BM CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

IN ISTANBUL, ZWISCHEN ANKUNFT UND ABFAHRT....IN ISTANBUL BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

AUSSTELLUNG DER KÜNSTLER/INNEN DES BERLINER SENAT ISTANBUL STIPENDIUMS II

EXHIBITION OF BERLİN SENATE ISTANBUL SCHOLARSHIP ARTISTS II

BERNARDO GIORGI, NEZAKET EKİCİ, KATJA EYDEL, PARASTOU FOROUHAR, MONA JAS, CHRISTOPH KELLER, WERNER KLOTZ, MARISA MAZA, ULRIKE MOHR,DIMITRIS TZAMOURANIS, INA WUDTKE, FLORIAN WÜST, FLORIAN ZEYFANG

CURATOR AND MENTOR: BERAL MADRA

BM SUMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE

2nd MAY - 20th JUNE 2009

In 2009 Berlin - Istanbul Twin City 20th year Jubilee will be celebrated.

In 1988 Berlin Senate has established a one year or six months artist residency scholarship for Berlin resident artists for London, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Moscow and Paris. Istanbul residency has hosted almost 70 artist mentored by the writer Sezer Duru and the deceased designer Harald Schmidt from 1988 to 1994 and administrated and mentored by Beral Madra since then.

Every year in December a jury consisting of members from the aforementioned cities and the experts from Berlin institutions evaluate approximately 100 applications and select the artists.

This year as the Istanbul branch of the Berlin Scholarship we are celebrating the 20th year of this initiative with an exhibition of 23 artists who has lived and worked in Istanbul since 1998. The exhibition will be realized in two parts.

These artists have lived and worked in Istanbul, each for six months and have communicated with members of diver art and culture circles, have presented their ideas and Works in the universities, have collaborated with NGO’s and have participated in workshops, exhibitions and other cultural events. They have observed the socio-political agenda, traditional and modern cultural, and urban textures and problems, have involved themselves in the everyday life events and have produced works that reflected their opinion, criticism and interpretations. Most of the works have been shown in Istanbul during their residency; and evidently later they have conveyed their impressions to other countries and societies through these works.

BM Suma CAC will present their works as an outcome of this residency program. This remarkable production is dedicated to Istanbul.

www.berlinistanbul2009.org