Lives and Works in Istanbul

Targets and strategy of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Visual Arts Directorate in the 2010 process have been determined in accordance with local and international requirements and activities of the modern actual arts domain in Turkey. Two basic phenomena arising at this point are:



a) Creative individuals and professional artists to be supported within the frame of cultural and industrial developments;



b) Large masses of people to embrace modern and actual arts.



Interactive and sustainable projects serving the targets like:

· Ensuring creative individuals and artist to produce arts in actual aesthetic and shapes that are valid in international arts environment;

· Preparing workshops and working facilities required within this context;

· Reinforcing cooperation with international centers of art and culture;

· Informing wide masses of people on modern arts are evaluated and carried out.



The project LIVES AND WORKS IN ISTANBUL has been carried out within this context since November 2008 and KADIRGA ART PRODUCTION CENTER has been serving for both visual arts projects and projects in different disciplines in Istanbul 2010 process.



LIVES AND WORKS IN ISTANBUL and KADIRGA ART PRODUCTION CENTER

Seven artists from EU countries who have accomplished great projects in visual arts and contributed to universal arts are invited to Istanbul. These artists are provided with opportunities for living, working and producing in Istanbul; and they are ensured to conduct workshops, thought meetings and production together with creative individuals, academicians and local artists of the young generation.



Fatih Municipality allocated the cultural center in Kadırga for Art Production Center which is the basic component of the project. This center where international artists will hold workshops and production for three years has got common ateliers (photography, video, multi-media equipment and technicians) and halls for conference, library and archive that will serve the synergy and joint production of artists working together. Kadırga Art Production Center functions as a venue for production, working, show and presentation of main projects by Istanbul 2010 Agency as well as the application projects.



LIVES AND WORKS IN ISTANBUL 2008 – 2009 - 2010



GUEST ARTISTS



Remo Salvadori (Italy)

Remo Salvadori was born in Cerreto Guidi, Firenze, Italy 1947. He lives and works in Milan. His work by the early 1970s was mainly photographs and installations re-interpreting philosophical concepts, original and mythological figures. Salvadori sees the science and philosophy as indispensable parts of the art, intersects these aspects with physical, historical, traditional and actual data of the environment to produce his art. His major exhibitions took place in: 1982 Venice Biennale (1982, 1986 and 1993), 1982 Documenta VII, Kassel and 1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, 1997 Arte italiana 1945-1995.



Remo Salvadori Workshop 16 December 2008-6 January 2009

Held with 24 artists among which Ali İbrahim Öcal, Ayhan Mutlu, Ayşe Doğan, Beyza Tükel, Candan İnan, Eser Erözdemir, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Ozan Gezer, Özge Enginöz and Sine Ergün will exhibit their works by 9 September at Kadırga 2010 Art Production Center and other venues they choose. Invited by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Visual Arts Directorate within the context of the project “Living and Working in Istanbul” the Italian artist Remo Salvadori accomplished his masterpiece “CONTINUOUS, INFINITE, PRESENT” in the courtyard of Archeological Museum of Istanbul just in front of spectators on 10 September.



Antoni Muntadas (Spain-USA)

Antoni Muntadas, born in Barcelona, Spain in 1942, is a multidisciplinary media artist, lives and works in New York since 1971. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, 1977-1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with MIT Visual Arts Program. His work has been exhibited widely, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale, documenta 6 and documenta X.



In 1995, he was awarded an Ars Electronica Honorary Mention for his well-known work "The File Room". It is an early and ongoing Internet art project, started in 1994, consisting of an open database of cases of censorship. Another long-term work, "On Translation" deals with language and the notion of translation, interpretation and transcription. The project was realized in various formats over the years, including several different exhibitions and a website hosted by the seminal Internet art gallery äda'web. He received the 2009 Velazquez Prize from the Spanish Culture Ministry. The award was bestowed in recognition of his outstanding and intense career and contribution to contemporary national and international art.



Antoni Muntadas Workshop 17 June 16 July 2009

The Antoni Muntadas workshop ‘In Between’ was attended by 10 young (Ercan Vural, Gülşen D.Akbaş, Güneş Oktay, Mehmet Dağ, Özerk Ergenç, Pablo Marchinez Muniz, Suat Öğüt, Gökçe Özdamar, Eşref Yıldırım, Arzu Kuşaslan) Antoni Muntadas took interest in previous works of each and every participant and elaborated their future works to be realized in 2010. He also made shots with intellectuals, academicians, theorists and culture specialists for the film-work he would produce for Istanbul and gave an interview on the subject.



April 2009: Sanja Ivekovic (Croatia)

Sanja Iveković was born in 1949 in Zagreb. She studied graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb between 1968 and 1971 and works with video since 1973. Her art production has spanned a range of media such as photography, performance, video and installations. The originating point of her work has been her own life as a woman but her art puts this theme into a broader context - the situation of women in our time and society. On Croatian art scene she was the first woman artist who called herself a feminist artist. She lectures at the Center for Women's Studies in Zagreb since its beginning in 1994 and is a founder of Electra – The Women Arts Center, Zagreb.



Discovery Tour (17 March2009- 22 March 2009):

During her visit Sanja Ivekovic paid a visit to the Kadıköy Shelter and met women the staying there. She also contacted the Mor Çatı (Purple Roof) and visited the Hafriyat (Excavation) exhibition curated by Canan Şenol on 21 March to meet other female artists. Sanja Ivekovic is invited to the 11th Istanbul Biennial.



November 2009: Victor Burgin (United Kingdom)

Victor Burgin was born in England in 1941. He studied art at the Royal College of Art in London from 1962 to 1965 before going to the United States to study at Yale University in 1967. He taught at Trent Polytechnic from 1967 to 1973 and at the School of Communication, Polytechnic of Central London from 1973 to 1988. From 1988 to 2001 Burgin lived and worked in San Francisco. He taught in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he became Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness. Burgin has also taught at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In 2005 he received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sheffield Hallam University.



Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s. He has worked with photography and film, calling painting "the anachronistic daubing of woven fabrics with colored mud". His work is influenced by theorists and philosophers such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. In 1986, Burgin was nominated for the Turner Prize for his exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge and for a collection of his theoretical writings (The End of Art Theory) and a monograph of his visual work (Between).



December: 2009 Peter Kogler (Austria)

Peter Kogler was born in 1959 in Innsbruck /Austria. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He has exhibited his works since 1979, recently (among others) at the 46th Biennale in Venice (1995), at the documenta X in Kassel (1997), at the Expo in Hannover (2000), in the Villa Arson in Nice (2002), in the Kunstverein Hannover (2004) and in the Galerie Crone in Berlin (2004). Since 1997 he has himself been a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he leads the master class for computer and video art.



April 2010: George Lappas (Greece)

George Lappas was born in Cairo as a Greek citizen in 1950. He studied psychology at Reed College between 1969 and 1973. He worked at State Mental hospitals in Salem, Oregon, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. He stayed in India for one year on Watson Fellowship 1974. He was interested in Indian architecture and sculpture. He studied at AA School of Architecture, London (1975), Athens School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, Athens (1976/81) Ecole Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1985/84). He worked and travelled in France and Great-Britain in 1985 and 1986. He studied as guest artist at the Cartier Foundation, Jouy-en-Josas in 1991. He works as professor of sculpture at School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece since 1995 and travels through United Kingdom, USA and Japan.



May 2010: Sophie Calle (France)

Sophie Calle, born 1953, is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing. On her performances she fictionally puts herself in positions that she has to encounter the people. She is regarded as a detective and voyeur. Among her prominent works are Suite Vénitienne (1980), The Hotel (1981), and The Blind (1986).