Viyana ekolünden Cemal Gürsel Soyel’ in Türkiye’ de ki ilk sergisi Ocak ayında Pi Artworks’ de! Cemal Gürsel Soyel Chapeau! isimli sergisiyle 12 Ocak- 20 Şubat 2010 tarihleri arasında Pi Artworks Galeri 1 ve 2’de yer alacak. 1961 Kıbrıs doğumlu ve ressamlık kökeni Viyana’dan gelen sanatçının 1986 yılından beri Viyana’da yaşamaktadır. 1986 yılında Neşet Günal Full Article…
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The 11th Istanbul Biennial
What keeps mankind alive? This question, posed in 1928 by Brecht and Kurt Weill in their song from The Threepenny Opera, was the catalyst for the 11th Istanbul Biennial. In their introduction to the catalogue, Zagreb-based curatorial collective What, How and for Whom (WHW) outline their intention for the Biennial to re-function it as a facilitator to renew critical thinking, and to discuss, analyse and scrutinise the problematic issues of the capitalist order so as to trigger real social change in light of Brechtian principles. With its directly anti-capitalist and anti-globallsation statement speaking to memory and intellect through serious and even tragic issues from the present and the recent past, this was undoubtly the most radical among all Istanbul Biennials.
Istanbul Biennial has been consistently engaged with the local in its 22-year history. Unexpectedly, this exhibition was not about the host city. Rather, it chose to extend its sight from the local to the surrounding territories, to that ‘hot’ portion of the globe that is being more and more traced and acknowledged, but often overlooked by both Western and Eastern mainstream in terms of artistic, cultural and social formations. The curatorial agenda enquired the dense ideological, social and cultural strata of the Middle East, ex-Soviet Union, the Balkans and Turkey as a way to scrutinise the widespread topics of the ‘new world order’, its current failures and deteriorating effects on human life. Unsurprisingly, 45% of the 70 participating artists (half men and half women, and most of them under 40 years old) came from these Eastern countries and most were unknown to the Western art world. Only 22 out of 70 had galleries.
Marxism, along with the Brechtian excerpts, sprinkled throughout the exhibition spaces stood as a ‘rhetorical armour’ (a pertinent definition previously given by Daniel Miller on Frieze July 09, in response to the curating agenda) which could have easily resulted in incompetence making either the thick statement or the actual exhibition seem ancillary. WHW resolved the riddle by including enough politically oriented works with overtly shared Marxist and collectivist principles. Indeed, there was something slyly humorous about this exhibition. Upon wandering around, one was guided by signs with Cyrillic-derived fonts directing to the left.
The Biennial as a whole felt quite easy to pin down. Arranged as a conventional white-cube exhibition, the main space at Antrepo No.3 was light and well-designed. It incorporated well-combined pieces with some stronger ones carrying the whole. Most art works involved strategies of repetition, distribution and reproduction as in reference to the current trend of copying, gathering and accumulation in contemporary art. Tashkent-based Soviet conceptualist artist Vyacheslav Akhunov’s work exemplified this mode of production. Fly-Beat Revolution (1977), was an installation work of collage-drawings which took a collection of designs for fly-swatters as its space. Drawings featuring portraits of Communist hero-figures, state signs and symbols were each placed on the large end of a fly-swatter. Another work provided by the artist was titled 1 m2, in which small-scale re-productions, drawings and plans, extracted from the artist’s sketchbooks between 1976-1991, were filled into matchboxes brought together in an installation of one square meter. The work at once combined a visual archive of fragments of Soviet propaganda ambigously pushed to its limits and a comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work.
Tracing the everyday reality from Beirut was Mounira Al Solh’s two-channel video installation The Sea is a Stereo (2007-09). The work delved into the daily habit of swimming, obsessively developed by a group of Beiruti men, who would accomplish their activity everyday no matter the daily condition: rain, wind or war. The story gave an uncanny twist when the artist gave her voice to the men. As the story went on, the ‘apparent’ normality of the event would gradually fade away making the real motivation behind this obsessive ritual perceivable: resisting to the difficulty of pursuing an ‘ordinary life’ in the country.
Focusing on the everyday rituals was also the work of Istanbul-born, Istanbul and Vienna based artist Nilbar Gures. Gures was present at the Biennial with Unknown Sports (2008-09), a series of collages, drawings and photographs thematising female identity and gender discourse in contemporary Turkish society. The photographs were staged performances showing a group of women in a gym, while recreating the ideas from the artist’s drawings: waxing, styling, dressing up, vacuum cleaning etc. The series explored rituals of an exclusively female world yet the staged character of the work presented the problem of accepted gender roles.
Three other pieces worth mentioning are Lisi Raskin’s Control Room (2008), a room-size installation of paper and styrofoam sculptures resembling an empty science-fiction set of a workstation; Deimantas Narkevicius’ For The Role of a Lifetime (2003), a documentary yet poetical film-work composed of various overlapping spatio-temporal layers, with an interview with film director Peter Watkins on the role of the artist, process of filmmaking and the importance of critical thinking extending throughout the film as the main narrative thread; and Trevor Paglen’s Celestial Objects (Istanbul) (2009), a series of photographs mapping military intelligence sattelites in the night skies over Istanbul.
One realises how complex the task posed by WHW was when it came to resist the system in which the Biennial also found itself, a task likely to exceed orthodox exhibition formats. To this effect, the curators wanted to take a critical and self-reflexive look at the Biennial itself as well as the global biennial circuit, uttering within the exhibition some internal curatorial decisions and production details to the budget distribution, status of works on loan and distribution of artists for their countries of origin, age and gender. Despite all the positive intentions, the sense of transparency it strived for felt just too contrived.
After all, amid endless debate about art’s increasing lack of critical relevance and abundance of individual stories and subjective mythologies in recent contemporary art production, this exhibition proved something of an ease. Unfolding in interlaced themes and interests, single art works were combined into a meaningful whole which simultaneously questioned the role of art and awakened a worldly awareness without falling into nostalgia nor a spectacularised effect. Still, one cannot help but leave with a missing feeling – a feeling which derives from the constant seeking out the inherent appeal of art’s ability to present something else to the imagination; a sense of its famous ‘enigmaticalness’1.
1 See Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, London: Continuum 1997.
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Open Studio Day at Istanbul Residency Program
Saturday, November 07
1 p.m.-6 p.m.
Platform Garanti CAC hosts an open studio day to share the work of current Istanbul Residency Program artists: Jesper Alvaer, Vangelis Vlahos, Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, Francesco Mattuzzi, Kalle Brolin, İnci Furni, Barbara Musil, Atılkunst, Soren Thilo Funder, and Sofie van der Linden.
Jesper Alvaer
Platform Garanti 3rd floor, Studio 4
1 p.m.-1:20 p.m.
Jesper Alvaer will present his ongoing project “From Zagros to Zagreb”, which is an attempt to present a guitar-string theory based on the Iranian origin of the Croats. The project includes the apparent lines that separate earth from sky, etnogenesis and acousticecology in spacetime.
Jesper Alvaer studied at the University of Oslo, in History of Ideas (91-93); then Cooper Union School of Art, NY (00-01), University of Oslo, Development Studies (08-09). He has participated in various group exhibitions in Oslo, Prague, Vienna and Miami. He recently had a solo presentation of his work at Galerie Jeleni, Prague.
Vangelis Vlahos
Platform Garanti 3rd floor, Studio 5
1:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Vlahos’ recent work, focusing on different fragments of recent history and using archival material from various sources, questions the relevance of this material as a tool to rethink historical concepts that still seem to influence and shape the way we understand our present. For the open studios Vhalos will present “The differences between the parts are the subject of the composition”. The work is part of a series of projects realised under the same title that is again based on found images.
Vangelis Vlahos was born in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Recent exhibitions include: 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009); Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague (2009); After Architecture, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (2009); ISLANDS+GHETTOS, NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2009). Vlahos has also held solo exhibitions at Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan and Blow de la Barra Gallery, London, both in 2008.
Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 1
2:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure are working on a script for a new film based on the lives of the members of their own family. The story of their family will be mixed with stories that they have discovered in Istanbul after talking to many people and the resulting interviews are mixed with fictional elements of their own imagination.
Witte van Hulzen graduated from the Academy of Fine arts and design at Artez Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2009. Sander Breure has been studying at the composition department of the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. They have participated in group exhibitions including Made in Arnhem, Modern Museum of Art, Arnhem the Netherlands; Altijd Bewegen, Gemak, the Hague, Netherlands this year. They have worked collaboratively together since 2006.
Francesco Mattuzzi
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 2
2:30 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Francesco Mattuzzi will present his ongoing project “Startrucks”. The project concentrates on the lives of truck drivers who spend most of their lives on the road travelling the regions that border the Mediterranean. Mattuzi considers how to explore such a symbolic and cultural aspect of the “travel experience” within East and West freight transport and has continued research on this topic in Istanbul.
Francesco Mattuzzi graduated from Arts in Design at University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. He has participated in group exhibitions in Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. An early version of “Startrucks” was shown at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy this year.
Kalle Brolin
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 3
3:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Kalle Brolin will present two recent works: the first features a wall of posters and a performance on child labor unions in America (O! Children!); the other is a video that pitches Swedish skinheads and immigrants against each other on stage through the act of reading insulting poetry (Battla 2010). He will also talk about his project in Istanbul, which consists of two connected videos, both featuring deaf actors that speak in sign language (Mafiya). The videos reconstruct some events Kalle was involved in while staying in Moscow in 2003.
Kalle Brolin is an artist from Sweden. He works with both documentary material, in video, installation, and social projects. He is a board member of gallery Box in Gothenburg, Sweden. He will participate at the Bucharest Biennale in the summer of 2010.
İnci Furni
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 4
3:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
İnci Furni will present a fanzine titled “I made a new human” designed specially for the open studio day. Furni’s recent works have been shaped under her project “The Control Room and Imaginations”. She says: “Control Room and Imaginations” allows me ask questions such as: What is the meaning of the act of imagining? When do we start to imagine? Why do we need to imagine? What is the source of our imagination? Is it the world that we know? Can we imagine something we have never seen or known? Is imagination itself a language? Or, how does language affect the imagination?”
Inci Furni’s recent exhibitions include “I Don’t Believe in Personal Isolation, I Believe in Building!”, Masa Project, Istanbul (2009) and “Spirit”, Apartment Project, Istanbul (2007). Selected group exhibitions include “Unfair Provocation”, Hafriyat-Karaköy, Istanbul (2009) and “Connect The Dots 2”, Fargfabriken, Stockholm. She is currently participating in the 11th International Biennial.
Sofie van der Linden
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 5
1 p.m.- 6 p.m.
Sofie van der Linden’s works focus on the relation between the city and the people. During the open studio day, she will present her recent project realised in Ghent where she visited residents living in social houses and made sketches of their apartments. After this research period she made a large-scale detailed drawing of all the different flats based on her sketches and on memory.
Sofie van der Linden received a masters in Multimedia from Kask, Ghent, Belgium. Recently she had a one person show in Gallery Gyga in Antwerp, Belgium (2009) and participated in group exhibitions at SMAK, Ghent, Belgium (2009), KUVA, Helsinki, Finland (2007)
Barbara Musil
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 6
4:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Although a variety of techniques and media are involved in the work of Barbara Musil, two areas of focus can be recognized in her work: experimentation in and with public space and a preference for video/video installation based on available raw materials. Both of these spheres of activity are continually intertwined with one another. Realised in a medium suitable for the respective context, the works all have one thing in common: a conceptual approach. For the open studios she will present three ongoing projects.
Barbara Musil lives in Linz and Vienna. She studied human medicine in Graz, then experimental design in Linz. She has undertaken residencies in Cluj, Romania; Vilnius, Lithuania; Tallinn, Estonia; Tenno, Italy and Istanbul, Turkey.
Atılkunst
Platform Garanti 5th floor, Studio 3
4:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Atılkunst will present a new video work titled “Agenda Exercises”. They will also make a sticker intervention on a daily newspaper.
Atılkunst is an artist collective run by three women artists since 2006. The main activity of Atılkunst focuses on current events, and the agendas of the day. They send out one e-mail every week with the subject “Surplus of Agenda”, consisting of one image called “Decal” which is inspired by political topics that have been raised throughout that week.
Soren Thilo Funder
Platform Garanti 5th floor, Studio 4
5:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
“Focusing on the literary realm of counter-culture and political-(militant)-activism, Soren Thilo Funder is currently engaged in an investigation of a possible connecting-space between the literary allegory and the political antagonistic action. It is a myth-making, storytelling attempt to fuse critique, subversion and exposure with mythification, dislocation and fictionalization, in order to enable a new potential allegorical space to encounter the “reals” of our contemporary society and propose new possibilities for the future.” Soren Thilo Funder will show one of his videos during the open studio day, and will talk about his current project.
Soren Thilo Funder studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2002-2008) and The School of Art and Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2006-2007). He participated in exhibitions in Denmark, Iran, Serbia, Vietnam, USA, Spain. He had a one person show at Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.
5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Studios open wide!
Artists at Open Studio Day are supported by OCA (Norway), IASPIS (Sweden), DAC (Denmark), FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands), Flemish Government (Belgium), GAI-PARC-D.E.M.O (Italy), European Union grant, Creative Collaboration Grant (British Council, UK) and Platform Garanti.
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“Benim Kentim” Konuk Sanatçı Programı
Türkiye’nin İstanbul dışında diğer kentlerinin ve farkı kültürel yapılarının Avrupa’da tanıtımına olanak sağlamayı ve karşılıklı kültür alışverişini desteklemeyi hedefleyen ”Benim Kentim” projesi, British Council’ın Avrupa Komisyonu Kültürel Köprüler programı kapsamında gerçekleştirilmektedir.
Türkiye ile Avrupa arasındaki kültürel bağları ilerletmeyi planlayan proje kapsamında Avrupa’dan beş saygın ve tecrübeli sanatçı, Türkiye’ye, ülkenin 21. yüzyıldaki kültürel zenginliğini ve çeşitliliğini tecrübe etmek üzere davet edilecek.
Aynı zamanda buna paralel olarak Türkiye’den beş sanatçı da Avrupa’nın ileri gelen kültür kurumlarında konuk sanatçı programlarına katılarak yeni işlerini sergileme olanağı bulacaktır. Berlin, Dortmund, Helsinki, Londra, Varşova ve Viyana’da gerçekleşecek olan programların son başvuru tarihi 21 Ağustos 2009′dur.
Programlara seçilen sanatçılar Eylül ayında gerçekleştirilecek olan 11. İstanbul Bienali sırasında açıklanacaktır.
‘Benim Kentim”, Avrupa Komisyonu tarafından desteklenmektedir ve Anadolu Kültür, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile işbirliği içinde British Council tarafından yürütülmektedir.
Başvuru formlarını buradan indirebilir ya da platform@garanti.com.tr adresinden isteyebilirsiniz.
My City
European Residencies [MCER]
MCER, is a one-off programme to be realized between 2010 and 2011 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to develop their work in six prominent host institutions across Europe through residencies.
It forms part of My City, a new cultural initiative funded through the European Commission’s Cultural Bridges Programme, designed and run by the British Council in Turkey. The programme’s aim is to establish partnerships between artists and institutions in Turkey and Europe.
The My City programme has two strands: MCER and a programme of activities in Turkey around the theme of art in public space, including seminars, conferences and new commissions. Starting in 2009, five artists from Europe will be invited to Turkey to develop a unique work of public art for a specific city in Turkey. The selected cities are Canakkale, Istanbul, Konya, Mardin and Trabzon. Each of these cities has a unique story to tell and this project will give the artists the opportunity to take part in residencies and show their work at some of Europe’s leading cultural venues. The names of all participants will be announced during the International Istanbul Biennale in September.
My City has been conceived by the British Council together with Anadolu Kultur and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is funded by the European Commission and the British Council.
Goal
The project goal is to enable visual artists to develop and reflect upon their work in a different European environment and culture. The residency also generates opportunities for making or extending contacts and for exploring and/or developing a new context as well as producing new work.
Who Can Apply?
My City European Residencies [MCER] grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi-disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the MCER.
In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. A good command of English and other relevant languages of the place of residence are required.
For precise details of the conditions, applicants are referred to the explanation accompanying the application form. If you require more information please contact: platform@garanti.com.tr.
Selection Process
MCER Applications will be reviewed by a committee of six professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have the experience in international residencies. There will be one representative each from Platform Garanti and the British Council.
The committee will prepare a short-list of three candidates for each institution for which the application was made. The final selection will be made by the European host institutions in consultation with the committee.
Host Institutions
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
, Poland is the premier interdisciplinary contemporary art centre in Poland and one of the most vibrant art centres in Central and Eastern Europe. The CCA has been supporting, documenting and presenting art since 1989. The audience consists of professionals, artists, students but also people unacquainted with art on an everyday basis.
The a-i-r programme, created in 2002 in the frame of the CCA international activity, is an extension and a complement of the ongoing dialogue between artists from around the world. The small scale of the a-i-r laboratory has allowed for an individual approach to each visiting artist by working in close dialogue with a curator. The CCA is interested in both site-specific projects and further work on projects initiated before arrival. The institution encourages an exchange between artists from different cultures and the local milieu. Publications (artist books, posters, catalogues) created during the residency stays at a-i-r laboratory are of great importance.
Presentations of the visiting artists’ works are incorporated into the CCA’s programme of events in the form of lectures, screenings, discussions, exhibitions and performances. Artists are encouraged to work in public space.
Workrooms are designed both for artists using traditional techniques and for those employing new media. There is a bedroom, a kitchen, a studio and a film workshop equipped with a camera, microports, lighting and editing computers at the disposal of the residents. Furthermore, a-i-r laboratory residents can benefit from the CCA’s technical background, library, reading room and videotheque.
Gasworks: Exhibitions, International Residencies & Studios, London
, UK
Founded in 1994, Gasworks is an art organization located in a three-story Victorian building in South London, between Vauxhall and Oval underground stations. It houses 12 artists’ studios – of which nine are rented by London based artists and three are dedicated to residencies – and offers a programme of exhibitions and events, artists’ residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.
Gasworks focuses on visual arts practice in its broadest sense, working discursively with UK-based and international artists to facilitate the development of their work. Gasworks’ programme is committed to providing a responsive context and to disseminating critical practices to a wider audience. Gasworks is part of the Triangle Arts Trust, an international network of artists and organisations.
As part of the My City programme, one Turkish or Turkey-based artist will be selected for a residency and a solo exhibition at Gasworks in Spring 2010. The residency will take place between 1 April and 30 June 2010, offering the selected artist a studio at Gasworks, accommodation and living expenses. The exhibition will open at the end of the residency, on 25 June 2010 and remain open for seven weeks, until 15 August 2010.
The artist will receive pastoral and curatorial support from both the residencies coordinator and exhibitions curator throughout the period of residency at Gasworks. The exhibition will be the result of a dialogue between the artist and the two curators and is expected to start prior to the residency period.
DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin
Dates 3 months in the first half of 2010
The Berliner Künstlerprogramm was found in 1963 by the Ford Foundation as an artist-in-residence programme. In 1965 it was taken over by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). As part of the My City programme, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm is offering a three month residency in Berlin in the first half of 2010.
The aim of this programme is to promote an exchange of experience among artists and to foster their involvement with current cultural issues in other countries. Through numerous internal meetings and projects which are carried out in the DAAD Gallery or in cooperation with other cultural institutions, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm aims to establish contacts with local artists and personalities involved in Germany’s cultural life.
With their expertise, the visual arts team of the Künstlerprogramm will support the selected guest artist to realize a project developed during his/her stay in Berlin (for example a new piece, an exhibition, a public work, a publication etc.). In Berlin, the guest artist will have the opportunity to continue his/her work undisturbed and to participate actively in the city’s cultural life.
Visual artists who live and work in Turkey are encouraged to apply. They should be at the beginning of their career or not yet be widely internationally known. The invitation is issued in conjunction with a grant that allows for an adequate standard of living. It also includes a furnished apartment and a production budget. Artists who accept the invitation take up permanent residence in Berlin for the duration of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm grant.
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
, Austria
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has been a leading European training centre for artists for more than 300 years. The Academy offers a renowned team of professors in the arts and cultural studies department, including Pawel Althamer, Sabeth Buchmann, Martin Beck, Monica Bonvicini, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harun Farocki, Marina Grizinic, Matthias Herrmann, Tom Holert, Dorit Margreiter, Marion van Osten, Daniel Richter, Constanze Ruhm, Amelie von Wulffen, Heimo Zobernig and others. Theory and practice are regarded as necessary for the transdisciplinarity that is a common agenda in the arts and theoretical research. Disciplines such as painting, photography, sculpture, video, digital media, sound, film, conceptual art, performance, art in public space, gender studies, postcolonial studies, philosophy and aesthetic theory, art history are, among others, to be found at the Academy.
As part of the My City programme, this residency provides accommodation in the heart of Vienna, next to the Museumquartier (MQ) and the Academy. The apartment (89m²) has two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen. The resident will have access to the labs and studios, ranging from drawing, printing and painting to photography, sound, video, digital media, performance and as well as the libraries. The Academy is interested in applicants with a strong international track record.
FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Helsinki
FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange provides services and acts as an expert body in international exchanges relating to the visual arts. FRAME, established in 1992, works within the Finnish Fine Arts Academy Foundation and is primarily funded by the Finnish Ministry of Culture.
FRAME currently collaborates with HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme) for artists’ residencies. HIAP offers a residency on Suomenlinna island from for a period still to be negotiated from Spring 2010 onwards.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund & Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
As part of the MyCity programme, one Turkish or Turkey-based artist will be selected for a residency at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund in spring 2010. The residency will take place between 1 April and 30 June 2010, offering the selected artist a studio at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, accommodation and living expenses. The residency takes place in the context of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein and Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund are inviting visual artists exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media to apply for the residency. However, media art is not understood as a technical genre. Rather, it is the topical and conceptual discussion of our contemporary world based increasingly on media and technological structures that makes for the contemporaneity of media art.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
Founded in 1996 in Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) serves as a platform for the production, presentation, mediation and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. Since 1996 HMKV has realized over 70 exhibitions, film and video programs, workshops, lectures, symposia, performance programs and conferences at various venues in Dortmund (currently in the PHOENIX Halle, a spectacular 1895 factory hall measuring 2.200 square meters belonging to the giant former steel production plant of hoenix-West) as well as in other cities in Germany and abroad. Among the 40 exhibitions of the last thirteen years there were seminal projects such as „Reservate der Sehnsucht“ (1998), games. Computer games by artists“ (2003), „History Will Repeat Itself“ (2007/2008) and „Anna Kournikova … Art in the Age of Intellectual Property“ (2008). Through its strong commitment to the field of media art over the past decade HMKV has developed into a unique institution in Germany. HMKV’s exhibitions are characterised by their broad definition of media art and by positioning media art in the context of contemporary art. HMKV’s activities have received international recognition. In 2007 and 2008 HMKV has been nominated for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Art Associations. HMKV hosts since 2000 the grant program of the State of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) for media artists (f) from NRW. Since 2006 HMKV functions as the branch office of Medienwerk NRW which will host the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) RUHR 2010.
Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Since 1983 the artists’ organization Künstlerhaus Dortmund has been a non-profit space for contemporary and experimental arts. It is a place for all kinds of contemporary visual arts: Painting, sculpture, graphic as well as photography, film, video, installation and new
media. This spectrum can be found in the working fields of the members as well as in the group exhibitions, organized by the members exclusively for artists who are not members of the Künstlerhaus. By focusing on contemporary and experimental art, especially young, not
yet established artists are supported. In this way, the Künstlerhaus enriches the cultural scene of the city of Dortmund – consisting of museums and galleries with their economic interests, featuring mainly solo exhibitions – in a unique way. The Künstlerhaus creates free space for arts, offers optimal working conditions for artists from Germany and abroad and attempts to reach the interested public through direct and personal mediation. The Künstlerhaus frequently serves as a workstation for international guests to realize new and site-specific work. The interdisciplinary orientation of the Künstlerhaus Dortmund creates a constantly growing network of contacts to various national and international cultural institutions. Since 1993, the association “MeX” for experimental music is a continuous guest in the basement for intermedia and experimental sound projects. In addition, the Künstlerhaus cultivates the contact to the Hartware MedienKunstVerein, also located in Dortmund.
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Neighbours in Dialogue: Istanbul Collection for Ars Aevi
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