Sinan Güldal
(curator)
Born on 1979 Istanbul, writer, filmmaker and translator Sinan Güldal studied cinema in one of the most prestigeous film schools of Turkey: Dokuz Eylül University. Although he is not a graduate of this institution, he started, at an early age, to work on film productions with Yeni Sinemacilik film collective, an experience that will change his life once and for all. After shooting the making of documentary of the collective's film Takva, he started working with video camera and computer graphics. He created first regular live cinema acts in Turkey with Peyote Music Club, where he created thousands of hours of live cinema. Also in Peyote, he documented Istanbul's music scene with video camera. In 2013 he started working on a series of documentary films, all on Istanbul. First film of this series, Sanguine Syrto, was screened in various cities in Turkey, and also in Italy. Güldal first started writing at the age of 14 and was published a year later in the bizarre antipsychiatry-literature magazine Şizofrengi. After taking a long break from writing and focusing in his filmmaking studies and works, he re-started writing sciencefiction and essays on future of contemporary phenomena. He also is one of the programmers of Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.
Güneş Terkol
(advisors board)
(b. 1981, Ankara) graduated from the Painting Department in the Faculty of Fine
Arts at Mimar Sinan University. Afterwards, she received a Master s degree in the Art and Design
Department at Yıldız Technical University. In 2018, she completed her pedagogical formation at
Mimar Sinan University. Using fabric, sewing, sound, and drawing the artist deals with issues
around gender in her body of work. Believing in the great importance of collective work and
coming together with a common goal, the artist has produced collective works in workshops in
different countries and cities, departing from participants everyday realities and imaginaries as
inspiration. Since 2005, the artist has produced works individually, as well as with the art
collective Ha Za Vu Zu. Since 2017, Alaca Heyheyler woman artist collective and she continues to
perform in her music group GuGuOu.
RESIDENCIES
2022-2023 Art Explora, Paris [FR]
2018 “Borderline Offensive artist residencies”, Bulgaria [BG]
2016 Cité internationale des arts, [FR]
2013 ISCP, New York, [USA]
2011 OrganHaus, Chongqing, [CN]
2010 Gasworks, London, [UK]
2009 Frac des Pays de la Loire (with Hazavuzu artist collective) [FR]
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Cabin Fantastic”, Ferda Art Platform, Istanbul [TR]
2023 “Skin of the Light”, Casa Dell’Arte, Bodrum [TR]
2022 “Sound Landscapes”, HARA, Istanbul [TR]
2020 “One Twoness” Krank Art Gallery Istanbul [TR]
2019 “She wasn’t there and She Couldn’t Believe Her Ears” Nev Gallery, Ankara [TR]
2018 “Home is My Heart”, Krank Gallery Istanbul [TR]
2017 “ Storing Souls”, Nev Gallery, Ankara [TR]
2016 “ A Light Through the World Hey, Wait!” , Krank Gallery, Istanbul [TR]
2014 “Holographic Recording”, NON Galleryi Istanbul, [TR]
2012 “The Main Forces That Stir Up Action”, NON, Istanbul, [TR]
2011 “Dreams on the River”, OrganHaus, Chongqing, [CN]
2010 “They Were Trying To Climb Against the Current”, NON, Istanbul, [TR]
2008 “No Ceremony for Transition”, Apartment Project, Istanbul, [TR]
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
2024 Biennale Arte, 60th International Art Exhibition, Venice, [IT]
2023 Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta, [IE]
2023 “The Women’s Atlas”, Depo, Istanbul [TR]
2023 “The Past is the Present”, Depo, Istanbul [TR]
2023 “Dreams and Truths”, Casa Botter, Istanbul, [TR]
2023 “7 Collectors 7 Artists”, Ferda Art Platform, Istanbul, [TR]
2022 17th Istanbul Biennial, Manti Post, Istanbul, [TR]
2021 “Sounds like Home” Somarts Cultural Center, San Francisco [USA]
2021 “Crystal Clear”, Pera Museum, Istanbul [TR]
2021 “All Else is Far”, DirimArt, Istanbul [TR]
2020 “Protext!”, Luigi Pecci, Prato, [IT]
2020 Bilboard Istanbul, [TR]
2019 “16th Istanbul Biennial”, Istanbul, [TR]
2019 “Sis in the Blink of a Bird”, NGBK, Berlin [DE]
2019 “With Their Hearts, People Walk “, GuGuOu,Corridor Project Space [NL]
2019 “Alacakaranlık Anıları”, Krank Art Gallery, Istanbul [TR]
2019 “Temas”, MSGSU, Istanbul [TR]
2019 “Come on!” Plato Sanat, Istanbul [TR]
2019 “Paper”, Pilevneli Project, Istanbul [TR]
Emre Akçora
(advisors board)
Studied in Mimar Sinan Faculty of Fine Arts, photographer Emre Akçora is one of the founding members of internationally acknowledged art collective Hazavuzu. After attending several exhibitions and events with the collective, such as Cut the Flow, where the members of the collective stops the pedestrian traffic in busy urban landscapes, Akçora launched Tasarım Bakkalı [Design Kiosk], where, in collaboration with artists he organized 27 exhibitions. Between 2017 and 2022 he organized Tab Residency program in Büyükada İstanbul. Emre Akçora still continues to produce music and sound technology.
Yağmur Telli Yücel
(advisors board)
Born on 1986 İstanbul. She was graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication, Cinema TV Department. Since her graduation, Yücel directed her own short films and documentaries. Her films screened at various festivals around Turkey. Her short film "İsmigül" won the first prize at the competition Woman Rights Are Human Rights. Since two years, Yağmur Telli Yücel works as a set painter in various film and series projects. She continues to live and work on her own projects in Cappadocia.
Rıdvan Hacıfazlıoğlu
(Rad Dar)
(advisors board)
Rıdvan Hacıfazlıoğlu aka. Rad Dar was born on 1988 İstanbul. After completing his studies with honours on 2012 at Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty, Painting Department, he won the honour award for the workshop and exhibition assessment, the same year at the Aias program that is the project of Australia National Art School on Sydney. Rad Dar started his masters program at Hacettepe University, Fine Arts Faculty, Painting Department but had to drop the program due to global pandemic. Since 2007, Rad continues his work in the fields of painting, sculpture, video and performance arts on the streets, at galeries and art fairs.
