Show: A Few Retrospectives in Open Space

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invite for AFR at Open Space

invite for AFR at Open Space

‘A Few Retrospectives in Open Space’  will be presented by Akinci Gallery

at

OPEN SPACE 2009

LOCATION ART COLOGNE, hall 11.3

DATE 22–26 April 2009

VERNISSAGE joint with ART COLOGNE preview, Tuesday 21 April 2009, 5–9 pm

PARTICIPANTS International galleries with a current program of advanced contemporary art present a singular artistic position and/or outstanding work of art. Participants will be expressly invited and selected by the curatorial committee for OPEN SPACE. All participants and presentations will be combined to an unique environment of contemporary art.’

more info: open space website

Screening: ‘(Very) Small Distortions in the Order’ at Istanbul Film Festival

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Cevdet Erek - Avluda

Video frame from 3 synchronized videos; Cevdet Erek, 'Avluda / In the Courtyard' (2002) 3 channel video, 6 channel sound

English version below in italic

DÜZENDE (ÇOK) KÜÇÜK BOZUKLUKLAR

Uluslararası İstanbul Film Festivali, son dönem Türkiyeli sanatçıların eserlerinden oluşan bir programla ilk olarak bu yıl video sanatına açılıyor.

Sinema gerek endüstrinin dayattığı üretim yöntemlerinden, gerek sinema dilinin görece katı kodlarından, gerekse algı mekanizmalarının sürekli kontrol altında olmasından dolayı (çok) düzenli bir sistem oluşturuyor. Video güncel sanatın yarattığı serbest bölgelerden yararlanarak bu düzene bir “bozukluk”, estetik ve politik bir alternatif getiriyor.

Bu bölümde izleyicinin keşfedeceği eserler beyaz ekranın sınırlarını zorluyor. Görüntü titriyor, kaymalar başlıyor, zaman kâh daralıyor kâh genleşiyor, ekran bölünüyor, mekân belirsizleşiyor, netlik kayboluyor, vücutlar arka planda eriyor, tabular görünür oluyor, İstanbul yanıyor, sinemada deprem oluyor… Sinema düzeninde (çok) küçük bozukluklar, seyirciyi yeni keşiflere, yeni deneyimlere çağırıyor.

diğer sanatçılar ve program detayları için burayı tıklayınız: tık

(VERY) SMALL DISTORTIONS IN THE ORDER

Akbank Sanat 15 We. 17.00
Akbank Sanat 18 Sa. 19.00

The International İstanbul Film Festival this year opens itself to video art for the first time with a program consisting of works of artists from Turkey. Cinema structures a (very) ordered system due to the production methods its industry imposes on itself and due to its perpetually controlled perceptive mechanisms. Taking advantage of the free zones that contemporary art creates, video brings a “distortion”, an aesthetic and political alternative to this order.

The works that the viewer is to discover in this section push the boundaries of the white screen. The image shakes, shifts, narrows and widens from time to time, the screen is split, the space is ambiguous, the focus is lost, bodies dissolve in the background, taboos are visible, İstanbul catches fire, an earthquake shakes the movie theater (very) small distortions in the cinema order call the audience to new discoveries and new experiences.

click here full list of participating artists and other program details: click

Exhibition : Istanbul, traversée

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Cevdet Erek, ''Avluda / In the Courtyard''

Cevdet Erek, ''Avluda / In the Courtyard''

‘Avluda / In the Courtyard

(C. Erek, 2002)

in

Exhibition : Istanbul, traversée

Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France

15 March/12 July 2009

with

Haluk Akakce, Hüseyin Alptekin, Kutlug Ataman, Bashir Borlakov, Osman Bozkurt, Hussein Chalayan, Burak Delier, Atom Egoyan, Köken Ergun, Cevdet Erek, Inci Eviner, Katja Eydel, Erik Göngrich, Deniz Gül, Ara Güler, Ali Kazma, Servet Kocyigit, Corey Mc Corkle, Antoine Ignace Melling, Aydan Murtezaoğlu, Ceren Oykut, Sener Özmen and Erkan Özgen, Serkan Özkaya, Camila Rocha, Sarkis, Turhan Selçuk, Erinç Seymen, Superpool, Hale Tenger, Pinar Yolaçan, Aksel Zeydan.

2nd Bridge at Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt

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06.09.08 – 09.11.08 Becoming Istanbul
An exhibition in the context of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008
Opening: Friday, 5 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Media conference: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 11 a.m.

In cooperation with Garanti Galeri, Istanbul, from Sept. 6 – Nov. 9, 2008 Deutsches Architekturmuseum will be presenting the “Becoming Istanbul” exhibition. The show revolves around a database that sheds light from all sorts of different perspectives on the city on the Bosporus and how it has developed into the current metropolis that interfaces between the West and the Orient. The interactive presentation, which visitors can themselves control, is driven by a large stock of data contributions made by countless photographers, artists, architects, authors, illustrators and researchers who have focused in their work on the city of Istanbul and approach the metropolis from quite different angles.

The exhibition, which is being held in the context of the Frankfurt Book Fair and its Guest of Honor 2008, Turkey, is being curated by Pelin Dervis (Director Garanti Galeri, Istanbul) together with architects and architectural historians Bülent Tanju and Uğur Tanyeli. On the occasion of the exhibition, an encyclopedic catalog will appear that concerns itself with Istanbul’s urban transformation over the last century and a half.

click here to go to DAM website

2007 april-/to do list/publik

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-11 April – 06 May 2007, Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem Cevdet Erek _’Constant’ at group show ‘On Memory’, curated by Johan Deumens in collaboration with Gallery Tanya Rumpff. List of artists below.

-14, 16 May 2007, 19:00, Pantin (Studio 3), Centre National de la Danse, Paris GRAF by Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli in collaboration with Cevdet Erek and Erkie De Vries

-29 May 2007, 22:00, Indigo, Istanbul Nekropsi at Indigo

-03 June 2007, Garaj Istanbul GRAF at Istanbul Dance Festival, by TALdans (Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli) in collaboration with Cevdet Erek and Erkie De Vries

-17 June 2007, 19:00, Park Orman, Istanbul Nekropsi at One Love Festival, with Beastie Boys and Cirkus

–28 August 2007, Istanbul Lütfi Kirdar Convention & Ehibition Centre SSS at the opening of INTERNOISE 2007 (to be confirmed)

-WEEK OF ISTANBUL BIENALI
5 September 2007, 15:00 – 16:00, The Hall, Cevdet Erek artist talk TRIANGLE PROJECT
5 September 2007, 01:00 -02:00, The Hall, Cev Edit performs TRIANGLE PROJECT
7 September 2007, 17:30 – 18:00, PLATFORM GARANTI CAC, Nekropsi proudly presents 4/4
8 September 2007, 10:00 -11:00, IMC, Keep working or networking. Speakers: Annie Fletcher and Cevdet Erek
8 September 2007, 18:00 -21:00, Balkon, MOOD SALON with Hannah Hurtzig, Brian Dillon, Dieter Roelstraete, Irene Kopelman, Marino Castillo Debal, Bülent Tanju, Cevdet Erek among others.

-11 September 2007, Cetin Emec Gallery, Izmir Group Show ‘OFF THE RECORD’ by Adnan Yildiz

-29 September – 03 October 2007, Art Forum Berlin, at Akinci

-1 – 23 October 2007 , Townhouse, Cairo Residency

-22 October 2007 , 19:00, Townhouse, Cairo Artist Talk ‘Dark Light Dark’

– 24 October – December 2007, Can Xalant, Spain Residency

-1 November 2007, Santralistanbul, Istanbul Opening “Light, Illumination and Electricity” Project supported by Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue

-4 November 2007, BAS Istanbul BENT 004: “Cevdet Erek – SSS” Publication launch at BAS Artist books

-Sometime November 2007, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam ‘Cevdet Erek – Studio’ Book launch

-January 2008, Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam C. Erek solo

“hidden curriculum”

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“hidden curriculum”
VIDEO SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

13 MARCH 2007 SVARTA HAVET 17:00
launch of the video selection by Adnan Yıldız
Michele Masucci will be in conversation with Adnan Yıldız

HIDDEN CURRICULUM / GİZLİ MÜFREDAT
7 videoworks from Turkey:
Ahmet Öğüt / light armoured
Cevdet Erek / sss
Esra Ersen / if you could speak sweedish
Extramücadele / the forest of peace
Hale Tenger / dream h(a)unter
Nasan Tur / run
Selim Birsel / looking for the taboo

“hidden curriculum” will be a part of TIMELINE / ARTISTS FILM AND VIDEO COLLECTION AT KONSTFACK

Show ‘ON MEMORY’

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11 April – 6 May 2007
“ON MEMORY”

Curated by Johan Deumens in collaboration with Gallery Tanya Rumpff

Kasper Andreasen / Christiane Baumgartner / Pavel Büchler / Chris Burden / Claude Closky / Cevdet Erek / Kendell Geers / Mona Hatoum / Information as Material / Ligorano/Reese / Meredith Monk / Moshekwa Langa / Tine Melzer / Julião Sarmento / Thomas Schütte / Anne-Marie Schneider / Nedko Solakov & The Temporary Archive on Memory

Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Spaarnwouderstraat 74, 2011 AE Haarlem, NL.

Stedelijk Waterfalls CS at Stedelijk Museum CS

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In 2006, the exhibition “Just in Time” took place at the Stedelijk Museum CS. This acquisitions show consisted of artworks selected by an international jury following an open call. In the exhibition, next to the piece I showed, titled “SSS – Shore Scene Soundtrack,” I proposed an intervention titled “SWCS – Stedelijk Waterfalls CS.”
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Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool, 2 December 2006. “Luidruchtige airco als kunst ervaren,” (Experiencing Noisy Air Conditioning as Art).

SEMINAR @ ISTANBUL TEKNIK

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CEVDET EREK
“Grasping of state and reformulation of it, 2002 – 2006”
seminar, MIAM SUNAR series
09.11.06 18:30
Room 129
ITÜ MIAM, Istanbul

Evaluation of what I did in between 2002 and 2006
An evening of words, sounds, drawings, video, moving objects and performance

click on image for invite and address info
CEVDET EREK MIAM SUNAR POSTER