12 Mayıs 2015 Salı
3 Nisan 2015 Cuma
Supermarket 2015 Independent Art Fair Stockholm
PASAJ will recreate in its fair stand the small buffet/restaurant we use for our exhibition/event in Tarlabaşı neighborhood. It's a way to bring to Stockholm a small alternative part of Istanbul, connecting cultural events and the daily life of a vivid neighborhood of our city. Stand's walls and windows will be covered with the real size black-white prints representing the restaurant's image. This will be the stage for some artworks by Secil Yaylali, Özgür Demirci, Giorgio Caione and Paola Ferrario.
27 Ocak 2015 Salı
17 Ocak 2015 Cumartesi
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26 Kasım 2014 Çarşamba
Before and even after, many people died, were killed. Wars have not yet ended and never will.
There was so much happening at every single moment that the sentence we had constructed to fool ourselves was ready; we just weren’t able to keep up.
At a point, as we were just standing there, “something” else began. We were on the streets. Side by side. We didn’t even know each other, but we were side by side. We were there. We had learned to keep our doors open, to put buckets full of water in front of the apartment, and in case of arrest: to post a document showing our rights on the door of the apartment, and to note the situation on every street we passed , and tweet it to one another.
This was hope itself. The spirit of solidarity, the challenge, standing side by side.
Is it possible to remember this hope?
We have to start somewhere…
‘Stay With me’ project takes from here; taking notes, documenting, drawing; remembering the hope with the association of these narrations.
The title ‘Stay with me; is chosen because it expresses a last resort when the hope is fading “hold on, don’t give up’. It grew as a slogan that expresses a collective effort where everyone is involved and holding on together.
‘Stay with me project’ is composed of notebooks that indicate limitless fear, insecurity, existence in obscurity as well as hope, reality, future and the ‘moment’, by 84 participants. The exhibition can be seen in Apartment Project Berlin, between November 27 and December 24.
künstler/inen
Ali Miharbi, Anti-Pop, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Ayşe Küçük, Azra Deniz Okyay, Balca Ergener-Meltem Ahıska, Berkay Tuncay, Burçak Bingöl, Carla Mercedes Hihn Ceren Oykut, Christine Kriegerowski,
Çiğdem Hasanoğlu, Devrim Ck, Devrim Karabeyoğlu, Didem Erk Eda Gecikmez, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Elif Çelebi, Elmas Deniz, Endam Acar, Erdağ Aksel, Erhan Öze, Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Eser Selen, Fatma Belkıs, Fatma Çiftçi, Fatih Aydoğdu, Ferhat Özgür, Figen Aydıntaşbaş, Fulya Çetin, Genco Gülan, Gonca Sezer, Gökçe Süvari, Gökhan Deniz, Göksu Kunak, Gülçin Aksoy, Gül Kozacıoğlu, Gümüş Özdeş, Güneş Savaş, Güneş Terkol, Gözde İlkin, Hale Tenger, Hubert Sommerauer İlhan Sayın, Inci Furni, İpek Duben, İremTok, Melike Kılıç, Merve Çanakçı, Merve Şendil, Mischa Rescka, Murat Tosyalı, Nalan Yırtmaç,
Nancy Atakan, Nazım Dikbaş, Neriman Polat, Nurcan Gündoğan, Onur Ceritoğlu, Onur Gökmen, ÖzgürAtlagan- Bengi Güldogan, Özgür Demirci, Özgür Erkök Moroder, Özge Enginöz,
Rülçhan Şahinoğlu, Raziye Kubat, Sabine Küpher Büsch-Thomas Büsch, Seda Hepsev,Seçil Yersel, Sena Başöz, Senem Denli, Sevim Sancaktar, Sevil Tunaboylu, Sevgi Ortaç, Suat Öğüt, Sümer Sayın, Şafak Çatalbaş, Ulufer Çelik, Yaprak Kırdök, Yasemin Özcan, Yasemin Nur, Yeşim Ağaoğlu,
Zeyno Pekünlü
back stage: Selda Asal
11 Ekim 2014 Cumartesi
The inauguration of the Migrating University of Mickiewicz
project will take place on 18 October, 2014, at the Museum of Adam Mickiewicz
in Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı district. Numerous presentations by Polish and Turkish
artists and historians aim to shed light on current social transformations in
the area, as well as the Polish presence in the history of old Constantinople.
The Migrating University of Mickiewicz will open on 18
October 2014 with curator Max Cegielski’s introduction to the programme,
starting at 13:00. Lectures and performances will continue throughout the
weekend of 18 and 19 October, and the opening of the final exhibition at the
Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Istanbul will take place on 25 October, at 19:00. The
exhibition will remain on view until 16 November 2014. See below for a detailed
programme.
The project consists of a series of interdisciplinary
lectures and presentations, which on the one hand relate to the presence of
Poles in Istanbul and on the other to the history and spatial conditions of the
Tarlabaşı district. The presentations will be held in Turkish and English.
See an interactive map of Mickiewicz's travels
The Tarlabaşı district in the heart of Istanbul has been
undergoing constant devastation for several years – historical houses are
edemolished, the steep streets distinctive of this part of the city are
vanishing one by one, and people who have lived here for decades are being
thrown onto the street. Just like other neighbourhoods – Sulukule or Fikirtepe
– Tarlabaşı is falling victim to hectic, top-down gentrification. The profound
socio-economical changes are affecting the vicinity of the Adam Mickiewicz
Museum in Istanbul.
With the aim of organizing the extensive émigré community in
Istanbul, the legendary Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz arrived in the city in
September 1855, where he later passed away unexpectedly, probably from cholera.
To this day, Mickiewicz's work has a permanent impact on Polish culture,
influencing collective consciousness, literature and art, as well as serving as
a basis for shaping feelings of patriotism.
His works have been translated into more than twenty
languages, either fully or in part, and in many cases multiple times. In
current discussions about the shape of a united Europe, Mickiewicz is cited as
a pioneer of the vision of a federation of free nations and citizens.
Curator Cegielski notes: Unlike other Romantics, Mickiewicz
did not come to the Bosphorus to relish the exotic tastes of the Orient. He had
little time to be the tourist, visiting harems or dervish fraternities. He was
focused on his political mission: to provide assistance to troops created under
Polish command in the army of the Ottoman Empire… The poet arrived in the “City
of Cities” by sea, driven by a profound belief that the road to independence
may indeed lead across the Orient.
The exhibition and the accompanying lectures at the
Migrating University of Mickiewicz project bring together motifs that are
little known to Poles and Turks alike. The poet’s final artistic and scientific
journey takes Turkish audiences back in time to Constantinople’s multicultural
past, and to the emerging social issues of contemporary Istanbul, and Tarlabaşı
district in particular.
Cegielseki ends: If it is indeed the “City of Cities” which
stands upon the Bosphorus, its heart lies within the Mickiewicz Museum.
Programme
Among the participating artists of the Migrating University
of Mickiewicz project, Slavs and Tatars will meet Turkish audiences at two
preliminary performances on October 10th in Istanbul and October 11th in Ankara
18 October 2014 (Saturday)
13:00 – Max Cegielski, curator
Inauguration of the Migrating Mickiewicz University
Introduction to the Project (ENG)
13:15 – Vahit Tuna, visual artist
Omar Khayyam – film screening and a conversation with the
author (ENG)
14:00 – Paulina Dominik, historian
On the Polish times of the Pera: Polish Political Émigrés in
19th-Century Istanbul – lecture (TR)
15:00 – Özgür Demirci, artist
A Screen Divided – film screening (TR)
15:30 – Bogna Świątkowska, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana
Art Projects in Challenging Urban Spaces as Illustrated by
the Case of Poland and Warsaw – lecture (ENG)
16:30 – Ali Öz, photographer
The City of Shame – Photographs of Tarlabaşı – slide show
(TR)
17:00 – Wojtek Doroszuk
The Pharmacist – film screening and a conversation with the
author (ENG)
18:00 – Display of other artworks exhibited at the
Mickiewicz Museum from 25 October 2014 (Slavs and Tatars, Ania Kuczyńska,
Tomasz Szerszeń) (ENG)
19 October 2014 (Sunday)
13:00 – Orhan Esen, urban planner
Pitch of Babel – lecture (TR)
14:30 – Janek Simon, artist
Adam Janek Mickiewicz Simon – project display and
description and a conversation with the author (ENG)
15:15 – Agnieszka Ayşen Kaim, Turkologist, actress
Adam Mickiewicz, or the Story of a Turkicised Bard – lecture
(TR)
16:15 – Mikołaj Długosz
Tarlabaşı – Adam – neon light display project and
description and a conversation with the author (ENG)
17:00 – Art Project Realisation in “Difficult” Urban
Districts – discussion
Participants: Mikołaj Długosz, Bogna Świątkowska, Urszula
Woźniak (Depo)
Moderator: Max Cegielski (ENG)
25 October 2014 (Saturday)
19:00 – Opening Night, Artistic Interventions at the Adam
Mickiewicz Museum
Artists: Slavs and Tatars, Ania Kuczyńska, Janek Simon,
Özgür Demirci, Vahit Tuna
Wojtek Doroszuk, Tomasz Szerszeń, Mikołaj Długosz, Tunca
Subaşı,
*Exhibition will remain open to the public until 16 November
2014
To learn more about Adam Mickiewicz, check out these
articles:
Mickiewicz Unraveled: The Little-Known Fact about Poland's
Best-Known Bard
Renovating Adam Mickiewicz: Roman Koropeckyj Reveals the
Poet's True Life
The Migrating University of Mickiewicz project is organized
as part of the cultural programme marking the 600th anniversary of
Polish-Turkish diplomatic relations.
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