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
26 September 18 October 2008
On the 2th anniversary, MASA that will be hosting Merve Şendil’s exhibition DDR Discography from September 26 to October 19 at Apartman Project
Until 2007, Şendil has been working on the archives about the amateur music bands, under the name of "Underscene Project". As a part of this project, she will bring objects and documents together about a İstanbul based post-rock band named DDR for the exhibition called "DDR Discography". The exhibition will consist of the documents belonging to the group DDR and the objects that the artist produced for the group on Masa.
Merve Şendil will try to investigate individual and collective productions made for music and other productions about music by the workshops in different places and times.
Since 1997, besides from the KunstRai, where you can find a yearly overview of commercial galleries, the Sandberg Institute wanted to create an art fair showing other kinds of art i.e. non established art. Here artist initiatives from the Netherlands were invited to represent themselves with their best work. Dutch contributors were invited to introduce a foreign colleague next to their own presentation. This year Kunstvlaai A.P.I. / Amsterdam, a large selection of Turkish artist run spaces as well as some Chinese ones will be showing.
“Things that due to their permanent presence in everyday life appear negligible, become almost invisible. Foundation of Isabel Schmiga’s artistic engagement are shifts in context of insignificant elements from familiar situations. So far, the artist concentrates on transitions, idiosyncrasies of her everyday surroundings, collisions of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, substances and their emblematic qualities, the form, the word.
The rhetoric of the material, the multilingualism of familiar things and symbols, and the relationship of body and space contour the artist’s view in a double sense: they are literally motivation and motive of her enterprise of engaging with the ambiguity of familiar signs, thereby bringing to the surface firmly inscribed, hidden potentials of meaning:
For example, the board game Ludo became visible in the Swiss national flag (MENSCH ÄRGERE DICH NICHT, 2003), Robidogbags (bags for the disposal of dog excrements in public spaces) turned into a disposed fur of a greyhound that ran away (GREYHOUND, 2005).”
Isabel Schmiga, born in 1971, currently lives and works in Paris. Studies at the Academy for Fine Arts Braunschweig (MFA), studies in Art History at Basel University. Several scholarships and residencies, among them DAAD for Switzerland, Basel, iaab for Platform Garanti, Istanbul in 2006 and iaab for Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris in 2008. To get more information about her work, please go to: www.schmiga.de.
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