10, 07 – 31, 07 2009
Delier made a modest intervention in public place under the name of “Counter Attack”. He is showing an installation titled “Zapturapt” that will include images was taken from that action at Masa.
Delier, concentrated on situation of in-betweenness when he choosing place where will make an intervention and wants to continue same attitude for exhibition space. He made a decision on an unutilized space in between two apartment building in Cihangir. He questioned concepts like public place, right of intervention, appropriation that is involved his intervention through exhibition place as well.
Delier, mentions the following about his work:
This modest intervention which refers to acts such as privatization, isolation, appropriation, closing is in fact one of the most significant actions of civilization. But there are a lot of characteristics that differentiates it from the wave of top-down privatization process that we witness nowadays. Its moving from below, its small scale, its modest kingdom that will only last until discovered by the system…
Burak Delier was born in Adapazarı, 1977 and complete his Bachelor of Fine Art from Marmara University and MA Program of Art and Design from Yıldız Technical Universty. His works took place at 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007) “Be a realist, demand the impossible!” Karşı sanat, İstanbul (2007), 6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (2008)
Burak Delier lives and works in İstanbul.
Counter-Attack: Counter-Attack is an organization which designs and carries out varries interventions. When possible Counter-Attack enters into collaboration with political, economical, cultural struggles in the public sphere.
The power that will re-establish life exists in the hands which produce the life we live today. Counter-Attack emphasizes certain quality which resides within the powers of production and collaboration and which manages to escape mechanisms of control; and reveals the cracks, the hidden possibilities and contradictions in the city. In contrast with the structure of the system which refuses to acknowledge any other reality apart from its own, it performs actions which re-establish flows of energy and production on different values.
Counter-Attack smuggles the potential of the accumulation of knowledge, experience, skill and labour away from the exploitation of the rulling system and returns this potential to its source; it presents the inappropriable accumulation of skills of material and immaterial labour as a public service.
12, 06 – 30, 06 2009
Bingöl, is showing things excavated from an area which slums transformed into apartment buildings. Beside the primary topical and conceptual relation of the act of ‘excavating’, Bingöl is inferring his act by the sense of space, archaeology, knowledge and its production.
Osman D. Bingöl mentions the following about his work:
“Soil, with a different stinks from the Blind, dark “livings” and as a “non-portable vessel” is holding things randomly together.I tried to put together the found voice of incantation words resuscitating the evil beings from the 1981 movie ‘The Evil Dead’ with the objects randomly situated undersoil.For me, the act of ‘excavating’ objects is making a sign to the metaphorical relation between “Producing knowledge” and “Resuscitating Beings””
Osman D. Bingöl was born in Ankara, 1979 and complete his Bachelor of Fine Art from Hacettepe University and MA Program of Art and Design from Yıldız Technical Universty. His works took place at ‘I’m Too Sad to Kill You’(Proje 4L,Istanbul, 2003), ‘Free Kick’ (9th Istanbul Biennale, Antrepo Hospitality Zone, 2005), ‘EurHope 1153’ (Villa Manin Art Center, Cordopio-Italy, 2006) and ‘Far from Home’ (Slovenia, 2006). He also co-operate with Ahmet Öğüt and Seyhun Babaç in ‘Ünlü Olma Sergisi’ (Ankara, 2002).
Osman D. Bingöl lives and works in Ankara.
14, 05 – 31, 05 2009
Her installation is based on the image of her homeland memory. Gülçin Aksoy is showing her work that is the ironic point of view of the symbols of bureaucratic power in Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts at the Osman Hamdi Bey hall.
Gülçin Aksoy was born in 1965 in Samsun. Since 1990, she has been working as a lecturer in the painting department of MSGSF.
Her works have been previously exhibited in 2001 "Yeniden Bak", “Reconcider”, İstanbul, TURKEY (Curated by Vasıf Kortun), 2003 “ İyi Kötü-Çirkin”, “Good, Bad and the Ugly”, TURKEY, 2005, One month of research for a project, called “Presentation of Art in Public Space” at the Basis Voor Actuele Kunst in Utrecht/HOLLAND, 2009, “Haksız Tahrik”, “Unfair Provacation”, Hafriyat Karaköy.
Gülçin Aksoy lives and works in İstanbul.
10. 04 – 30.04 2009
This title is a quote from the fanzine “My Recidency” which was produced based on the artist’s own isolated living space in 2008.
Recently, Furni has been thinking of the concept of isolation, associating it with control, monitoring, construction, ugliness, imagination and science-fiction.
“Smashed frog was like a visual symbol of an argument in contrast to the orginized and well working system I have seen in Basel during my recidency. The sound insulation material I have seen in music studios came together with the thunderclap that I did not hear on the day mentioned before.
I think, there is nothing else we can do for it anymore….”
İnci Furni has been producing art as an individual artist along with working as a part of Hafriyat Artist Collective since 2007. Artists’s previously exhibited works were “Spirit” (2007) which has taken place in Apartman Project along with “Home Free” (2007) in Bilsar, “Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Belly’’ (2007) in the special projects of 10th Biennial of Istnabul, and “Unfair Provocation” (2009). In 2008, Furni was one of the organizators in Hafriyat Karakoy’s exhibition “Zig Zag” which was a collaboration with Independant Drawing Gig.
06, 03 – 31,03 2009
Their work based on a course of events that occur in 1990
"Lieutenant Murat Şeref Father had taken into custody in Haydar paşa Hospital then discharged after his critical telegraph to term president Turgut Özal which says “ i couldn’t get use to see that you are the president” on february 17th 1990. The reason of discharce was “psychological disorder”.
The course of events was like this:
The term government was established by political party “ANAP”. Their vote rate was only %21 on 1989 local elections, so that’s why their government was controversial. Opposition parties declared that ANAP can’t choose the president even if they were majority in the parliament. So the opposition parties wanted an early election. Nevertheless Anap chose Turgut Özal as the president in a session in the absence of opposition parties. For this reason Anap got big reactions, because general public didn’t want Özal as a president. Özal’s response was interesting “ they will use to it in time”. Then big demonstrations named “ i couldn’t get use to it” were arrranged in all over the country."
06, 02 - 28, 02 2009
Despite the moral repulsiveness of their function Karolin Fişekçi employes the figure of the cannon for stressing its visual affect and its erotic implications. By reproducing the cannon in an ironical design, the artist disarms the fatal virility of the weapon and turns it into an object of sexual satisfaction for females. The first phase of this ongoing project contains the pink and flaccid versions of the cannons in miniaturised scale.
Karolin Fisekci graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts Painting Department in 2003, after which she attended the Faculty of Social Sciences, Painting Department of the same University. Karolin Fisekci showed her works in Under the Beach: The Pavement, Proje4L, Istanbul, 2002; Denizati Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, 2005; and Sobe, Bilsar, Istanbul, 2007.
More about artist here http://karolinfisekci.blogspot.com/
09, 01 – 31,01 2009
MASA, will be hosting Fatma Çiftçi as a first exhibition in 2009. Çiftçi reproduces unusual situations and scenes at different cities where she has been in a short time, trough drawings and sounds; these scenes, which have taken place in artist mind, refer to cultural diversity and its representations from Istanbul, Tehran, Seoul, and London.
Fatma Çiftçi, was born in Amasya, 1981 and graduated from Bilkent University, Fine Arts Faculty in 2005. She participated to YAMA screening project in Istanbul. Moreover she was represented in "Asia Art Now", Arario Beijing, 2007; "Mom's Livingroom", Goyang Art Studio Exhibition Hall, Seoul, 2007; “Freekick” Istanbul, 2005; in the 23rd Exhibition of Contemporary Artists of Istanbul and of Diyarbakir, 2004. Besides, she has awarded Asian Artists Fellowship Program, Seoul and Spike Island Residency Program in Bristol. Her works will take place at Spike Island/Platform Garanti CAC/Visiting Arts Residency Exhibition on January 31, 2009 in Bristol, UK. She lives and works in Istanbul/Ankara.
Drawings by: Suat Öğüt
