Multi-Kulti

M U LT I - K U LT I An Exh i b i t i on Prop os a l for I s t a n b u l 2010

Artists: Kader Attia Jan Chr istensen Nilbar Gures Devr im Kadirbeyoglu Katja Loher Tunc Topcuoglu Rocio Rodr iguez Salceda Gabr iela Vainsenc her Alex Waldman Theodore Zafiropoulos

Multi-Kulti will emphasize continuous mass immigration which has been a feature of economy and society since the first half of the 19th century.

Multi-Kulti will represent how crucial it is to form a philosophical and social humanism to help build a better, more egalitarian society.

Multi-Kulti will aim at recognizing, celebrating and maintaining the different cultures or cultural identities within a society to promote social cohesion. It will advocate a society that extends equitable status to distinct cultural and religious groups, with no one culture predominating.

Multi-Kulti will demonstrate a vision of art able to “pierce� every separate identity and indicate the possibilities of an art full of interchanges.

Multi-Kulti will offer a view where complex artistic identity is no longer territorial and self-sufficient, but aimed at the world and man.

Multi-Kulti will offer an open territory without physical or dogmatic borders: the geographic representation of a utopia, a fusion of East, West, North and South.

Multi-Kulti will be a veritable emergence affirming the value of the co-existence of differences.

Kader Attia Born 1970 in Dugny/Seine-Saint-Denis, Lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Attia‘s past and life in a Paris suburb where the graves of the French royal dynasties are to be found and which is also a hotspot of inter-cultural conflict has had a decisive impact on his work. Using his own identity that has been defined by several cultures as the starting point, he tackles the increasingly difficult relationship between Europe and immigrants, particularly those of Islamic faith. In doing so he does not allow himself to be tied down to one specific medium.

His photographic work and films portray the smouldering conflicts arising from the history of French colonialisation and are characterised by exceptional attention to detail. The allegorical minimalism of his sculptures and installations on the other hand is frequently unsettling owing to the discord between their external sensory appeal and their controversial content. He then builds installations questioning the viewer about his fantasies and phobias.

Emptiness Fragility, 2008

Kashbah, 2008

Oil Wave, 2008

1996-98 1993-94 1991-93

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Escola de Artes Applicades “ La Massana “, Barcelona / Spain Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués “ Duperré “, Paris

Solo shows 2009 - Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne / Germany Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm / Sweden 2008 - Noga gallery, Tel Aviv / Israel Albion gallery, Londres / UK “Signs of Reappropriation” The Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta / USA “Black & white : signs of times”, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Huarte / Spain Mythes et Poésie du Vide, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris / France Kader Attia – New Works, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle / USA 2007 - Momentum 9, ICA, Boston / USA Square Dreams, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle / UK Who cares ?, Haïfa Museum of Art, Haïfa / Israel Christian Nagel gallery, Berlin / Germany 2006 - Tsunami, Magasin, National Center for Contemporary Art, Grenoble / France Kader Attia, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon / France Sweet sweat, Andréhn-Schiptjenko gallery, Stockholm / Sweden 2005 - The Gallery @ Sketch, London / UK 2004 - HALLAL, Kamel Mennour gallery, Paris / France 2002 - Alter Ego, Kamel Mennour gallery, Paris / France 2001 - Photostories, Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris / France 2000 - La Piste d’Atterrissage, l’Atelier, National Center for Photography, Paris / France 1997 - Instants Urbains, Galerie L’œil du huit, Paris / France 1996 - Humanistes au Congo, Centre culturel Français de Brazzaville, Brazzaville / Congo Group shows 2009 - Havana Biennale, Havana / Cuba La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris / France African Icons, Jack Shainman gallery, New York / USA 2008 - Travesia, las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands / Spain In the desert of modernity, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / Germany Pontevedra Biennale, Pontevedra / Spain Representations of the artist as an intellectual, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig / Germany Traversée, Art Paris, Paris / France Elefante Negro, Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico DF / Mexico 2007 - Suite Française, Krinzinger Projekte,Vienna / Austria The Big Easy, Halle 14, Leipzig / Germany Sulpture Park, Frieze Art Fair, London / UK Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York / USA New Economy, The Artists Space, New York / USA Dialogues méditerranéens, St Tropez / France Accélération, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel / Switzerland

L ‘Emprise du Lieu #4, Domaine Pommery, Reims / France Politics of Fear, Albion, Londres / UK 2006 - 1st Art, Landscape & Architecture Biennial, Canary Islands / Spain Nuit Blanche, Paris / France Infinities, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 37, Basel / Switzerland Take a walk on the wild side, de Pury & Luxembourg gallery, Zurich / Switzerland Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / France 2005 - Meeting Point, Sternersen Museum, Oslo / Norway In between times, Tramway, Glasgow / UK Regards des photographes arabes contemporains, Institute of the Arab World, Paris / France Big Bang, Jewish Art and History Museum, Paris / France Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, FIAC, Paris / France Expérience de la durée, 8th Lyon Biennale, Lyon / France Living for the City, J. Shainman gallery, New York / USA The Loop, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 36, Basel / Switzerland SingulierS, Guangdong Museum of Art, Canton / China 2004 - The Sweatshop, Art Position, Art Basel Miami, Miami / USA Videozone,Video Art Biennale, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv / Israel Near East Project, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort / Germany Continental Breakfast, Belgrade / Czech Republic Shake, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz / Austria Shake,Villa Arson, Nice / France 2003 - Correspondance, Statement Area, Art Basel 34, Basel / Switzerland Fault Lines, 50th Venice Biennale,Venice / Italy Voyages d’Artistes, Foundation Electra, Paris / France Ouvertures Algériennes : créations vivantes, La Criée, Rennes / France 2002 - Les vertus sont des titres, les souffrances sont des droits, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême / France 2001 - L’Alchimie de la rencontre, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims / France L’état des choses part.1, Kunst-werke, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Berlin / Germany Residency Programs 2008 - JCVA, Jerusalem / Israel IASPIS, Stockholm / Sweden Grants / Fellowships / Prizes 2005 - Nominee for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 1997 - The Leica Special Prize / “ Une Algérie d ‘Enfance”

Jan Christensen Born 1977 in Copenhagen.

Lives and works in Berlin.

I would describe my interests and work as an on-going research – or rather a debate, regarding the way we perceive and understand visual signs and symbols, and what constitutes art within contemporary visual culture and society.

My previous works span from simple text pieces to multi-layered graphic compositions, often installed as wall paintings or banners. I am deeply involved in the whole process from appropriating imagery and developing a thorough field of references, to experimenting hands-on with models, producing collages and installing the final work. That includes experiments of largescale installation work, and sometimes considers the definitions of site-specificity, phenomenology and the relationship between the viewer and the work of art and the surrounding architecture.

My attitude is that an artist, in order to maintain an interesting and productive discourse, should challenge established standards, including those definitions, parameters or institutions that might be art itself, and work collectively and critically with other participants in the creative field.

Light, 2008

Exit Basel, 2006

Everybody Thinks That It Means Too Much, 2005

1997 - 2000 The National College of Art and Design (NCAD/SHKS), Oslo Solo exhibitions 2009-10 - Project Space, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (upcoming) 2009 - Porsgrunn Kunstforening, Porsgrunn (upcoming) c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin (upcoming) 2008 - Galleri MGM, Oslo (upcoming) All Those Moments Will Be Lost, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo (with Rolf-Yngve Uggen and Johnny Skalleberg) 2007 - Program: Initiative for Art + Architectural Collaborations, Berlin (with Hackenbroich Architekten) Initialraum, Münster Milieu, Bern Relative Value, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin Galleri MGM, Oslo 2006 - Good Times Make You Think that You Are the Lucky One, Buia Gallery, New York BAR-Code Program, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent Forward Momentum, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel/Muttenz (publication) c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin 2005 - Process Room, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Hordaland Kunstsenter (with Josefine Lyche and Lars Morell), Bergen Unfinished Painting,Yvon Lambert Project Room, New York 2004 - Painting Myself into a Corner, Galleri MGM, Oslo Some Titles for Which I Don’t Know What to Make, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin 2003 - Galleri MGM, Oslo You Are Always Alone in the Cinema (J. Monk), Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm Quarantine Series, Amsterdam 2002 - Mind [the] Space (with Gardar Eide Einarsson), Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin Selected group exhibitions and projects 2008 - 40/40, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo (upcoming) Hove Festivalen, Tromøya, Arendal (upcoming) Portrom i et byrom, Norsk Form/public project, Oslo (upcoming) Alone in the Dark, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo High Come Down, Smia, Kristiansand Art is Not Mute, Hit, Gothenburg Lights On - norsk samtidskunst, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (catalog) 2007 - Røtter i Porsgrunn, Porsgrunn Fengsel/Porsgrunn Kunstforening, Porsgrunn Pawnshop, e-flux, New York Tomorrow, Kumho Museum of Art and Artsonje Center, Seoul (catalog) Art is Not Mute, ICA-Dunaújváros, Dunaújváros, Hungary Where Euclid Walked, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (catalog) The Yeonhee-Dong 195 Project: A Hundred Ideas and Ten Thousand Combinations,YeonheeDong 195, Seoul (cat.)

Tempo, Skien (catalogue) Art is Not Mute, Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm Stuff, Detroit MOCA, Detroit Vorstellen, formulieren-Sprache als Modell der Wirklichkeit, K3-Project Space, Zürich (catalog) Believers & Illusionists, R. T. Hansen, Berlin I Will Never Make It!, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig Invisible Jet, Buia Gallery, New York Poster Project, Participant Inc./Devon Costello & Ilya Lipkin, New York 2006 - Rio, Artnews Projects, Berlin c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Poster Project, Kantor Feuer Window Space/Devon Costello & Ilya Lipkin, New York Cosa Nostra, Glassbox, Paris JRP|Ringier – We Make Books With Art, Daviet-Thery, Paris Nordiske spor, Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway Please Love Me, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI Breezer, Buia Gallery, New York Installation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Art|37|Basel, Basel Oslo Art Festival, Members Club/Prosjektskolen, Oslo Bound_less, Stavanger Kunstforening, Stavanger; Nord-Trøndelag fylkesgalleri, Namsos (touring exhibition/the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design; catalog) Super, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (catalog) 2005 - Yellow Pages, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO), Geneva; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel/Liestal; Turm Gallery, Helmstedt (catalog) Pro 2005, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (catalog) The Failure, Korridor, Berlin Gallery Artists, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin Present Perfect!, T293, Naples ChangdonGo!, The National Art Studio, Seoul (catalog) Installation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Art|36|Basel, Basel Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague (catalog) Post Notes, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Installation, Galleri MGM, ARCO, Madrid (catalog) Bound_less, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo; Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø; Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum - Eikaasgalleriet, Jølster; Trondarnes Distriktsmuseum, Harstad; Kulturkontoret, Eidsberg kommune; Grenselandmuseet, Kirkenes (touring exhibition/Riksutstillinger; catalog) 2004 - Salong 100, Oslo None of the Above, The Swiss Institute, New York Installation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin (catalog) Installation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Art|35|Basel, Basel (catalog) Desidolize Now, Exposition internationale d’art contemporain Jeune Creation, Paris MixMax, Artsonje Center, Seoul (catalog + booklet) 2003 - Høstutstillingen (Øystein Aasan), Kunstnernes Hus/Oslo Sentralstasjon, Oslo (catalog) ...it’s Alive, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo

Installation, c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Art|34|Basel, Basel Ideologia 2, Röda Sten, Gothenburg (catalog) Southbound - Case Study of an Imaginary Community in Berlin, Spittelmarkt, Berlin (catalog) 2002 - 40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen (with Rirkrit Tiravanija), Fluxus Festival 2002, Wiesbaden Sliding Down the Surface of Things II, Sthlm Art Fair, Stockholm o VER Station no.2/Passenger (with Rirkrit Tiravanija), The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo 2001 - o VER Magazine (with Rirkrit Tiravanija), Oslo Kunsthall/The Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo Sliding Down the Surface of Things, The Life Foundation, Stockholm Other Places, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen 2000 - XS, Temp, Bergen Form 2000, Norsk Form/Momentum Ekstra, Moss; Norsk Form, Rådhusplassen, Oslo; Tromsø Museum, Tromsø; Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø; Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim (touring exhibition; catalog) Curated projects 2009-2010 - Upcoming projects and exhibitions, Kunstnerbanken, Skien 2008 - Group exhibition: 1081, Galleri MGM, Oslo (upcoming) A series of group exhibitions: Rykk tilbake til start! (#1 featuring Ane Graff, Anders Smebye, Anders Valde, Are Blytt, Are Hauffen, Are Mokkelbost, Arne Borgan, Arnell/Lello, Atle Hynne, Bård Ask, Leander Djønne, Steinar Kristensen and Åsil Bøthun; #2 featuring Christian Brandt, Christina Peel, Dag Erik Elgin, Daniel Theodor Jangmar Paulsen, Gard Frantzsen, Hjørdis Kuraas, Ignas Krunglevicius, Ingrid Lønningdal, Ingvild Kjær Tofte and Ingvild Langgård; #3 featuring Camilla Kloster, Christian Blandhoel, Christin E. Holthe Olsen, Josefine Lyche, Karolin Tampere, Kjell Varvin, Kristian Skylstad, Kristin Nordhøy, Lars Morell, Magnus Vatvedt, Maren Juell Kristensen, Maria Sundby, Steffen Håndlykken and Yngvild Rolland; #4 featuring AKFF!, Endre Aalrust, Erlend Hammer, Morten Kildevæld Larsen, Munan Øvrelid, Oda Broch/Sondre H. Bjørgum, Pablo Castro, Per Osker Leu, Randi Nygaard, Richard Nygård, Stian Eide Kluge, Richard Øiestad, Sex Tags and Sofie Berntsen; #5 featuring Anne Szefer Karlsen, Arentz/Heibø, Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen, Eva Kun, Ivan Brodey, Karen Kviltu Lidal, Liv Tandrevold Eriksen, Marius Martinussen, Maya Økland, Odd Fredrik Heiberg, Permafrost, Stine Walderhaug, Susanne Kathlen Mader, Sverre Malling, Terje Nicolaisen, Thor Oreld/Leon Mathisen and Torgeir Husevaag; #6 featuring Jeannette Christensen, Johan Sæther, Kari Steihaug, Kim Andre Hagen/Diana Ailin, Lars Brekke, Marlie Mul, Marte Johnslien, Mikkel Wettre, Nils Olav Bøe, Per Hess, Sandra Vaka, Trond Hugo Haugen, Trond Kasper Mikkelsen, Ulf Verner

Nilbar Gures Born 1977 in Istanbul, Lives and works in Vienna.

Nilbar G端res, born in Istanbul, lives and works in Vienna. She studied painting at the Faculty of Arts, at Marmara University, Istanbul (1996-2000). In 2002 she graduated from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in painting and graphics.

In her works she deliberates on female identity, the role of women, the relation between women and home space, women and public space and the relation between women among each other. She also focuses on the image of Muslim women in Europe, racism and what it means to be a migrant. She deals with these topics primarily in drawings, collages, performances, installations and photographs.

Stranger, Installation View

2000-02 Masters degree in Painting & Graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 1996-00 Bachelors degree in Painting from the Faculty of Arts, Marmara University, Istanbul Exhibitions and Festivals 2008 Urban Jealousy the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran. Curated by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi “World One Minutes”, Today Art Museum, Beijing “Permanent waiting room” April 12- June 30, Bologna, Ljubljana,Vienna, London “Seems to be”, Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck “Abwesend”, Soho in Ottakring, Wien 2007 Open Artist Studios, BMSuma Contemporary Arts Center, Istanbul Participation in the One Minutes Belgian Open Film Festival, Ghent «Gercekci ol imkansizi iste!» (Be realistic, aim for the impossible!), curated by Halil Altindere, Karsi Sanat gallery, Istanbul «Imagine there is an Art Work», 01.09.07-03.11.07, curated by Beral Madra, BMSuma Contemporary Arts Center, Istanbul Participation in the FrauenFilmFestival, the first Turkish women’s film festival in Vienna, Topkino cinema,Vienna Participation in the 5th International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival, French Cultural Center Istanbul, Italian Cultural Center Istanbul, Agri, Diyarbakir,Van 2006 «Kunstauktion: Menschenrechte» (Art auction: human rights), MAK – Museum of Applied Arts,Vienna «Arabesque Süperiör», Lothringer13 gallery, Munich «Wir machen das schon wieder» (We’re doing it again), Andreas Huber gallery,Vienna «Sammlung Dichter» (Collection Dichter), Kaufhaus Osei,Vienna «Hot Spots - Emerging Artists», collection Essl, Klosterneuburg «Das Beste billig» (The best cheap), Kaufhaus Osei,Vienna «The young initiative», UNESCO, Pera Museum, Istanbul «Skulptur als Intervention im öffentlichen Raum» (Sculpture as intervention in the public space), KKP, Kalb&Hohenlohe gallery,Vienna 2005 «Cross Borders», MASC Foundation,Vienna 2003 «Installation for Marcus Omofuma», Afrikadorf, Stadtpark Vienna «New Suggestions/New Proposals», curated by Beral Madra, Borusan gallery, Istanbul 2002 «Soho in Ottakring», Galerie am Yppenplatz gallery,Vienna Planned 2008 Try, Live, Ljubljana, Curator Gulsen Bal

Devrim Kadirbeyoglu Born 1978 in Istanbul, Lives and works in New York City.

I was born in 1978 in Istanbul, Turkey, during an era of violent chaos and military coup in which thousands of people, mostly intellectuals, were imprisoned for their ideas on social justice.

Growing up in this politically and ideologically charged environment kept me close to the threat of death and in tune with what was going on around me, influencing and inspiring my work. It was never easy for me to express my feelings through words partly due to my female identity, as well as the strict leadership of the developing Muslim country that I grew up in.

The possibility of sudden loss, people’s brutal approach to their surroundings and society’s aggressiveness urge me to create. Exploring the continuous struggle and the eternal order of our universe, I use multiples and repetition to undermine hierarchical relationship between objects. The work resonates as a theatrical extension of daily life, where a viewer becomes performer, reminding us that we all have roles to fill in society. Simplicity is pivotal for what I intend: I like the work to be open to different interpretations, given all the diverse qualities of each one of the viewers. If the results are disturbing, that is because life itself is in general disturbing.

eee-EU-uuu, 2008

Immigration, 2002

Magnifying Identities, 2008

2000-2003 Massachusetts College of Art: MFA in Studio For Interrelated Media (SIM). Boston, USA 1996-2000 Mimar Sinan University, Fine Arts Faculty: BFA in Ceramics & Glass. Istanbul, Turkey exhibitions (artist & curator ** - curator *) 2008 - Hafriyat. ‘Urban Jelousy’ 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran. Istanbul, Turkey Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery. ‘On Its Head’. New York, U.S.A Flux Factory. ‘New York, New York, New York’. New York, U.S.A 2007 - Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair. TersHane. Istanbul, Turkey ** TersHane. ‘Parallel of Biennial’. Istanbul, Turkey ** TersHane. ‘Factory Days II’. Istanbul, Turkey Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery. ‘White Noise’. New York, U.S.A * 2006 - Istanbul International Contemporary Art Fair. Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery. Istanbul, Turkey * Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery. ‘One Is Better’. New York, U.S.A * 3rd Ward. A night of Videos for Loft-n-Space. NY, U.S.A ** Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery. ‘Compassion’. New York, U.S.A * 2004 - The Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture. New York, U.S.A 2003 - Judi Rotenberg Gallery. Boston, U.S.A Stephen D. Paine Gallery. Boston, U.S.A 2002 - Huntington Gallery. Boston, U.S.A The Brant Gallery. Boston, U.S.A 2001 - Student Life Gallery. Boston, U.S.A Huntington Gallery. Boston, U.S.A 2000 - Canakkale Art Gallery. Canakkale, Turkey Osman Hamdi Exhibition Space. Mimar Sinan University, Fine Arts Faculty. Istanbul, Turkey Turkish Ceramics Association. Izmir, Turkey Izmir Rotary Club. Izmir, Turkey Seramitek. Istanbul, Turkey 1999 - Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture & Design. Prague, Czech Republic Seramitek. Istanbul, Turkey 1997 - Osman Hamdi Exhibition Space. Mimar Sinan University, Fine Arts Faculty. Istanbul, Turkey experience 2008 - School Of Visual Arts, MFA Studio Critiques. New York. Curator.

2007 - TersHane. Contemporary Art Collective. Istanbul, Turkey / Curator & Artist 10/05 - 12/07 - Dam, Stuhltrager – Gallery. New York / Curator 11/03 - 09/07 - Tufenkian - Textile Production. New York / Designer 07/03 - 10/03 - ANS Productions – Production. New York & Istanbul / PA-AVID Editor 08/03 - 09/03 - Sheldan Collins - Photographer. New York / Assistant 09/01 - 01/03 - Denise Marika - Artist. Boston, MA / Assistant & Office Manager 02/01 - 12/02 - Bakalar & Huntington Galleries. Boston, MA / Exhibitions Assistant 2000 - 2003 - Intro To Video, DV/Film Studio, Form Study, Advanced Ceramics, and K-12 Summer Program. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA Co-Teacher & Teaching Assistant.

Istanbul/Interaction - International Arts Workshop. Istanbul, Turkey / Assistant 1999 Pasabahce Glass Factory. Istanbul, Turkey / Asisstant 1998 International Avsa “Hadi Bara’ Granite Sculpture Symposium. Avsa, Turkey / Asisstant 1997 residency 1999 - Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture & Design. Prague, Czech Republic honors and awards 2000 - Izmir Rotary Club 6th Golden Tray.Youth Award. Izmir, Turkey 2000 Turkish Ceramics Association. Izmir, Turkey publications 2008 Emadi, Leyla. ‘Eve Art.’ Eve Magazine, June 2008 [images published] Kalm, James. ‘Critic’s Pick.’ Wagmag. Detritus Forest. Review, January 28, 2008, p.3. [image published] Flux Factory, NYNYNY exhibition catalog, p.23. [images published] 2007 Tunuslu, Zeynep. ‘In Fashion’. ATA TV. Interview, December 23, 2007.

TersHane, Biennial Parallel exhibition catalog, p.15,16,17,18. [images published] Contemporary Istanbul exhibition catalog, p.135. [image published] Drew, Ebru. ‘4 Days, Not Enough.’ Vatan Gazetesi / Newspaper. Review on Liminal. December 3, 2007. Lifestyle Section.

Donmez, Sinem. ‘Liminal at Istanbul Contemporary.’ Cumhuriyet Gazetesi, Hafta Sonu / Newspaper. Interview, December 1, 2007, p.3. [images published] Evrensel Gazetesi / Newspaper, December 1, 2007, Arts & Culture Section, p.12. [image published] Aydin, Nur. ‘Afis’. CNN Turk. Interview on Liminal. November 30, 2007.

Acik Radyo / Radio Station. Announcement on Liminal. November 29, 2007. Arts & Culture Section.

Saglam, Eraslan. ‘Acik Dergi Program.’ Acik Radyo / Radio Station. Interview on Biennial Parallel.

September 7, 2007.

2006 Uluc, Hincal. ‘Let’s all go to the Fair’. Sabah Gazetesi / Newspaper, December 23, 2006, p.21.

2003 MFA Graduate exhibition catalog, p.26, 27. [images published] 2000 Seramik. Art, Science & Technology Magazine. August/September Issue 2000, p.36 [image published] Izmir Rotary Club 6th Golden Tray exhibition catalog, p.8. [image published]

Katja Loher Born 1979 in Zurich, Lives and works in New York, Berlin and Basel.

In her installations Katja Loher (1979 born in Switzerland) merges her ongoing exploration of language and visual form with sophisticated technology and dramatic sculptural awareness.

The New York based artist orchestrates a variety of mediums and collaborators from around the world. She seeks to deliver precise, as well as poetic metaphors on the ambivalent relationships between power, freedom and dependency.

Katja Loher projects her video works onto the surfaces of weather balloons and transforms them into Video-Planets.

Schachfeld, 2007

Miniversum, 2008

2000 – 2001 ESBA, Fine Art Academy Geneva 2001 – 2004 FHBB HGK, Fine Art Academy Basel 2004 Diploma dept. of Art and Media Art, Art Academy Basel, FHBB HGK Solo Exhibitions 2008 - Joey Art Gallery | Beijing | China (P) Visual Drugs | Zürich | Switzerland Galapagos Art Space | Dumbo | New York | USA Globe Gallery | St.Petersburg | Russia (P) 2007 - Scène2 | Senones | France Tony Wuethrich Gallery | Cabinet | Basel | Switzerland Kunsthalle Palazzo | Liestal | Switzerland (P) with Sirous Namazi, J.Wood & P.Harrison Galapagos Art Space | New York | USA 2006 - Forum Vebikus Schaffhausen | Switzerland Dublin Fringe 2006 | Dublin | Ireland (C) The Artist Network Gallery | Soho | New York | USA 2005 - The State Hermitage Museum | St.Petersburg | Russia (P) ART/36 Basel | Tony Wuethrich Galerie | Basel | Switzerland Group Exhibitions 2008 - Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, DK Art 39 Basel | Presented by Tony Wuethrich Gallery, CH Tershane | Istanbul (C) Substitut | Berlin Threshold Art Space, Perth, UK 2007 - NY City Panorama | Flux Factory | New York | USA (C) Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair | Tershane Gallery | Istanbul | Turkey (C) Biennal Parallel | Tershane Gallery | Istanbul | Turkey 798/Dashanzi Art Festival | Beijing | China (C) NO1 Artbase | 798 Area | Beijing | China (C) 2006 - Diva Digital & Video Art Fair New York | USA Forum & Elzbieta Koscielak Gallery | Lesnica Castle | Zamek | Poland (C) Iaab Choices | Kunstraum Riehen | Basel | Switzerland (P) Villa Wenkenhof | Alexander Clavel Foundation Cultural Development Prize | Riehen | Switzeland 2005 - Art Digital 2005 | M’ARS Centre of Contemporary Arts Moscow | Russia (C) Ernte 2005 | Museum zu Allerheiligen | Schaffhausen | Switzerland Regionale 6 | Kunstverein Freiburg | Germany Awards 2008 Artist in Residence | Berlin | Germany | Canton Schaffhausen Award 2007 Artist in Residence | New York | Galapagos Art Space 2006 Alexander Clavel Foundation Cultural Development Prize | Riehen | CH 2006 Artist in Residence | New York City | iaab International Exchange & Studio Program Basel 2004 TPC CreaTVty Award (Main TV Production Center Zürich, Switzerland) 2004 Artcredit Basel-Town Award | Department Free Art Project | Basel

RocĂ­o RodrĂ­guez Salceda Born 1979 in Madrid, Lives and works in New York.

I create installations which combine paintings with vintage dresses and photography. I grew up in 1980s Spain, a time of optimism undercut by fears lingering from 40 years of dictatorship - when women needed passes to travel alone, when ethnic immigration was illegal, when breaking a repressive silence could lead to jail or worse. Using a variety of media, my art evokes a submerged humanity where tactile, intimate histories startle the present. I try to express what traditional portraiture cannot, making societal walls tangible then creating presences to fly within them in ways that generate possibilities.

Imaginary Portraits, 2008

Imaginary Portraits, 2008

Imaginary Portraits, 2008

2008 MFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC 2001 BA, Complutense University of Madrid, Photography and film Selected solo exhibitions 2006 - Julia Karp Gallery, Barcelona, March 2005 - La Pelu Gallery, Barcelona, December 2002 - Carlos III University, Madrid, July Valdemoro prison, Madrid, May Café El Despertar, Madrid, April 2001 - Carlos III University, Madrid, November Palomeras Cultural Center, Madrid, September Orcasur Cultural Center, Madrid, May Selected group exhibitions 2008 - Visual Arts Gallery, “Cenacle: Reverie Refurbishing Revelry and Visa Versa”, curated by Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt,W 26th st, NYC, July School of Visual Arts, “Animal”, thesis show, curated by Elizabeth Burke, W 26th st, NYC, January 2007 - Jenkins & Johnson Gallery, “Blue”, W 26th st, NYC, February 2006 - Julia Karp Gallery, Barcelona, January 2003 - Center Civic La Barceloneta, “Body Consciousness”, February 2001 - Complutense University, Madrid, 1998 - Complutense University, Madrid, “Grabadores Curational Works 2006 - Las Ruinas Gallery,Civic Center Pati Llimona, “Plastic”, Barcelona, June Metafora School of art ,exhibition of student´s works, Barcelona, January 2005 - Las Ruinas Gallery, Civic Center Pati Llimona, “White paint”, Barcelona, December

Tunc Topcuoglu Born 1979 in Istanbul, Lives and works in Amsterdam.

Hello. My name is Tunc. I am a designer. I don’t know many things yet, I am learning everyday, I am changing, reflecting, dreaming. I believe that as human beings, our main role is to define. We are defining the world. We are giving the meanings. To define something you need other definitions and to define those definitions you need others. And it goes on. They call this Meta; Definition of a definition. This process fascinates me. Humankind defines, design re-defines so that it can be defined again.

As I said to define something you need other definitions, parallel to this; design should collaborate with other defining disciplines. Therefore design should be inter-disciplinary. Disciplines should work without hierarchy. Each definition should be unique and authentic in its own way. The interdisciplinary way of working is constructing a collaboration in which a dialogue emerges between disciplines while the unique quality can be preserved. My work is primarily conceived through photography & video, performance & music, internet & typography. Most of the time these different media merge and overlap.

Design should change form, according to the content. Content can be anything but design should have a statement. Design I see around me now has certain flaws, it usually doesn’t have a real statement, that is why I use communication. Communication can be conceptual and it has to be resolved in a reductive, logical, and objective way by the designer and the audience.

Based on simple ideas and actions I often times use humor and a good amount of curiosity to experiment and create a dialogue between my work and the audience. In my opinion I think that nothing is more intelligent than humor. Many theories exist about what humor is and what social function it serves. For example Rowan Atkinson a.k.a Mr.Bean says in one of his lectures “An object or a person can become funny in three different ways: By being in an unusual place, by behaving in an unusual way, by being the wrong size.Yet, people of all ages and cultures respond to humor and most people share a common sense of humor. Fun can be conceptual.

And design can be funny. I am not saying let’s laugh all the time, but dry design or let’s say‚ design for designers‚ is comparable to an art-piece. An art-piece doesn’t have to tell you a direct story, we do not have to understand it. But design has to talk to you. Design without a concept can not function and to make it function is a designers main role.

My work is influenced by the unimportant social currents of my surrounding. One of my main interests is to manipulate or transform common ordinary objects in order to change the meaning or perception of how we look at them in our daily life. By using unimportant social currents I simply & visually point out social currents. Design should minimize definitions to tell a visual story. Anyway life is so complex. Why not keep it simple. Simple can be deep and complex at the same time.

If I re-define my statement. The language (form) you define with has to change according to the content. Definition should be done in best way technically, visually and conceptually.

Definitions will always include other definitions, important thing is which definitions? And how?

Re-define is my technique, content and philosophy. Design is my key.

No Comment, 2008

Hands, 2008

1995-2000 Product Design Department Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul/Turkey 2002-2003 Comics & Animation Cartoon School of Amsterdam, Amsterdam/Netherlands 2003-2007 Graphic Design Department Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam/Netherlands 2007-2008 Social Design Research No Academy, Amsterdam/Netherlands Exhibitons 23-05-2008 - Mupi Project, Publication Graphic Design Festival Breda 08-05-2008 - Perfect Lecture, Live/Performance Zeebelt Theater, Den Haag 23-05-2008 - Mupi Project, Poster Graphic Design Festival Breda 20-04-2008 - Self Portrait Reproduction, Publication Lente Zomer ‘08, Premsela.org 27-02-2008 - Social Designer, Live Performance No Academy, Amsterdam 12-12-2007 - tunctunctunc on Manystuff.org 10-11-2007 - God Fear Poster Expo, poster Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul 30-10-2007 - Lost & Found 9.8, Live Performance Waag Society, Amsterdam 07-10-2007 - Affordable Art Fair, Poster Serie Wester Gas Fabriek, Amsterdam 14-09-2007 - Lost & Found 9.7, 1 min. trailer Waag Society, Amsterdam 01-09-2007 - tunctunctunc.com is online, website 27-06-2007 - Graduation Show, Lecture/Performance Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 13-01-2007 - If i cant dance, video de apple, Amsterdam 08-12-2006 - The Total Library, exhibitions Punt WG, Amsterdam 16-11-2006 - “ACT” If i cant dance, campaign ‘t Zonnehuis, Amsterdam 02-07-2006 - Dead Darlings#2, photography W301, Amsterdam 02-11-2006 - Public leadership, photography Singer Museum, Laren 25-05-2006 - Bigger, installation Mediamatic, Amsterdam 08-05-2006 - Cultural Engineers, game presentation Stedelijk Museum, 11, Amsterdam 06-04-2006 - Playtime, Game presentation Stedelijk Museum, 11, Amsterdam 13-04-2006 - Gimme Shelter, typography inloophuis prinsenhof, Amsterdam 18-03-2005 - Paradisco 3000,Vj set, Paradiso, Amsterdam 03-05-2005 - Typographic timeline, lecture/performance, Perdu, Amsterdam

Gabriela Vainsencher Born 1982 in Buenos Aires, Lives and works in New York.

Gabriela Vainsencher was born 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lived in Israel until 2005, when she moved to Brooklyn NY. Her work has been shown in Tel Aviv, New York, Berlin and Leipzig. She is currently an artist in residence at Yaddo, an artist colony in Saratoga Springs, NY and is working on the second installment of her ongoing project- “The Unfinished Museum Tour”- which will be presented at La Chambre Blanche, an art center in Quebec City in January 2009.

Proposal: For Istanbul 2010 I propose to create a site- sensitive work in progress, directly influenced by my fellow artists’ work and the time I will spend in Istanbul myself.

This project will be a hybrid of video, drawing and photography, emanating from my experiences and put immediately on display, as it will be created, changed and re-worked throughout the time of the show.

My work is heavily influenced by the fact I am a wandering person, I travel extensively and it has become not only a way of life for me, but almost a pre-requisite for the production of much of my work. I find “Multi-Kulti” to be an appropriate framework in which to show and make my work, as it does accurately represent the state of the art today, as I see it.

A few examples of my work, excerpts from two separate projects- The Unfinished Museum Tour and Morning Drawing, is shown here to demonstrate the nature of my work. However, I would like to stress the work I would do for Istanbul 2010 will, by definition, be different in content from these pieces and is inherently impossible for me to predict.

Giraffe, 2007

16, 2008 22a, 2008

Airplane Wing, 2007

2001- 2005 Beit Berl College, Israel, B.Ed of Fine Arts 2000 The Artists Association, Tel Aviv, Painting 1997-99 Aviva Pasternak, Tel Aviv, Painting Grants 2009 - La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada -International Artist Residency, January- February 2009 2008 - Artist in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. (May-June 2008) Solo Exhibitions 2008 - WORKing Title, Gabriela Vainsencher and Literary Friends, curated by Walker Waugh, WORK gallery, Brooklyn, NY (October 31- November 24) 2007 I don’t care about documenta 12, Leif Magne Tangens Gallery, Skien, Norway. Curated by Jan Christensen http://www.leifmagnetangens.janchristensen.org/vainsencher.htm Group Exhibitions 2008 Representations of The Artist as an Intellectual, curated by Leif Magne Tangen, D-21 gallery, Leipzig, Germany, May 24- June 12 2008 Some sort of literary analysis, 50 minute session, collaboration/performance with Eve K. Tremblay for the show Becoming Fahrenheit 451, BUIA gallery, Chelsea, NYC October 10 2007- February 14 2008 PAWNSHOP, by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Vidokle.e-flux, 53 Ludlow Street, New York, NYNYNY, Flux Factory, LIC, NY, Curated by Jean Barberis December 14 2007- January 13 2008 2007 Notes on Places, Kunsthalle Berlin Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, curated by Leif Magne Tangen and Alanna Lockward. Upcoming November 5 Vonnegut, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn NY, curated by Gabriel Berezin.

Guild of the Black Eagle 3, curated by David Hochbaum, Hochbaum Studio, NY October 6- December 22, 2007 2006 New 06, Nurturing the Edge, NurtureArt at the CUE Art Foundation Gallery, Chelsea, NYC Street Glam, Greenehouse Gallery, Soho, NYC. Curated by Jerry Foust.

2005 Thesis show, The Art School, Beit Berl College, Israel Liga, curated by Galia Yahav, ‘Reading’ Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Projects 2008 “Some Sort of Literary Analysis, 50 Minute Session”, collaboration/performance with Eve K. Tremblay for the show “Becoming Fahrenheit 451”, BUIA gallery, Chelsea, NYC Collections private collection, Basel, Swizerland private collection, Bern, Swizerland private collections, Berlin, Germany private collection, Leipzig, Germany Gallery Affiliation - Pierogi Brooklyn, Flatfiles. Pierogi Leipzig, Flatfiles

Alex Waldman Born 1977 in San Diego, CA, Lives and works in Istanbul.

Dartmouth College 1999- Cinema Studies, Philosophy London International Film School 2003- Cinematography Areas of activity include photography, cinema, video art, sculpture, painting, graffiti, and the occaisional concept.

Don’t much believe in artist’s statements. the work should speak for itself.

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Tektektek Adam, 2007

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Theodore Zafiropoulos Born 1978 in Thessaloniki Lives and works in New York The sculptural installation <Please moisturize me> provides to the viewer the ability to convey information concerning the nature and the post vandalized use of common media.

The viewer becomes a witness of trapped pieces of melted, recycled PVC in a cocoonweb of acrylic yarn. The toxic-petroleum based materials have been manipulated into organic forms that formulize parts of human tissue, skin or flesh.

The industrial product through artistic process becomes familiar, human, desirable.

The smell of baby powder that smoothly covers the whole surface of the installation keeps alive a series of sweet and bitter memories and the sense of fragility, softness and human existence.

The piece focuses on the simulative allegory of an unknown creature, created from recycled plastic-left over trashes of our contemporary urban culture.

The ephemeral structure and the abstractive installment of the forms allows multiple and diverse approaches to the nature, formulation or importance of contemporary sculpture.

Please Moisturize Me, 2008

Objectiveness 6B, 2007

1998-2003 - Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, School of Fine Arts.

Graduated with grade honors from the studio of Professor G.Golfinos, department of painting.

2000-2001 - Participation in the “Universidad de Barcelona” under the auspices of the Erasmus Program of the E.U. 2004-2006 - Master in Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts. Graduated with grade honors.

2007- Current Pursuing a Master in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA. Grands and Honors 2000 National Scholarship Foundation (IKY).Erasmus Program.

2004 Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art. Boutaris Grand.

2006 Belle Arte Lamia (honour).

2007 Fulbright Foundation, Scholarship.

2007 Alexandros.Onassis, Public Benefit Foundation Scholarship.

2008 Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship.

Solo exhibitions 2007 - Batagianni gallery, Athens (curated by:N.Loizidi) 2004 - Graduates Association of Fine Arts School, Athens Group exhibitons (selected) 2008 - Publicly Personal, West Side SVA gallery (curated by Richard Brooks) Onasseio Foundation,Athens (curated by I.Roussos) 16 Graduates Students MFA ASFA “N.Kessanlis Exposition Hall, ASFA, Athens 2007 - Open Studios, SVA New York USA Transmission,Kardamyli (Curated by M.Lagou) Common Place 2-Urban Legends,EpiKolono Theater,Athens (curated by M.Lagou) 2006 - Tellogleio Art Foundation, Thessaloniki, (curated by X.Psoma-Th.Stefanidou) Spacemark Project, Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki (curated by A.Potamianou) Kodra Art Field 2006, Thessaloniki (curated by E.Chalivopoulou) Messinian artists, Kyparissia Opposite Choice, Kardamyli (curated by L.Tsikouta) Common Place 2 – The Return, Epi Kolono Theater,Athens (curated by M.Lagou) Home,sweet,home, Athens (curated by M.Lagou) Belle Arte, Lamia (honour) Engraving Trienalle, Cairo – Egypt 2005 - Art and French poetry, French Institute in Athens Markelo’s Tower, Aigina 2004 -1st Pan-Hellenic exhibition of young artists, Melina Merkouri Art Hall, Hydra Graduate’s Exhibition, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki (honour) 2003 - Kodra Art Field, Thessaloniki 2002 - Student’s Exhibition on Theater Scenery, Tellogleio Art Foundation,Thessaloniki 2nd Bienalle, Candia Maris Hotels, Crete 2001- Student’s Exhibition among the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki and Belgrade,Yugoslavia 2000 -1st Bienalle, Candia Maris Hotels, Crete

Art Competition, El.Venizelo’s airport, Athens Several artworks belong to many public and private collections (El.Venizelos Airport, Candia Maris Hotels, Hygeia Health Center).

Professional experience 2005-2006 - Assistant professor in the Athens School of Fine Arts, in the studio of G.Houliaras.

2004-2005 - Art director in educational programs, Athens-Greece.

2004 - Participation in the International Art Meeting, Denisli-Turkey.

2003 - Art Assistant in the Cultural Center, Municipality of Kalamata-Greece.

Art director in the International Festival of Puppet Theater in Kilkis-Greece.

2001 - Participation in the program “Art and Movement” with the Fine Arts School of LimogesFrance.

1998-2000 - Worked in various Byzantine churches.

The Library, 2007