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Elena Urucatu is artist of the Mahalla Festival

August 9, 2022August 24, 2022 Maëla Sanmartín

…rofessional level. At the age of 14, she won a model contest that made her travel from Bucharest to Paris. This was the beginning of a long artistic journey, very different from the sports world. Urucatu continued her studies attending the Educational Statistics and Research Methods Doctorate at Alicante University (Spain) and completing a Master of Arts at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). In 2010, Urucatu specialised in Industrial Design…

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Seeds for Future Memories

February 22, 2018May 1, 2018 Thomas Büsch

…val and working with the local communities. The participating artists will travel back and forth in 2018, concentrating on their own artistic research. Both institutions will develop instruments and formats in parallel to initiate a public dialogue and promote mutual exchange. In panels the participants will discuss which economic assistance could significantly contribute to reducing the number of people ready to emigrate. Meanwhile, the artists s…

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Berlin’s 1990th subculture: “We are not here just for fun”

August 10, 2013August 10, 2013 Sabine Küper

…stanbul in the 1990th, when the nightlife pf Beyoğlu was emerging. I would travel to the Turkish Southeast for Crisis journalism and would go to Kemancı later on to tell about this experiences and to have some beers. And ones in a while I would travel to Berlin and stay with my friend Anne in Invalidenstrasse-East Berlin. I was writing for the leftist Paper junge welt, then -until today- for the jungle world. The weekly is the product of the edito…

Quiz: Forced Migration and the Arts

…an which is a hommage at all the refugees risking their lifes to cross the sea? End of Dreams The Dream goes on Death in the water What were the names of the artist’s collection Foundland’s installation at the International Studio & Curatorial Programm, picturing the displacement and refugee routes of syrian refugees? „Living room“ and „Station“ „Sunday walk“ and „Landscape“ „Friday Table“ and „Waiting Room“ The ex-criminal Jean Gennet’s wrote a b…

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End of Dreams

February 2, 2015May 8, 2017 Thomas Büsch

…lding the structures in place and their remnants were scattered across the seabed and onto nearby beaches. Some disappeared altogether. Larsen believed that the intervention of nature brought the process of the work’s production even closer to the feelings of trauma and peril he was trying to express, adding to the narrative of the piece, and so following the storm he hired divers to film the scene and collect all the debris and sculptures that co…

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Following footsteps of Art and Trotzki in Istanbul

September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 Maximiliane Schneider

…osition, it links to different locations in and around Istanbul: The Black Sea coast, the places in the city center around the Bosporus and the Golden Horn as well as the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara. Referring to the last point, especially this spot shows the strength of Istanbul as being one of the hosting locations of the Biennial. The metropolis can offer venues with a vast potential to emphasize the Biennial’s artist’s works by offe…

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MODERN ESSAYS 5

May 17, 2012August 12, 2019 Thomas Büsch

…t of the Turkish Republic: the reservoirs of the Atatürk Model Farm (Black Sea & Marmara Sea)—built for irrigation, the Çubuk Dam (“Bosporus of Ankara”)—built for potable water supply. These modern projects of a “modern” geography are cultivars, propagated by grafting an Ottoman scion onto an Anatolian root: İstanbul’s waterfront geography, onto Ankara’s barren land. Despite being modern and with ties to the past ideologically severed, these new l…

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Timekeeper at The Empire Project

September 28, 2012November 14, 2019 Thomas Büsch

Video ‘Nestlings of Sea’ from the show “Timekeeper”. Come see the show and watch a selection of short-films featured in the exhibition “Timekeeper” at The Empire Project Istanbul. The Empire Project identifies and exhibits contemporary art from the regions which have historically been within the cultural sphere of influence centered upon (or significantly affected by) the imperial locus we today call Istanbul. Geographically speaking, the range i…

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Sandstar by Gabriel Orozco

October 31, 2012August 9, 2019 Sabine Küper

…ste of civilization. It’s a living space for Whales and a cemetery for the sea animals as well. Orozco collected the garbage of civilization that washes ashore even in this protected refuge, such as plastic buoys, protective helmets, and glass bottles. Spread out in an order on the floor, the flotsam, nearly 1,200 found pieces, forms a monumental sea of objects. The installation, titled Sandstars, is accompanied by twelve large-format photographs…