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Simit, a nongovernmental art association based in Paris, was formerly known primarily for its artist residency programs. Now, however, the association is eyeing growth through expansion throughout Europe. Banu Dicle, founder of the association, speaks about its future targets Established in Paris in 2007 with the aim of promoting Turkish art abroad, the founder of […]
In 1897, Emma Goldman wrote: “I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases.” In 2011, she is currently the muse of a Turkish contemporary artist, Halil Altındere. In his solo exhibition, which is titled “If I can’t […]
Sinop, which lies on the northernmost point of the Black Sea coast of Turkey, has a really interesting history, according to Melih Görgün, art director for the Sinop Biennale, or Sinopale. The city of Sinop, which has been a strategic point in the cultural and trade systems of the Black Sea region for thousands of […]
“Human” is the title of the current exhibition at The Empire Project. The exhibition includes photographic work by six artists from Turkey and the international art scene in the Taksim gallery in Istanbul. Photographers Rasha Khalil, Halil Koyutürk, Sean Lee, Manolo Menendez, Gözde Türkkan and Gökşin Varan make up the exhibition of the project. While […]
Those who would enter the third floor of Arter this month can smell boiling milk and then witness a large table, with a boiling milk in the middle of it. Milk is boiling and turning its surface turning into a cream. This is work of Deniz Gül, young Turkish contemporary artist, from her first and […]
As the realm of politics eyes the Arab world closely, the region’s art scene is emerging and changing almost every day. Vasıf Kortun, the curator the UAE pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, speaks about the country’s pavilion and how political change there has not been reflected in the art Not confined simply to the […]
It is a widely known fact that contemporary art is open to all kinds of speculation. Currently Turkish art scene witnesses a peculiar incident in that viewers have noted a resemblance between Burçak Bingöl’s and Ai Wei Wei’s works. Everything started when Ai Wei Wei created a surveillance camera and displayed it in London’s Lisson […]
This June, Istanbul will see Andy Warhol films and Polaroid for the first time. The iconic contemporary artist’s works will be seen at Istanbul’s Galerist. The curator of the show Geralyn Huxley and Andy Warhol Museum director Eric Shiner speak to Hürriyet Daily News about Warhol and what the viewers should expect from this revolutionary […]
Iranian artist Babak Golkar questions the ‘idea of freedom’ in the social and political world by creating a minimalistic architecture exhibit at the Sanatorium Art Gallery in Beyoğlu. Golkar raises social and political structure awareness, as his exhibit titled ‘Black Cube: Moving Toward the Abstract Light,’ welcomes viewers to unravel the reality of freedom and […]
In 1924, French writer and poet André Breton wrote in his Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Manifesto of Surrealism, that “We are still living under the reign of logic: this, of course, is what I have been driving at. But in this day and age logical methods are applicable only to solving problems of secondary interest.” […]