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Arter (art Center)
Arter is a contemporary art museum in the Dolapdere district of Istanbul, Turkey. A subsidiary of the Vehbi Koç Foundation, Arter was opened in 2010 with the aim of providing a sustainable infrastructure for producing and exhibiting contemporary art. Following eight years of operation during which it contributed to the visibility of contemporary art with a programme featuring exhibitions, publications, talks, performances and workshops at its venue on İstiklal Avenue, Istiklal Street, Arter moved to its new home in the Dolapdere district of Istanbul in September 2019. At its new building, Arter continues expanding the range of its activities beyond exhibitions to performances and events across many disciplines. Arter presented 59 exhibitions and provided support for the production of over 240 artworks between May 2010 and November 2022. Building Arter was active at the historical building known as Meymenet Han on Istanbul's Istiklal Street between 2010 and 2018. In September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vehbi Koç Foundation
The Vehbi Koç Foundation ( tr, Vehbi Koç Vakfı) is one of the biggest Non-governmental organization, non-governmental charitable organizations in Turkey. It was established on January 17, 1969 by the Turkish entrepreneur and philanthropist Vehbi Koç (1901-1996). The foundation is active in the fields of education, healthcare and culture. The board of directors is currently chaired by Semahat Arsel, the eldest daughter of Vehbi Koç. Executive committee's president is Suna Koç, another daughter. Erdal Yıldırım is the managing director of the foundation. The headquarters of the foundation is located at Nakkaştepe in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul. Education The Vehbi Koç Foundation established Koç University, Koç School and many Koç elementary schools across the country, and a number of hospitals as well. Culture The Vehbi Koç Foundation already runs various museums across Istanbul, including Arter, a contemporary art exhibition space, which opened in 2010. This four-storey spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (born 1957) is a Thai artist who works primarily with film and video. She currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Early life and education Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook was born in Trat, Thailand, in 1957. She received a Fine Art degree from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, in 1986, and Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig in Germany. Araya listed the death date of her parents and her grandmother on her curriculum vitae, indicating the importance of including autobiographical and collective experience in her work. Artworks Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook experimented with intaglio printmaking and sculptural installations in the 1980s and 1990s, before starting to focus in on film and video. Several of her early sculptural installations have been interpreted as speaking to the position of women in Thai society. In ''Isolated Hands'' (1992) and ''Departure of Thai Country Girls'' (1995), dismembered parts of female-coded bodies are presented in isolation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canan Tolon
Canan Tolon (born 1955) is a Turkish-born artist who now lives and works in Emeryville, California. Tolon works in the mediums of printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. She has exhibited internationally in Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, London, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland and San Francisco. In 2010, one of Tolon's paintings, "Glitch VI" (2008) was a highlight at Sotheby's auction in Turkey, and in 2012, ''Art + Auction'' named Tolon one of the 50 Next Most Collectible Artists. A Los Angeles Times review in 2014 noted that Tolon's paintings "highlight our tendency to look for recognizable forms" and "also perhaps a comment on the degraded quality of our image landscape." Early life and education Tolon was born in Istanbul in 1955 and spent her childhood in France. after graduating from the Ecole Française d’Istanbul (1975) She studied design and architecture at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland (1976), Fachhochschule, Trier, Germany (1979), Middlesex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Pancar
Mustafa Pancar (born 1964) is a Turkish artist. Early life and education Pancar was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1964. He graduated from the painting department of Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts. Collections Pancar's works are held in the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_in .... Exhibitions Solo *1994: "Sonradan Boyanmışlar", Atatürk Library, Istanbul, Turkey *2000: "Kuryenin Rüyası", Academic Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey *2002: "Karışık Hikayeler", Istanbul, Turkey *2004: "Uzaylılar – Halı Savaşları", Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey *2006: "Serbest Pazar", Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey *2008: "Shadow World", K4, Nuremberg, Germany *2008: "Gölge Dünya", Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey *2010: "Too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yee I-Lann
Yee I-Lann (born 1971) is a Malaysian contemporary artist known for her works using photography, collage, film, collaborative weaving, and everyday objects. Her practice examines power, colonialism, and neocolonialism in Southeast Asia to explore the impact of historic memory on social experience. Since 2018, Yee has been working collaboratively with sea-based and land-based indigenous communities in Sabah, Malaysia. Yee currently lives and works in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Yee has exhibited in museums across Asia, Europe, the United States, and Australia, including solo exhibitions such as ''Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again'' (2021) at the Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile in Hong Kong, ''Fluid World'' (2011) at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, and ''Yee I-Lann: 2005–2016'' (2016) at the Ayala Museum, Manila, the Philippines. She has participated in the Yinchuan Biennale (2016), the Asia Pacific Triennial (2015, 1999), the Jakarta Biennale ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertical Submarine
Vertical Submarine is a collective group of artists based in Singapore. The group, founded by Justin Loke, Joshua Yang and Fiona Koh was formed in 2003 and the name was taken from a word ''subvert'' that is rotated to be ''vert-sub'' and expanded to form ''Vertical Submarine''. The group has been appearing in exhibitions of intricate installations involving everyday objects, text and an acquired sense of humor. The group won the Singapore President's Young Talents Award of 2009. Vertical Submarine will participate in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, which takes place September 7 – November 11, 2012 in Gwangju, Korea. Exhibitions Selected exhibitions Penetrations Taking a playful stance on otherwise serious discussions of language policies and identity in Singapore, the series of work by Vertical Submarine exercises a tongue-in-cheek preservation of quickly disappearing pockets of colloquial conversation among Singaporeans. Despite the gradual loss of vernacular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Shaowanasai
Michael Shaowanasai ( th, ไมเคิล เชาวนาศัย) (born 1964) is a Thai-American artist and actor who lives in Bangkok, Thailand. His works includes performance art, photography, video, film and installations. Openly gay, his works are often provocative, such as photographic portrait of himself as a Buddhist monk made up to look like a woman. Active as an artist since 1997, his works have featured in international exhibitions since 1999, and his work is held in major collections. Early life and education Shaowanasai was born in 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He graduated from School of Law at Chulalongkorn University in 1985, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at San Francisco Art Institute (which included filmmaking) in 1994 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Career Shaowanasai is a founding member of Project 304, a contemporary art group based in Bangkok. Their work included the installatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mella Jaarsma
Mella Jaarsma (born Emmeloord, 1960) is an artist originally from the Netherlands but now residing in Indonesia. She spent her childhood in the Netherlands, where she also studied at the Minerva Academy of Visual Arts in Groningen. Jaarsma's work comments on social and political issues within Indonesian society, mainly: discrimination, racialism, minorities and identity. Her most well known work are body-covering shelters made out of unexpected materials. For example, frog skins, squirrels, bats, snakes and chickens are employed to create a wearable piece. The garment symbolises protection, and visually represents fear or a need for a 'security blanket'. Her work also alludes to the isolation of human beings and the need for a filtered approach to the world. Jaarsma has achieved international recognition, having been presented in international art events and galleries including: Singapore Art Museum, Third Asia Pacific Triennal, Queensland Art Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melati Suryodarmo
Melati Suryodarmo (born 12 July 1969) is an Indonesian durational performance artist. Her physically demanding performances make use of repetitive motions and often last for many hours, sometimes reaching "a level of factual absurdity". Suryodarmo has performed and exhibited throughout Europe and Asia as well as in North America. Born in Surakarta, she attended Padjadjaran University, graduating with a degree in international relations before moving to Germany. She lived there for 20 years, studying performance art at the Braunschweig University of Art with Butoh choreographer Anzu Furukawa and performance artist Marina Abramović. Suryodarmo later returned to Indonesia and founded ''Undisclosed Territory'', an annual festival for performance art. She was the first woman to serve as artistic director for the Jakarta Biennale. Suryodarmo has been called "one of the most famous performance artists to come out of Indonesia." In 2022, she was awarded the eleventh Bonnefanten Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manit Sriwanichpoom
Manit Sriwanichpoom ( th, มานิต ศรีวานิชภูมิ, born 27 September 1961) is a Thai photographer, writer, contemporary artist and social activist. His notable work is a photo set called ''Pink Man''. The set consists of photos of a man in pink silk tuxedo and his pink shopping cart shot in different locations around the world. Biography Manit was born in Bangkok and graduated from Srinakharinwirot University. After graduation, he worked as a photographer for Bureau Bangkok. In 2007 he won the Higashikawa Prize from photo fiesta in Hokkaido, Japan. He worked in film industry as a producer and cinematographer of '' Citizen Juling'' (2008), '' Shakespeare Must Die'' (2012) and '' Censor Must Die'' (2014). Work In 1982 Manit had his first exhibition in a group exhibition called "5 View Points" at Bhirasri Modern Art Institute, Bangkok. His first solo exhibition was "Artists in Back & White" in 1990 at Alliance Française, Bangkok. In 1985 he had his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Wen
Lee Wen (; 1957–2019) was a Singapore-based performance artist who shaped the development of performance art in Asia. He worked on the notion of identity, ethnicity, freedom, and the individual's relationship to communities and the environment. Lee's most iconic work is his performance series titled ''The Journey of a'' ''Yellow Man'', which started as a critique of racial and ethnic identities in 1992 and has evolved into a meditation on freedom, humility, and religious practices over more than a decade. Painting his own body with bright yellow poster paint, he expresses an exaggerated symbol of his ethnic identity as a citizen of Singapore. He was also active in artist-run initiatives, especially as part of The Artists Village (TAV) in Singapore, the performance artist collective Black Market International, as well as the festivals Future of Imagination and Rooted in the Ephemeral Speak (R.I.T.E.S.). On 3 March 2019, he died due to a lung infection, at the age of 61. Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heri Dono
Heri Dono is an Indonesian visual artist as artist painter, sculptor, and installation artist. Life and work Dono was born in Jakarta on June 12, 1960. He studied at the Indonesian Art Institute (''Institut Seni Indonesia'') in Yogyakarta, where he won the Prize for the Best Painting in 1981 as well as in 1985. He presented his work worldwide in a great number of solo and group exhibitions.Verdens Worldbiography He is mainly active as an installation artist, and works with materials that come from varying places in the world. In his work, known influences can be noticed, like the life of the ''ordinary man'', wayang kulit, becak driver and tau tau sculptures of the Toraja in Sulawesi.Tropical Museum Amsterdam''Critical art from Indonesia Dono, who lives and works in Yogyakarta, mixes humoristic comments in his work on political and social problems in Indonesia. In 1998, he won a Prince Claus Award. His style is often placed in the art form of ''new internationalism'', wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
