Bitter Medicine Online Conversations

Open Laboratory / Hyper-Reality-Simulation / Analyzing Today

27 November 2020 Fri

Speakers: Kumru Eren, Istanbul; Necmi Sönmez, Dusseldorf; Osman Can Yerebakan, New York
Language: Turkish

Streamed live through online channels, the exhibition BITTER MEDICINE #02 hosts proposals of deeply embedded changes to confront the challenges that we have been witnessing. The talk will be framed by the concepts of “Open Laboratory, Hybrid Reality” through the exhibition BITTER MEDICINE #02 by :mentalKLINIK. The goal is to provide a widened perspective on the state of “ambiguity”, which is one of the defining qualities of our time, by looking at visual codes.

Dr. Kumru Eren
Dr. Kumru Eren has consulted for national and international collections and institutions with a focus on development in the field of cultural heritage and collection management. Previously, she worked as the Baksı Platform Coordinator for Baksı Culture and Art Foundation. She taught the course “Critical Art Theories” at the Marmara University for a while. She has contributed to exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Her articles, critical texts, and impressions have been published in ICE, Istanbul Art News, Artam, Varlık, Hürriyet Kitap Sanat, Hürriyet Seyahat. She has received her PhD with her dissertation on the phenomenon of “Globalization in Contemporary Art in Turkey”, considered within the framework of Jean-Luc Nancy’s work. She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). She is currently in charge of the the management of Borusan Contemporary.

Dr. Necmi Sönmez
He was trained as an art historian in the Universities of Mainz, Paris, Newcastle, and Frankfurt. He worked for numerous international museums and collections including Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Museum Folkwang, FRAC, TATE, Staatliche Museen Berlin, and Borusan Contemporary. The artist biographies he authored were published by Skira, Milan. He currently works as the curator of a monument project to be realized in Zeche Zollverein Essen. 

Osman Can Yerebakan
Independent arts writer/curator has been based in New York for over ten years; his writing on art, design, and architecture has been featured in publications including New York Times, T Style Magazine, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, Artforum, ArtNet, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, VICE, Town & Country, Playboy, and Architectural Digest. The group exhibitions he has organized have been shown in various museums and galleries including Queens Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum, UrbanGlass, and Residency Unlimited. 

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