The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art D-O Ark Underground is a unique location and event. Hidden behind the facade of a village house you enter a 6500 square meter Bunker, that was made for President Tito and his Generals in case of a nuclear attack.
“Memories of the Forgotten”, the second exhibition that came out of the collaboration between Artshift and Adahan Hotel Istanbul, takes place between 7 March – 14 April at the Adahan, a town mansion of the Camondo family, a famous Jewish family during the Otttoman Empire in Constantinopl. The exhibition was developed around the phrase “sustain, contain, recycle” and features works by Ahu Akgun, Didem Erbas, Dilan Ozdemir, Eser Epozdemir and Hera Buyuktascıyan.
“Contain, sustain, recycle” are terms used causally on a daily basis and generally refer to solid, material “things”. However, is it possible to contain, sustain, and recycle a building? The word “recycle” here does not necessarily indicate architectural restoration, although restoration is the most important part of recycling. Perhaps the real question is “what can be recycled”?
An exhibition at Salt Istanbul and traces of an intervention by a counter-action taking place in March – adding graffiti’s to the empty spaces on the walls within the show.
The exhibition displays a plethora of documentary material presenting along with restaged elements from specific exhibitions that took place in the past in Turkey, especially the 1. Mayıs Sergisi [First May Exhibition] organized by Görsel Sanatçılar Derneği – GSD [Visual Artists Association]. The project will revisit issues of artists’ rights, involvement and collaborations with workers unions, and the function and positioning of art in public space.
A group of young Turkish artists prepared an intervention on March 15 2013 leaving signs on the walls as a gesture of ‘turnabout’ by an act to “turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself”.
Decide yourself… between the paradox of an intervention using the spectacle itself, of displaying unspectacular works of art concerning artists rights and art in public space within the frame of a museum and a video connecting these elements in a well known way of daily motions…
SALT Beyoğlu – Istanbul
JANUARY 31 – APRIL 21, 2013
Reflections on the post-industrial landscape
What role can contemporary photographic practices play in reflecting the issues of our time? FUTURELAND NOW is an exhibition of the photography of John Kippin and Chris Wainwright which will address key issues in our current society whilst reflecting on the unresolved issues of the past.
What is the connection between art and design and personal set up of the environment.
26.05. – 07/15/2012
Rezan Has Müzesi, Kadir Has Cad., Cibali, Istanbul
Opening times: daily from 09:00-18:00 clock
Organized by the Goethe Institute Istanbul in cooperation with IFA
‘SET’ by Andree Korpys/Markus Löffler. The image shows a part-reconstruction of a conspirative flat of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF, Red Army Faction), based on photographs by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, Federal Office of Criminal Investigation), it is part of the exhibition “Come-in. Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany” taking place at Kadir Has University.
The exhibition “Come-in. Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany” investigates the connection between fine art and applied design in twenty-five artistic positions by means of individual objects, sculptures, installations, videos and – in the exhibition catalogue – inserts.
At first glance, the mobilia, objects and interiors appear to possess an “obvious” identity as “furniture”, “luminaries” or “interiors”. At second glance, however, they are too uncomfortable, colourful and eccentric, all too clearly geared to our perception or a situational communicative event. They represent ideas, projects, scenic reinterpretations of situations conditioned by certain furnishing and architectural elements. The interior spaces chosen by many of the contributing artists form links between aspects of contemporary history and their own biography and critical aesthetics.
Every institution that takes part in this touring exhibition is invited to choose and exhibit additional works from its own country for the duration of the show there. These should represent one artistic position dealing with the theme of the exhibition.
The image shows a part-reconstruction of a conspirative flat of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF, Red Army Faction), based on photographs by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, Federal Office of Criminal Investigation)
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The Austrian artist shows Transformed posters of Turkish Sex movies from the 1970th. She covered most of the original poster surface with red colour and added slogans of the international Occupy movement.
The actresses are suddenly transformed from their role as sexual ojects. They get real actors as new heroes of a political movement claiming equality and freedom. Occupy!
Ona B. (1957, Vienna) is living and working in Vienna. “Ona” is an artist pseudonym. Ona is the name for “she” in lots of languages. The artist is working interdisciplinary with different media forms. Paintings, installations, Photos, Video, Conceptual art…… Since 1987 she is working partly with other artists as the artist community “Die Damen”