Övül Durmusoglu
Lecture: State of confusion
6. November – 6. November 2016

Salon

 

Sunday, 11 November 2016, 11 am

Kunstverein Arnsberg

The curator Övül Durmusoglu will give a talk on the vivid art scene in Turkey, reflect its development since the 1990s and discuss artistic implications that shape themselves in reaction to the ruptures in the political context

 

Ovul O. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer based in Berlin and Istanbul. She is the director/curator of YAMA screen in Istanbul. She worked as curatorial and public program advisor for Gulsun Karamustafa's ongoing exhibition 'Chronographia' at Hamburger Bahnhof and co-edited the exhibition publication. Durmusoglu also co-leads 'Solar Fantastic’, a research and publication project between Mexico and Turkey. She has recently curated 'Future Queer', the 20th year anniversary exhibition for Kaos GL association in Istanbul. In the past, she acted as the curator of the festival Sofia Contemporary 2013 titled as 'Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground' and she organized different programs and events as a Goethe Institute fellow at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13). Durmusoglu continues to contribute to different print and online publications.