ARCO madrid
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
13-17
February 2013
image: Meriç Algün Ringborg,
Becoming European, detail, 2012 /
photo by Jean-Baptise Beranger
Galeri NON........Stand
/ Booth No: 8B01
Meriç Algün Ringborg,
Gökçen Cabadan,
Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Extrastruggle, Güneş Terkol
A meeting point for learning more about the dynamism of the
Turkish market, its emerging collectors and its active arts scene Turkey is the
guest of honour at the 32nd edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair.
The FOCUS Turkey programme, organised in collaboration with the Embassy of
Turkey in Spain, is made up of 10 galleries which will be selected by the
curator, writer and professor Vasif Kortun, working with curator Lara Fresko.
This programme brings together a wide selection of artists from the country,
helping collectors and the general public attending the event in Madrid, to
learn more about the contemporary art produced in this active emerging market.
GALLERIES PARTICIPATING IN FOCUS TURKEY
GALLERY HIGHLIGHTED ARTIST
DIRIMART.........................Ramazan
Bayrakoğlu
ELIPSIS GALLERY......................Yusuf
Sevinçli
MAÇKA SANAT GALERISI...............Serhat
Kiraz
MANA.........................................Kutluğ
Ataman
NEV ISTANBUL..................................Ali
Kazma
NON...........................................Asli
Çavusoglu
PILOT........................................Bashir
Borlakov
RAMPA......................................Servet
Koçyiğit
RODEO....................................Banu
Cennetoglu
X-IST........................................................Canan
In addition, leading institutions, foundations and
non-profit spaces from the Turkish contemporary art scene also have a presence
at the Fair. The Embassy of Turkey in Spain participates with the work
Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Mayhem, by Kutluğ Ataman (Istanbul, 1961), one of
Turkey's most internationally-renowned artists, and the forerunner of a new
language of cinematography and ideography.
image: Kutlug Ataman,
fff, video installation, (2006-2009)
Galeri MANA Stand / Booth No: 8C01
AKBANK SANAT........................................Istanbul
CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL.....................Istanbul
PROJE 4L....................................................Istanbul
KUTLUĞ ATAMAN.................MESOPOTAMIAN
DRAMATURGIES / MAYHEM
The Forum and Professional Meetings are also attended by
curators, directors and representatives of museums, art centres and cultural
institutions, critics and other leading professionals from Turkey, such as Emre
Baykal, curator and exhibitions director at the ARTER - Art space; Sevda Elgiz,
founder of Proje4L / Contemporary Art Museum in Istanbul; Fulya Erdemci,
curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2013, and director of the SKOR
(Foundation for Art and Public Domain); Özge Ersoy, Programmes Director of
Collectorspace and editor of m-est.org; Vasif Kortun, director of research and
programmes at SALT; Bige Örer Director of the Istanbul Biennial ; Pelin Tan, a
sociologist and art historian and associate professor at the Kadir Has
University; Gorgun Taner, Director General of the Istanbul Foundation for
Culture and Arts (İKSV). These will also be joined by active collectors and
other special guests from Turkey, who will be attending to exchange ideas and
forge links with the participating galleries.
Meanwhile, the Association of Friends of ARCO has also
acknowledged Turkey with its traditional “A” Collecting Award, which in its
17th edition has been presented to the Elgiz Collection, in the International
Collecting category, and to Bilge & Haro Cumbusyan / Collectorspace, for
their collecting initiative.
Vasif Kortun, curator
of Focus Turkey at ARCOmadrid
Vasıf Kortun is a curator, writer and professor working in
the field of contemporary visual art and its related institutions and
exhibition practices. He is the director of research and programmes at the SALT
institution and gives classes in contemporary art, cultural institutions and
exhibition practices at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan (NABA) and
Istanbul's Bilgi University.
image: Hüseyin Bahri
Alptekin – Heterotopia – 1991 – 1992
Rampa İstanbul................Stand / Booth No: 10E14
Nevin Aladağ - Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin - Vahap Avşar
Ergin
Çavuşoğlu - Cengiz Çekil
İnci Furni - Leyla Gediz - Hatice Güleryüz
Selma
Gürbüz - Nilbar Güreş - Bengü Karaduman
Servet Koçyiğit - Ahmet Oran
Güçlü Öztekin - Erinç Seymen