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A Painter of the Sublime

From Tradition to the Future, Humans as part of Nature

On Shifting Temporalities

An Interview with Kira Perov on Bill Viola’s Creative Processes.

Conversations: Christiane Paul

Guest curator of “What lies beneath” presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2015.

A Master of Video Art is at Borusan Contemporary - Bill Viola: Impermanence

Interview with Kira Perov from Bill Viola Studio

From September 14, 2019 to September 13, 2020 Borusan Contemporary will be hosting Bill Viola’s first solo show in Istanbul.

Conversations: Margot Norton

Guest curator of “Mika Tajima: Æther” presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2018.

12 Questions to Artists: Jeffrey Blondes

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Nature in the Leading Role

Artworks that relate to nature in different ways are included in the collection exhibitions at Borusan Contemporary, made more poignant through our perhaps more direct relationship with nature during the summer months.

Looking at Art Through Literature

The conceptual frameworks, drawn by the curator Necmi Sönmez for the collection-based exhibitions at Borusan Contemporary, use important figures from Turkish literature. This is a critical effort in looking into researching the potentials of considering contemporary art criticism and historicization through other media and means of thinking.

Conversations: Charles Merewether

Guest curator of “Between Art and Physical Space” by teamLab presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2016.

12 Questions to Artists: Erdal İnci

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Anthropocene: Augmented Reality

Curated by Kathleen Forde, Overture: Selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection opened its doors to visitors on March 9th at the Haunted Mansion...

Conversations: William Ewing

Guest curator of the exhibition Aqua Shock: Selections from the Water Project presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2016.

On Boomoon the Power of Water

WRITER: İPEK ÇINAR

Tracing the Evolution of Creative Practices on Istiklal Avenue

The collection exhibition They are uttered and unfinished, all the loves in the world curated by Necmi Sönmez explores the evolution of creative practices. The international selection of works from the collection is the most recent chapter in the series of exhibitions that have spread across three years, researching conceptual frameworks that draw on the oeuvres of literary figures from Turkey, including Cemal Süreya and Turgut Uyar.

As a Flag Becomes a Body

The work by Kathrin Stumreich, Sovereignty (2017) is included in the exhibition that opened at Borusan Contemporary last week: Overture: Selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, curated by Kathleen Forde, the artistic director at large of the museum. The work carries traces of performing arts while interfering with the space, positioning us both as participants and as spectators.

12 Questions to Artists: Boomoon

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Conversations: Choi Doo Eun, Creative director at the Art Center Nabi

Guest Curator of Anima presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2013.

How to Construct Bodies?

Universal Everything's Fluid Bodies exhibition reflects on the moral and social implications of technology. The propositions of Fluid Bodies, which uses technology as a field in which the word ‘techne’ and ‘logos’, ie craft and expression come together, could be read as images from the future—the existing technical potentials can be transformed in real time.

In the Age of the Anthropocene, Identity Elements in Conflict in the Museum Space and the Esthetic Language of Ellen Kooi

Internet and digital technologies to the physicality of communication: Ali Miharbi’s artistic practice

Borusan Contemporary kicked off the new season’s conversations on art and technology with a detailed presentation by Fatih Aydoğdu on the history of the use of sound in New Media. In October, Ali Miharbi, an artist from Turkey who often uses sound in his installations, discussed his works within the framework provided by Aydoğdu. Rumeysa Kiger interviewed the artist after his talk.

“YOU KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR VOICE
A SLEEPLESS TURKISH”

A conversation on Cemal Süreya’s poetry and his multi-dimensional creativity.
Necmi Sönmez

Conversations: Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA

Guest Curator of West Coast Visions: Artists from the SFMOMA Media Arts Collection presented at Borusan Contemporary in 2014

A Brief Overview of the Beginnings of High-Frequency Sound Strategies

Soundscapes: The Use of Sound in Art and The Perception of Space

From Low-Frequency Sounds to Impossible Sounds | A Journey to the Third Platform
On Art, Culture, Sound, Noise, Resonance, and Music

Movement in the Age of CGI*

Migration, mobility, and movement inform “Fluid Bodies”, a deeply unnerving exhibit of the perils and potentials of the Information Age. Universal Everything’s eight video installations allure and captivate, disturb and unsettle, and they cover a wide range of present-day problems: urbanization, mass mentality, and the existential implications of artificial general intelligence.

Üvercinka and the alphabet of love

Borusan Contemporary hosts Borusan Group’s headquarter offices during the week where artworks live alongside the people who work there. Over the weekend, the space is transformed into a museum, converging notions of exhibition spaces and spaces of daily use. Thus, every work that is on view as part of the collection exhibitions at Borusan Contemporary works a double shift. The curator of these exhibitions, Necmi Sönmez, has been drawing from Turkish literature to interpret and delve into this international collection for the past three years. We have talked to Sönmez about this research process on the occasion of the new exhibition, Üvercinka

How can technology speak to its owner?

Fluid Bodies, the exhibition showcasing works of Universal Everything, the collective which produces interactive projects using sophisticated visual technologies, is on view at Borusan Contemporary since September 15, 2018. Naz Kocadere interviewed Matt Pyke, the creative director of the global collective.