuda.org is an independent organization which brings together artists, theoreticians, media activists, researchers and the wider public in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. In this respect, kuda.org is dedicated to the research of new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practice, and social issues.
Kuda.org's work focuses on questions concerning the influence of the electronic media on society, on the creative use of new communication technologies, and on contemporary cultural and social policy. Some of the main issues include interpretation and analysis of the history and significance of the information society, the potential of information itself, and the diffusion of its influence on political, economic and cultural relationships in contemporary society. New Media Center_kuda.org opens space for both cultural dialog and alternative methods of education and research. A social question, media culture, new technologies art, and the Open Source and Free Software principal are areas in which kuda.org is engaged.
Programs:
kuda.info / infocentar
Provides information in the field of new media, contemporary art, social phenomena, research and education by means of a library, mediatheque and digital archive. For all visitors of kuda.org, Internet access is free as a free beer.
kuda.lounge / presentation and lectures
Consists of lectures, workshops, talks, and public presentations of artists, media activists, theorists, scientists and researchers. kuda.lounge is a place of active participatory dialog. From 2000 onwards over 100 events have been organised . The center boasts its own venue for public events and workshops (real time recording of programs, digital archiving and Internet uploading).
kuda.production / production and publishing
Creates a matrix for non-profit artistic production in the field of new media and technologies, interdisciplinary research and experiment. Besides organizing many exhibitions and conferences, from 2004 onwards, kuda.org offers free web space on the kuda server for artists, activists and the NGO sector.
new media center_kuda.org
Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Brace Mogin 2
PO BOX 22
office@kuda.org
http://www.kuda.org
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
22 Aralık, 18:00, 'Onunla bir gece'
‘A night with’ ['Onunla bir gece']
4 saatlik sergilerle geçici bir sergi mekanı
Açılış/kapanış: 21 Aralık akşam 6dan 10a
Krist Gruijthuijsen tarafından başlatılan ve Istanbul Misafirleri programındaki stüdyosunda ev sahipliği yapacağı 4 saatlik kişisel sergilerin ilki
Adam Leech ‘13.51’
Adam Leech (ABD, 1973)
13:51 uygun insan davranışları veya tavırları öne sürmez. Erdemli olmayı yüreklendirmez, soyutlama ve analiz gibi ahlaki eylemlere kendini kaptırmaz.
13:51 kayıtsızlığın peşindedir. Kayıtsızlık etik ve ahlak alanındaki küçük ve beceriksiz girişimlere sanat dünyasında karşılık veren bir çalışma şekli ve bir etkinlik biçimidir.
Eğer bir kişi gerçek politik değişim peşinde ise aktivist, politikacı, sosyal yardım uzmanı, gazeteci veya terörist olmasını öneririm.
Master derecesini The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’dan alan ve Rijksakademie Van Beelden Kunsten, Amsterdam’da eğitimine devam eden Adam Leech şu anda Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK), Antwerp'de.
Melvin Moti, Renzo Martens, Jesper Just ve Clemens von Wedemeyer gelecek sunumlardaki sanatçılar.
Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands desteği ile
4 saatlik sergilerle geçici bir sergi mekanı
Açılış/kapanış: 21 Aralık akşam 6dan 10a
Krist Gruijthuijsen tarafından başlatılan ve Istanbul Misafirleri programındaki stüdyosunda ev sahipliği yapacağı 4 saatlik kişisel sergilerin ilki
Adam Leech ‘13.51’
Adam Leech (ABD, 1973)
13:51 uygun insan davranışları veya tavırları öne sürmez. Erdemli olmayı yüreklendirmez, soyutlama ve analiz gibi ahlaki eylemlere kendini kaptırmaz.
13:51 kayıtsızlığın peşindedir. Kayıtsızlık etik ve ahlak alanındaki küçük ve beceriksiz girişimlere sanat dünyasında karşılık veren bir çalışma şekli ve bir etkinlik biçimidir.
Eğer bir kişi gerçek politik değişim peşinde ise aktivist, politikacı, sosyal yardım uzmanı, gazeteci veya terörist olmasını öneririm.
Master derecesini The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’dan alan ve Rijksakademie Van Beelden Kunsten, Amsterdam’da eğitimine devam eden Adam Leech şu anda Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK), Antwerp'de.
Melvin Moti, Renzo Martens, Jesper Just ve Clemens von Wedemeyer gelecek sunumlardaki sanatçılar.
Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands desteği ile
Friday, November 17, 2000
Bas van Beek, Rotterdam
As an anti-designer Bas van Beek criticizes branding and intelligent marketing mechanisms, poor conceptualism and uncritical designer-cults. His Rip-off-vases copied famous Dutch Design icons by casting the originals. Often he works with found materials, exploiting the aesthetics of the random and of chance. In his Prequel series he bought existing hobby-moulds, which he put together into fascinating vases, teapots and jars in bold colors. Beek is a teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. His work explores the connection between politics and design, often seen as propaganda. He also explores the relationship between multinationals and designers and where the multinational in particular 'goes local'. He produces products with local sub-contractors for the local market.
Bas van Beek residency is supported by Fonds BKVB/The Netherlands.
Kilian Rüthemann, Bütschwil, St. Gallen
Kilian Rüthemann is a Swiss artist based in Basel. Working in different media such as sculpture, installation and video, his interests surround the basic themes of sculpture and its production.
Rüthemann founded the artist-run-gallery «Vrits» in Basel together with a group of Swiss and german artists. «Vrits» promotes the work of its own members as well as hosting curatorial and artistic projects in many locations.
Inspired by the spirit of the everyday transforming structure of the city of Istanbul, Rüthemann continues to work with concrete and other solid materials. He deconstructs parts of his working space or constructs pieces in a simple and single action. Often these works are untransportable. They are produced in situ and need to be destroyed after showing.
Kilian Rüthemann residency is supported by IAAB, Zwitzerland
Els Vanden Meersch
Els Vanden Meersch is a Belgian artist based in Antwerp. Her work investigates the psychological content of architectural constructions. She uses installations and photomontages of places that express a high degree of hierarchy and paranoia. Her work treats architecture as portraiture. She examines how architecture (in a broad sense) reflects social tendencies such as nationalism and the construction of cultural and personal identity.
Her interest lays in architecture that contains clear traces of our continuously felt intention to create and establish, deliberately or unintentionally, hierarchical structures, to lay down systems of classification, to draw borders and determine relationships of power.
Current project: Excavating Visions
This photo series and upcoming publication focuses on how architectural elements are deliberately dismantled, neglected or on the other hand deliberately highlighted in order to establish a political era or a national identity.
Excavating Visions investigates how daily life and contemporary architecture is connected or disconnected with its cultural past and how ideas, convictions, habits are inscribed in the way the environment is constructed.
In this series Vanden Meersch works with montages in order to produce an environment of free association, that can form the basis for a dynamic and constructive memory. By placing apparent ordinary situations next to fragments with a psychological or historical charge, memory (personnel as well as cultural memory) can act as a generating force rather than as a catalog.
Els Vanden Meersch residency is supported by the Flemish Community, Belgium.
Felice Hapetzeder, Stockholm
Felice Hapetzeder is a Swedish artist who works with video, sculpture, installation art and photography. His work mainly concerns questions of national, ethnic, cultural and sexual identity. His current project is called Limits of Forgiveness (working title).
Today most of us are too young to have any direct experience of the Second World War. Nevertheless it is still connected to us. The experience has been transferred to us by an older generation who were in direct contact with the facts and the mental state of the time. Hapetzeder's interest in the subject comes from growing up close to a person with ideals that are far from politically correct. In his current work he wishes to deal with this mentality and these ideals.
Limits of Forgiveness puts the questions that this experience creates into a wider context.
The artist would like to contact others who have encountered a war mentality in times of peace.
Unusually for Hapetzeder's practice, this project is moving towards the mode of
traditional documentary filmmaking.
Felice Hapetzeder, is a IASPIS, Sweden resident.
Jennifer Teets (Houston, Texas, 1978)
Teets is an independent curator. From 2003 to 2007 she served as Chief Curator of "El Cubo" at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS-INBA) in Mexico City. At the SAPS, she curated over 20 site-specific exhibitions by emerging and established Mexican and international artists.
Her current research focuses on Baroque special effects in the 17th century music machines of Athanasius Kircher working towards an interdisciplinary project involving artists, musicians, science historians, filmmakers, and inventors alike. During her residency at Platform she intends to research for a project which looks into the secret lives of these machines, deducing meaning from their strange effects. The end result attempts at distorting the idea of a traditional museographic format, instead involving filmmakers, science historians, musicians, artists, and inventors alike in a "readymade" mise -en-scene setting that will unfold more in the sense of a live situation than an exhibition.
In September 2007, she co-organized a miniature version of the Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge (a project by Hannah Hurtzig/Mobile Academy, Berlin) with Anselm Franke and Pelin Tan at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial with the Istanbul edition focusing on "Atmospheric Politics".
The Residency is supported by:
Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. Fundación
&
Colección Jumex
Her current research focuses on Baroque special effects in the 17th century music machines of Athanasius Kircher working towards an interdisciplinary project involving artists, musicians, science historians, filmmakers, and inventors alike. During her residency at Platform she intends to research for a project which looks into the secret lives of these machines, deducing meaning from their strange effects. The end result attempts at distorting the idea of a traditional museographic format, instead involving filmmakers, science historians, musicians, artists, and inventors alike in a "readymade" mise -en-scene setting that will unfold more in the sense of a live situation than an exhibition.
In September 2007, she co-organized a miniature version of the Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge (a project by Hannah Hurtzig/Mobile Academy, Berlin) with Anselm Franke and Pelin Tan at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial with the Istanbul edition focusing on "Atmospheric Politics".
The Residency is supported by:
Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. Fundación
&
Colección Jumex
Friday, June 02, 2000
Katherine Hymers
Born in Suffolk 1982, Katherine Hymers studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, undertaking an exchange with the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary for three months.
Hymers work spans video and performance, utilizing the body throughout as a presence and a tool from which to direct an inquiry out to a viewer. Time is a leitmotif underscoring much of the work, heightened by the use of carefully framed, composed images. The videos are captured in real time and often from a single, fixed shot. Hymers' work plays with the contradiction between the static frame and the life within it, the possibilities that are afforded when the still image is given a duration, when it becomes moving image. Duration and movement are used in order to create a tension that makes palpable the elapse of time. In this respect Hymers is interested in encouraging the viewer’s gaze, whilst simultaneously challenging the viewer’s expectations.
Hymers has presented her work at NLH Space, Copenhagen; ANTI Festival, Finland; The National Review of Live Art, UK, as well as various group shows at Wysing Arts Centre, UK. Hymers is a studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre, UK.
The residency is supported by Arts Council, England.
Hymers work spans video and performance, utilizing the body throughout as a presence and a tool from which to direct an inquiry out to a viewer. Time is a leitmotif underscoring much of the work, heightened by the use of carefully framed, composed images. The videos are captured in real time and often from a single, fixed shot. Hymers' work plays with the contradiction between the static frame and the life within it, the possibilities that are afforded when the still image is given a duration, when it becomes moving image. Duration and movement are used in order to create a tension that makes palpable the elapse of time. In this respect Hymers is interested in encouraging the viewer’s gaze, whilst simultaneously challenging the viewer’s expectations.
Hymers has presented her work at NLH Space, Copenhagen; ANTI Festival, Finland; The National Review of Live Art, UK, as well as various group shows at Wysing Arts Centre, UK. Hymers is a studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre, UK.
The residency is supported by Arts Council, England.
Tuesday, May 02, 2000
Sonja Lillebæk Christensen
Sonja Lillebæk Christensen was born in Grenå, Denmark in 1972 and studied at The Academy of Fine Art, Aarhus, Denmark 2003. She lives and works in Copenhagen.
“I Must be Vulnerable to Criticism”
Suggesting that Lillebæk positions herself as an integral subject of her documentaries may sound trivial, but nevertheless it is a central premise to her practice. She choses to not establish an ‘objective’ view of the material she is working with and rather lets her personal experience act as the optic through which the material is formed. However, experience is a tricky entity to deal with and to define. It unfolds as a dialogical process, appearing between the factual situations being documented, and Lillebæk's own ideas and perspectives on them. It is exactly this dialogue that is emphasized in her work, and that urges us to reflect on the content. Lillebæk does not soar above her material as an authority, but takes a position where she is “vulnerable to criticism,” meaning that this position is something the viewer is free to discuss and question.
Lillebæk does not discuss social issues from a politically correct angle and nor does she take a moral stand, or suggest she is able to “solve” political conflicts. Her's is not explicit “political art.” The political dimension of Lillebæk's work is present in more subtle ways - through the portraits of characters and environments that question the normative, consensual and normalizing discourse, which characterizes modern politics, especially the discourse that concerns the relationship between the cultured class and the middle-class and other social constructs that do not fit certain class values. Lillebæk employs a pictorial language to play with meaning and information that operates from other premises in order to discuss these subjects in a meaningful way. Her practice invites us to engage and reflect in a personal manner with the world, and thereby creates a widened mental space that is constantly unfolding.
(adapted from a text by Jacob Lillemose)
“I Must be Vulnerable to Criticism”
Suggesting that Lillebæk positions herself as an integral subject of her documentaries may sound trivial, but nevertheless it is a central premise to her practice. She choses to not establish an ‘objective’ view of the material she is working with and rather lets her personal experience act as the optic through which the material is formed. However, experience is a tricky entity to deal with and to define. It unfolds as a dialogical process, appearing between the factual situations being documented, and Lillebæk's own ideas and perspectives on them. It is exactly this dialogue that is emphasized in her work, and that urges us to reflect on the content. Lillebæk does not soar above her material as an authority, but takes a position where she is “vulnerable to criticism,” meaning that this position is something the viewer is free to discuss and question.
Lillebæk does not discuss social issues from a politically correct angle and nor does she take a moral stand, or suggest she is able to “solve” political conflicts. Her's is not explicit “political art.” The political dimension of Lillebæk's work is present in more subtle ways - through the portraits of characters and environments that question the normative, consensual and normalizing discourse, which characterizes modern politics, especially the discourse that concerns the relationship between the cultured class and the middle-class and other social constructs that do not fit certain class values. Lillebæk employs a pictorial language to play with meaning and information that operates from other premises in order to discuss these subjects in a meaningful way. Her practice invites us to engage and reflect in a personal manner with the world, and thereby creates a widened mental space that is constantly unfolding.
(adapted from a text by Jacob Lillemose)
İz Öztat
İz Öztat born in 1981, lives between Istanbul and London. She completed her MA in visual arts at Sabanci University, Istanbul and her BA in visual arts and cultural studies with Honors at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA.
Öztat explores how the notion of “sacred” materializes and shapes the body, memory, time and space. In her recent works, she has been using pre-modern tools and technologies as a departure point to reflect on contemporary processes of social engineering, homogenization and control. Her dialogue through material activates multiple frames of reference at once and never becomes wholly accessible. Her solo shows include Read/ OKU at PiST, Istanbul (2008), Love It or Leave It, Ohio (2005) and Nothing Disappears Without a Trace, Ohio (2004).
In August 2008 she co-founded 'cura bodrum' residency in Mugla with Emincan Alemdaroglu. The initiative aims to support knowledge production in the cultural field and alternative ways of inhabiting space. This led her to develop an investigation into European cultural policies and regional representations (Balkans and the Middle East) in the international art world. In 2008, she participated in unitednationsplaza, Mexico, Resartis General Meeting, Amsterdam, NL, Prishtina Contemporary Art Library Workshop, Kosovo and Cairo Residency Symposium, Egypt.
Öztat explores how the notion of “sacred” materializes and shapes the body, memory, time and space. In her recent works, she has been using pre-modern tools and technologies as a departure point to reflect on contemporary processes of social engineering, homogenization and control. Her dialogue through material activates multiple frames of reference at once and never becomes wholly accessible. Her solo shows include Read/ OKU at PiST, Istanbul (2008), Love It or Leave It, Ohio (2005) and Nothing Disappears Without a Trace, Ohio (2004).
In August 2008 she co-founded 'cura bodrum' residency in Mugla with Emincan Alemdaroglu. The initiative aims to support knowledge production in the cultural field and alternative ways of inhabiting space. This led her to develop an investigation into European cultural policies and regional representations (Balkans and the Middle East) in the international art world. In 2008, she participated in unitednationsplaza, Mexico, Resartis General Meeting, Amsterdam, NL, Prishtina Contemporary Art Library Workshop, Kosovo and Cairo Residency Symposium, Egypt.
Hans Rosenström
Hans Rosenström was born in 1978 in Lohja, Finland. He lives and works in Helsinki, where he received an MFA from The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2007.
Rosenström works with installations and interventions, using light, sound and other immaterial substances in combination with constructed spaces in which the viewer plays an important role. He often uses the actual moment of experience as the starting point, by creating works that play on the viewers' expectations and their relationship with the work's surroundings. Lately Rosenström has worked with scenographic sound installations where the viewer's presence becomes the key element in the work.
In 2009 he had a solo show at the Kluuvi Gallery of Helsinki City Art Museum. Other recent exhibitions include participation in the Thomas Mann Culture Festival in Nida Lithuania and in URB 08 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. For more information visit.
Rosenström works with installations and interventions, using light, sound and other immaterial substances in combination with constructed spaces in which the viewer plays an important role. He often uses the actual moment of experience as the starting point, by creating works that play on the viewers' expectations and their relationship with the work's surroundings. Lately Rosenström has worked with scenographic sound installations where the viewer's presence becomes the key element in the work.
In 2009 he had a solo show at the Kluuvi Gallery of Helsinki City Art Museum. Other recent exhibitions include participation in the Thomas Mann Culture Festival in Nida Lithuania and in URB 08 at The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. For more information visit.
Thursday, April 20, 2000
Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Asli Cavusoglu was born in Istanbul in 1982 and is an artist/writer. The majority of her work stems from experimental narrative exercises that employ mechanisms of erasure, repetition, replicas and narrative interplay. She uses various mediums to disseminate her work such as artists’ books, videos, drawings and installations. Recent exhibitions include Kein Ding (2009), ACC Gallery Weimar; End Game (2009), Space Loop, Seoul; Hypnosis Show (2008), Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Fransisco; You can’t kiss away a murder (2008), Galerist, Istanbul. Her book projects include Takip/Poursuite (2006), Caiet De Geografie (2006), The Unsubscribed Life of Peter Böse (2007) and In Patagonia after Bruce Chatwin (2009). Cavusoglu has acted as guest editor for Pist Protta (Copenhagen) and has published numerous articles and essays in Screibcarft, Pazmaker and Siyahi amongst various others. She currently lives and works in Istanbul.
Alina Viola Grumiller
Alina Viola Grumiller, 1976, Vienna
Alina Viola Grumiller studied Film and Cooking at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. During her studies she founded the group and artspace ‘Oskar von Millerstrasse 16’ with M. Riedel, D. Loesch and U. Schoendeling. In 2001 she received an exchange scholarship for the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College where she completed her MFA. She was living and working as an artist in New York before coming to Istanbul in the fall of 2006.
Grumiller's practice involves drawing, sculpture, installation, video and film. For the past years she has been establishing an archive of fine-point style drawings that depict domestic rituals merged with slightly sinister activities of a utopian nature. The unsettling visual flow between familiarity and brutality in the mundane routines of daily life concerns the creation and dismemberment of cultural histories and belief systems. Grumiller's simple line drawings, which form the basis of her work, are in fact manipulations of images that she has gathered from newspapers, the Internet and other found material.
Grumiller is currently collaborating with April Gertler on a screenplay for a video project called ‘Love Supreme’ and with Jennifer Hayashida on a children's book. After curating a show with Koray Kantarcıoğlu and Inci Furni titled ‘Zig Zag’ at Hafriyat Karaköy, she is now working on a new exhibition with Akiko Kotani and Koray Kantarcıoğlu.
Alina Viola Grumiller studied Film and Cooking at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. During her studies she founded the group and artspace ‘Oskar von Millerstrasse 16’ with M. Riedel, D. Loesch and U. Schoendeling. In 2001 she received an exchange scholarship for the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College where she completed her MFA. She was living and working as an artist in New York before coming to Istanbul in the fall of 2006.
Grumiller's practice involves drawing, sculpture, installation, video and film. For the past years she has been establishing an archive of fine-point style drawings that depict domestic rituals merged with slightly sinister activities of a utopian nature. The unsettling visual flow between familiarity and brutality in the mundane routines of daily life concerns the creation and dismemberment of cultural histories and belief systems. Grumiller's simple line drawings, which form the basis of her work, are in fact manipulations of images that she has gathered from newspapers, the Internet and other found material.
Grumiller is currently collaborating with April Gertler on a screenplay for a video project called ‘Love Supreme’ and with Jennifer Hayashida on a children's book. After curating a show with Koray Kantarcıoğlu and Inci Furni titled ‘Zig Zag’ at Hafriyat Karaköy, she is now working on a new exhibition with Akiko Kotani and Koray Kantarcıoğlu.
Monday, March 20, 2000
Platform Residency Opportunities Abroad
Can Xalant, Mataro, Spain
Cevdet Erek, 2007
Erkan Özgen, 2008
Can Xalant is the first Centre for the Creation of Visual Arts and Contemporary Thought to be set up within the framework of the region, and was born out of an agreement between Mataró Town Council and the Independent Body for Cultural Promotion of the Catalan Regional Government's Department of Culture.
The aim of the project is to establish the programmes necessary for research and production in the field of the visual arts. With this in mind, the Centre offers the artistic community, and all those involved in the world of culture who so request, the resources they need in order to develop their own projects, with particular focus being placed on up-and-coming artists with ties to the region and to its social context.
Spike Island, Bristol
Can Altay, 2007
Fatma Çiftçi, 2008
Spike Island is a place for the production and exhibition of contemporary art in Bristol, UK. Spike Island's mission is to provide space, time and opportunity for the research, production and presentation of practices relating to the visual arts and design.
Based in the city's harbourside, the institution offers artists' studios, galleries, Artist Residency Programme, Spike Design and Print Studio and a canteen / bar.
Frankfurt Artist in Residence (2008 - - No longer active)
Ilgın Seymen, 2008
The Culture Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main has conducted a residency program since 1990. The city provides a residential studio and a monthly grant.
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (initiated by the Cairo Office)
(2005 - 2008 - - No longer active)
Ahmet Öğüt, 2005
Gökçe Suvari, 2007
İnci Furni, 2008
Pro Helvetia supports artists from Turkey for three-month residency periods in Basel. The grant covers travel, acommodation, subsistence, working facilities, health insurance, and a small contribution towards a project to be realised with a Swiss artist which could take place after the residency period.
ArtLAB- San Servolo Artist Residency, Venice, İtaly
Erdem Ergaz, 2008
The residency program invites artists to involve in a specific project. Artist Erdem Ergaz was invited to live and work at ArtLAB in October-November 2008. The final result of the residency was an exhibition in participation with other resident artists.
Tokyo Wondersite- Tokyo, Japan
Deniz Gül, 2008
Tokyo Wondersite is an artist residency program in three buildings, downtown of Tokyo. In 2008 Tokyo Wonder Site and the Goethe Institut Japan co-organised the project “On the Agenda of the Arts” and invited artists to the residency program for an exhibition and symposium in October 2008. Deniz Gul was the selected artist-in-resident in collaboration with Platform Garanti.
Cevdet Erek, 2007
Erkan Özgen, 2008
Can Xalant is the first Centre for the Creation of Visual Arts and Contemporary Thought to be set up within the framework of the region, and was born out of an agreement between Mataró Town Council and the Independent Body for Cultural Promotion of the Catalan Regional Government's Department of Culture.
The aim of the project is to establish the programmes necessary for research and production in the field of the visual arts. With this in mind, the Centre offers the artistic community, and all those involved in the world of culture who so request, the resources they need in order to develop their own projects, with particular focus being placed on up-and-coming artists with ties to the region and to its social context.
Spike Island, Bristol
Can Altay, 2007
Fatma Çiftçi, 2008
Spike Island is a place for the production and exhibition of contemporary art in Bristol, UK. Spike Island's mission is to provide space, time and opportunity for the research, production and presentation of practices relating to the visual arts and design.
Based in the city's harbourside, the institution offers artists' studios, galleries, Artist Residency Programme, Spike Design and Print Studio and a canteen / bar.
Frankfurt Artist in Residence (2008 - - No longer active)
Ilgın Seymen, 2008
The Culture Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main has conducted a residency program since 1990. The city provides a residential studio and a monthly grant.
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (initiated by the Cairo Office)
(2005 - 2008 - - No longer active)
Ahmet Öğüt, 2005
Gökçe Suvari, 2007
İnci Furni, 2008
Pro Helvetia supports artists from Turkey for three-month residency periods in Basel. The grant covers travel, acommodation, subsistence, working facilities, health insurance, and a small contribution towards a project to be realised with a Swiss artist which could take place after the residency period.
ArtLAB- San Servolo Artist Residency, Venice, İtaly
Erdem Ergaz, 2008
The residency program invites artists to involve in a specific project. Artist Erdem Ergaz was invited to live and work at ArtLAB in October-November 2008. The final result of the residency was an exhibition in participation with other resident artists.
Tokyo Wondersite- Tokyo, Japan
Deniz Gül, 2008
Tokyo Wondersite is an artist residency program in three buildings, downtown of Tokyo. In 2008 Tokyo Wonder Site and the Goethe Institut Japan co-organised the project “On the Agenda of the Arts” and invited artists to the residency program for an exhibition and symposium in October 2008. Deniz Gul was the selected artist-in-resident in collaboration with Platform Garanti.
Sanatçı Değişim Programı
2005 yılında başlatılan sanatçı değişim programı çercevesinde, Türkiye'den sanatçıların farklı ülkelerdeki konuk sanatçı programlarına gönderilmesine yardımcı olan İMP, uluslararası altı kurumla işbirliği yapıyor ve yeni imkanlar için farklı kurumlarla görüşmeye devam ediyor. Bu program sayesinde, Platform Garanti'nin hakemliğinde Türkiye'den sanatçılar farklı ülkelere burslu yollanıyor.
Can Xalant, Mataro, İspanya
Cevdet Erek, 2007
Erkan Özgen, 2008
Can Xalant, Mataro Belediye Meclisi ve Katalan Bölgesi Hükümeti Kültür Departmanı işbirliğinde görsel sanatlar üretimi için bu bölgede kurulan ilk sanat merkezi.
Kurumun amacı, görsel sanatlar alanında araştırma ve üretimi destekleyen programları başlatmak. Bu bağlamda, Can Xalant ihtiyacı olan sanatçılara Katalan bölgesi ve bölgenin sosyal durumuyla bağlantılı projelerini geliştirmek için destek oluyor.
Spike Island, Bristol, İngiltere
Can Altay, 2007
Fatma Çiftçi, 2008
Spike Island, Bristol'da güncel sanat üretimini ve sunumunu destekleyen bir kurum. Programa katılan sanatçılara üç ay boyunca çalışmaları için atölye, araştırma ve üretim için destek veren Spike Island, misafirlik programı sonunda katılan sanatçının bu dönem içinde gerçekleştirdiği işlerini sergileme imkanı tanıyor.
Bristol'un liman bölgesinde yer alan kurum, sanatçı stüdyoları dışında bünyesinde galeriler, baskı ve tasarım atölyeleriyle beraber bir kantin/bar barındırıyor.
Frankfurt Artist in Residence, Frankfurt, Almanya (2008-Devam edilmemektedir)
Ilgın Seymen, 2008
1990 yılından beri Frankfurt Kenti Kültür Bölümü tarafından desteklenen konuk programı, sanatçılara stüdyo ve burs imkanı veriyor.
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (Kahire ofisi tarafından başlatılmıştır)
(2005-2008 –Devam edilmemektedir)
Ahmet Öğüt, 2005
Gökçe Suvari, 2007
İnci Furni, 2008
Pro Helvetia Türkiye'den sanatçıları her sene üç ay boyunca Basel'de konuk ediyor. Sanatçının kalış ve üretimine yönelik masraflar Pro Helvetia tarafından karşılanıyor.
ArtLAB- San Servolo Artist Residency, Venedik, İtalya
Erdem Ergaz, 2008
Venedik'te yer alan program, belli bir proje dahilinde sanatçıları davet ediyor. Platform Garanti ile gerçekleştirilen işbirliği sonucu, Ekim-Kasım 2008 tarihinde, Türkiye'den Erdem Ergaz bu misafir programına katılarak, projede yer alan diğer sanatçılarla ve küratörlerle çalışma imkanı buldu. Bu süre sonunda üretilen işler 30 Kasım-31 Aralık 2008 tarihinde düzenlenen sergide gösterildi.
Tokyo Wondersite
Deniz Gül, 2008
Tokyo merkezinde üç farklı binada yürütülen Tokyo Wondersite, Japonya'daki en önemli misafir sanatçı ve sergi programlarından biri. Kurumun 2008'de Goethe Institute, Japonya ile beraber organize ettiği “On the Agenda of the Arts” sergi ve sempozyum projesine davet edilen sanatçılar arasında Türkiye'den Deniz Gül de bulunuyordu. Gül, programa Platform Garanti işbirliğiyle seçildi.
Can Xalant, Mataro, İspanya
Cevdet Erek, 2007
Erkan Özgen, 2008
Can Xalant, Mataro Belediye Meclisi ve Katalan Bölgesi Hükümeti Kültür Departmanı işbirliğinde görsel sanatlar üretimi için bu bölgede kurulan ilk sanat merkezi.
Kurumun amacı, görsel sanatlar alanında araştırma ve üretimi destekleyen programları başlatmak. Bu bağlamda, Can Xalant ihtiyacı olan sanatçılara Katalan bölgesi ve bölgenin sosyal durumuyla bağlantılı projelerini geliştirmek için destek oluyor.
Spike Island, Bristol, İngiltere
Can Altay, 2007
Fatma Çiftçi, 2008
Spike Island, Bristol'da güncel sanat üretimini ve sunumunu destekleyen bir kurum. Programa katılan sanatçılara üç ay boyunca çalışmaları için atölye, araştırma ve üretim için destek veren Spike Island, misafirlik programı sonunda katılan sanatçının bu dönem içinde gerçekleştirdiği işlerini sergileme imkanı tanıyor.
Bristol'un liman bölgesinde yer alan kurum, sanatçı stüdyoları dışında bünyesinde galeriler, baskı ve tasarım atölyeleriyle beraber bir kantin/bar barındırıyor.
Frankfurt Artist in Residence, Frankfurt, Almanya (2008-Devam edilmemektedir)
Ilgın Seymen, 2008
1990 yılından beri Frankfurt Kenti Kültür Bölümü tarafından desteklenen konuk programı, sanatçılara stüdyo ve burs imkanı veriyor.
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (Kahire ofisi tarafından başlatılmıştır)
(2005-2008 –Devam edilmemektedir)
Ahmet Öğüt, 2005
Gökçe Suvari, 2007
İnci Furni, 2008
Pro Helvetia Türkiye'den sanatçıları her sene üç ay boyunca Basel'de konuk ediyor. Sanatçının kalış ve üretimine yönelik masraflar Pro Helvetia tarafından karşılanıyor.
ArtLAB- San Servolo Artist Residency, Venedik, İtalya
Erdem Ergaz, 2008
Venedik'te yer alan program, belli bir proje dahilinde sanatçıları davet ediyor. Platform Garanti ile gerçekleştirilen işbirliği sonucu, Ekim-Kasım 2008 tarihinde, Türkiye'den Erdem Ergaz bu misafir programına katılarak, projede yer alan diğer sanatçılarla ve küratörlerle çalışma imkanı buldu. Bu süre sonunda üretilen işler 30 Kasım-31 Aralık 2008 tarihinde düzenlenen sergide gösterildi.
Tokyo Wondersite
Deniz Gül, 2008
Tokyo merkezinde üç farklı binada yürütülen Tokyo Wondersite, Japonya'daki en önemli misafir sanatçı ve sergi programlarından biri. Kurumun 2008'de Goethe Institute, Japonya ile beraber organize ettiği “On the Agenda of the Arts” sergi ve sempozyum projesine davet edilen sanatçılar arasında Türkiye'den Deniz Gül de bulunuyordu. Gül, programa Platform Garanti işbirliğiyle seçildi.
Friday, February 25, 2000
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Stefanos Tsivopoulos was born in Prague in 1973; he lives and works between Amsterdam and Athens.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos's work is a research on the collective memory, the history and the cultural background of a country. Moreover he is interested in the way and the medium through which the tradition, the ideologies and the culture were propagated in the society, especially in those countries where the political situation was particularly problematic. For example in the video "Untitled (the Remake)" (2007) Stefanos focuses on the dictatorship years in Greece and on the early years of Greek State Television; for this work he uses archive's material from the 1967, the technical equipment of the radio and television from the same period. While the video "Untitled (In Plato's Cave)" (2008) was filmed in a Berlin's reconstructed cinema laboratory from the 40’s. In this case there is a full research on the history source behind the work, the artist has used photographs from archives of Geyer Berlin and technical equipment of the Film Museum of Berlin.
In the last year he won two awards, the Dutch Film Funds for Research and Development and the Dutch Funds the visual Arts BKVB. During 2008 he also participated in the residence program Project Studio Berlin; he was presented with a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade; at the Alpha Delta Gallery of Athens. He participated in the group exhibition at "Greenroom", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, 2008; "Uncanny historical remakes", Institute Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008; "In Present Tense", Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2007. Besides the artist’s activity, he is the founder and the editor of the Spot magazine.
The Residency is Supported by Fonds BKVB.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos's work is a research on the collective memory, the history and the cultural background of a country. Moreover he is interested in the way and the medium through which the tradition, the ideologies and the culture were propagated in the society, especially in those countries where the political situation was particularly problematic. For example in the video "Untitled (the Remake)" (2007) Stefanos focuses on the dictatorship years in Greece and on the early years of Greek State Television; for this work he uses archive's material from the 1967, the technical equipment of the radio and television from the same period. While the video "Untitled (In Plato's Cave)" (2008) was filmed in a Berlin's reconstructed cinema laboratory from the 40’s. In this case there is a full research on the history source behind the work, the artist has used photographs from archives of Geyer Berlin and technical equipment of the Film Museum of Berlin.
In the last year he won two awards, the Dutch Film Funds for Research and Development and the Dutch Funds the visual Arts BKVB. During 2008 he also participated in the residence program Project Studio Berlin; he was presented with a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade; at the Alpha Delta Gallery of Athens. He participated in the group exhibition at "Greenroom", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, 2008; "Uncanny historical remakes", Institute Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008; "In Present Tense", Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2007. Besides the artist’s activity, he is the founder and the editor of the Spot magazine.
The Residency is Supported by Fonds BKVB.
Saturday, January 01, 2000
IMP Since 2003
Artists and curators selected for the residency programme since January 2003:
Independent Residencies
Tunc Ali ÇamAhmet Ogüt
Asli Cavusoglu
Matthew Schum
Power Ekroth
Koken Ergun
Bertrand Ivanoff
Katerina Stenbeck
Lesley Young
Oda Projesi
Serkan Özkaya
Sezgin Boynik
Servet Koçyiğit
Alenka Gregoric
Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu
Karolin Fişekçi
Emre Hüner
İnci Furni
Işıl Eğrikavuk
Nilbar Güreş
Can Altay
İz Öztat
Nilbar Güreş
Etcetera
Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands
David Bade
Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro and Ólafur Árni Ólafsson
Yael Davids
Klaas van Gorkum
Krist Gruythuysen
Juul Hondius
Dirk van Lieshout
Fahrettin Örenli
Bik van der Pol
Bas van Beek
Alina Viola Grumiller
Lonnie van Brummelen
Justin Bennet
Jeremiah Day
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
South Eastern Europe / South East Mediterranean Residency supported by the American Center Foundation
Wael Shawky
Lala Rascic
Son:Da – Metka Golec and Miha Horvat
Normalization Programs Residency supported by the European Cultural Foundation
Yael Bartana
Nurullah Gorhan
South Eastern Europe: Backyard Residencies supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers
Isidora Ficovic
Veronika Tzekova
Katerina Zdjelar
Maja Rozman
Antonia Majaca
Frame, Finland
Minna Henriksson
Pilvi Takala
Minna Valotalo & Mark Roberts
Aura Seikkula
Hans Rösentröm
British Council, UK
Phil Collins
Mark Aerial Waller
Celine Condorelli
9th Istanbul Biennial Residencies
Otto Berchem
Hatice Guleryuz
Silke Otto Knapp
OCA, Norway
Marius Engh
Farhad Kalantary
Marianne Zamecznik
Helene Sommer
Jan Freuchen
TENT, Rotterdam
Roderick Hietbrink
Nicoline van Harskamp
IASPIS, Sweden
Johan Thurfjell
Runo Lagomarsino
Katerina Stenbeck
Felice Hapetzeder
Allen Grubesic
Sala Rekalde, The Basque Country, Spain
Asier Mendizabal
Erlea Maneros
Jon Mikel Euba
Jon Mantzisidor
IAAB, Zwitzerland
Selma Weber
Isabel Schmiga
Schirin Kretschmann
Flemish Community, Belgium
Lieven Paelinck
Nico Dockx
Katleen Vermeir
Sophie Nys
Els vanden Meersch
Michael van den Abeele
Can Xalant, Spain
Montse Romani
Raquel Friera
Mery Cuesta
Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernandez Pons
Open Society Institute
Ayguerim Issabek
Vahram Aghasyan
GAI, Italy
Jacopo Miliani
Frankfurt Artist in Residence
Judith Raum
Art Council, Korea
Jooyeon Park
DCA, Denmark
Morten Dysgaard
Nis Romer
Larissa Sansour
Sonja Lillebæk Christensen
Ministry of Culture, Cyprus
Christodoulos Panayiotou
French Cultural Institute, Istanbul
Bertrand Ivanoff
Platform Garanti's Support for Artists from Lebanon
Ghassan Halwani
The Arts Council of England
Richard Bartle
Creative Collaboration grant, British Council
Maha Maamoun
EU Culture 2007, British Council and Arts Council England
Katherine Hymers
Mexico City, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. Fundación / Colección Jumex
Jennifer Teets
European Council
FrenchMottershead
Independent Residencies
Tunc Ali ÇamAhmet Ogüt
Asli Cavusoglu
Matthew Schum
Power Ekroth
Koken Ergun
Bertrand Ivanoff
Katerina Stenbeck
Lesley Young
Oda Projesi
Serkan Özkaya
Sezgin Boynik
Servet Koçyiğit
Alenka Gregoric
Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu
Karolin Fişekçi
Emre Hüner
İnci Furni
Işıl Eğrikavuk
Nilbar Güreş
Can Altay
İz Öztat
Nilbar Güreş
Etcetera
Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands
David Bade
Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro and Ólafur Árni Ólafsson
Yael Davids
Klaas van Gorkum
Krist Gruythuysen
Juul Hondius
Dirk van Lieshout
Fahrettin Örenli
Bik van der Pol
Bas van Beek
Alina Viola Grumiller
Lonnie van Brummelen
Justin Bennet
Jeremiah Day
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
South Eastern Europe / South East Mediterranean Residency supported by the American Center Foundation
Wael Shawky
Lala Rascic
Son:Da – Metka Golec and Miha Horvat
Normalization Programs Residency supported by the European Cultural Foundation
Yael Bartana
Nurullah Gorhan
South Eastern Europe: Backyard Residencies supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers
Isidora Ficovic
Veronika Tzekova
Katerina Zdjelar
Maja Rozman
Antonia Majaca
Frame, Finland
Minna Henriksson
Pilvi Takala
Minna Valotalo & Mark Roberts
Aura Seikkula
Hans Rösentröm
British Council, UK
Phil Collins
Mark Aerial Waller
Celine Condorelli
9th Istanbul Biennial Residencies
Otto Berchem
Hatice Guleryuz
Silke Otto Knapp
OCA, Norway
Marius Engh
Farhad Kalantary
Marianne Zamecznik
Helene Sommer
Jan Freuchen
TENT, Rotterdam
Roderick Hietbrink
Nicoline van Harskamp
IASPIS, Sweden
Johan Thurfjell
Runo Lagomarsino
Katerina Stenbeck
Felice Hapetzeder
Allen Grubesic
Sala Rekalde, The Basque Country, Spain
Asier Mendizabal
Erlea Maneros
Jon Mikel Euba
Jon Mantzisidor
IAAB, Zwitzerland
Selma Weber
Isabel Schmiga
Schirin Kretschmann
Flemish Community, Belgium
Lieven Paelinck
Nico Dockx
Katleen Vermeir
Sophie Nys
Els vanden Meersch
Michael van den Abeele
Can Xalant, Spain
Montse Romani
Raquel Friera
Mery Cuesta
Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernandez Pons
Open Society Institute
Ayguerim Issabek
Vahram Aghasyan
GAI, Italy
Jacopo Miliani
Frankfurt Artist in Residence
Judith Raum
Art Council, Korea
Jooyeon Park
DCA, Denmark
Morten Dysgaard
Nis Romer
Larissa Sansour
Sonja Lillebæk Christensen
Ministry of Culture, Cyprus
Christodoulos Panayiotou
French Cultural Institute, Istanbul
Bertrand Ivanoff
Platform Garanti's Support for Artists from Lebanon
Ghassan Halwani
The Arts Council of England
Richard Bartle
Creative Collaboration grant, British Council
Maha Maamoun
EU Culture 2007, British Council and Arts Council England
Katherine Hymers
Mexico City, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo A.C. Fundación / Colección Jumex
Jennifer Teets
European Council
FrenchMottershead
Istanbul Residency Programme Guidelines
IRP
Istanbul Residency Programme
Istanbul Residency Programme (IRP) is housed in the same building with the Centre’s exhibition space, archive, and screening room. IRP was initiated in January 2003 and is open to contemporary visual artists, critics and curators of contemporary art. Each residency lasts for a period of between three and six months. There are four studios for artists as well as two additional rooms for writers.
Since 2005 and with support from international arts organisations IRP has been able to implement a number of residency opportunities for artists from Turkey. For further information please scroll down to: Residency Exchanges.
IRP at Platform
Artist selection
IRP do not propose any specific criteria for the selection of artists. All we request is that the following should be considered as a mandate:
That applying artists consider that their practice would benefit from and be inspired by a period spent in Istanbul.
That applying artists are willing to become involved in activities organised by Platform above and beyond their own practice.
Facilities provided
Working studio, library and artist archive, storage units, a fully established common kitchen, computers, a local landline and Internet access. Support from Platform’s staff to help arrange discussion and activities with local artists and universities, implement workshops and organise open studio events. Although not guaranteed, there may be the opportunity to exhibit at Platform at the end of a residency period, this will be discussed with each participant during his or her time in Istanbul. There are Apple computers in the residency floor with fast Internet access and wireless.
Nature of the bursary
The facilities listed above. The funding body concerned provides travel to Istanbul and accommodation close to IRP with our support to locate suitable housing according to budget and other requirements. Unless the funding body states otherwise, artists must provide their own health and personal possessions insurance.
Eligibility
Platform Garanti’s residency programme aims to offer a common and shared base for artists from the region as well as artists from elsewhere. The policy of the institution is based on the guiding principle that it is more important to bring positions together than break them apart.
IRP accepts artists, critics and curators of contemporary art coming from countries supported by the funding organisations collaborating with the programme. (See below) Please note that IRP cannot accept applications directly.
Artists are currently accepted via the funding collaborations listed below. We are in the process of researching further funding bodies, co-operations with international arts organizations and exchange possibilities. For queries other than those answered here please contact:
platform@garanti.com.tr
Funding Collaborations
Department of Culture of Diputación Foral de Bizkaia and Sala Rekalde, Spain (2004 - 2007 - No longer active)
Support for artists coming from the Basque Region of Spain to undertake three-month residency periods at IRP.
Flemish Government, Belgium
Residency support for artists coming from Flanders for periods of three months.
Fonds, BKVB, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Netherlands
Support for Dutch artists and artists of other nationalities currently living and working in the Netherlands. Six month residency periods available twice yearly. www.fondsbkvb.nl
FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finland
Support from FRAME for Finnish artists to spend three-month residency periods in Istanbul
www.frame-fund.fi
Iaab, International Artists Exchange Programme Basel, Switzerland (2005-2008 - No longer active)
Support for artists from the Basel region of Switzerland for periods of six months.
www.iaab.ch
IASPIS (International Artist Studio Programme In Sweden), Sweden
Three-month residency support for artists coming from Sweden.
www.iaspis.com
OCA (Office for Contemporary Art), Norway
Support for critics/curators based in Norway for residency periods of three months. www.oca.no
GAI - Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani
Italian Ministry of Culture - PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture)
Ministry for Youth Policies
GAI is an organization of 48 local governments with the purpose to support the juvenile creativity with educational, promotional and research initiatives. The association is intended to supply documentation of activity, to offer services, to organize formative and promotional opportunity for young people that operate in contemporary art field.
Backyard Residencies (2006 - - No longer active)
Supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers, Backyard Residencies is a programme for visual artists from the South East of Europe and open to applicants from the following countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Twelve selected artists will be offered twelve six-week to eight-week residencies at the three independent art institutions in Iasi (Romania), Istanbul (Turkey) and Novi Sad / Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro).
For more information see section below on regional residencies.
Residency Exchanges
Can Xalant, Mataro, Spain
Can Xalant is the first Centre for the Creation of Visual Arts and Contemporary Thought to be set up within the framework of the region, and was born out of an agreement between Mataró Town Council and the Independent Body for Cultural Promotion of the Catalan Regional Government's Department of Culture.
The aim of the project is to establish the programmes necessary for research and production in the field of the visual arts. With this in mind, the Centre offers the artistic community, and all those involved in the world of culture who so request, the resources they need in order to develop their own projects, with particular focus being placed on up-and-coming artists with ties to the region and to its social context.
Spike Island, Bristol
Spike Island is a place for the production and exhibition of contemporary art in Bristol, UK. Spike Island's mission is to provide space, time and opportunity for the research, production and presentation of practices relating to the visual arts and design.
Based in the city's harbourside, the institution offers artists' studios
, galleries
, Artist Residency Programme
, Spike Design and Print Studio and a canteen / bar
www.spikeisland.org.uk
Frankfurt Artist in Residence
The Culture Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main has conducted a residency program since 1990. The city provides a residential studio and a monthly grant.
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (initiated by the Cairo Office) (2005 - 2008 - No longer active)
Pro Helvetia is supporting artists from Turkey for three-month residency periods in Basel. The grant covers travel, acommodation, subsistence, working facilities, health insurance, and a small contribution towards a project to be realised with a Swiss artist – this could take place after the residency period.
www.prohelvetia.ch
AIR, Antwerp, Belgium (2005 - 2008 - No longer active)
AIR with the support of the Flemish Government and Platform Garanti will receive one artist per year from Turkey for three-months in Antwerp. The first artist was selected in 2006.
www.airantwerpen.be
Regional Residencies
Regional Residency Program (2009-2010):
Over the last six years the Istanbul Residency Program (IRP) has done much to support the mobility of artists, curators and writers from countries in South East Europe (SEE), the East Mediterranean and the Caucasus regions. Within this context IRP is initiating the new regional residency grants program Creative Collaboration with support from the British Council. Creative Collaboration aims to maximize regional co-operations in particular between key institutions that focus on artistic research.
The program will be managed via a relationship between six institutions that include Platform Garanti CAC (Istanbul, Turkey), Vector Association (Iasi, Romania), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Delfina Foundation (London, UK) and Spike Island (Bristol, UK). Creative Collaboration grants will be made available to artists, curators and writers from countries in South East Europe, the East and South Mediterranean, the Gulf region and the United Kingdom. Over the course of two years twenty artists will be selected by a jury and offered six to eight-week residencies at one of the participating institutions.
N.B. The program is open to applicants from the following countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Gulf region, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
History of Regional Residency Programs at IRP
IRP continues to extend its focus with a regional component. The aim of this programme is to help encourage international and regional collaborations between the South East Europe, the South East Mediterranean and West Asia as well as increase the opportunities for artists from Turkey to spend time on residency programmes in other countries. We work with countries where the structure for a contemporary art scene is being initiated, but where there are no arts institiutions or funding structures to provide further support at this time.
In 2004 the American Center Foundation (ACF) offered its first grant to an artist from the region and IRP referred to professionals in Albania, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, the Palestinian National Authority, Romania and Serbia for artist nominations. Following the receipt of 21 artist nominations and a final board selection attended by IRP and curators Jack Persekian (Al Mamal Foundation, Jerusalem) and Gilane Tawadros (Iniva, London) artist Wael Shawky from Egypt was invited to spend 6 months in Istanbul on IRP. During this time he created two new works and participated in the ‘Mediterraneans’ Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
For the ACF residency in 2005 the list of focus countries shifted to include artist nominations from Iara Boubnova in Bulgaria, Suzana Milevska in Macedonia, Matei Bejenaru in Romania, Sezgin Boynik in Kosova, Ola Khalidi in Jordan, Sabina Sabolovic in Croatia and Leyla Hodzic in Bosnia. From the 21 nominated artists a board consisting Vasif Kortun, Mai Abu elDahab from Egypt and Branko Dimitrievic from Serbia selected La La Rascic from Bosnia/Sarajevo. La La Rascic arrived in February of 2005 and spent 6 months at IRP, which culminated in a presentation of a new work in the exhibition ‘That from a long way off look like flies’ in Platform’s gallery space.
The third artist to be selected for the American Center Foundation residency grant for 2006 was the artist group son:DA (Metka Golec and Miha Horvat) from Slovenia. The selection committee comprising Vasif Kortun (director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center), Natasa Petresin (Ljubljana, an independent curator and critic) and Tirdad Zolghadr (The Iranian/Swiss curator and writer) selected son:DA from a shortlist of 11 artists who had been nominated by 5 arts professionals from countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, South East Europe and West Asia: Natasa Petresin, Slovenia; Ron Sluik, and Pavel Braila, Moldova; Edward Balassanian, Armenia; Akram Zaatari, Syria. As a result of their time spent with IRP, son:DA produced three new works and also collaborated with Erinc Seymen, a young artist from Turkey, to realise a performance at Platform Gallery. This performance was also re-staged at UGM Maribor, Slovenia in December 2006 with participation of Erinc Seymen.
A grant from the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), awarded to Platform in 2004 allowed IRP to expand its activities in the region that year inviting Nurullah Görhan from South-Eastern Turkey and Yael Bartana from Israel/Netherlands.
Backyard Residencies was a programme of artists’ residences in South-East Europe. The programme was initiated by Vector Association, Iasi, RO; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, TR; New media center_kuda.org, Novi Sad-Belgrade, SCG. Backyard Residencies was a project under the SEE Mobility Project (Artists’ Residences in South-East Europe, 2006-2007), supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The project was conceived as a residency programme for visual artists from the SEE region who wish to carry out projects of artistic research within the region. The programme was open for applicants from the following countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Twelve selected artists were offered twelve six-week to eight-week residencies at the three independent art institutions in Iasi (Romania), Istanbul (Turkey) and Novi Sad / Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro). The residencies was available from June 2006 to June 2007.
After Israel's attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 Platform Garanti initiated a collaboration with Askhal Alwan (The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts) in Beirut to invite an artist at IRP. Lebanese artist Ghassan Halwani was hosted at IRP for two months to work on a project.
IRP constantly explores potential support venues for artists coming from the regions of South East Europe, the South East Mediterranean and West Asia to spend time on the Istanbul Residency Programme.
Istanbul Residency Programme
Istanbul Residency Programme (IRP) is housed in the same building with the Centre’s exhibition space, archive, and screening room. IRP was initiated in January 2003 and is open to contemporary visual artists, critics and curators of contemporary art. Each residency lasts for a period of between three and six months. There are four studios for artists as well as two additional rooms for writers.
Since 2005 and with support from international arts organisations IRP has been able to implement a number of residency opportunities for artists from Turkey. For further information please scroll down to: Residency Exchanges.
IRP at Platform
Artist selection
IRP do not propose any specific criteria for the selection of artists. All we request is that the following should be considered as a mandate:
That applying artists consider that their practice would benefit from and be inspired by a period spent in Istanbul.
That applying artists are willing to become involved in activities organised by Platform above and beyond their own practice.
Facilities provided
Working studio, library and artist archive, storage units, a fully established common kitchen, computers, a local landline and Internet access. Support from Platform’s staff to help arrange discussion and activities with local artists and universities, implement workshops and organise open studio events. Although not guaranteed, there may be the opportunity to exhibit at Platform at the end of a residency period, this will be discussed with each participant during his or her time in Istanbul. There are Apple computers in the residency floor with fast Internet access and wireless.
Nature of the bursary
The facilities listed above. The funding body concerned provides travel to Istanbul and accommodation close to IRP with our support to locate suitable housing according to budget and other requirements. Unless the funding body states otherwise, artists must provide their own health and personal possessions insurance.
Eligibility
Platform Garanti’s residency programme aims to offer a common and shared base for artists from the region as well as artists from elsewhere. The policy of the institution is based on the guiding principle that it is more important to bring positions together than break them apart.
IRP accepts artists, critics and curators of contemporary art coming from countries supported by the funding organisations collaborating with the programme. (See below) Please note that IRP cannot accept applications directly.
Artists are currently accepted via the funding collaborations listed below. We are in the process of researching further funding bodies, co-operations with international arts organizations and exchange possibilities. For queries other than those answered here please contact:
platform@garanti.com.tr
Funding Collaborations
Department of Culture of Diputación Foral de Bizkaia and Sala Rekalde, Spain (2004 - 2007 - No longer active)
Support for artists coming from the Basque Region of Spain to undertake three-month residency periods at IRP.
Flemish Government, Belgium
Residency support for artists coming from Flanders for periods of three months.
Fonds, BKVB, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Netherlands
Support for Dutch artists and artists of other nationalities currently living and working in the Netherlands. Six month residency periods available twice yearly. www.fondsbkvb.nl
FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finland
Support from FRAME for Finnish artists to spend three-month residency periods in Istanbul
www.frame-fund.fi
Iaab, International Artists Exchange Programme Basel, Switzerland (2005-2008 - No longer active)
Support for artists from the Basel region of Switzerland for periods of six months.
www.iaab.ch
IASPIS (International Artist Studio Programme In Sweden), Sweden
Three-month residency support for artists coming from Sweden.
www.iaspis.com
OCA (Office for Contemporary Art), Norway
Support for critics/curators based in Norway for residency periods of three months. www.oca.no
GAI - Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani
Italian Ministry of Culture - PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture)
Ministry for Youth Policies
GAI is an organization of 48 local governments with the purpose to support the juvenile creativity with educational, promotional and research initiatives. The association is intended to supply documentation of activity, to offer services, to organize formative and promotional opportunity for young people that operate in contemporary art field.
Backyard Residencies (2006 - - No longer active)
Supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers, Backyard Residencies is a programme for visual artists from the South East of Europe and open to applicants from the following countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Twelve selected artists will be offered twelve six-week to eight-week residencies at the three independent art institutions in Iasi (Romania), Istanbul (Turkey) and Novi Sad / Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro).
For more information see section below on regional residencies.
Residency Exchanges
Can Xalant, Mataro, Spain
Can Xalant is the first Centre for the Creation of Visual Arts and Contemporary Thought to be set up within the framework of the region, and was born out of an agreement between Mataró Town Council and the Independent Body for Cultural Promotion of the Catalan Regional Government's Department of Culture.
The aim of the project is to establish the programmes necessary for research and production in the field of the visual arts. With this in mind, the Centre offers the artistic community, and all those involved in the world of culture who so request, the resources they need in order to develop their own projects, with particular focus being placed on up-and-coming artists with ties to the region and to its social context.
Spike Island, Bristol
Spike Island is a place for the production and exhibition of contemporary art in Bristol, UK. Spike Island's mission is to provide space, time and opportunity for the research, production and presentation of practices relating to the visual arts and design.
Based in the city's harbourside, the institution offers artists' studios
, galleries
, Artist Residency Programme
, Spike Design and Print Studio and a canteen / bar
www.spikeisland.org.uk
Frankfurt Artist in Residence
The Culture Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main has conducted a residency program since 1990. The city provides a residential studio and a monthly grant.
Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (initiated by the Cairo Office) (2005 - 2008 - No longer active)
Pro Helvetia is supporting artists from Turkey for three-month residency periods in Basel. The grant covers travel, acommodation, subsistence, working facilities, health insurance, and a small contribution towards a project to be realised with a Swiss artist – this could take place after the residency period.
www.prohelvetia.ch
AIR, Antwerp, Belgium (2005 - 2008 - No longer active)
AIR with the support of the Flemish Government and Platform Garanti will receive one artist per year from Turkey for three-months in Antwerp. The first artist was selected in 2006.
www.airantwerpen.be
Regional Residencies
Regional Residency Program (2009-2010):
Over the last six years the Istanbul Residency Program (IRP) has done much to support the mobility of artists, curators and writers from countries in South East Europe (SEE), the East Mediterranean and the Caucasus regions. Within this context IRP is initiating the new regional residency grants program Creative Collaboration with support from the British Council. Creative Collaboration aims to maximize regional co-operations in particular between key institutions that focus on artistic research.
The program will be managed via a relationship between six institutions that include Platform Garanti CAC (Istanbul, Turkey), Vector Association (Iasi, Romania), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Delfina Foundation (London, UK) and Spike Island (Bristol, UK). Creative Collaboration grants will be made available to artists, curators and writers from countries in South East Europe, the East and South Mediterranean, the Gulf region and the United Kingdom. Over the course of two years twenty artists will be selected by a jury and offered six to eight-week residencies at one of the participating institutions.
N.B. The program is open to applicants from the following countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Gulf region, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
History of Regional Residency Programs at IRP
IRP continues to extend its focus with a regional component. The aim of this programme is to help encourage international and regional collaborations between the South East Europe, the South East Mediterranean and West Asia as well as increase the opportunities for artists from Turkey to spend time on residency programmes in other countries. We work with countries where the structure for a contemporary art scene is being initiated, but where there are no arts institiutions or funding structures to provide further support at this time.
In 2004 the American Center Foundation (ACF) offered its first grant to an artist from the region and IRP referred to professionals in Albania, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, the Palestinian National Authority, Romania and Serbia for artist nominations. Following the receipt of 21 artist nominations and a final board selection attended by IRP and curators Jack Persekian (Al Mamal Foundation, Jerusalem) and Gilane Tawadros (Iniva, London) artist Wael Shawky from Egypt was invited to spend 6 months in Istanbul on IRP. During this time he created two new works and participated in the ‘Mediterraneans’ Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
For the ACF residency in 2005 the list of focus countries shifted to include artist nominations from Iara Boubnova in Bulgaria, Suzana Milevska in Macedonia, Matei Bejenaru in Romania, Sezgin Boynik in Kosova, Ola Khalidi in Jordan, Sabina Sabolovic in Croatia and Leyla Hodzic in Bosnia. From the 21 nominated artists a board consisting Vasif Kortun, Mai Abu elDahab from Egypt and Branko Dimitrievic from Serbia selected La La Rascic from Bosnia/Sarajevo. La La Rascic arrived in February of 2005 and spent 6 months at IRP, which culminated in a presentation of a new work in the exhibition ‘That from a long way off look like flies’ in Platform’s gallery space.
The third artist to be selected for the American Center Foundation residency grant for 2006 was the artist group son:DA (Metka Golec and Miha Horvat) from Slovenia. The selection committee comprising Vasif Kortun (director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center), Natasa Petresin (Ljubljana, an independent curator and critic) and Tirdad Zolghadr (The Iranian/Swiss curator and writer) selected son:DA from a shortlist of 11 artists who had been nominated by 5 arts professionals from countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, South East Europe and West Asia: Natasa Petresin, Slovenia; Ron Sluik, and Pavel Braila, Moldova; Edward Balassanian, Armenia; Akram Zaatari, Syria. As a result of their time spent with IRP, son:DA produced three new works and also collaborated with Erinc Seymen, a young artist from Turkey, to realise a performance at Platform Gallery. This performance was also re-staged at UGM Maribor, Slovenia in December 2006 with participation of Erinc Seymen.
A grant from the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), awarded to Platform in 2004 allowed IRP to expand its activities in the region that year inviting Nurullah Görhan from South-Eastern Turkey and Yael Bartana from Israel/Netherlands.
Backyard Residencies was a programme of artists’ residences in South-East Europe. The programme was initiated by Vector Association, Iasi, RO; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, TR; New media center_kuda.org, Novi Sad-Belgrade, SCG. Backyard Residencies was a project under the SEE Mobility Project (Artists’ Residences in South-East Europe, 2006-2007), supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The project was conceived as a residency programme for visual artists from the SEE region who wish to carry out projects of artistic research within the region. The programme was open for applicants from the following countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Twelve selected artists were offered twelve six-week to eight-week residencies at the three independent art institutions in Iasi (Romania), Istanbul (Turkey) and Novi Sad / Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro). The residencies was available from June 2006 to June 2007.
After Israel's attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 Platform Garanti initiated a collaboration with Askhal Alwan (The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts) in Beirut to invite an artist at IRP. Lebanese artist Ghassan Halwani was hosted at IRP for two months to work on a project.
IRP constantly explores potential support venues for artists coming from the regions of South East Europe, the South East Mediterranean and West Asia to spend time on the Istanbul Residency Programme.
Friday, December 24, 1999
Karolin Fisekci
Karolin Fisekci graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts Painting Department in 2003, after which she attended the Faculty of Social Sciences, Painting Department of the same University.
Fisekci specialises in painting and photography. The focus of her research is the role of woman in contemporary society; due to this interest the main subject of her practice is always the same woman retraced in various provocative positions and from a sexist point of view. This imagined subject never reveals her whole body, but the part that is shown is seen as if close-up. In this way and through the use of strong vibrant colors Fisekci strengthens the provocative aspects of her paintings. In her last work "Dark side of mine" Fisekci twists her interest by presenting her only painting of a man. What the viewer sees is a detail a man sitting in a car, and of course this time the subject is viewed from the perspective of a woman.
Karolin Fisekci showed her works in Under the Beach: The Pavement, Proje4L, Istanbul, 2002; Denizati Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, 2005; and Sobe, Galerist, Istanbul, 2007.
Fisekci specialises in painting and photography. The focus of her research is the role of woman in contemporary society; due to this interest the main subject of her practice is always the same woman retraced in various provocative positions and from a sexist point of view. This imagined subject never reveals her whole body, but the part that is shown is seen as if close-up. In this way and through the use of strong vibrant colors Fisekci strengthens the provocative aspects of her paintings. In her last work "Dark side of mine" Fisekci twists her interest by presenting her only painting of a man. What the viewer sees is a detail a man sitting in a car, and of course this time the subject is viewed from the perspective of a woman.
Karolin Fisekci showed her works in Under the Beach: The Pavement, Proje4L, Istanbul, 2002; Denizati Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, 2005; and Sobe, Galerist, Istanbul, 2007.
Devrim Kadirbeyoglu
Devrim Kadirbeyoglu is a Turkish artist and curator; she studied at the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul and moved to the USA in 2000 where she attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston for three years. Since this time she has been working and living between those two countries.
Kadirbeyoglu puts her attention to the topic of identity in contemporary society. This issue is emblematic in her last work Visa Applicants: "During the last week of July, I interviewed 30 Turkish Citizens who were applying for Schengen Visa in front of the German Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Each applicant was asked similar questions from the application form. Interviewees were also asked to hold a magnifying glass in front of their mouths while answering these simple questions.”
She has participated in the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran in Istanbul and the New York, New York, New York, Flux Factory, in New York, both in 2008. As a curator, she worked, among others, for the Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair, TersHane, Istanbul, 2007; and White Noise, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, New York, 2007.
Kadirbeyoglu puts her attention to the topic of identity in contemporary society. This issue is emblematic in her last work Visa Applicants: "During the last week of July, I interviewed 30 Turkish Citizens who were applying for Schengen Visa in front of the German Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Each applicant was asked similar questions from the application form. Interviewees were also asked to hold a magnifying glass in front of their mouths while answering these simple questions.”
She has participated in the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran in Istanbul and the New York, New York, New York, Flux Factory, in New York, both in 2008. As a curator, she worked, among others, for the Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair, TersHane, Istanbul, 2007; and White Noise, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, New York, 2007.
Gert Verhoeven
Gert Verhoeven (1964) was born in Leuven, Belgium. He studied at the Sint-Lukasinstituut and he lives and works in Brussels. In 1994 he won the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge and in 1996 he had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Xavier Hufkens. In the last year he presented works in three important galleries: Galerie CD in Tielt and galleries Middelheim and LLS 383 both in Antwerpen.
Gert Verhoeven's practice involves drawing, installation, sculpture and video. Following on from his early works such as Copyright (1996), he has gone on to explore with an ironic approach, the contemporary art world and its social practices. For example the work "Coca" consist of a series of reproductions taken from an old cook-book, in which he analyzes the traditional practice of cooking
In his recent series “Hidden cruelties of the endless sea” well known, common motifs such as sardine cans are playfully being submitted to some simple processes of selection, grouping and identification by pictorial criteria such as color or form, but also their manufacturing process, their social status (cheap or expensive brands).
On the same base the prints themselves are being analyzed in order of their numeric color codes and some cryptic notes, which might give a direction. In this manner the prints become the stage of an encrypted game with different unlimited vocabularies and deconstructions of meaning.
Gert Verhoeven's practice involves drawing, installation, sculpture and video. Following on from his early works such as Copyright (1996), he has gone on to explore with an ironic approach, the contemporary art world and its social practices. For example the work "Coca" consist of a series of reproductions taken from an old cook-book, in which he analyzes the traditional practice of cooking
In his recent series “Hidden cruelties of the endless sea” well known, common motifs such as sardine cans are playfully being submitted to some simple processes of selection, grouping and identification by pictorial criteria such as color or form, but also their manufacturing process, their social status (cheap or expensive brands).
On the same base the prints themselves are being analyzed in order of their numeric color codes and some cryptic notes, which might give a direction. In this manner the prints become the stage of an encrypted game with different unlimited vocabularies and deconstructions of meaning.
Emre Hüner
Born in Istanbul in 1977, Emre Hüner studied at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He lived and worked as an artist in Milan for eight years before returning to Istanbul in 2007. Hüner's practice, which includes drawing, installation, video and the use of an archive of found material from sources such as the internet, collected pictures and books, involves these disciplines feeding into one another to create complex compositions. Central to his oeuvre is an interest in technology, industrial progression and the concept of a society of risk, with themes such as the affinity of modern man with architecture and nature often reappearing.
In 2008 Hüner was commissioned to produce a new work for the Yama public screen in Istanbul for which he realised Total Realm (2008), a tableaux showing totalitarian imagary and symbols, referring to modernist utopias. He was also invited to present the video Panoptikon as a solo project for the Bidoun Project space, at the Creek Art Fair, Dubai.
Hüner recently participated in Manifesta 7 – The Rest of Now in South Tyrol Italy (2008) , the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2007) and Fairytale at TICA, Tirana (2007), Video Invitational #2 (2006), Via Farini, Milan and Con Altri Occhi (2006), Palazzo della Ragione, Milano. In 2007 he published an artist book titled Bent 003 with BAS.
In 2008 Hüner was commissioned to produce a new work for the Yama public screen in Istanbul for which he realised Total Realm (2008), a tableaux showing totalitarian imagary and symbols, referring to modernist utopias. He was also invited to present the video Panoptikon as a solo project for the Bidoun Project space, at the Creek Art Fair, Dubai.
Hüner recently participated in Manifesta 7 – The Rest of Now in South Tyrol Italy (2008) , the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2007) and Fairytale at TICA, Tirana (2007), Video Invitational #2 (2006), Via Farini, Milan and Con Altri Occhi (2006), Palazzo della Ragione, Milano. In 2007 he published an artist book titled Bent 003 with BAS.
Allen Grubesic
Allen Grubesic is a Swedish artist. He lives and works in Stockholm. He graduated from the Royal University Collage of Fine Arts of Stockholm and then continued his studies at the Universidad de Barcelona.
Grubesic works with a variety of media and materials to create his works such as Installation, video, prints, words, clothes, sculptures and plastic objects. Two fundamental elements of his research are irony and a strong sense of humour, which help him to find a way to approach contemporary and past popular cultures, as well as art history. This is visible in Composition in Yellow and Blue of 2006 where he combined together a Piet Mondrian painting with a Simpsons cartoon design. During his residency in Istanbul Grubesic has continued to play with these concepts and materials. His latest work Disneyntergration (2008) deals with heavy subjects such as capital, religion and power; all with his signature wit and sensibility for aesthetics. Disneyntergration (2008) is an artwork but also a word constructed by Allen Grubesic to illustrate the ongoing gentrification/corporative process taking place in metropolitan environments on a global level. A small presentation of his production will be presented at the end of his residency.
Grubesic was on residency in Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center; won a one- year Working Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants, 2005; the Stig Hedbergs Foundation, Sweden, 2002.
In 2008 he participated in “Year 1”, La ViolaBank Gallery, New York; “MAKE OUT”, studio 44 Stockholm; “On Produceability”, 5533 Istanbul; “Difference and Desire“, Pulse NYC, New York. In 2007 he was represented in “Artist Clothing”, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; “ A Hundred Ideas…”, Yeonheedong 195, Seoul.
Jeremiah Day residency is supported by IASPIS-International Artists Studio Program in Sweden.
Grubesic works with a variety of media and materials to create his works such as Installation, video, prints, words, clothes, sculptures and plastic objects. Two fundamental elements of his research are irony and a strong sense of humour, which help him to find a way to approach contemporary and past popular cultures, as well as art history. This is visible in Composition in Yellow and Blue of 2006 where he combined together a Piet Mondrian painting with a Simpsons cartoon design. During his residency in Istanbul Grubesic has continued to play with these concepts and materials. His latest work Disneyntergration (2008) deals with heavy subjects such as capital, religion and power; all with his signature wit and sensibility for aesthetics. Disneyntergration (2008) is an artwork but also a word constructed by Allen Grubesic to illustrate the ongoing gentrification/corporative process taking place in metropolitan environments on a global level. A small presentation of his production will be presented at the end of his residency.
Grubesic was on residency in Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center; won a one- year Working Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants, 2005; the Stig Hedbergs Foundation, Sweden, 2002.
In 2008 he participated in “Year 1”, La ViolaBank Gallery, New York; “MAKE OUT”, studio 44 Stockholm; “On Produceability”, 5533 Istanbul; “Difference and Desire“, Pulse NYC, New York. In 2007 he was represented in “Artist Clothing”, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; “ A Hundred Ideas…”, Yeonheedong 195, Seoul.
Jeremiah Day residency is supported by IASPIS-International Artists Studio Program in Sweden.
Monday, December 20, 1999
Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah Day is an American artist working mainly in photography and performance. Day's works deal with the intersection between site, memory and politics. He graduated from the University of California Los Angeles, and was a participant at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 2003-4. Recent exhibitions include “The Fall of the Twelve Acres Museum” at Arcade Fine Arts in London and Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Manifesta 7 in Trentino, Italy. His work can be seen at the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Netherlands as part of the exhibition “Heartland”. In 2009 he will publish a new book in collaboration with the dancer and conceptual artist Simone Forti, an extension from their collaborative exhibition in at Project Art Center in Dublin.
Jeremiah Day has a working period in Platform in order to work on a collaborative exhibition project with the artist/architect Can Altay. This project will be shown in the spring at the London gallery Arcade Fine Arts.
Jeremiah Day residency is supported by the Fonds BKVB/The Netherlands.
Jeremiah Day has a working period in Platform in order to work on a collaborative exhibition project with the artist/architect Can Altay. This project will be shown in the spring at the London gallery Arcade Fine Arts.
Jeremiah Day residency is supported by the Fonds BKVB/The Netherlands.
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