June 19 – July 18, 2010

CURATORS

Derya Yucel (Turkey), Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan)

ARTISTS

ELSE LEIRVIK (Norway), ELI GLADER (Norway), NEZAKET EKICI (Germany), HATICE KARADAG (Turkey), GUL ILGAZ (Turkey), KEZBAN ARCA BATIBEKI (Turkey), BAHAR BEHBANI (Iran-USA), RENA EFFENDI (Azerbaijan), SOFIA CHERKEZISHVILI (Georgia), AYSE BOHURLER (Turkey), YESIM AGAOGLU (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 will be exhibited at “Sanat Limanı” between June 19 – July 18.

“Openly” gathers the video pieces of women artists around the theme of “womanhood”. The juncture of these artists, from Asia, Europe and America, from different religious beliefs and raised by different traditions, is their determination to mention their personal experiences and standpoints about the location and situation of woman in modern world.

Today’s world shelters many concerns and conflicts within. One of these is the gender and social gender relations . “Woman and man” contrast is one of the most rooted and significant concerns in our lives. The starting point of this project is to constitute a discussion stage about “Woman and Art”, “Woman and Society”, “Woman and Public Space”, “Woman and Violence”, “Woman and Religion”, “Woman and Family”.

Else Leirvik (Norway), Eli Glader (Norway), Nezaket Ekici (Germany), Hatice Karadağ (Turkey), Gül Ilgaz (Turkey), Kezban Arca Batıbeki (Turkey), Bahar Behbani (Iran-USA), Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), Sofia Cherkezishvili (Georgia) and Yeşim Ağaoğlu (Turkey) attend to the exhibition, curated by Derya Yücel (Turkey) and Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan) with their recent period video works.

“Openly” exhibition opens on June 19, Saturday with the panel discussion, with the attendence of Sabina Shikhlinskaya (Azerbaijan), Bahram Khalilov (Azerbaijan), Fırat Arapoğlu (Turkey) and Natalia Corobco (Moldova) besides the exhibition artists. Following the opening cocktail on the same day Nezahat Ekici will realize her performance “Defiant/İtaatsiz” at 19.30.

Opening Programme:

Date : June 19, 2010

Hour : 19.00

Nezaket Ekici Performance “Defiant/İtaatsiz”: 19.30

Information: Saliha Kasap

SANAT LİMANI

Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi, Liman İşletmeleri Sahası

Antrepo No:5, Tophane

Tel: 0212 243 90 74 / 0212 516 07 12-13

Contact: sanatlimani@istanbul2010.org