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The theme of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which will be held between April 20 and November 24, 2024 (preview on April 17, 18 and 19), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, has been announced as Foreigners Everywhere.
Esra Sarıgedik Öktem, who curated the exhibition, has experience in the local and international art environment at the intersection of curatorial studies, cultural institution and gallery management activities. Öktem, who served as the director of Rampa Istanbul between 2013 and 2017, founded Turkey's first artist representation office, BüroSarıgedik, in 2017. Between 2007 and 2012, she ran My City, a large-scale public art project at the British Council. In 2010, she curated the exhibition A Dream… but not Yours: Contemporary Art from Turkey at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and co-curated the Atlas of Events exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. After working as a researcher-curator at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands between 2005 and 2007, Öktem worked as an assistant curator at the 9th Istanbul Biennial and the 3rd Berlin Biennial. He worked as a young researcher curator at the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö. took.
Gülsün Karamustafa, A Promised Exhibition, SALT Beyoğlu, Photo: Muhsin Akgün Radikal
Gülsün Karamustafa[1], the dissident artist of Turkish contemporary art, will represent Turkey Pavilion at the Venice Biennale the 60th International Art Exhibition to be held between 20 April and 24 November 2024.
This year, the Turkish Pavilion, coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), will host Gülsün Karamustafa's installation titled Hollow and Broken: A State of the World, a work specially produced for the venue.
Gülsün Karamustafa has focused on painting, installation, video and performance productions in her artistic practice of more than 50 years; It addressed issues such as migration, locality, identity, cultural difference and gender. Karamustafa, in his works that emerged from personal and historical narratives and varied in terms of material and methodology, revealed the social and political injustices especially in Turkey's modernization process. Issues of displacement and memory frequently came up in his works. Karamustafa continues to inspire new generations of artists.
Hollow and Broken: A State of the World by Gülsün Karamustafa
“I am dealing with a world that is completely emptied due to the wars, earthquakes, migrations, nuclear danger, and constantly battered nature and environmental problems that flow around me and threaten humanity.
I try to emotionally and physically present in the space the phenomena of destruction, emptiness and brokenness created by the devastations that are becoming commonplace by the agenda that we cannot keep up with, unpredictable pains that follow each other at very close intervals, empty values, identity struggles, fragile human relations.
[…]
The world is a battlefield where location is constantly being changed..."
The book, prepared simultaneously with the exhibition, will include essays written by 12 authors on each of the materials used in Gülsün Karamustafa's new work, the diary the artist kept during the production process, an interview with her, and sketches. The book will be published in two volumes, Turkish and English.
The graphic design of the project and the prepared book is Esen Karol, and the editor is Melis Cankara. Yelta Köm is the design consultant of the exhibition.
Venice Biennale 60th International Art Exhibition Pavilion of Türkiye Advisory Board
In the 2022-2024 Advisory Board, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Culture and Art Enterprise General Manager Özalp Birol, Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Sculpture Department Faculty Member Nilüfer Ergin Doğruer, artist İnci Eviner, curator and Fiorucci Art Trust Director Milovan Farronato and Sanat Dünyamizi magazine. editor and art writer Fisun Yalçınkaya.
[1] Karamustafa was born in Ankara in 1946. She lives and works in Istanbul. As early as the 1970s, she was concerned with topics such as migration, feminism, gender and coming to terms with colonialism. Gülsün Karamustafa, received the Roswitha Haftmann Award in 2021 and the Prince Claus Award in 2014, and continues her work in Istanbul and Berlin.
Karamustafa participated in many international biennials such as Istanbul, São Paulo, Gwangju, Kiev, Singapore, Havana, Thessaloniki and Sevilla.
The artist's works are exhibited in Center Pompidou, Tate Modern, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, Musée d'Art Moderne, Van Abbemuseum, Ludwig Museum, MUMOK, Wien Museum, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul Modern Art. Renowned institutions such as the Tate Modern in London, the Guggenheim Museum in New York or the Museum Ludwig in Cologne have acquired works by her.
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