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IN ISTANBUL, ZWISCHEN ANKUNFT UND ABFAHRT….IN ISTANBUL BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE AUSSTELLUNG DER KÜNSTLER/INNEN DES BERLINER SENAT ISTANBUL STIPENDIUMS II EXHIBITION OF BERLİN SENATE ISTANBUL SCHOLARSHIP ARTISTS II BERNARDO GIORG…
IN ISTANBUL, ZWISCHEN ANKUNFT UND ABFAHRT…ISTANBUL’DA GELİŞ VE GİDİŞ ARASINDA…IN ISTANBUL BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
EXHIBITION OF BERLİN SENATE ISTANBUL SCHOLARSHIP ARTISTS I
BERLİN SENATOSU ISTANBUL BURSU SANATÇILARI SERGİSİ I
GABRIELE BASCH, SUSANNE BOSCH, THOMAS BÜSCH, ERIK GÖNGRICH, NATASHA SADR HADGIGHIAN, ISA MELSHEIMER, CATRIN OTTO, NADA SEBESTYEN, YUAN SHUN, ROLAND STRATMANN
KÜRATÖR VE TEMSİLCİ / CURATOR AND MENTOR: BERAL MADRA
BM SUMA ÇAĞDAŞ SANAT MERKEZİ / CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE
24 MART/ MARCH- 14 NİSAN/ APRIL 2009
20 yıldır kardeş şehir olan Berlin ve Istanbul 2009’da bu kardeşliği kültür ve sanat etkinlikleriyle gündeme getirmektedir. Berlin Belediyesi ve Senatosu’nun kültür işleri dairesi, 1988’de kökeni ne olursa olsun en az 3 yıl Berlin’de yaşayan sanatçıların Londra, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Moskova ve Paris’de 1 yıl ya da 6 ay yaşayıp çalışmalarını sağlayan bir burs kurdu.
Her yıl Kasım ya da Aralık ayında Berlin’de toplanan ve söz konusu kentlerdeki temsilcilerden ve Berlinli kültür uzmanlarından oluşan bir jüri yüzlerce başvuru arasından bu beş kente gidecek sanatçıları seçmektedir. Günümüzde Berlin’in AB’nin en çekici kültür ve sanat kenti olmasının nedenlerinden birisi hiç kuşkusuz, Berlin belediyesi ve senatosunun Berlinde yaşayan sanatçılara sağladığı bu uluslararası açılımdır.
Günümüzde sürmekte olan bu burs ile 1988’den bu yana 70 sanatçı İstanbul’da yaşadı, çalıştı ve üretti.
1988-1994 arasında bu bursun temsilciliği yazar Sezer Duru ve tasarımcı Harald Schmidt (1929- 2000) tarafından yürütüldü. 1995’de bursun yönetimini Beral Madra aldı ve 1998’de Berlin’de Kunstamt Kreuzberg sanat galerisinde 25 sanatçıyla ve İstanbul’da ve İstanbul için üretilmiş yapıtlarla bir sergi gerçekleştirdi.
Berlin Istanbul 20 yıl kutlamaları bağlamında, Berlin Belediye başkanı’nın değerli desteğiyle gerçekleştirilecek olan sergi 21 sanatçıyı kapsayan iki bölümden oluşuyor.
Birinci Bölümde GABRIELE BASCH, SUSANNE BOSCH, THOMAS BÜSCH, ERIK GÖNGRICH, NATASHA SADR HADGIGHIAN, ISA MELSHEIMER, CATRIN OTTO, NADA SEBESTYEN, YUAN SHUN, ROLAND STRATMANN
İkinci Bölümde BERNARDO GEORGI, NEZAKET EKİCİ, KATJA EYDEL, PARASTOU FOROUHAR, MONA JAS, CHRISTOPH KELLER, WERNER KLOTZ, MARISA MAZA, ULRIKE MOHR,DIMITRIS TZAMOURANIS, INA WUDTKE, FLORIAN WÜST, FLORIAN ZEYFANG
Haziran sonunda Berlin Belediye Başkanı Sayın Klaus Wowereit kutlamalar dolayısıyla İstanbul’a geldiğinde bu burs ve sergi dolayısıyla bir basın toplantısı düzenleyecek.
İstanbul’da yaşayan ve çalışan bu sanatçılar, kentte yaşadıkları altı ay boyunca çeşitli çevrelerle ilişki kurdular, üniversitelerde sunum, genç sanatçılar ya da öğrencilerle çalıştaylar, STK’larla işbirliği yaptılar; kentin mimari ve toplumsal dokunu araştırdılar ve gözlemlerini, yorumlarını ve eleştirilerini yansıtan işler ürettiler. Bu işlerini çoğu kez İstanbul’da grup sergileri içinde ya da kişisel sunumlarda gösterdiler. Bu işlerini İstanbul’dan sonra gittikleri her ülkeye ve her kente de taşıdılar.
BM Suma Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi’ndeki iki sergi, bu yapıtları ilk kez toplu olarak bir araya getiriyor. İstanbul için ve İstanbul üstüne üretilmiş bu yapıt topluluğu, İstanbul 2010 sürecinde de dikkate değer bir anlam taşıyor.
In 2009 Berlin – Istanbul Twin City 20th year Jubilee will be celebrated.
In 1988 Berlin Mayorship has established a one year or six months artist residency scholarship for Berlin resident artists for London, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Moscow and Paris. Istanbul residency has hosted almost 70 artist mentored by the writer Sezer Duru and the deceased designer Harald Schmidt from 1988 to 1994 and administrated and mentored by Beral Madra since then.
Every year in December a jury consisting of members from the aforementioned cities and the experts from Berlin institutions evaluate approximately 100 applications and select the artists.
This year as the Istanbul branch of the Berlin Scholarship we are celebrating the 20th year of this initiative with an exhibition of 23 artists who has lived and worked in Istanbul since 1998. The exhibition will be realized in two parts.
First part: Opening 24 Marc 2009: GABRIELE BASCH, SUSANNE BOSCH, THOMAS BÜSCH, ERIK GÖNGRICH, NATASHA SADR HADGIGHIAN, ISA MELSHEIMER, CATRIN OTTO, NADA SEBESTYEN, YUAN SHUN, ROLAND STRATMANN
Second Part: Opening 2nd May 2009: BERNARDO GEORGI, NEZAKET EKİCİ, KATJA EYDEL, PARASTOU FOROUHAR, MONA JAS, CHRISTOPH KELLER, WERNER KLOTZ, MARISA MAZA, ULRIKE MOHR,DIMITRIS TZAMOURANIS, INA WUDTKE, FLORIAN WÜST, FLORIAN ZEYFANG
The Mayor of Berlin Mr. Klaus Wowereit will visit Istanbul in June and will make a press conference in the venue of the exhibition.
These artists have lived and worked in Istanbul, each for six months and have communicated with members of diver art and culture circles, have presented their ideas and Works in the universities, have collaborated with NGO’s and have participated in workshops, exhibitions and other cultural events. They have observed the socio-political agenda, traditional and modern cultural, and urban textures and problems, have involved themselves in the everyday life events and have produced works that reflected their opinion, criticism and interpretations. Most of the works have been shown in Istanbul during their residency; and evidently later they have conveyed their impressions to other countries and societies through these works.
BM Suma CAC will present their works as an outcome of this residency program. This remarkable production is dedicated to Istanbul.
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ONCE UPON A TIME…PABLO MARTINEZ MUNIZPOHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AT BM CAC8 JANUARY-7 FEBRUARY 2009COUPLED DILEMMASBM SUMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER is organizing the third exhibition on images of Istanbul with the photography of the Spanish artist Pablo M…
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THE GREAT M.P.IN ISTANBUL 22 NOVEMBER-30 JANUARY 2008 AT BM SUMA CACIN MAURIZIO PELLEGRIN’S INSTALLATIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHY I OBSERVE THE FORMATION OF THE CHANGE OF PARADIGM IN THE LATE 70’S WHEN MNEMISM STARTED TO DISSOLVE THE RIGIDITY OF PURE MODER…
BRÜKSEL’DE ISTANBUL SANAT MERKEZİ
CURATED BY BERAL MADRA
Istanbul Center in Brussels is presenting an exhibition introducing contemporary artists from Istanbul with their paintings, drawings, photography, video and installations. The works mainly deal with architectonic or urban cityscapes, daily life topics, traditions and modernities and global pursuits.
Why focus on Istanbul in these exhibitions?
First, since almost two decades Istanbul has evolved into a vital site of contemporary art exhibitions. While in economy and politics the city fulfils its function as a command point of global marketplace and a production site for information economy, the culture and art accordingly unfolds its new forms and dimensions.
Secondly, the city concentrates on diversity even though the globalisation process has introduced a strong unifying corporate and commodity culture, which is fairly dominant in the centers and the periphery of the vast city. The diversity emanates from the continuous immigrations from all directions, from Anatolia in the past, from Eastern and Southern neighbours in the present. An undercurrent amalgam of cultures is making up a redundancy and multiplicity of traditional and modern cultures and identities.
Thirdly, in the heterogeneous contemporary art productions since the beginning of the 90’s, the city appears as an integral part of the micro and macro narratives, representations, simulations and metaphors. In the paintings, photographs, videos and installations of a large number of artists we can trace, recognise and perceive Istanbul as the reason of the work, while not directly the theme or the subject.
Istanbul is one of the most enticing cities of this world; and this has been elaborately expressed in many ways through different art forms, when art was about the Beautiful and the Sublime. We know that, after the erosion of traditional and modern worldviews and values things are different now; artists do not produce simple beautiful, sublime works. Yet, the culture maintains its function as being a part of social life and the critical conscious of the society, and artists face the situation in which patterns for orientation and action of the past no longer work. They have to find new options and actions to provide answers.
Yet, these answers are most of the time private, subjective, hermetic and closed to direct access. The works of the artists provide visual tools of perception and reflection and open our minds to the diversity of thinking and creativity.
The exhibition presents ten individual artistic positions of visual interpretations on Istanbul together with their distinctive selections of literary texts and poems of renowned writers and poets from Turkey.
The ever popular form of diptych, that displays two images attached to each other is being used here as a representation of verbal and visual culture with the claim that there is an ongoing spirited competition between the verbal and visual culture, regardless of the occupation of electronic visual information.
This ancient tool of representation has its modern and post-modern examples in today’s art, mostly related to the dichotomy of socio-political state of affairs or philosophical and theoretical debates and criticisms. Within the post-modern production the form of diptych served as an instrument of influencing the viewer’s attention and perception towards a more elaborate interpretation and comparison of his/her position in relation to the presented image. The division of the image clearly calls for a division of thinking. In today’s culture of visual knowledge we are still tied up to two kinds of knowledge as described in the prophetic book Orientalism of Edward Said. He indicates the distinction between knowledge “that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis” and “knowledge that is part of an overall campaign of self-affirmation”.
Kalliopi Lemos BM SUMA ÇSM’de / Kalliopi Lemos in BM SUMA CAC- 14 Mart/March-26 Nisan/April 2008
KALLIOPI LEMOS
DESENLER
Lemos’un projesi, yerleştirmenin kavramı ve amacı doğrultusunda, Türkiye’den Yunanistan’a sürmekte olan yasa dışı insan trafiği üstüne bir tartışma da açtı ve İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde “Göç: Sanat ve Tarih üstüne Yansılamalar” başlıklı bir günlük konferans yapıldı. Konferans Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (IMEPO) ile İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Göç Araştırmaları Merkezi’ni (CMR) işbirliğine yönlendirdi.
BM Suma Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi’ndeki sergi Haliç’teki yerleştirmenin bir devamıdır. BM Suma’nın on odasında, izleyiciye bu yerleştirmenin arka alanındaki düşünceleri göstermek üzere, Kalliopi Lemos’un büyük desenleri (100 x
Kalliopi Lemos,Sakız adası kıyılarında parçalanmış tekneleri bulup, bu adsız insanların yazgısı üstüne bir proje yapmak için Atina’ya dönmeye karar verene kadar bir ressam ve heykelci olarak Londra’da yaşıyordu. Böylece, yasadışı göçmenlerin devr-i alemi onun kendi ülkesine yolculuğuna dönüştü.
KALLIOPI LEMOS
DRAWINGS
Since 1990’s artistic and cultural exchange between
Lemos’s project opened the discussion on the illegal traffic from Turkey to Greece as well and in accordance with the concept and aim of the installation a one-day conference on” Migration: Reflections on Art and History,” was held at İstanbul Bilgi University. The conference involved the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (IMEPO) in cooperation with
The drawing exhibition in BM Suma Contemporary Art Center is an addendum to the installation on
As a painter and sculptor Kalliopi Lemos lived and worked in
an exhibition dedicated to hrant dink’s memory
SOVIET AGITART: RESTORATION
SAMVEL BAGHDASARYAN – ARMINE HOVHANNISYAN
18 January- 29 February 2008
The exhibition entitled SOVIET AGITART: RESTORATION is being realized 18 January- 29 February 2008 at BM SUMA Contemporary Art Center and presents a poster collection of Samvel Baghdasaryan, his art works and the documentary photographs of his student Armine. The collection consists of propaganda posters of Soviet times, with images of Lenin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Stalin and their original audio material.
Samvel Baghdasaryan is a pioneer, a komsomol, an artist working in the communist structures. The socio political and cultural conditions of the period was forming and creating artist’s behavior and experience. The
popularity of the posters had a concrete mission. As the most important and truly propaganda machine, posters were used to have an influence on the consciousness of the multinational republics of the Soviet Union. It was an instrument serving for the change of the Soviets’ behavior, it was talking about progress, glorifying the times, governmental structure, educating the young generation andsearches for way out. One of them is reconstructing and re-embodying agitation materials by interpreting their aesthetics and using didactic meaning. Another way for Samvel Baghdasaryan is his pedagogical activity. Being artist-pedagogue he always combines his creative processes with young artists’ studies. In this
case Samvel Baghdasaryan suggests Armine’s (his student) collaboration in his project. Armineh is searching for the remains / remainders of the Soviet Armenia that are not visible for everyone and documenting/ archiving them by photo. What is the impact of this exhibition today?
showing social- cultural norms and values. There was not any event that could find its place in the agitation posters, again and again focusing people to the slogans and intentions of the Soviet Power. But there was a strained and repressive relationship between artist’s own creative process and existing political, ideological and cultural situation. The architectural stage props, basis, frontons of comm
unist parties’ buildings, continuing with posters, postage stamps, slogans, pins, speeches stimulating masses had an outer attraction and a secret aggression. All these traces of the Soviet Union are popular still now. But this popularity did not motivate Samvel Baghdasaryan to gather the poster-collection. The question is that artist realized that he is just one of the victims of big history.
This is a memory exhibition and for the young generation viewers, who cannot imagine that they have affected many lives, these posters may have a nostalgic meaning; they would even
perceive them as “pop art” of the Soviet times. Yet, these posters convey a rich material for questioning the other kind of orders and conditions that steer and determine our lives. Today, within the conditions of global politics, media hegemony, neo-liberal economies and society of spectacle, the people struggle against the insistent billboards, advertisements and slogans with
authoritative, repressive and expansive ideologies that may have different strategies but the same power. The artists produce in this same environment. The remarkable attempt of Samvel Baghdasaryan to utilize these Soviet posters as a “ready made” for his installation is a way of re-constructing the memory and its documentation through artistic processes.
This exhibition journeys from Yerevan to Istanbul with and intention to underline the effective dialogue – the dialogue which succeeded in staying out of the point of references of the political powers – between the artists of Armenia and Turkey.
And this exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink. 
THIS EXHIBITION IS REALIZED IN COLLABORATION WITH ANADOLU KÜLTÜR AND SODEV. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK TO CHREST FOUNDATION, TO OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE, TO EMFA ELEKTRİK MALZEME FABRİKASI A.Ş. AND TO ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORS FOR THEIR KIND SUPPORT. 
bm-suma’da açık sanatçı stüdyoları
26 kasım 2007- 12 ocak 2008
bm suma’da erdağ aksel, selim birsel, ali cabbar, ahmet elhan, parastou forouhar, nilbar güreş, bahar kocaman, sıtkı kösemen, kemal seyhan, ibrahim tokaslan’ın
desen, resim ve fotografları kasım-aralık-ocak aylarında, 7 hafta boyunca izleyicilere ve koleksiyonculara açık stüdyolarda sergilendi ve satışa sunuldu. açık sanatçı stüdyoları izleyicilere ve koleksiyonculara sanatçılarla konuşma, onların nasıl çalıştıklarını anlama, sanatçılara da özgür ve bağımsız bir ortamda istediği gibi çalışma ve sergileme olanağı vermeyi amaçlıyor. açık sanatçı stüdyoları bm suma’da devam
edecek.
Art public interest to BM Suma at the opening days of the 10th Istanbul Biennale was excellent
3rd September from 6 pm on BM Suma was visited by a vast number of foreign and local people. The location of the building and the modest architectural setting was appreciated and praised. The two exhibitions, “Unfinished” (curated by BM) presented the works in process of VOLKAN ARSLAN, ERGİN ÇAVUŞOĞLU, PARASTOU FOROUHAR, MELİH GÖRGÜN, NİLBAR GÜREŞ, SERHAT KİRAZ, ULRIKE MOHR, AHMET ÖKTEM, SERMIN SHERIF, DİLEK WINCHESTER and “Contemporary Baroque” (curated by Michel Thursz (NY) presented the works of
MARINA ZURKOW, MOLY DILWORTH, YAEL KANAREK, EMMANUELLE GAUTHIER and URSULA ENDLICHER.
Our partner Vittorio Urbani appeared in panther T.shirt.
Michele Thursz installing the works of Marina Zurkow (plates) and Moly Dilworth (wallpaper).
The first meeting at BM Suma, AKD and “A Soul for Europe” members.
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Press Release – August 2007 Danish Contemporary Artists Contemplate ”Optimism in the Age of Global War” On September 3rd 2007 the doors of BM SUMA Contemporary Arts Center opens up and with the opening of the newly renovated center, an exhi…
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BM-SUMA AÇILIŞ SERGİSİ 3 EYLÜL–3 KASIM 2007 BİTMEMİŞ… BM-SUMA’nın bu açılış sergisinde izleyiciler sanat yapıtları değil, sanat yapıtları oluşmadan önce gerçekleşen düşünce, deney, çizim, metin ve diğer malzeme …
…opens in September 2007
UNFINISHED…
BİTMEMİŞ…
PROJECTS of ART WORKS
SANAT YAPITLARININ PROJESİ
VOLKAN ARSLAN, ERGİN ÇAVUŞOĞLU, PARASTOU FOROUHAR, MELİH GÖRGÜN, NİLBAR GÜREŞ, SERHAT KİRAZ, ULRIKE MOHR, AHMET ÖKTEM, SERMIN SHERIF, DİLEK WINCHESTER
3 Eylül/September-3 Kasım/November 2007
Curator: BERAL MADRA
in collaboration with European Cultural Association and Foundation for Future Culture and Art
Avrupa Kültür Derneği ve Gelecek Kültürü ve Sanatı Vakfı işbirliğiyle
CONTEMPORARY BAROQUE
ÇAĞDAŞ BAROK
Marina Zurkow, Molly Dilworth, Yael Kanarek, Emmanuelle Gauthier, Ursula Endlicher
3 Eylül/September-3 Kasım/November 2007
Curator/ Küratör: MICHELE THURSZ
Danish Contemporary Artists Contemplate the concept
At The End of The Rainbow
Danimarkalı Sanatçıların Gökkuşağının Sonunda projesi
Rasmus Bjørn, Peter Bonde, Anders Brinch, Ismar Cirkinagic, Marco Evaristi, John Kørner, Fie Norsker, Maria Wæhrens, Jon Stahn
3 Eylül/September-3 Kasım/November 2007
Curator: THOMAS ANDERSEN
CENTER OF OPERATION FOR REAL PRESENCE- FLOATING SITES, ISTANBUL
GERÇEK DURUŞ-YÜZEN YERLER, ISTANBUL ÇALIŞTAYI ÇALIŞMA MERKEZİ
ENCOUNTER OF ART ACADEMIES, YOUNG ARTISTS AND ART STUDENTS/ SANAT AKADEMİLERİ, GENÇ SANATÇILAR VE SANAT ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN BULUŞMASI
Curated by: BİLJANA TOMİC AND DOBRİLA NEGRİ (NKA / ICA Belgrade) 3–10
5-10 Eylül 2007
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, ISTANBUL FORUM
KONTİNENTAL KAHVALTI, ISTANBUL FORUMU
21-23 Eylül/ September 2007
in collaboration with
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul,
Trieste Contemporanea, Italy
Nuova Icona, Venice
European Cultural Association, Istanbul
with the contribution of
TR Ministry of Foreign Affairs
under the auspices of CEI
BM-SUMA is…
BM-Suma is the new space of BM Contemporary Art Center situated in the heart of the cultural district of Istanbul. The onetime seven storey business building is being developed into an art and culture center with different functions such as residencies, conference and show rooms, cinema and restaurant.
The second floor will be administrated by BM Contemporary Art Center as a center and forum for visual art and culture towards 2010.
BM-Suma consists of 10 exhibition rooms, a meeting room, office, book and art store and café on 500 m2.
Artistic and International Communication: Beral Madra
Managment and Administration: Binnaz Tukin
Press and Public Relations: Nilüfer Sülüner
Contact: bmsuma07@gmail.com
BM-SUMA is collaborating with:
Nuova Icona, Venice
European Cultural Association, Istanbul
Foundation for Future Culture and Art, Istanbul


















