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"Better Homes"- SculptureCenter - April 22 - July 22, 2013

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April 22 - July 22, 2013 Better Homes Jonathas de Andrade, Neïl Beloufa, Keith Edmier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Robert Gober, Tamar Guimarães, Anthea Hamilton, E’wao Kagoshima, Yuki Kimura, KwieKulik, Paulina Olowska, Kirsten Pieroth, Josephine Pryde, Carissa Rodriguez, Martha Rosler, and Güneş Terkol "You will express yourself in your house, whether you want to or not...." - Elsie de Wolfe, The House in Good Taste , 1913. Better Homes brings together a group of artists who examine the construction of the interior through design and homemaking from critical perspectives. As the notion of home shifted in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and interior space was being redefined and redecorated according to the aspirations of modernity, the interior became integral to the construction of the subject. Interiors were an extension of identity, representing gender, fashion, and class, and re-establishing what constituted the private and the public. Now, in the ...

Signs Taken in Wonder - 23.01.- 21.04.2013

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Signs Taken in Wonder Searching for Contemporary Istanbul Wed, 23.01.2013–Sun, 21.04.2013 MAK Exhibition hall http://www.mak.at/en/program/event/signs_taken_in_wonder?reserve-mode=active © MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen Photo © MAK / Nathan Murrell

Art Barter 18-26 January 2013

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5533 @ IMC İstanbul Manifaturacılar Çarşısı 5. Blok no.5533 Unkapanı Works by: .-_-., Murat Akagündüz, Bora Akıncıtürk, Volkan Aslan, Gülçin Aksoy, Nancy Atakan, Güler Ateş, Bora Başkan, Elif Boyner, Irmak Canevi, Banu Cennetoğlu, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Natalie Edwards, Cevdet Erek, İnci Eviner, Leyla Gediz, Deniz Gül, Gözde İlkin, Borga Kantürk, Ata Kam, Ayça Köseoğulları, Özgür Erkök Moroder, Yasemin Nur, Lara Ögel, Pınar Öğrenci, Ahmet Öğüt, İz Öztat, Güçlü Öztekin, Ali Emir Tapan, Ali Taptık, Güneş Terkol, Vahit Tuna, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Merve Ünsal, Nalan Yırtmaç.

WHO TOLD YOU SO?! #4 Truth vs. Family

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"the photographer: Studio Clack, the project and onomatopee" “What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?” – Princes Diana Opening November 9th, 20:00 Running from November 10 - January 20 open thursday-sunday 13:00-17:00 With: Ani Eloyan (NL), Erwin van Doorn & Inge Nabuurs (NL), Erika Rothenberg (US), Gunes Terkol (TR), Jans Muskee (NL), Keren Cytter (IL), Melanie Bonajo (NL), Nadine Byrne (SE), Pedro Bakker (NL), Ronald Ophuis (NL), Sebastian Friedman (ARG). + Project specific poem by Anne van Amstel + Project specific texts by Filosofie Magazine editor Leon Heuts and Van Abbemuseum curator Annie Fletcher This fourth and last chapter of our year-long Who told you so?! program focuses on the story of Truth vs. Family. We are familiar with our families but do we know them personally, do we know them deeply? We are close, but do we come close to the sources of our neighbours’ deep wishes and needs? Can we rely on “the most ...

TANAS - 23 May - 28 July

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"chromatic kites of women", 300 cm x 250 cm , sewing on fabric, Berlin, 2012 (workshop in Berlin and in cooperation with Ballhaus Naunynstrabe at 15.05.12) Dear Madam, dear Sir, With the group show Turkish Art New And Superb, TANAS leaves the field of prejudices and clichés about Turkish art behind. Thirteen artists, most of them born in the 1970s in Turkey and now living in Istanbul, contribute works dealing with themes of society, politics, history, and culture. Two of these contributions are shown at different venues outside TANAS: An acoustic work by Aslı Çavuşoğlu will be presented at gelbe MUSIK from 23 May through 28 July. The “ground tattoo” by the artist group Ha Za Vu Zu is being executed in the former airport area of Tempelhof on the abandoned landing field (entrance Oderstrasse, coordinates M 23 on sitemap) Please find attached our invitations, press release, flyer, and Tempelhof sitemap. Here are the dates: Opening at gelbe MUSIK, Sch...

Harekete Geçiren Başlıca Güçler - The Main Forces That Stir Up Action | NON | 10.02.2012

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fotoğraf / photos:  Serkan Tunç Harekete Geçiren Başlıca Güçler / The Main Forces That Stir Up Action, yerleştirmeden görünüm / view from the installation, NON, 2012 please scroll down for the English version NON, 10 Şubat – 17 Mart 2012 tarihleri arasında Güneş Terkol ’un “Harekete Geçiren Başlıca Güçler” adlı dördüncü kişisel sergisine ev sahipliği yapıyor.
 Sergi, sanatçının son iki yıl içinde İstanbul’daki atölyesinde ürettiği işleri, Londra Gasworks ve Çin’in Chongqing kentinde bulunan OrganHaus’da katıldığı misafir sanatçı programları sırasında ürettikleriyle bir arada sunuyor. Sergide, Terkol’un kumaş üzerine dikim tekniğiyle ürettiği çalışmaları, video enstalasyonları ve serigrafik baskı gibi yeni yöntemlerle yapılmış işleri yer alıyor. Sanatçının Antakya, İstanbul ve Chongqing’de kadın katılımcılarla gerçekleştirdiği atölye çalışmaları sonucunda kolektif olarak üretilmiş üç kumaş pankart ve bu üretim sürecini belgeleyen çalışmalar da bir masa üzerinde su...

"Dreams on the River" at OrganHaus, Chongqing, China /// 2.12.2011

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  "Guide for hands", drawings on textile, 70 cm x 60 cm ( 4 pieces), 2011   "Dream", sewing on textile, 215 cm x 300 cm, 2011   "There is no time to go", video, 05: 17 min, 2011   "They were trying to climb against the current", video, 05:08 min., 2010   "Working Flower", light box, 40 cm x 40 cm., 2011 special thanks for workshop participants: Yang Xi Liang Ying Han Wen Zhang Wu Yan LeiLeo Wen Jing She Chenqi Jiu Jiu link:    http://site.douban.com/organhaus/widget/notes/1476198/note/273716922/