// Portrait in the Moving Image / Vandalorum and Vernamo / IKFU, Sweden

// Portrait in the Moving Image / Vandalorum and Vernamo / IKFU, Sweden


Vandalorum, 9 March-7 April 2013
Vernamo, 8 March-7 April 2013

curator: Tim Reed

Internationell Konst Film Utställning, IKFU, is a pioneering project to promote interest in contemporary art in the Jönköping region of central southern Sweden. It is an international biennial exhibition of art of the moving image. Home and Country is screened at Vandalorum 9.3-7.4.2013.

Exhibition artists

• Adelina Popnedeleva
• Avi Mograbi
• Felix Gmelin
• Ferhat Özgür
• Friedl vom Gröller
• Gillian Wearing
• Hyun Joo Min
• Isabell Heimerdinger
• Joacélio Batista
• Jonathan Lewald
• Mattias Härenstam
• maurus & Ceven Knowles
• Petrina Hicks
• Rogelio Sastre

for more info about the biennale and the screening programme please visit:
www.ikfu.se
www.vandalorum.se

review kunstritic and aftonbladet, sweden, 25.2.2013

Review Kunstkritic and Aftonbladet, Sweeden, 25.2.2013

Solo Show, 'Let Everybody Come Out Today', Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg, Sweden, 9.2.2013-7.4.2013

ferhat özgür, "let everybody come out today', exhibition views from marabouparken konsthall, sundbyberg-sweden
9 February - 7 April 2013

ferhat özgür

Let Everybody Come Out Today
February 9–April 7, 2013

curator: bettina perhsson

By seemingly simple gestures, Ferhat Özgür connects the individual reality to larger issues of the human condition in a changing world, where the city of Ankara represents that which constructs, limits and enables our lives. Özgür’s art is characterised by a personal narrative voice, and the social and political issues that he raises are relevant far beyond the borders of Ankara and Turkey.
In 2002 Ferhat Özgür asked the neighbours in the street where he grew up to pose for a group photo outside their homes. Having moved from the Turkish countryside to Ankara, they built their homes on the outskirts of the city. Now, their part of town was due for bulldozing. In the diptych Let Everybody Come Out Today, the neighbours stare grimly at the camera, marked by life. It is a key work in the oeuvre of Özgür, who for years has been critically following the changes taking place in his home environment, where smaller villages and informal settlements are torn down and replaced by a growing number of skyscrapers and shopping malls.

A chronicler of his immediate surroundings, Özgür portrays with humour and warmth the challenges facing the individual in a country where the lines between Islam and Christianity, Turkish traditions and Western influences are blurred and constantly renegotiated.

The video I Can Sing shows how high-rise buildings are appearing between the minarets that have traditionally dominated the city of Ankara. A woman wearing a traditional headscarf stands against the backdrop of her reconstructed home, moving her lips to Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. This classic song, whose lyrics have been the subject of many interpretations, refers, in this double cover, to how the changing city has received both praise and resistance.
Well it goes like this / The fourth, the fifth / The minor fall and the major shift

Even the major key of the Western popular song seems to be an indicator of uprooting as it obliterates the minor tones characteristic of traditional Turkish music. Swaying to Hallelujah, spreading her arms to the sky, the woman becomes an embodiment of societal upheaval and change.
The video work Metamorphosis Chat (2010) and the more recent Women in Love (2013) both cite the narrative frame of Turkish soap operas. The actors in Özgür’s films are often acquaintances and relatives. Together they seek images and gestures to visually express the difficulties facing especially women living in a patriarchal society and in a present that is constantly producing new realities and questioning traditional ideas of a successful life.

In Metamorphosis Chat, Özgür’s mother, who wears a traditional headscarf, meets a neighbour, a teacher in modern dress, for tea. The women decide to switch roles and begin to exchange clothes. Özgür’s influence as director recedes as the women, allowing themselves to get carried away by the merriment of dressing up, become their own authors. Their hearty friendliness, their openness in dealing with what might otherwise be embarrassing, their laughing at each other and themselves – all poke fun at the fear and aggressive moralising found in debates on symbols with religious connotations.

In Özgür’s latest work, Women in Love, a group of middle-aged widows are reminiscing about their lives with their husbands. The conversation encompasses their vulnerability, fragility and isolation as child brides; identifies painful descriptions of domestic violence and alcohol abuse and heightens our awareness of the nature of matrimonial loyalty through stories of love and loss.

Mum 1954/2011 is a double portrait of Ferhat Özgür’s mother. More than 60 years have passed between the two images and we are reminded of how we age and our relationship with our parents who were once young men and women. This work also refers to the modernisation process in Turkey where Özgür’s mother represents the many women who, in the beginning of the 1950s, migrated from the countryside to the big city of Ankara. Instead of integrating themselves into the more liberal lifestyle of the capital city, many women chose to preserve the traditional values and clothes from their villages. These young rural women grew more conservative in the country’s urban centre. As a young woman in 1954, Özgür’s mother did not wear a headscarf, it only became part of her identity when she moved to Ankara.

A common theme for the majority of Özgür’s photographic works is the city of Ankara, which he has described as a being that infiltrates his bloodstream, lives with him, poisons him but also vitalises and energises him. In Our Neighbourhood, three young boys are gazing out over a changing urban landscape. A number of high-rise buildings are under construction, half-finished houses are sprouting up from the arid ground next to more informal, smaller houses in the nearby slum area. In The City’s Breath Inside Me, air-filled plastic bags are hovering over the poor area of the city, where Ferhat Özgür grew up. Having no money to buy kites, Özgür and his childhood friends made their own out of plastic bags, which, when filled with air, flew as well as the shop-bought ones.

In one of Ankara’s slum areas, the residents gather at a building site for a communal embrace. Özgür began working on Embrace just before the Iraq War started and draws a parallel between the changing city and the fragile peace in the region. The work also forms an association to the dream of a better life, in an area where many people live in houses with protruding iron bars, waiting for the day when they will be able to add another floor to their homes.

SOCIAL SOUND / ART ABOUT MUSIC AND WHAT LIFE SOUNDS De Blokhuispoort Blokhuisplein 40: 5 January-16 February 2013, The Netherlands

SOCIAL SOUND / ART ABOUT MUSIC AND WHAT LIFE SOUNDS LIKE

The art initiative VHDG proudly presents Social Sound, a multidisciplinary exhibition program about the social function of music. Social Sound takes place from the 5th of January until the 16th of February 2013 and shows how artists investigate the social role of music, in a program that includes an exhibition, workshops, lectures, concerts and several manifestations in the public space. The main location is former prison De Blokhuispoort in Leeuwarden. Additional projects will be launched in the city center of Leeuwarden.

Social Sound presents existing and new work of Dutch and international artists, like Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller (GB), Matt Stokes (GB), David First (USA), Merlijn Twaalfhoven (NL), Ferhat Özgür (TR), Steven Jouwersma (NL), !Mediengruppe Bitnik (CH), Marijn van Kreij (NL), Katarina Zdjelar (SRB), Bouke Groen (NL), Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (FI), Elke Uitentuis & Nienke Jansen (NL), Toon Fibbe (NL), The Little Sisters of Gay Mutton (NL) and Elena Bajo (ES). The exhibited works discuss issues that are now present in society, show how people interact and investigate what role music plays in these matters.

During the exhibition visitors can also visit the Sonic Restaurant of David First in the city center of Leeuwarden. Here they serve sound instead of food. The unconventional concert adventure ‘The Air We Breathe’ of Merlijn Twaalfhoven will come to the cellblock of the monumental prison. Also there is a newly established Complaints Choir in Leeuwarden, which is an art project of Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, who give complaining Leeuwardeners a voice in a choir. These projects are complemented by a program of lectures, workshops, concerts and other activities.

More information (in Dutch) is to be found at www.social-sound.nl [8]

VISITING HOURS

January 5th - February 16th 2013, opening on Saturday 5th of January 4PM.
Monday – Saturday 12 – 5 PM

VISITOR INFORMATION

VHDG, Social Sound
Voormalig gevangenis De Blokhuispoort
Blokhuisplein 40
8911 LJ Leeuwarden

www.social-sound.nl [8]

ADMISSION
Admission free

solo show in MoMA PS1 extended until 19 January 2013

solo show in MoMA PS1 extended until 19 January 2013

Ferhat Özgür ‘I Can Sing’,

PS 1 MOMA, NEW YORK

25 October 2012-19 January 2013

Curator:  Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art.

22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.

Long Island City, NY 11101

(718) 784-2084

    image: Ferhat Özgür, 'I Can Sing', 2008, video, 7min.

Ferhat Özgür’s (1965-Ankara) practice critiques contemporary political realities with humor and irony. Living and working in Istanbul, Özgür principally focuses upon the relationship of the individual with society, using his work as a space within which individuality can be expressed in spite of the context of oppressive environments.

Özgür‘s video I Can Sing (2008), depicts an Anatolian woman in a headscarf, standing before a backdrop of contemporary Ankara featuring minarets alongside the ever-expanding sprawl of urban development. The woman’s lips move in conflict with the soundtrack of Jeff Buckley’s cover version of Leonard Cohen’s classic song “Hallelujah”. Her personal lament becomes a lament for the disappearance of cultural traditions and identities in the wake of western homogenization. She appears to both praise and despair, but the lines between Islam and Christianity, Western influence and Turkish tradition are blurred--suggesting that change is being both embraced and shunned. She is an embodiment of societal upheaval and change. Even the major key of the Western popular song is an indicator of uprooting as it obliterates the minor tones characteristic of Turkish music.

Ferhat Özgür graduated from Gazi University, Education Faculty, Department Of Painting in 1989. Having completed his master and doctorate studies in Hacettepe University Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Painting in 1997, he was appointed to the same department as academic where he has taught for nearly two decades. He currently works and teaches in Istanbul Kültür University, Art and Design Faculty, Department of Communication Design (Multimedia). Özgür took part in the 6th Berlin Biennale, the 10th Istanbul Biennale and 3rd Örebro Open Art Biennale-Sweeden, 1st Mardin Biennale and Sinopale 1, 3, Çanakkale Biennale 2012, Turkey, 8^th Cairo Biennale.  His works have been exhibited in numerous venues including, Centre George Pompidou-Paris, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt-Berlin, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MUMOK-Wien, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo-Turin, Mattress Factory Art Museum-Pittsburgh, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Comtemporaine, Magazin 4 Bregenz-Austria, Zone Contemporaine-Bern etc.

For further detail: http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/362

Marcus Raetz and Ferhat Özgür

clocwise, ferhat özgür and marcus raetz, november 2012, Marcus Raetz's studio, Bern

'Wild at Heart', Zone Contemporaine Oliver Fahrni, 2 November-29 December 2012, Bern

WILD AT HEART
2 November - 29 December 2012

Artists:
Baldur Burwitz, Fabian Chiquet, Wim Delvoye, Andreas Egli, Manon, Fabian
Gutscher & Frantiček Klossner, Victorine Müller, Ferhat Özgür, Antal Thoma,Special Guests: Rik Reinking, Tim Steiner

ZONE CONTEMPORAINE olivier fahrni
Opening | 2 November | 6-9 pm
Performance | Bernhard Schneider | 7 pm

For the opening of the new Kunsthalle ZONE CONTEMPORAINE in Niederwangen
Berne (Switzerland) the founder Olivier Fahrni together with the artist and
co-curator Franticek Klossner will present a sensual exhibition of
international art overwhelmed with emotions. WILD AT HEART assembles
polarising artworks of nine artists. The works of renowned stars engage in a thrilling dialogue with
installations, videos and performances of young, uprising talents of the Swiss art scene.

catalogue:
http://zonecontemporaine.ch/fileadmin/media/zc01.pdf<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fzonecontemporaine.ch%2Ffileadmin%2Fmedia%2Fzc01.pdf&h=iAQF0AljTAQF7xL8g49HxQrdLkh8_dqd5rxKCcyQdSzeGsA&s=1>

zone contemporaine olivier fahrni
freiburgstrasse 580
3172 niederwangen-bern
+41(0)31 981 32 26
 zonecontemporaine.ch

ferhat özgür, video and drawing installation, exhibition view from Zone Contemporaine, Bern, November 2012(video, 'metamorphosis chat')

'Drive In', video screening, 9 November 2012, HHDM, Vienna

Drive In, next Friday 9 November 2012, at HHDM (Hinter Haus des Meeres), at 8.15pm. Originally conceived for PAMI (Peckham Artists Moving Image Festival London), this program of artists' films will be shown for the first time in Vienna.

curator: elise lammer

With films by: 

Aisha Abid Hussain

Choterina Freer 
Fabian Marti
Simon Martin Mélodie Mousset
Ferhat Özgür
Berry Patten
Sven Sachsalber
Jon Smith
Wendy Vainity

with the generous support of LUX, www.lux.org.uk

Nov. 9, 2012, 8.15pm

More info:http://t.ymlp330.net/hqagahebyalaejyanaeuh/click.php

www.hhdm.eu 

Ferhat Özgür ‘I Can Sing’, PS 1 MOMA, NEW YORK 25 October 2012-31 December 2012

Ferhat Özgür, 'I Can Sing', 2008, video, 7min.

Ferhat Özgür ‘I Can Sing’,

PS 1 MOMA, NEW YORK

25 October 2012-31 December 2012

Curator:  Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art.

22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.

Long Island City, NY 11101

(718) 784-2084

Ferhat Özgür’s (1965-Ankara) practice critiques contemporary political realities with humor and irony. Living and working in Istanbul, Özgür principally focuses upon the relationship of the individual with society, using his work as a space within which individuality can be expressed in spite of the context of oppressive environments.

Özgür‘s video I Can Sing (2008), depicts an Anatolian woman in a headscarf, standing before a backdrop of contemporary Ankara featuring minarets alongside the ever-expanding sprawl of urban development. The woman’s lips move in conflict with the soundtrack of Jeff Buckley’s cover version of Leonard Cohen’s classic song “Hallelujah”. Her personal lament becomes a lament for the disappearance of cultural traditions and identities in the wake of western homogenization. She appears to both praise and despair, but the lines between Islam and Christianity, Western influence and Turkish tradition are blurred--suggesting that change is being both embraced and shunned. She is an embodiment of societal upheaval and change. Even the major key of the Western popular song is an indicator of uprooting as it obliterates the minor tones characteristic of Turkish music.

Ferhat Özgür graduated from Gazi University, Education Faculty, Department Of Painting in 1989. Having completed his master and doctorate studies in Hacettepe University Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Painting in 1997, he was appointed to the same department as academic where he has taught for nearly two decades. He currently works and teaches in Istanbul Kültür University, Art and Design Faculty, Department of Communication Design (Multimedia). Özgür took part in the 6th Berlin Biennale, the 10th Istanbul Biennale and 3rd Örebro Open Art Biennale-Sweeden, 1st Mardin Biennale and Sinopale 1, 3, Çanakkale Biennale 2012, Turkey, 8^th Cairo Biennale.  His works have been exhibited in numerous venues including, Centre George Pompidou-Paris, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt-Berlin, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MUMOK-Wien, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo-Turin, Mattress Factory Art Museum-Pittsburgh, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art Comtemporaine, Magazin 4 Bregenz-Austria, Zone Contemporaine-Bern etc.

For further detail: http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/362

clockwise: ferhat özgür, wolfgang laib and his wife, 14 October 2012, Paris. 

Noordkaap Tour - Closing Part: 11-21-2012, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Noordkaap Tour - Closing Part

Thursday October 11, 2012 till Sunday October 21, 2012

Closing Exhibition of Noordkaap's European tour on the rise of Populism.

http://noordkaap.org/programma/noordkaap-dordrecht/

Guided tours: October 11 – 21, startingpoint De Waag 110 3311XS Dordrecht.  For guided group tours please contact info@noordkaap.org.

Commedia dell'Arte: Saturday October 13, 13:30 and 15:30, Het Hof 3311XG Dordrecht

Dinner and public debate: Saturday October 13

Concert Hall & Rauch: Saturday October 13, Vriesweg 22 (Baracca)

After a European tour to Munich, Istanbul, Cologne, Budapest, and Lisbon, Noordkaap is coming home with an extensive overview exhibition in October. A selection of artworks that was created during the tour, will be on view in Dordrecht for two weeks. Various locations in the city center set the stage for international exchange between the artists and you! With guided tours, performances, film screenings, and more.

Many international artists, designers, art institutions, writers and social partners crossed the border with us for this traveling exhibition. The tour focused on socially relevant themes such as the economic crisis, national identity, urban development, democracy, populist imagery and hope! Noordkaap explored the theme Populism, and how this reflects on everyday life, art, culture and politics in various European countries.

Persbericht NL

Press Release EN

Participants

among others:

• Carlos D’Abreu (PT)
• Monica Aerden (NL)
• Ban & Zn. (NL)
• Johannes Brechter (DE)
• Nada van Dalen (NL)
• Burak Delier (T)
• Roland Farkas (HU)
• Foundland (NL)
• Arturo Hernández Alcázar (MX)
• Fabian Hesse (DE)
• Daan den Houter (NL)
• Oliver Kunkel (DE)
• Jan Kryszons (NL)
• KunstCommando (NL)
• ±maismenos± (PT)
• Tirzo Marta (AN)
• Filippo Minelli (IT)
• Federico D’Orazio (NL)
• Ferhat Özgür (TR)
• Remotewords (DE)
• Alexander Schikowski (HU)
• Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (DE)
• Art van Triest (NL)
• Yvo van der Vat (NL)
• The Geert Wilders (NL) 
• The Voice of Dordrecht

Eieren voor je geld

On Saturday, October 13, an extraordinary folk spectacle will take place, inspired by responses to artworks in Dordrecht's public space. The play 'Eieren voor je geld' (Eggs for your money, Dutch saying for the easy way out) is directed by artist Hans van den Ban, our man behind SuperLaTief, 2008. Once again, Hans connects unexpected elements, artists and audience.

Gijs Frieling creates the stage, and actors of theater group Toendra play the Harlequin, a headmaster, an art director, the pierrot, the artist and Jan Klaassen. The story is strewn together by Tedje Hausmacher (also known from the Dutch comedy duo Rembo & Rembo), and in between scenes the audience can sing along with folk singer Ed Palermo. There will be three performances at 't Hof in the city center, close to the weekly market, so all people in Dordrecht can choose the easy way out.

…What is it, people of Dordrecht? A conspiracy against art on the streets? Fear of the unknown? Where are the wide open vistas of yesteryear? Do you want to return to the time before the merchants, the adventurers and the sailor mobs, before the time of the flapping sails... Reed cutting and weaving baskets? Do you want to return to the swampy moors?...

From 'Eieren voor je geld', Hans van den Ban

Come one, come all!

Diner and debate

In the evening October 13,  Noordkaap offers a long table with many guests, audience, and great food, recitals, and discussions. Details to follow, as usual, at the last minute... If you want to reserve a spot at the table, please email us at info@noordkaap.org

Data

The exhibition is opened from October 11 – 21, Thursday & Friday 17:00- 21:00. Saturday 13:00-18:00. Sunday 14:00-18:00

Hometown Partners

For this closing exhibition foundation Noordkaap is working together with a.o.

• Do Not X-Ray
• restaurant Veerhuis
• jongerenwerk De Twern
• Vastgoedbedrijf Dordrecht
• KunstCommando
• InnerCity Hotel
• Baracca
• SBK/ Galerie 180 Dordrecht
• Jonkers Events BV
• Boy Bastiaans 
• Werkplaats Oost
• Stad & Land NVM Makelaar

Made possible with the kind help of

• Mondriaan Fund
• City Council of Dordrecht
• VSBfund
• Fund for Cultuurparticipatie
• Goethe Institute
• NRW Kultursekretariat
• Do Not X-Ray
• and the growing number of supporters!

Artists: Abner Preis, Art van Triest, Arturo Hernández Alcázar,Carlos d’Abreu, Daan den Houter, Dan Dryer, Fabian Hesse,Federico d'Orazio, Filippo Minelli, Foundland collectief, Hans van den Ban, Jan Kryszons, Johannes Brechter, Michael Kluver, Nada van Dalen, Oliver Kunkel, Remotewords, Tassilo Letzel, Tirzo Martha and Yvo van der Vat.

Vienna Fair: 20-23 September 2012

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