ISTANBUL 2010 ECOC VISUAL ARTS ACTIVITY REPORT
MARCH – OCTOBER 2010

ISTANBUL 2010 ART PRODUCTION CENTER, KADIRGA2010 aims and strategy of Visual Arts Directorate of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency are outlined referring to Turkey’s local and international needs and activities in terms of contemporary and current art. The two basic concepts set forth at this point are: supporting creative individuals and professional artists within the framework of developments in culture industry and introducing contemporary and current art to a larger public.
Having the following objectives in mind, interactive and sustainable projects – which meet the mentioned needs- are being evaluated and implemented:
Enabling creative individuals and artists produce artworks of current aesthetics and forms in tune with international art world;
Organizing the necessary workshops and working environment;
Fortifying the networks and collaborations with international art and culture circles;
Informing the public about contemporary art...
Within this concept, LIVES AND WORKS IN ISTANBUL project is being implemented since November 2008. Providing facilities to the application projects of visual art, ISTANBUL 2010 ART PRODUCTION CENTER, KADIRGA is serving also for Istanbul 2010 projects of different disciplines.
The Municipality of Fatih allocated its Culture Center in Kadırga for this Project. The center was transformed into the Art Production Center, which serves as the main component of the project. In the center, where international artists will organize workshops and produce artworks for 3 years, there are common studios (photography, video, multi-media equipment and technicians) at the artists’ disposal.
In addition, there are various halls to hold conferences (with approx. 300 seats), panels, workshops, and an archive room and a library. The center is designated to generate a synergy, created by the collaboration of the participating artists. Art Production Center, Kadırga serves as the site for producing, improving, introducing and promoting the main and applicant projects for Istanbul 2010 Agency.

SANAT LIMANI
Istanbul 2010 ECOC Agency presents the Istanbul 2010 ECOC SANAT LIMANI a new venue for exhibitions at the Warehouse #5 in attempt to fulfill the location requirements of exhibitions to be realized in Istanbul. The place is designed as an art center model which has a permanent location in public domain.
SANAT LIMANI, with this regard, will also serve as an information, communication and meeting place during the Istanbul 2010 process.
A brand new exhibition venue
Two stairs of 3.600 m2 are renewed with technical and aesthetic aspects at warehouse 5 in Tophane to comply .with contemporary exhibition standards. Allocated by the Ministry of Transportation to the use of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency until the end of 2010, the SANAT LIMANI will be hosting exhibitions approved by the Agency.
The warehouse #5 is making its debut as SANAT LIMANI with four international exhibitions:
Simultaneously with the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) summit to be held in Istanbul at the end of June, the exhibition “Beyond Credit – Modern Art and Mutual Trust” presents examples of modern art prevailing in the region.
Prepared within the context of the Portable Art project by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Visual Arts Directorate, the exhibitions named "Openly" and “The Little Land Fish” are on display as well during the opening together with the exhibition “Istanbul Otherwise” where beads, demitasse, beşi bir yerde (ornamental coin worth five
Turkish gold pounds), faldstool, Turkish delight case, hamam set and shoeshine box are interpreted in the light of the “cultural sustainability” concept and reshaped as contemporary items by seven Turkish designers.

BEYOND CREDIT
CONTEMPORARY ART AND MUTUAL TRUST
19 June - 25 July 2010
CURATORS
Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev
ARTISTS
AHMET ÖĞÜT, ANA PRVACKI, ANETTA MONA CHISA & LUCIA TKACOVA, ARİSTARKH CHERNYSHEV, CIPRIAN MURESAN, CRISTINA LUCAS, CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, INGEBORG LÜSCHER, IGOR ESKINJA, IVAN MOUDOV, KIRIL PRASHKOV, KRASSIMIR TERZIEV, LIA PERJOVSCHI, LUCHEZAR BOYADJIEV, NEDKO SOLAKOV, PRAVDOLIUB IVANOV, STEFAN NIKOLAEV, VADIM FISHKIN, VIKENTI KOMITSKI, WAEL SHAWKY
Curators from Bulgaria, Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev conceived and realized the exhibition, "Beyond Credit - Contemporary Art and Mutual Trust", with important artworks of famous international artists. The exhibition is one of the significant events of Istanbul, European Cultural Capital 2010 and it is realized on the occasion of the Cultural Corridors Summit of Presidents and Prime Ministers of South-eastern European Countries. It will take place at the Sanat Limanı, situated in the Antrepo compounds at Tophane. The exhibition will be open from 19 June to 25 July 2010.
The Beyond Credit exhibition concentrates on the future cultural implications of the recent financial crisis. The show is taking its cue from the collapse of the global markets which was largely due to greed and the abuse of trust Modern credit prior to the crisis was based on the unlimited trust in the potential of the system to reinvent itself along ever refreshable investment ventures. The collapse of credit lines and the impossible liquidity of investments led to the crash and the main victim was trust. The Beyond Credit show looks at the financial crisis as a window of opportunity to rethink the potential for cultural renewal. It is a platform to search for a new culture of trust and confidence that needs to be constructed. What will it be – this is the question – will it be the product of governments and financial institution alone, or will art and culture have a say in formulating a new vision for the future?
The crisis has produced operational necessity for understanding, respect and dialogue. Culture and knowledge of the other are of the utmost importance in this process. We are going through a process of redefinition and the core of the process is the establishment of new “credit” lines of identity confidence… It seems that from the point of view of art and culture the world financial crisis has brought the need for a new understanding of the notions of trust and confidence.
It has also brought along the need to re-evaluate the notion of cultural credit - the “instant gratification of confidence lines” needs to migrate from the domain of the global financial markets to the domain of culture and politics; the new world order will depend as much on more control over investment and the flow of capital as on the mutual trust of the partners as far as their identities are concerned and the lines of confidence staying open. The era of cultural liquidity has come…or at least this exhibition project is looking into the possibility. In the last decades cultures have invested heavily in each other – the process of globalization has as its side effect the Exchange of cultural credit between cultures, art scenes, visions, stories, and so on. It is time to call the bets and see what is it that was invested in the cultural aspects of globalization, to see if there is any liquidity in the investments, in other words – the fact that I know more than ever before about you will it help you and me get along better and in a mutually beneficial way?
The future of the world will depend on the answer to such questions as: Do I feel so confident in my own identity that I do not feel threatened by my neighbours’ identity? What can I do in order to build up my neighbours’ confidence and trust in my own identity? How can I build up my own confidence in my neighbours’ identity? How can I predispose my neighbour to take a similar route or let me see peacefully his/her ways into the shared future?
The works in the show will engage the viewer in ways critical, ironical, playful, analytical, or plain funny.

OPENLY
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ARTISTS VIDEO EXHIBITION
June 19 – July 18, 2010
CURATORS
Derya Yucel (Turkey), Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan)
ARTISTS
ELSE LEIRVIK (Norway), ELI GLADER (Norway), NEZAKET EKICI (Germany), HATICE KARADAG (Turkey), GUL ILGAZ (Turkey), KEZBAN ARCA BATIBEKI (Turkey), BAHAR BEHBANI (Iran-USA), RENA EFFENDI (Azerbaijan), SOFIA CHERKEZISHVILI (Georgia),
AYSE BOHURLER (Turkey), YESIM AGAOGLU (Turkey)
“Openly” exhibition is an international video art anthology focused on woman identity,, implemented by the cooperation of two women curators, as a part of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Visual Arts Directorate’s “Portable Art” project. “Openly”, with the works of women artists from three continents is exhibited at Sanat Limanı between June 19 – July 18.
“Openly” gathers the video pieces of women artists around the theme of “womanhood”. The juncture of these artists, from Asia, Europe and America, from different religious beliefs and raised by different traditions, is their determination to mention their personal experiences and standpoints about the location and situation of woman in modern world.
Today’s world shelters many concerns and conflicts within. One of these is the gender and social gender relations . “Woman and man” contrast is one of the most rooted and significant concerns in our lives. The starting point of this project is to constitute a discussion stage about “Woman and Art”, “Woman and Society”, “Woman and Public Space”, “Woman and Violence”, “Woman and Religion” and “Woman and Family”.
Else Leirvik (Norway), Eli Glader (Norway), Nezaket Ekici (Germany), Hatice Karadağ (Turkey), Gül Ilgaz (Turkey), Kezban Arca Batıbeki (Turkey), Bahar Behbani (Iran-USA), Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), Sofia Cherkezishvili (Georgia) and Yeşim Ağaoğlu (Turkey) attend to the exhibition, curated by Derya Yücel (Turkey) and Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan) with their recent period video works.
“Openly” exhibition opened on June 19, with the panel discussion, with the attendence of Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan), Bahram Khalilov (Azerbaijan), Fırat Arapoğlu (Turkey) and Natalia Corobco (Moldova) besides the exhibition artists. Following the opening cocktail on the same day Nezahat Ekici realized her performance “Defiant”.

THE LITTLE LAND FISH
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM NORTH and SOUTH CYPRUS
June 19-July 19, 2010
CURATORS
ZEYNEP YASA YAMAN, Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Art History Dept., Haccettepe University, Ankara
DR. ANTONIS DANOS, Lecturer in Art History and Theory, Dept. of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol
ORGANIZERS
EMAA, European-Mediterrenean Art Association ; EKATE, Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts
ARTISTS
SERHAT SELISSIK-DOGU BOZKURT, MUSTAFA ERKAN, ZEHRA SSONYA, OZGUL EZGIN, GRUP 102, KLITSA ANTONIOU, VICKY PERICLEOUS, TATIANA FERAHIAN, KATARINA ATTALIDOU, MELITA COUTA, YIANNOS ECOKOMOU, ADI ATASSI, ANDREAS SAVVA, YIOULA XATZIGEORGIOU, NIKOS KOUROUSSIS, LIA LAPITHI
Organized by European- Mediterranean Art Association and Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, supported by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, “The Little Land Fish” exhibition presents artists from North and South Cyprus. This exhibition is conceived and funded within the scope of “Portable Art” project. Seventeen artists from the island are hosted in Istanbul with the cooperation of Cypriote non-governmental organizations. The exhibition is open to visit between June19 –July 19 2010.
Penned by Samad Behrangi, The Little Black Fish is the story of an old fish telling his 12,000 children and grandchildren a tale themed around justice, equality, questioning dogma, and swimming against the tide. The tale concerns the efforts of the little black fish in his troublesome voyage to the sea and eventual freedom. Swimming against the tide, breaching the oppressive barriers, going beyond our limits, leading the society and shedding light on the unimaginable horizons, are the major themes of the book. “The Little Land Fish” art exhibition project, inspired by the book, is centred on multi-perspective interpretations and discussions of several concepts and problems, thereby fostering new artistic creativity. Our time is marked by a tension between the historical and the contemporary, which could be relieved by adopting an intermediary position that makes the past subservient to the present. This position, alongside new perspectives, is grounded in the creative domain of art. The relations, the oscillation, the strata between the past and the present, the historical/geographical/cultural fractures, and the connections and disconnections, call for a politicisation of art, and a re-reading and re-interpretation of the role of political power. The history of civilisation is marked by a tension between various ethnic groups and communities, islanders and continentals, the settled and the nomad. The cultural phenomena of a world that is getting smaller have precipitated discussions around “local culture” and “global culture,” and around individual and collective “cultural identity.” In this framework, little individual stories are often important in revealing and materialising these notions. The exhibition aims at offering artists living in Cyprus, a discursive platform for interpreting and expressing via art, the relation, the dialogue and the tension between the island of Cyprus (a “Little Land Fish”) and the continent (be it Turkey, Greece, Europe, etc.). It also aims – using as starting point the story of the Little Black Fish and its adventures to reach the great seas – at discussing the theoretical transformations of a common identity, of reciprocal becoming, of borders and of transformations.

ISTANBUL OTHERWISE
June 19-July 18, 2010
Arranged by Proje Co.
DESIGNERS:
ERDEM AKAN, AYSE BIRSEL, ELA CINDORUK, DEFNE KOZ, TANJU OZELGIIN, MERIÇ KARA and KORAY OZGEN
Having already met with students and art-lovers in prominent design universities of Europe, the Istanbul Otherwise exhibition is at Sanat Limanı with international design interpretations on historical and cultural objects of Istanbul between June 19 and July 18.
“Istanbul Otherwise” is a pedagogical design exhibition project prepared by PROJE A. . and supported by the 2010 Istanbul European Capital of Culture Agency.” The project is based on the idea of “expressing Istanbul from a different perspective”.
“Istanbul Otherwise” re-interprets the seven objects, which have been influenced/created by the major cultures that have established themselves in the recollection of Istanbul, through the contemporary designs that seven internationally working Turkish designers have interpreted by setting out from the concept of “cultural sustainability”. Enhancement of awareness for the cultural entities of the past and the values these entities possess/represent, cultural sustainability, the potential to create sincere and functional differences in existential practices, the historical/social dimension and traditional identity of the object were the decisive factors in the approach of these designers.
These seven designs have been exhibited in three European design universities demonstrating the values and traditions, cultural recollections, pasts and presents of Istanbul which constitutes their cores and boundaries.
These objects that have been selected for Istanbul Otherwise and that represent each of the timeframes, cultures, tastes and rituals that summarize the traditional life in Istanbul, consist of Turkish coffee cups, lokum trays, tespih, rahle, shoe shiners box, beşibiryerde, and hamam set. These seven objects were interpreted and produced for the exhibition by Erdem Akan, Ayşe Birsel, Ela Cindoruk, Meriç Kaya, Defne Koz, Tanju Özelgin, and Koray Özgen. Histories of these objects were researched with the support and cooperation of the Art and Design Faculty of Yıldız Technical University.
After the exhibitions, “Istanbul Otherwise” will invite seven students from the visited universities in Istanbul –to share the experience to redesign the objects of “Istanbul Otherwise” in the company of the academic consultant, present their works and celebrate the three young designers to be chosen by the jury.

EUROPEAN EYES ON JAPAN / JAPAN TODAY VOL.1230
July - 29 August 2010
ARTISTS
Silva Bingaz, Gábor Arion Kudász, Andreas Gefeller
CURATOR
Mikiko Kikuta
ORGANIZERS
Istanbul 2010 and EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
Launched in 1999, the European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today photography project brought engaging photographers from the various countries of Europe to Japan to rediscover in their work aspects of our contemporary environment that we have taken for granted and overlooked. To date, 48 such European photographers have visited to capture the 31 prefectures of Japan in their own ways. The project is scheduled to continue every year and to cover all 47Japanese prefectures.
This is the exhibition of 12th of the project and the group exhibition of three photographers. They took a picture in Tottori prefecture is situated in east part of Japan and looks on to Sea of Japan in March-April 2010. Silva Bingaz (from Istanbul, Turkey) focuses the people and the place, Gábor Arion Kudász (from Hungary) took a picture along Sendai River, one of the biggest rivers in the prefecture, Andreas gefellerl (from Germany) found a very interesting subject, the Japanese traditional power cable. The exhibition is planed to held in Japan next year.
It will take place at the Sanat Limanı, situated in the Antrepo compounds at Tophane. The exhibition will be open from 23 July to 29 August 2010.

THE SEA OF FATE
PHOTOGRAPH-VİDEO-POEM
30 July – 29 August 2010
ARTISTS
MEHMET GUNYELI, BEJAN MATUR
Mehmet Gunyeli and Bejan Matur art project called “ The sea of Fate” will be opened in İstanbul 2010 ECOC” Sanat Limanı”. Exhibition, as a subject” have one of the most dramatic main idea refugees. Mehmet Gunyeli has a abstract photographs and Bejan Matur has a tragedic poems. Boats carring the illegal immigrants documented by an abstract meanings in the photographies. The serie accompanigned by the poems of Bejan Matur.
The minimalism in the photographie of Mehmet Gunyeli show the colourful aint excess on
the boats abandoned by illegal immigrants. These colourful and abstract marks/traces overlap with the cultural differences and anonymity of the immigrants. The inferential and poetic description about the fatality of these people aims to leave consistent traces in the consciousness of the viewer.
A significant collaboration between the literature and painting in the Modern art tradition of Turkey occurs again in the collaboration of Günyeli and Matur with a strong accentuation of critical gaze on this so called “human trade” crime.

ARCHITECTURAL COUNTERPOINTS IN GREECE: FROM 19TH C. TRADITION TO 21ST C. MUTATIONS and A SPACE BETWEEN
ARTISTS: ELENİ KOTSONİ, ÇAĞRI SARAY, RAZIYE KUBAT
July 30 – September 19, 2010
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation participates at the “Istanbul European Capital of Culture 2010”
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (www.piop.gr) participates at the big cultural event that takes place on yearly basis, the ”European Capital of Culture”, by presenting two exhibitions at the Sanat Limani (Antrepo 5) in Istanbul, from July 30 until September 19, 2010.
The exhibition “Architectural counterpoints in Greece: from 19th c. tradition to 21st c. mutations” assembles more than 100 photographs, taken by the distinguished Greek architect Aristotelis Zachos (1871 – 1939), that derive from the Neohellenic Architecture Archives of the Benaki Museum and raise issues regarding the current situation and common attitude towards architectural heritage.
The contemporary art show “A space between” (Eleni Kotsoni, Çağrı Saray, Raziye Kubat) is a site-specific installation including various objects, drawings and paintings and evolving through the dialogue established between a Greek and a Turkish artist.
The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) is a voluntary non-profit institution. The main targets of the Foundation are the preservation, documentation and valorization of the pre-industrial and industrial culture in Greece.
The Foundation’s Network of thematic technological museums includes the Silk Museum, the Open Air Water-Power Museum, the Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, the Museum of Industrial Olive Oil Production in Lesvos, the Rooftile and Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas, the Museum of Marble Crafts and the Environment Museum of Stymphalia.

1.ISTANBUL TRIENNIAL
"THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF THE CITY"
September 2 - 19, 2010
In Istanbul as the most productive and attractive city for global art formations in its geography, to present and comprehend the production, consumption, viewer and producer of contemporary art as an accumulation and activity of a selective mass by an archaic modernist and classer isolation is one of the most important problems of Turkish cultural industry. Association of Independent Art (BSD) founded by a group of artists reacting against this status which is in contradiction with characteristics of global culture and requirements of being Istanbul as 2010 European Capital of Culture and believing that it must be changed starts the 1st Istanbul Triennial.
This first activity of Triennial to be organized once within three years is realized under title of "the Secret Language of the City" by participation of twenty five native artists in September and October.
In Secret Language of City; in Istanbul where different cultural alloys and conflicts are realized, works as picture, photo, arrangement, sculpture, video produced around the concepts of "becoming isolated- becoming strangers - becoming not having identity - becoming not having language" as a reason for leaving and an opportunity for meeting are exhibited.
Artists of Independent Art Association making production in different disciplines propose an approach to solve our social problems appearing unsolvable with the Secret Language of the City by leaving our prejudgments and by lending an ear to the wise sound existing as an undercurrent in urban memory of Istanbul.
'The Secret Language of the City' as the first activity designed as a movable exhibition of the 1st Istanbul Triennial 1 proposed to have completely international character by participation of artists from abroad in future waits its viewers firstly between September 2 - 19, 2010 at Sanat Limanı of Istanbul 2010 Europe Cultural Capital City, and then between October 4 -24, 2010 at Eminönü - Hünkar Kasrı and Taksim Metro Station.

GENCTOPIA S, M, L, XL
2- 19 September
Gul Cagin and Arzu Arda Kosar exhibited mixed media photographs, video and installations at Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Sanat Limanı on 2-19 September under the title “GENCTOPİA S, M, L, XL” as the last leg of the project Coming of Age lunched in 2009.

LIVES AND WORKS IN ISTANBUL FINAL EXHIBITION
OCTOBER 1-31, 2010
ARTISTS:
Sophie Calle, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Ayşe Doğan, Özge Enginöz, Eser Epözdemir, Sine Ergün, Ozan Gezer, Candan İnan, Burçak Konukman, Ayhan Mutlu, Ali İbrahim Öcal, Beyza Tükel, Mehmet Dağ, Özerk Ergenç, Arzu Kuşaslan, Pablo Martínez Muñiz , Güneş Oktay, Suat Öğüt, Esen Gökçe Özdamar, Ercan Vural, Eşref Yıldırım, Ahmet Atıf Akın, Murat Germen, Deniz Gül, Koray Kantarcıoğlu ,Evrim Kavcar ,Nazlı Eda Noyan, Melisa Önel, Can Pekdemir, Serkan Taycan, Ahmet Albayrak, Sevgi Arı, Özgül Arslan, Bengisu Bayrak, Merve Şendil, Candaş Şişman, İrem Tok, Berkay Tuncay, Cem Gencer, Sibel Horada, Cemile Kaptan, Nazlı Pektaş, Timur Sezgin, Yasemin Nur Toksoy, Volkan Aslan , Seda Hepsev ,Gözde İlkin, İz Öztat, Ani Setyan
The “Lives and Works in Istanbul” project, which the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency initiated as part of its efforts to improve Istanbul’s artistic infrastructure and offer artists expanded opportunities for productivity, hosted famous contemporary artists who made important contributions to the development of global contemporary art in the second half of the 20th century in Istanbul, the European Capital of Culture, between October 2008 and the first half of 2010.
Within the scope of the project, which was undertaken by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Visual Arts Directorate, six prominent artists: Remo Salvadori (Italy), Sophie Calle (France), Victor Burgin (England), Peter Kogler (Austria), Danae Stratou (Greece), Antoni Muntadas (Spain-USA), were invited to Istanbul.
The “Lives and Works in Istanbul” project made it possible for artists from European countries who have been responsible for important conceptual and formalistic innovations in their disciplines to live in Istanbul, interact with local artists and intellectuals, and hold workshops with young artists. The works created during this process form a special collection, which is one of the most central legacies that the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency will leave not only to Istanbul but also to Turkish contemporary art.
For more information please check page 45.

amber’10 Art and Technology Festival “DATACITY”
November 5- 14, 2010
amber'10 Art and Technology Festival which has chosen its theme for this year as “Datacity” with the intention of drawing attention to the increasing importance of the generation and utilization of any kind of data on cities and urban life, will also be hosting “amberConference” which is going to be held for the second time this year focusing on issues around “City and Data”.
amberFestival organized by BIS (Body Process Arts Association) since 2007, will meet its audience for the fourth time this year. amberFestival continuing to be the only Art and Tehnology/Media Arts festival of Turkey is being supported by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency since 2008.
The main venue of this year's festival, will be Sanat Limanı (Antrepo No:5). Visitors, besides visiting the exhibition including interactive works of invited artists and selected applicants responding to the call, will have the opportunity to participate in workshops and artist presentations as well.

SEA OF MARBLE
November 5- December 26, 2010
ARTISTS:
GUVEN INCIRLIOGLU, HAKAN TOPAL ,MAHIR M. YAVUZ , A. ATIF AKIN
xurban_collective Project, 2010
The xurban_collective in 2010, constitutes a branch of ongoing research about seas as defined by various manifestations of the global trade and economy, and by the flow of bodies as a possibility for retributive justice.

EDGE OF ARABIA ISTANBUL/ TRANSITION/
November 5 – December 26, 2010
CURATORS: STEPHEN STAPLETON & PROGRESS ART, CREATIVE DIRECTOR: ABDULLAH AL-TURKI, ASSISTANT CURATORS: AYA MOUSAWI & MIRIAM LLOYD-EVANS
EXHIBITION PARTNERS:
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2010, SANAT LIMANI, CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL, PROGRESS ART, IKONO TV, ATHR GALLERY, CUADRO GALLERY, BARJEEL FOUNDATION, BESPOKE INTERNATIONAL
ARTISTS:
Manal Al-Dowayan, Faisal Samra, Sami Al-Turki, Noha Al-Sharif, Abdulnasser Gharem, Hala Ali, Maha Malluh, Ahmed Mater, Hussain Al-Mohsin, Bassem Al-Shargi, Ayman Yossri, Mohammed Al-Ghamdi, Seddiq Wassil, Fahad Al-Gethami, Farouk Kondakji, Bandar Al-Romaih, Yousef Al-Shaikh, Nasser Al-Salim
Edge of Arabia, a pioneering travelling exhibition that has shed new light on the largely unknown contemporary art culture of Saudi Arabia, is coming to Istanbul this November as part of the official programme of the European Capital of Culture 2010 and under the global tour sponsorship of ALJ Community Initiatives. TRANSiTION will present up to 20 Saudi artists and 80 artworks, ranging from installation, performance, photography, video and sculpture, in what is set to be the largest ever showing of Gulf artists in Turkey. The exhibition will be co-curated by Stephen Stapleton and Progress Art.
Progress Art comments, ‘Saudi contemporary art has taken a big step forward in recent years, and we are very proud to co-curate Edge of Arabia in Istanbul, a Capital city of cultural importance and the symbolic borderland between East and West.’

FRACTAL FLOWERS IN VITRO
NOVEMBER 5-15
ARTIST:
MIGUEL CHEVALIER
Within the scope of the project “Portable Art” one of the main projects by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency; “Fractal Flowers in Vitro” installation by the French artist Miguel Chelavier is on display at Sanat Limani on 5 -15 November and in the Northern Campus of Boğaziçi University from 25 November to 5 December.
“Fractal Flowers in Vitro” installation by the French artist Miguel Chelavier is included in the project “Portable Art” one of the main projects by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency. The exhibition features giant fractal flowers in infinite numbers and in various color and dimensions as created on a unique software. This is a new generation of virtual gardens. It's a new generator which produce gigantic fractal flowers of different sizes, colors and shapes. The originality and the might of this creation concentrate on this generator from which we can create a selection of the most beautiful flowers. Through atypical shapes, amazing colors, others artificial paradises are created. Besides, this work leans on a generative and interactive principle, creating autonomous virtual seeds, growing, opening out, fading and reacting to the audience. It reveals stylized flowers, through an extreme geometry in its shapes.
Miguel Chevalier's wide-ranging artistic vision has been shaped by a broad education and extensive travel. Since 1982, his art has been dedicated to the exploration of technology. Taking references from the history of art and reformulating them using computer tools, his works investigate the flux and networks that underlie contemporary society. He is known internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art. His images are a rich source of insights into ourselves and our relationship to the world. Miguel Chevalier has developed and refined his highly individual approach over the course of numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world.
Exhibited within the scope of the project “Portable Art”; “Fractal Flowers in Vitro” installation by the French artist Miguel Chelavier was on display at Sanat Limani on 5 -15 November and in the Northern Campus of Boğaziçi University from 25 November to 5 December with support of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture and contributions from the French Cultural Center.

RITUALS OF LOVE - PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
November 5 -12, 2010
ARTIST: BENNU GEREDE
Celebration's of Love recounts the genuine story of several young and women girls in Turkey, forced to end their lives, or killed by premeditated murder by a family member because of having stained the family's honor; Honor Killings
The victim's family strongly believe that until they have cleansed their honor, removed the reason for the stain- they will be dishonored as a family, therefore being socially banned and outcast from their local community. And the sad thing about it is that whatever the evidence leads to, the blame is always attached to the woman. Some of the reasons for these young girls to be executed are- fleeing
from domestic violence, kissing someone that they are not married to, dating, having sex out of wedlock, the husband suspecting that the wife has committed adultery, a woman being raped, trying to break free from their family to live a modern life in the western world and sometimes even failing to serve a meal on time.
Each image from 'Celebration's of Love' is based on a true 'murder' story that I have interpreted as closely as I could to the specific crime. The entire story consists of 16 images. They will be in the format of 120cm x120cm- Archival Digital Prints.

GOLDEN ROUTES PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
December 1 – 26, 2010
ARTISTS:
ARIF AŞCI , OZCAN YURDALAN , SERKAN TAYCAN
“Golden Routes” project aiming to introduce culture of Istanbul to the world, shares the route experiences with Istanbullites towards the photgraphy exhibition that will be realized at Sanat Limani after their final journey.

GREAT PAINTING IS BEHIND US
December 1 – 26, 2010
CURATOR :
EVA HOBER
ARTISTS:
RONAN BARROT, JULİEN BENEYTON, ROMAİN BERNİNİ, KATİA BOURDAREL, ALKİS BOUTLİS, DAMİEN CADİO, NİCOLAS DARROT, DAMİEN DEROUBAİX , GREGORY FORSTNER, CRİSTİNE GUİNAMAND,YOUCEF KORİCHİ, KOSTA KULUNDZİC, P. NİCOLAS LEDOUX, ÉLODİE LESOURD, IRİS LEVASSEUR,FRÉDÉRİQUE LOUTZ, MARLÈNE MOCQUET, AUDREY NERVİ, MAËL NOZAHİC, FLORENCE OBRECHT,AXEL PAHLAVİ, STÉPHANE PENCRÉAC’H, RAPHAËLLE RİCOL, LİONEL SABATTÉ,IDA TURSİC & WİLFRİED MİLLE, JÉRÔME ZONDER.