CENTRE POMPIDOU - PARIS: RIOT

: Riot/Emeute

Video

4-6 december / aralik

Centre Pompidou, Paris

PART 1

Servet Koçyigit, "Shake it ‘till it drops", 2007

Sener Ozmen & Cengiz Tekin, "One Day a T and a K," 2009

Bengu Karaduman, "in place of silent words", 2009

Ahmet Ogut, "Things we count", 2008


PART 2


Nevin Aladag, "Raise the Roof", 2007

Nilbar Gures, "The Letter", 2006

Ferhat Ozgur, "A Young girl is growing up", 2003

Aslı Sungu "Puff", 2002

Curator / Kurator : Azra Tuzunoglu

::: SSS / Shore Scene Soundtrack

Performans

6 aralik 16h15

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Cevdet Erek SSS / Shore Scene Soundtrack’ı okuyor ve performansını gerçekleştiriyor.

::: Yuvarlak Masa

6 aralik 14h

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Banu Cennetoğlu (Editions BAS), Halil Altındere (art-ist publications), Didem Özbek (PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space) ve Vahit Tuna (graphique degigner)'nın katılımıyla.

Moderatör : Yekhan Pınarlıgil

Canlı yayın: //selfworld.net

::: Livres de première nécessité



Exposition

4-6 décembre

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Il y a des livres rares, voire très rares qui, lorsque les mécanismes de contrôle s'acharnent sur les individus, permettent un point de non-contrôle, rendant possible la différence, extraordinaire, singulière et étrange… il y a des livres légers, des livres qui font rire et des livres qui font danser… il y a des livres de première nécessité, produits dans l'urgence, des livres-monstres qui bouleversent les systèmes supposés équilibrés, des livres qui déconstruisent, qui brouillent les standards, qui déstructurent la perception, qui ravagent le préconçu… Il y a des livres qui libèrent un espace vital.

Burak Arıkan, Esat Cavit Başak, Masist Gül, Ahmet Öğüt, Didem Özbek, Serkan Özkaya, Şener Özmen, Tayfun Serttaş, Sevim Sancaktar, Canan Şenol, Güneş Terkol, İrem Tok, Vahit Tuna


Commissaire : Yekhan Pınarlıgil

::: Riot/Emeute

Vidéo

4-6 décembre

Centre Pompidou, Paris

PART 1

Servet Koçyiğit, Shake it ‘till it drops, 2007

Şener Özmen & Cengiz Tekin, One Day a T and a K, 2009

Bengü Karaduman, in place of silent words, 2009

Ahmet Öğüt, Things we count, 2008

PART 2

Nevin Aladağ, Raise the Roof, 2007

Nilbar Güreş, The Letter, 2006

Ferhat Özgür, A Young girl is growing up, 2003

Aslı Süngü, Püff, 2002

Programme élaboré par Azra Tüzünoğlu.

::: SSS / Shore Scene Soundtrack

Performance

6 décembre 16h15

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Lecture de son livre par Cevdet Erek, suivie de sa performance.

::: Table ronde 16h

6 décembre 14h

Centre Pompidou, Paris

::: Istanbul éditions - éditeurs

Avec la participation de Banu Cennetoğlu (Editions BAS), Halil Altındere (art-ist publications), Didem Özbek (PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space) et de Vahit Tuna (graphique degigner).

Modérateur et commissaire : Yekhan Pınarlıgil (Bibliothèque Kandinsky)

Retransmission en live sur //selfworld.net

Regards Projects

Appollonia European Art Exchanges / Strasbourg / France


Regards Projetés

35 ans d’art vidéo turc

Artistes : Hakan Akcura / Selda Asal / Nancy Atakan / Fikret Atay / Bulent Bas / Tennur Bas / Ali M. Demirel / Burkay Dogan / Koken Ergun / Esra Ersen / Ozlem Gunyol / Gulsun Karamustafa / Mustafa Kunt / Ahmet Ogut / Erkan Ozgen / Ferhat Ozgur / Sener Ozmen / Candas Sisman / Nil Yalter

Commissariat : Ege Berensel (artiste, critique d’art) et Celenk Bafra (critique d’art, IKSV)

Présentée sous la forme d’une exposition, cette large sélection présente un vaste panorama de l’utilisation du médium vidéo en Turquie, des premières expérimentations aux tendances les plus contemporaines.

Par ailleurs, une table ronde sur le thème de « L’art vidéo en Turquie » sera organisée, en collaboration avec l’École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (26 novembre 2009 au Parc des expositions du Wacken, horaire à confirmer).
http://www.apollonia-art-exchanges.com/apollonia.php?cs=0&idm=522&id=556&rub=1&type=2&idmGen=522#14

exhibition / sergi: 'I Received Your Invitation, Thank You'

sergi / exhibition


Mardin Valisi Hasan Duruer ve GAP İdaresi Baskanı Sadrettin Karahocagil,

Haziran 2010'da gerçekleştirilecek 'MardinGüncel' adlı
uluslararası serginin ön tanıtım etkinliği olan
'davetinizi aldım, teşekkürler!
adlı serginin açılışına ve Burhan Öçal konserine katılmanızdan onur duyarlar.

The Governor of Mardin Mr Hasan Duruer and The Head of The GAP Mr Sadrettin Karahocagil

would cordially invite you to honour the opening of the exhibition entitled “I received your invitation, thank you!”, which is organized as a preliminary event of the international exhibition to be held in June in 2010 and the concert of Burhan Öçal.


sanatçılar / artists

erdag aksel / fikret atay / kezban arca batibeki / burak bedenlier / hussein chalayan / serkan demir / twin gabriel / mehmet guleryuz / ursula mayer / oliver musovik / gani llalloshi / ahmet muderrisoglu / ozgur onurme / ferhat ozgur / adrian paci / goran skofic

curator: done otyam

sergi acilisi / opening ceremony: 24 ekim / october 2009 18:00
mekan / venue: kasimiye medresesi / kasimiye madrasah
mardin-turkey

burhan öçal konseri / concert: 23 ekim / october 2009: 18:00

yer / location: dara antik kenti / dara antique city – mardin- turkey


ayrintili bilgi icin / for further information: www.mardinguncel.com
catalog mevcuttur / catalogue is available




Turkce versiyon icin lutfen asagiya kaydiriniz.

''I Received Your Invitation, Thank You!''



The spectacular exhibition called ''I Received Your Invitation, Thank You'' is organized as a preliminary activity of the multinational contemporary art exhibition ''Mardin Contemporary'' which is planned to be held on June 2010.

The purpose of this exhibition is to carry today's art from Turkey's west to east ; to enable the people of Mardin to be in contact with contemporary art with the attendance of both nationally and internationally scaled artists; to add up some different kind of motion and aura to the geography of Mardin via academicians, students and various cultural communities; to create a new environment of sharing; to bring a new dimension to the definition of the usual concept of 'center' and to place Mardin in a central position by the help of esteemed exhibitions. Before all else, this exhibition will be displayed at the daily life locations of Mardin blended with historical architecture. As a result of this, Mardin a historically, culturally and geographically gifted city will constitute an unusual and intense field of experience for today's artists. The purpose of this project as to be held on an international scale is to provide the notification of above mentioned purposes and realities at international media and attract the attention of international cultural and art institutions. As a result of these activities, Mardin will prove its capability as a host in professional organizations with its both historical and cultural aspects and architectural achievements of performed restorations and will also create a new vision as a competition welcomer city.

Location: Mardin which means ''castles'' in Syriac, has a border with Syria at Southeast of Turkey and attracts attention as a very unique city with Arabian architecture touch.With its multicultural structure Mardin will achieve a new dimension with this contemporary art activity which will be held on 2010.

The preliminary opening exhibition will take place at recently restored Sabancı Museum in between the dates of October 24 , 2009 and November 30, 2009Public service areas such as PTT Building, Remains of Dara, Deyrülzaferan Monastery and Kasimiye Madrasah are also determined as display locations for the exhibition in 2010.

Sergi
‘Davetinizi Aldım, Teşekkürler / I Received Your Invitation, Thank You!”
“Davetinizi Aldım, Teşekkürler!” adlı sergi, Mardin’de 2010 Haziran ayında yapılması planlanan “MardinGüncel” adlı uluslararası kapsamlı güncel sanat sergisinin bir ön açılış etkinliği olarak planlandı. Etkinliğin amacı, güncel sanatı, Türkiye’nin Batısı’ndan Doğu’suna taşımak ve hem ulusal ve uluslararası ölçekteki saygın sanatçı katılımlarıyla güncel sanatın Mardin halkı ile yerinde temas kurmasını sağlamak, sanat yoluyla Mardin coğrafyasını sanatçılar, akademisyenler, öğrenciler ve farklı kültür topluluklarıyla hareketlendirmek, yeni paylaşım ortamları yaratmak, sanatta alışılagelmiş ‘merkez’ fikrinin tanımına yeni boyutlar getirmek ve Mardin’i saygın sergiler dizisiyle merkezi bir konuma oturtmaktır. Sergi öncelikle Mardin’in benzersiz tarihsel mimarisi ve Mardin halkının gündelik hayatıyla kaynaşan mekanlarında gerçekleşecektir. Bu vesileyle tarihsel, kültürel ve coğrafi zenginliklerle dolu olan Mardin kenti, güncel sanatçılar için de ilk kez bu kadar farklı ve yoğun bir deneyim alanı oluşturacaktır. Projenin uluslararası bir ölçekte gerçekleştirilme amacı ise yukarıda belirtilen amaçlar ve gerçeklerin uluslararası ortamlarda da fark edilmesini sağlamak ve uluslararası kültür ve sanat kurumlarının dikkatini Mardin’e çevirmektir. Mardin bu etkinliklerin sonunda, gerek tarihsel ve kültürel dokusuyla, gerek restorasyonu tamamlanmış mimari kazanımlarıyla profesyonel anlamda kapsamlı organizasyonlara ev sahipliği yapabileceğini kanıtlayacak ve rakabete açık bir kent olarak yeni bir vizyon yaratacaktır.
Mekan: Suryanice’de “kaleler” anlamına gelen Mardin, Türkiye’nin Güneydoğusunda Suriye sınırına komşu, Arap mimarisinin büyüleyici örnekleriyle dolu benzersiz bir kent olarak dikkat çekiyor. Suriye’nin Kuzeyindeki geniş boşluklara nazır kayalık coğrafyası ve çok kültürlü yapısıyla Mardin, 2010’da ilk kez kapsamlı bir güncel sanat etkinliğiyle farklı bir hareketlilik kazanacak.
Ön açılış sergisi restorasyonu biten Sabancı Müzesi’ 24 Ekim 2009 -30 Kasım 2009 tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecektir. 2010’da kamusal alanlara da yayılacak etkinliğin diğer mekanları ise PTT Binası, Dara Harabeleri, Deyrülzaferan Manastırı ve Kasımiye Medresesi olarak belirlenmiştir.

I CAN SEE YOU FROM HERE

'I Can See You From Here', 2009, mixed media on paper, 60x50 cm
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Şimdi Kaydet

Seriously Ironic: Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art

28.6.2009 - 30.8.2009, Centre Pasquart / Biel - Switzerland

Positions in Turkish Contemporary Art Scene

exposition de groupe

Vernissage sa 27 06 2009, 17h

SERIOUSLY IRONIC will for the first time in Switzerland present in a group exhibition Turkish Contemporary art scene in Switzerland. 15 either emerging or established young Turkish artists, who are representative for the contemporary Turkish art scene, are invited to this important exhibition. With the choice of the artists and their works different interests of the artists will be shown: The range is between serious facets, as personal history, search of identity, social, feministic, environmental or political concerns, as well as conceptual visual approaches and bracing irony.

Co-Curators: Dolores Denaro, Isin Önol

Artists invited:
Erdag Aksel
Selda Asal
Selim Birsel
Nezaket Ekici
Leyla Gediz
Sakir Gokcebag
Gözde Ilkin
Devrim Kadirbeyoglu
Ferhat Özgür
Serkan Ozkaya
Hayal Pozanti
Hale Tenger
Muruvvet Turkyilmaz
Hande Varsat

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SERIOUSLY IRONIC présente pour la première fois en Suisse une exposition de groupe consacrée à la scène artistique contemporaine turque. Quatorze artistes turcs établis ou émergents, mais tous représentatifs de cette nouvelle scène, sont invités à cet important événement. La sélection des artistes et des oeuvres reflète des intérêts variés qui comprennent autant des préoccupations sérieuses comme l'histoire personnelle, la recherche d'identité, les questions féministes, environnementales ou politiques, que des approches conceptuelles ou ironiques.

A l'occasion de l'exposition, une publication richement illustrée paraît aux éditions Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg en allemand, français et anglais.

Artistes exposés
Erdag Aksel (1957)
Selda Asal (1960)
Selim Birsel (1963)
Nezaket Ekici (1970)
Leyla Gediz (1974)
Sakir Gökcebag (1965)
Gözde Ilkin (1981)
Devrim Kadirbeyoglu (1978)
Ferhat Özgür (1966)
Serkan Özkaya (1973)
Hayal Pozanti (1983)
Hale Tenger (1960)
Mürüvvet Türkyilmaz (1968)
Hande Varsat (1983)
Sous le haut patronage de
H. E. Mr. Alev Kiliç, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in Switzerland
Herr Hans Stöckli, Maire de Bienne

Avec le généreux soutien de
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, Bern
Turkish Airlines
Kaufmann research
ainsi que d?une fondation privée et de donateurs

Polis Adriatic Festival / Pula-Croatia

Polis Jadran Europa - Pula-Croatia
21-23 May 2009

TOURIST CITY

EXHIBITION: JELENA KOVAČEVIĆ JUREŠA / GANI LLALLOSHI / PAULA MUHR / FERHAT ÖZGÜR / NIKA RADIĆ / SOFIJASILVIA / GORAN ŠKOFIĆ / MARKO TADIĆ / SLAVEN TOLJ
POLIS CINEMA: TANJA DABO / DEJAN KARAKLAJIĆ & JOVAN AĆIN / RENATA POLJAK
Curator: Branka Benčić

Millions of people travel in far regions. But, they don't find the unknown. Cities resemble one another; local customs have become world trends. All the places we long for are reachable in every moment; tourism has destroyed old utopias… Mobility among the cities, in all kinds of tourism and migration, has changed in its basis our relation towards the city and our cities… For tourists and migrants, the land on which the city is lying, has become again the main subject.

(Boris Groys: World On Travel, in: Making Things Visible. Strategy of Contemporary Art, Refleksije book collection, MSU, Zagreb, 2006, page 66-67)

In accordance with this year’s topic, the Tourist City is settled as a platform for discussion and interdisciplinary reflection on the culture of travelling and its social, cultural, economic and urban consequences. The homonymous exhibition tries to explore in a larger contest the phenomenon of contemporary tourism, the aesthetic and iconography of travelling, as well as the possibilities of its implementation in the society and environment.

The development of tourism in the last decade, although relatively short, but almost quick as lightning, has proved its wide-ranging spectra of effects. Whereas, contemporary life diminished the polarity between “work” and “free time”, the concept of free time has undergone through a numerous transformations in the last decades. In 1957, Roland Barthes has written on a few occasions and in a few chapters of the Mythologies, about tourism as one of the myths of the contemporary society. The interest of the tourist is based on the investigation to participate in new and noteworthy cultural experiences, whether they are aesthetical, intellectual, emotional or psychological. Tourism is a delightful and educative experience, which combines art with natural and social cultural heritage and history. Today, contemporary art is recognized as an important and unavoidable factor of tourist offer. Tourist's experience amply represents an aesthetical experience (together with the hedonistic and educative), whereas tourism is conceived as a complex assemblage of relations and generative factors of future culture, while economy, tourism and culture are closely connected parts forming the definition of national identity. Since contemporary art implies criticism of contemporary society, tourism becomes the subject of interest for artists, who while using the language of tourist materials, behave as tourists or become tourists in search of new experiences. In distinction from the tourists, they take a critical position and reshape and comment the reality. Artists map certain spots of cultural, historical, artistic or natural heritage.

Journeys are midwives of thoughts, wrote Alain de Botton in his Art of Travel. The phenomenon of travelling and relating strategies are explored from different perspectives. Travelling is a multilayer process, a state in between. It represents a symbolic and private experience, at the same time something banal, as are spending and massive entertainment, while art works explore the same subject from different angles. Artists with their installations shape different spaces with which they are going to suggest the processes of tourism, as well as the critical relations towards a kind of symbolic, economic and social exchange or stimulate experiences and expose them to humour and irony. The numerous works mostly deal with the “consumer’s” aspect of tourism submissive to criticism, which represents the prevailing field of interest comprising the social context, people, experiences, contents, experience of being a tourist, travelling, locations, souvenirs, memories… The photos of Paula Muhr and Jelena Kovačević Jureša represent a kind of typical tourist snapshots, capturing the tourists while posing. On the other hand Gani Llalloshi and Paula Muhr deal with a subversion of the self-portrait genre. While Paula poses in front of the important sights of Italian architectural heritage, Gani Lalloshi catches hold of the composition and takes the pose from Manet’s Breakfast on Grass, but the scene is situated on a sandy beach in present time. The video works of Tanja Dabo and Goran Škofić are autobiographical recordings representing the “oppression of tourism”. Goran Škofić manifests his ecological responsibility with the repetitions of the action of taking out objects from the sea, whereas Tanja Dabo repeats the word welcome till she gets out of breath. The installation of Nika Radić reconstructs the experience of summer vacation on the isle of Zlarin, where courtyards are filled with summer gadgets and projections simulate houses with shutters wide open. The Souvenirs collected by Marko Tadić, on which he makes interventions, are old-fashioned memorabilia shaped as decorative wooden boards representing different tourist views. According to Ana Dević, these objects evoke nostalgic elegancy of the passed times, the pathos of kitsch, the uneasiness of cheep pleasures, the naïve bad taste, the rustic idyll of the vanished times and journeys. The works of Ferhat Özgür, Renata Poljak and Slaven Tolj deal with social, architectonic and urban phenomenon, the documentary film We are not selling Hollywood by Dejan Karaklajić and Jovan Aćin with subversive nostalgia gets us back in 1972 to the Penthouse episode of the tourist complex Haludovo on the isle of Krk. Whereas, the photos of SofijaSilvia represent scenes from the Brijuni isles as idyllic landscapes of romantic spirit, their absence being almost fixed in time, and transform this romantic tourism into, according to Boris Groys, a machine which transforms the temporary into permanent.

Branka Benčić

P.S. I am thanking Marko Lulić for his artistic production and strategy of appropriation, due to which I got acquainted with the film We are not selling Hollywood.

In Search of Lost Reality: NevGeneration

Gallery Nev: 25th Year Anniversary Exhibition.
in search of lost reality: nevgeneration
15.05.2009 - 15.08.2009

Opening its very first exhibition in May 1984, Galeri Nev is celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary this May. Having dedicated its past anniversaries to comprehensive exhibitions of the history of the gallery itself and of the three generations it represents, this time Nev choses to leave the past behind and look to the future.

The twenty fifth anniversary exhibition to be opened at Galeri Nev on the evening of May 15, consists mainly of the works by young artists born in the beginning of the 1980’s, marking the inception of the gallery. Nev Gereration thus sets out to discover a new generation that will be articulated to the previous ones. Works gathered under the caption of “In Search of Lost Reality” also raise many questions as to the art of the present day and point out to art's pursuit of reality at a time when reality has been lost.

NevGeneration includes the following artists: Barış Sarıbaş, Birtan Oran, Burcu Perçin, Ercan Akın, Ferhat Özgür, Hayal İncedoğan, Karolin Fişekçi, Lale Delibaş, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Murat Akagündüz, Mustafa Duymaz, Mustafa Karasu, Osman Kerkütlü, Şebnem Dönmez, Semra Karahan and Volkan Diyaroğlu.

galeri nev 25. yıl
kayıp gerçekliğin izinde: nevnesil
15 Mayıs 2009 Cuma - 15 Ağustos 2009 Cumartesi

İlk sergisini 1984 yılı Mayıs ayında açan Galeri Nev, 2009 Mayıs’ında yirmi beşinci yılını kutluyor. Geçtiğimiz yıldönümlerinde galerinin ve temsil ettiği üç kuşağın tarihine ilişkin kapsamlı sergiler düzenleyen Nev, bu kez geçmişe değil geleceğe bakmayı seçiyor.

15 Mayıs akşamı Ankara Galeri Nev'de açılacak olan yirmi beşinci yıl sergisi, çoğunluğu galerinin kurulduğu 1980'li yılların başında doğan genç sanatçıların eserlerinden oluşuyor. NevNesil böylece yeni bir kuşağın keşfine çıkıyor. “Kayıp Gerçekliğin İzinde” başlığının altında toplanan eserler aynı zamanda günümüz sanatına dair pek çok soru uyandırıyor. Gerçekliğin kaybedildiği bir zamanda sanatın gerçeklik arayışına işaret ediyor.

NevNesil’de, Barış Sarıbaş, Birtan Oran, Burcu Perçin, Ercan Akın, Ferhat Özgür, Hayal İncedoğan, Karolin Fişekçi, Lale Delibaş, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Murat Akagündüz, Mustafa Duymaz, Mustafa Karasu, Osman Kerkütlü, Şebnem Dönmez, Semra Karahan ve Volkan Diyaroğlu yer alıyor.

Exhibition: Soft Manipulation-Bergen-NORWAY