16 Jul 2010

Istanbul 2010 ECOC SANAT LIMANI

Istanbul 2010 ECOC Agency presents the Istanbul 2010 ECOC SANAT LİMANI a new venue for exhibitions at the Warehouse #5 in attempt to fulfill the location requirements of exhibitions to be realized in Istanbul. The place is designed as an art center model which has a permanent location in public domain.
 
SANAT LİMANI, with this regard, will also serve as an information, communication and meeting place during the Istanbul 2010 process.
 
A brand new exhibition venue
Two stairs of 3.600 m2 are renewed with technical and aesthetical aspects at warehouse 5 in Tophane to comply .with contemporary exhibition standards. Allocated by the Ministry of Transportation to the use of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency until the end of 2010, the SANAT LİMANI will be hosting exhibitions approved by the Agency.
 
The warehouse #5 is making its debut as SANAT LİMANI with four international exhibitions:


BEYOND CREDIT CONTEMPORARY ART AND MUTUAL TRUST
June 19 - July 25, 2010

ARTISTS
AHMET ÖĞÜT, ANA PRVACKI, ANETTA MONA CHISA & LUCIA TKACOVA, ARİSTARKH CHERNYSHEV, CIPRIAN MURESAN, CRISTINA LUCAS, CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI, INGEBORG LÜSCHER, IGOR ESKINJA, IVAN MOUDOV, KIRIL PRASHKOV, KRASSIMIR TERZIEV, LIA PERJOVSCHI, LUCHEZAR BOYADJIEV, NEDKO SOLAKOV, PRAVDOLIUB IVANOV, STEFAN NIKOLAEV, VADIM FISHKIN, VIKENTI KOMITSKI, WAEL SHAWKY

CURATORS
Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev

Curators from Bulgaria, Maria Vassileva, Iara Boubnova, Luchezar Boyadjiev conceived and realized the exhibition, 'BEYOND CREDIT - Contemporary Art and Mutual Trust', with important artworks of famous international artists. The exhibition is one of the significant events of Istanbul, European Cultural Capital 2010 and it is realized on the occasion of the Cultural Corridors Summit of Presidents and Prime Ministers of South-eastern European Countries. It will take place at the Sanat Limanı, situated in the Antrepo compounds at Tophane.


THE LITTLE LAND FISH CONTEMPORARY ART FROM NORTH and SOUTH CYPRUS
June 19 - July 19, 2010

CURATORS
ZEYNEP YASA YAMAN, Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Art History Dept., Haccettepe University, Ankara DR. ANTONIS DANOS, Lecturer in Art History and Theory, Dept. of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Li massol

ORGANIZERS
EMAA, Eu ropea n-Mediterrenea n Art Association EKATE, Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts

ARTISTS
SERHAT SELIŞIK- DOĞUŞ BOZKURT, MUSTAFA ERKAN, ZEHRA ŞONYA, ÖZGÜL EZGİN, GRUP 102, KLİTSA ANTONİOU, VİCKY PERİCLEOUS, TATİANA FERAHİAN, KATARİNA ATTALİDOU, MELİTA COUTA, YİANNOS ECOKOMOU, ADİ ATASSİ, ANDREAS SAVVA, YİOULA XATZİGEORGİOU, NİKOS KOUROUSSİS, LİA LAPİTHİ

Organized by European-Mediterian Art Association and Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, supported by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, The Little Land Fish exhibition presents artists from North and South Cyprus. This exhibition is conceived and funded within the scope of 'Portable Art' project. Seventeen artists from the island will be hosted in İstanbul with the cooperation of Cypriote non-governmental organizations.


'OPENLY' INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ARTISTS VIDEO EXHIBITION
June 19 - July 18, 2010

CURATORS
Derya Yücel (Turkey), Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan)

ARTISTS
ELSE LEİRVİK (Norway), ELİ GLADER (Norway), NEZAKET EKİCİ (Germany), HATİCE KARADAĞ (Turkey), GÜL ILGAZ (Turkey), KEZBAN ARCA BATIBEKİ (Turkey), BAHAR BEHBANİ (Iran-USA), RENA EFFENDİ (Azerbaijan), SOFİA CHERKEZİSHVİLİ (Georgia), AYŞE BÖHÜRLER (Turkey), YEŞİM AĞAOĞLU (Turkey)

'Openly' exhibition is an international video art anthology focused on woman identity, implemented by the coopeartion of two women curators, as a part of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency Visual Arts Directorate's 'Portable Art' project. 'Openly', with the works of women artists from three continents.


'ISTANBUL OTHERWISE', TRADITIONAL TURKISH OBJECTS REDESIGNED FOR ANOTHER VIEW OF ISTANBUL
June 19 - July 18, 2010

AFTER MILAN AND WEIMAR, THE 'ISTANBUL OTHWERWISE' EXHIBITION OF TRADITIONAL TURKISH OBJECTS INTERPRETED BY CONTEMPORARY DESIGNERS

ORGANIZER
PROJE A.Ş.

DESIGNERS
ERDEM AKAN, AYŞE BİRSEL, ELA CİNDORUK, MERİÇ KARA , DEFNE KOZ, TANJU ÖZELGİN & KORAY ÖZGEN

On view from June 19th to July 18th at the Sanat Limani galleries in Karaköy, the Istanbul Otherwise exhibit presents the designs of contemporary Turkish designers and students from Europe's important design schools as they reinterpret objects from Istanbul's historic past and culture. Created and organized by Arzu Göknar and Zeynep Şengel of Proje and supported by the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, after being exhibited at Domus Academy, Milan, Universitat Bauhaus Weimar and Yildiz Technical University, the Istanbul Otherwise exhibits the works of these seven international designers as they reinterpret traditional Turkish objects in Istanbul's newest art space, Sanat Limanı.