…s me anxious (which is also kind of good). Do you think there’s a lot of competitiveness in the art world? Do you feel pressure? I think the pressure comes purely from deadlines and bureaucratic stuff like funds. Otherwise, nobody is really asking for an artist to be an artist. I don’t see the competition there. I know that the work that I’m doing now is better than all the works that I’ve done before, so this is a form of a competition within m…
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…perience cannot suppress the artist’s exhortation to face, embrace and overcome the dreams and fears linked to the life and death concerns living inside everyone of us. Human and animal figures are illustrated as an inseparable unions immersed into different shades of the African landscape, which deeply influenced Gürbüz after her trip into the continent. Archetypical, ancestral and timeless creatures emerge in works about death, survival, sicknes…
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…nd commuter rail hub as well as the busiest railway station in Turkey until 2012. As of 19 June 2013 all train service to the station has been indefinitely suspended due to the rehabilitation of the existing line for the new Marmaray commuter rail line. The closure of the station has been subject to a lot of controversy. As it was unclear if Haydarpaşa would be re-opened to rail service once the Marmaray project was completed. Claims that the Turk…
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…collaborative google sheet, shared it with folks in the experimental film community, and it took off. Indeed, the international experimental film community, as well as internet-based artists started to make public and add their own films and videos on the collaborative Google Sheet. Less than one month later, hundreds of experimental films are now available and all you need is an internet connection. Kate Lain’s idea of a list organized in film c…
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…urated by Maren Richter At Valletta Contemporary, Malta July 19 – 14 August 2019 Almagul Menlibayeva, Butterfly Mikhail Karikis, Children of Unquiet Almagul Menlibayeva, Transtoxiana Dreams This Land Is Your Land, curated by Maren Richter, is a photography and video based show that brings together two artists, who share similar concerns, on how land has been commodified or occupied by various interests. Those disputed fields, which the artists…
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…er Aslı Erdoğan and academic Necmiye Alpay in front of the Bakırköy prison, 2016 For Tuncer Duman, who does the main vocal in the song, the recording of ‘Everything will be great” is his first studio recording and the first video clip he broadcasted on You Tube. “We need to comply with time,” he says. “If you’re not in the realm of the virtual world today, you are also not present in the real world.” It seems that there will be more songs of Tunce…
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…auli participated into the artists in residency program of the Berlin Senat 2014 and 2018. Maja has been living and working in Istanbul for six months in 2014. Her residency was granted by the Berlin Senate Chancellery, Cultural Affairs Department, and accompanied by Diyalog Derneği. The exhibiotn will display Letters from Abroad the results of her residency in Istanbul. Maja Weyermann is a Swiss artist who was born in 1962. Their work was feature…
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…eelance, artist’s works is opened on March 7th and it lasts till March 17th 2019. During the exhibition, until March 17, will be organized a number of activities, workshops and guidings through the exhibition. The Association of Artists of ULUS since its founding in 1919, records the golden pages in its existence. In the art pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, which is the first purpose-built spaces for Arts in Belgrade, exhibited the works of great world-r…
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…technic (1981), Eshetu spent most of his professional life based in Rome, where he soon establishing himself as a leading video artist. Since then, his work has been presented internationally. Theo Eshetu was artist in residence of the Cultural Academy Tarabya in Istanbul from October to December 2016 and from September to November 2017. Eshetu was once again artist in residence of the Cultural Academy Tarabya from July to August 2018. During the…
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