LIVES AND WORKS IN ISTANBUL

JANUARY 2010             Antoni Muntadas Workshop Exhibition

SEPTEMBER 2010           Sanja Ivekovic Workshop Exhibition

OCTOBER 2010             George Lappas Workshop Exhibition

NOVEMBER 2010          Sophie Calle Workshop Exhibition

DECEMBER 2010                          All Artist’s Exhibitions      

Kadırga Art Center

Seven internationally acclaimed artists who have completed major visual art projects in EU countries and advanced universal art will be invited to İstanbul, be provided with the means to live, work and produce in İstanbul, hold workshops for the younger generation of local artists and work together with them.

The Fatih Municipality has allocated a 650 m2 building in Yenikapı for the Artistic Production Centre, which will form the basic component of the project. The project will begin on 8 November with a roundtable discussion led by Antoni Muntadas and the official opening of the centre will be held at the end of 2008. For two years, international artists and local artists from different disciplines will produce and hold workshops in the centre, which will host the joint workshops which will be used for artistic production and venues for social activities which will contribute to the synergy produced by working together and it will serve as a production, working, display and promotional centre for all the artistic projects.

The plan is for 7 international artists and 100 local artists to participate in the project in the period 2008-2010. The project’s benefits will include an international art collection special to İstanbul, international visibility, respect for the Artistic Production Centre Model and democratic cultural synergy.

The artists who have confirmed their participation are: Remo Salvadori (Italy), Antoni Muntadas (Spain), Victor Burgin (United Kingdom), George Lappas (Greece) and Sonia Ivekovic (Croatia).

PORTABLE ART

JANUARY 2010                                     “Record Construct Exhibition”    

10 JANUARY                                         “What Do You Know About Me”

3 FEBRUARY-6 MARCH 2010                 “Little Land Fish” (Exhibition)

FEBRUARY 2010                                                  “Center and Periphery” - Büyükçekmece

MARCH            2010                                       “Amber”       

APRİL   2010                                        “Being İstanbullite- Rope Statues” (Exhibition)           

MAY     2010                                        “He’s an Istanbulite” (Exhibition) 

MAY     2010                                        “Center and Periphery - Pendik (Exhibition)                

MAY     2010                                        “Nice to See” (Exhibition)            

2 JUNE-6 JULY 2010                              “Openly –Maiden’s Tower” (Exhibition)            

JUNE    2010                                        “Heyday”      (Exhibition)              

JUNE    2010                                         “Antiseri” (Exhibition)

7JULY-8 AUGUST 2010                           “Openly-Ferries”(Exhibition)

JULY 2010                                            “Amber”       

JULY     2010                                        “He’s an Istanbulite” (Exhibition)

AUGUST 2010                                       “He’s an Istanbulite” (Exhibition) 

SEPTEMBER 2010                                  “Nice To See You”   (Exhibition)

SEPTEMBER 2010                                   “Heyday”     (Exhibition)  

3 OCTOBER-30 NOV. 2010                    “Fractal Flowers” (Exhibition)

OCTOBER         2010                             “Being Istanbullite Rope Statues” (Exhibition) 

OCTOBER         2010                             “Antiseri” (Exhibition)        

OCTOBER         2010                            “Center And Periphery”-Şile (Exhibition)          

NOVEMBER      2010                            “He is an Istanbullite”(Exhibition) 

NOVEMBER                                         “Nice To See You” (Exhibition) 

DECEMBER 2010                                                  “Heyday”   (Exhibition)

DECEMBER 2010                                                  “Amber”

This project will ensure that the production of contemporary art, which is presented to a limited audience in artistic and cultural venues concentrated in five neighbourhoods of İstanbul, will, through assistance to the cultural and artistic infrastructure in İstanbul’s 39 neighbourhoods, spread throughout the entire city and enable all of İstanbul to have access to contemporary art.The project aims to enable independent artistic directors, exhibition organizers, and groups of artists to exhibit their own works, not so much in a completed exhibition but mainly through exhibitions which adopt an interactive, pluralistic approach, which is open to participation and dialogue. In this way, through projects which facilitate cooperation and reciprocity and enable the people living in the neighbourhoods to participate in production in person, it will both encourage the development of an independent artistic infrastructure and production by independent art experts and young artists and enable a broad cross-section of the public to interact with and get to know the production of contemporary art.The aim of the project is to ensure that, in the period 2008-2010, approximately 20 exhibition packages enter circulation in İstanbul by means of the cultural and artistic infrastructure in 39 neighbourhoods, to encourage artistic awareness and creativity in the above-mentioned neighbourhoods, to provide expertise to the artistic and cultural infrastructure and content of local administrations, to generate employment for curators and those who work in the arts industry and to increase the production possibilities for young artists.

THE PHOTOGRAPH PARADE: ISTANBUL 2010:

JANUARY-2 OCTOBER 2010      “Photograph is the name of Istanbul”

6 FEBRUARY–5 MARCH 2010     “Colorful Istanbul “(Exhibition)    

24 FEBRUARY 2010                    “Colorful Istanbul” (Exhibition)                

6 MARCH-2 APRIL 2010                           “Written Istanbul”

27-28 MARCH 2010                   “Photography Workshop for Children”

3 APRİL-7 MAY 2010                 “Accustomed Istanbul” (Exhibition)       

8 MAY-4 JUNE 2010                   “Stage is Yours Istanbul”

14 MAY-16 MAY 2010                 “Photography Workshops”         

5 JUNE-2 JULY 2010                    “Istanbul in Istanbul” (Exhibition) 

3 JULY-6 AUGUST 2010                “Tuesday Look-Exhibiton Reading Days”

25 AUGUST 2010                                      “Sirkeci Train Station” (Photograph Exhibition)

The Photograph Parade: Istanbul 2010 realized by FOTOTREK PHOTOGRAPH CENTER within Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture activities is introduced by a press-meeting on 1 September 2009.

The project aims at interpretation and documentation of Istanbul via photography and henceforth to be conveyed to future generations.

The press-meeting was attended by Istanbul 2010 ECOC Agency Visual Arts Director Beral MADRA, Art Director and Curator of the Project Gültekin ÇİZGEN, Project Coordinator Cenk GENÇDİŞ and the photographers whose work will be exhibited within the project.

The Photograph Parade: Istanbul 2010 to occur between September 2009 – September 2010 will feature photograph exhibitions, catalog and bulletin publications, show, talks, seminars workshops and photography education for children.  The exhibition takes place in the gallery of FOTOTREK PHOTOGRAPH CENTER at the Misir Apt building in

ISTANBUL GOES TO MOVIES

JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2010

Under this project, Safa Önal, who has served Turkish cinema for years as a scriptwriter and director, will explain İstanbul to us using films which have been set in İstanbul and bring İstanbul, which we are used to seeing in the background from the first Turkish films through to the modern day, into the foreground. Önal will use these films to show the changes in the life, appearances and lifestyles of İstanbul. The documentary will use cinema films to reflect the changing evolution of İstanbul from its architecture to manners of speaking, fashion and music. The documentary will be created from combing through nearly 7,000 films and images and it will be a first for İstanbullites as it produces an unrivalled inventory of İstanbul and creates a visual archive. The “İstanbul Goes to Movies” documentary project is scheduled to be the opening film in the İstanbul Film Festival in April 2009.

ISTANPOLI

24 FEBRUARY 2010                    “Claude Wampler”           

28 APRIL 2010                           “Michael Laub”

SEPTEMBER 2010                       “Meg Stuart”

SEPTEMBER 2010                       “Rimini”        

 “Istanpoli”, which is a Garajİstanbul project and means “towards the city”, aims to bring artists from five different countries together in İstanbul and these artists, inspired by the city, will produce works unique to İstanbul. The guest artists will relate their own stories, stories about İstanbul, and real stories about people living in İstanbul in five different productions, and the showing of these productions in İstanbul and the various workshops will be documented in a DVD and a book. Groups and artists such as Michael Laub, Rimini Protokoll, Claude Wampler and Meg Stuart will live for a time in İstanbul and translate their experiences into expression and comment. In addition to these artists, Mustafa Avkıran and Övül Avkıran will be included in the project, and create works of art under the name of “Istanpoli” which will take İstanbul as their inspiration and be unique to İstanbul, and in 2010 and afterwards will tour Turkey and abroad. The realization within the scope of the project of a production under the Rimini Protokol will be done jointly with Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture.

12. INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL PUPPET FESTIVAL

21 -26 MARCH 2010

Organized under the support of the Directorate of Stage and Performing Arts Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency the Puppet Festival will be held between 5 – 20 May at the following venues: Institute of French Studies, Kukla Istanbul,

This year the festival is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Dr. Metin And, a touchstone in the Turkish theater history, who provided a significant contribution to the traditional Turkish theater.

Like previous years the festival will feature modern and traditional puppet shows from various cultures along with a documentary by Larry Read on an Indonesian shadow-play artist and manufacturing and playing techniques of Karagöz by Metin Özlen the Karagöz shadow-play artist. Furthermore three separate documentary films (Shadow Master, Soul of the Shadow and Imagination) various workshops and the Mediterranean Puppet Symposium puppet will attract attention.

This year distinguished group will participate in the festival from France, Russian Federation, Hungary, Spain, Spain / Brazil co-production, Japan, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy and Turkey. Different techniques and insights will be seen in the festival program 16 shows from 10 countries and 7 shows from 5 Turkish groups.

LOST PRINCE IN WONDERLAND

16 APRIL 2010 

This documentary aims at taking a look at the Istanbul’s world of entertainment as a magnificent synthesis comprised of tens of dozens of ethnicity and members of religious communities; and how this world is reflected on the streets and the show business through the Sultan Festivals in 16th Century –the circumcision ceremony of the princes.

The documentary will focus on the most important of Sultan festivals, the one realized in 1582 for Prince Mehmet the son of Murat the Third. Turkish, Italian, Serbian, Greek, Spanish, Jewish, Persian, Arab and Gypsy artists, acrobats and musicians of that time will appear in world of fairytale enriched by the colors of history.

İSTANBUL 1910 – 2010 CITY, BUILDING ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE PROJECT 

APRIL – OCTOBER 2010

The project aims to articulate a hundred years of İstanbul’s city history. After the end of the exhibition, which will be held in Santral İstanbul, all of the exhibits will be forwarded to the 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency ready to be transferred to the collection of the İstanbul City Museum that is planned to be built.

İSTANBUL/TURKISH/EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES’ THEATRE FESTIVAL

2-16 MAY 2010

The “İstanbul Universities’ Theatre Festival” which was held in 2008, was followed in 2009 by the “Turkish Universities’ Theatre Festival”. The “European Universities Theatre Festival”, which will be held in 2010, will complete the trio and, as the festival continues as an international event, it will turn İstanbul into a magnet for young people involved in the theatre.

The Turkish Universities’ Theatre festival brought university theatres from different regions in Turkey to İstanbul and the meetings occurred, strengthened their work in this area and add new dynamics to the Turkish theatre. Discussions of the plays by audiences and actors immediately after the performances were realized and at specific intervals during the festival there was also the opportunity to work with experienced artists in workshops. A daily newspaper called “Stage Door” was also published. The performances were staged in university theatres in different regions of İstanbul and constituted a step taken for young people towards 2010. The main aims of the project are to nourish young theatre movements, to open new areas and, at the same time, to strengthen communication between young people in the region. The University Theatres’ Festival is very important in terms of contacts between the amateur theatre movement and the rest of the world.

AHIRKAPI ÇATLADIKAPI HIDRELLEZ FESTIVITIES

5 MAY 2010

These joyful festivities aim at continuing the Hıdrellez tradition, reflecting musical diversity and proliferation in the society and exposing local tastes.

This project has been conducting for years, already appropriated by Istanbul local residents and a center of attention for domestic and foreign tourist as it is a positive indication of the unity of diverse cultures.

The project content and location will be enlarged in 2010 in order to attract larger participation than previous years.

ISTANBUL FASHION, TEXTILE AND APPAREL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

13-14 MAY 2010

The Conference aims at bringing together the global key players of the fashion, design and apparel manufacturing industry, in order to share information, new practices and guidelines for the future of the industry, especially in the Euromed zone, the neighboring countries. The conference targets to attract attention to Turkey and Istanbul as a center of fashion, textile and apparel industry.

BREAKING THE STEREOTYPE

14 MAY-27 JUNE 2010   İstanbul Crossroads Specials

14 MAY -27 JUNE 2010  The Common Comprehension of Images from the East to the West

 The three part exhibition project „Breaking the Stereotype“ is a project of the cultural studies focus „Cultures in Contact“ at Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck/ Austria in cooperation with Kadir Has University, Istanbul (Department of Social Sciences), colleagues at Dokuz Eylül University and Ege University, Izmir, and at Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon. The project also cooperates with GenderLink, Salzburg/ Austria and Integrationszentrum Wörgl/ Austria. It deals with the ways Orient and Occident have been mutually stereotyped and aims at documenting the products of stereotyping as well as the mechanisms active in the stereotyping processes and at opening them to de-construction.

 Exhibition parts 1 and 2 have been shown in Innsbruck and Kufstein in 2007, in Bonn and Istanbul in 2008, and in Rome and Wörgl in 2009.

 Exhibition part 3 will be shown in Wörgl from 08 - 22 October, 2009, and in Antwerp in December 2009.

 The 2010 project activities include the exhibition “Breaking the Stereotype 2010. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images”, the creative writing workshop “Breaking the Stereotype 2010” by Oskar Terš, the international and interdisciplinary conference “Breaking the Stereotype 2010. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images”, and 3 film nights “Istanbul Crossroads Specials”.

LONGING FOR ISTANBUL

15 MAY-15 JUNE 2010

This project aims at finding out longings and concern of Greeks on Istanbul who immigrated to Greece in the past years and now lives in Athens and the vicinity.

Following comprehensive interviews with 30 selected individuals living in Athens, the vicinity and Thessaloniki within this project it is planned to produce a book, a documentary movie and some exhibition materials.

AVRO PART’S “ADAM’S LAMENT” FOR ISTANBUL

7 JUNE 2010     

One of the most biggest and important concert in 2010 is the concert of the renowned Estonian compositor Avro Part which will be held in İstanbul on the 7th of June 2010. Avro Part will compose a special composition untitled “Adam’s Lament” for İstanbul.