Resmi Görüs

Placebo Effect
November 6. - December 18. 2004
Sparwasser HQ
Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
Schwedterstrasse 36 A
10435 Berlin
Artists:
Köken Ergun, Berat Işık, Ahmet Ögüt, Erkan Özgen, Serkan Özkaya, Sener Özmen

Works in the Exhibition:
Video Program
Exit, Sener Özmen, 2003
Stop! You are Surrounded, Berat Işık, 2004
What a Lovely Day, Ahmet Ögüt, 2004
Adult Games, Erkan Özgen, 2004
Our Village, Sener Özmen, 2004
The Turkish [...]

Middle East Focus
The next ten years of contemporary art in the middle east
Gulf Art Fair 2007
Moderator Vasif Kortun, Curator, Director, Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Saleh Barakat, Art Expert, Beirut, LB. Camilla Cañellas, International Arts Consultant, Writer and Critic Barcelona, ES. Bassam El-Baroni, Art Critic, Curator, EG. Hassan Khan, Editor, Bidoun Cairo, EG. Jack Persekian, Director [...]

‘New Internationalism’ / Frieze Projects: Artists Commissions and Talks 2003-05
A book that records the curatorial programme produced at the fair over the past three years.
‘New Internationalism’, 1pm, Saturday 16 October 2004
Alex Farquharson, Chair
Chus Martinez
Vasif Kortun
Neil Mulholland
Adam Szymczyk
ALEX FARQUHARSON Welcome, everyone, to this afternoon’s discussion on ‘New Internationalism’. My name is Alex Farquharson. I’m a [...]

berlin . istanbul . vice versa
28.08.04 - 12.09.04
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Catalog
Information about the exhibition is here.
The new Istanbul is already full of itself and drowning in arrogance. The city has unequivocally shed its status as secondary city – second to the capital of the country, second to the “first-world” cities, [...]

Catalog text for the Mediterraneans. Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome at Mattatoio, Rome.
4 June - 19 September 2004.
The artists I had invited were Slaven Tolj, Wael Schawky, Khalil Rabah, Hussein Chalayan, and Sener Özmen and Erkan Özgen.
Links are at the bottom of the text.
Journey of an Exhibition
Vasif Kortun
When I received the invitation with nine [...]