489.We are visiting artist Ahmet Elhan at our Art Meeting. The artist was born in Izmir and studied Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Marmara University and Cinema-TV at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dokuz September University.

Ahmet Elhan produces work by questioning the photographic image. He researches, constructs, experiences the image, the look, the production methods and processes of this image, the ways of its exhibition, at the same time coincides, matches, solves and reconstructs them. The filmed, fictionalized reality(s), narrative(s) are receding into the background in a calculated way. It loses its importance. A very subtle, meticulously constructed tension is formed between the viewer and the work: the Deceptively framed Deceptions of the works, the breathtaking beauty of the images, the layers made visible by the work, and the tension between what Elhan questions and resists. This tension pushes the viewer into a different area of inquiry about the photographic image. 

The artist works in a clear space, the boundaries of which are determined by sharp lines related to the photographic image. Within this field, with the language of this field and the ways of practice, he criticizes this field. He does not look inside from the outside, he processes his queries with the material inside. He treats the camera as a certain ideological device, as both a tool and an object of this interrogation. Every single material that he uses in the production process becomes a part of the work. 

Describing his art practice as a "code breaker", Elhan questions the knowledge, perceptions, assumptions and problems within the area created by the photographic image by using the language of this area and again creating an act of resistance within this area. The artist, who works on photographic images, lives and produces in Istanbul.

*Our art meetings are free for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over the age of 12. For your guests, we ask that they be deposited as a donation to our association account before the trip. 

Tuesday January 14th

12:00-13:00

Address: Çelik Caddesi No:24 Floor:2 

4Levent/Industrial District, 

There is an Otoline Auto Repair Shop on the floor.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/dMKwseHM6auWGgS38?g_st=ic

488.In our Art Meeting, we are visiting the workshops of artists Güneş Terkol and Güçlü Öztekin. Since we could not make a workshop visit on Dec. 31, we will have the opportunity to get to know two artists together at this event.

Güneş Terkol and Güçlü Öztekin are the founding members of the Istanbul-based HaZaVuZu collective, which conducts music, video, performance and design studies. Terkol is an artist who makes sewing works, videos, sketches and compositions that usually reveal gender relations in a humorous way. Öztekin, on the other hand, makes drawings and paintings, which he describes as a form of “recycling”.

Güçlü Öztekin is known for his large-scale works produced with styrofoam, kraft paper and similar materials, he performs a kind of recycling action by using the materials he finds around him. Öztekin is a member of the Ha Za Vu Zu artist community and the avant-garde music group GUGUOU, founded in 2005. Her recent solo exhibitions include Topsy-Turvy Selpakla Gorili Decedent, Dirimart, Istanbul (2017); Şe Şe Pa Pa... Sometimes You Need to Cry to Fish, Rampa, Istanbul (2015); Eveything's Tickling Each Other [Everything Tickles Each Other], Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna (2012). Some of the group exhibitions in which he participated with Ha Za Vu Zu and performed performances as well as showing his works are as follows: 10. Lyon Biennial (2009); Bovisa Triennial, Milan (2008); 10. International Istanbul Biennial (2007).

Güneş Terkol takes inspiration from his close surroundings. She uses the materials and stories she collects, the fabrics she sews, videos, patterns and in her musical compositions. Terkol is also a member of the Ha Za Vu Zu artist community and the GuGuOu music group. The artist whose work is exhibited at the Venice Biennale this year is also the 10th. He has participated in the International Istanbul Biennial and many exhibitions and art fairs.

*Our art meetings are free for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over the age of 12. For your guests, we ask that they be deposited as a donation to our association account before the trip. 

Tuesday, January 7th

12:00-13:00

Address: Inönü Neighborhood, Akkarga Street No:26/9, Şişli

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XR1UT56pHBm4Xx257?g_st=ic

As part of our 487th Art Gathering, we will come together online with auteur director Kerem Topuz for a conversation on “Directing Independent Films”.

Kerem Topuz is an auteur director, producer, writer, poet and multifaceted artist with a film-TV education. He has produced feature films that have been screened on international platforms and won awards. His book Doğaçlama Film Çekmek (Improvised Filmmaking), published by Altıkırkbeş Publications, has been used as the main source for seminars on “Improvised Cinema” at many universities. He also served as the Head of Cinema Department at Akademi Istanbul.

He has written articles on cinema on the online cinema platform Öteki Sinema and has participated as an artist in many international art events in the field of contemporary art and exhibited his works. He has contributed to social responsibility projects with various associations and non-governmental organizations.

He has been continuing his artistic works within the Art for Goodness Association for about three years, and at the same time he continues to work as a producer and director in the advertising industry.

*Our art meetings are free of charge for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over 12 years old. For your guests, we kindly ask you to make a donation to our association account before the trip. 

Tuesday, December 24

12.00-13.00

Link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81376541752?pwd=aCX3mA0fOutolNWS65tIGGTJsbUIQa.1 

Meeting ID 813 7654 1752

Password 147087

*Auteur: Cinema, literature, architecture

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

486.Sanat buluşmamızda Türkiye'nin klasik müzik rehberi, Bariton Serhan Bali ile House of Medusa'da bir arayayız.

1973 yılında Ankara'da doğan Serhan Bali, İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü'nden 1995 yılında mezun olduktan sonra aynı bölümde Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Arıboğan yatırımında yüksek lisans tezini tamamlamıştır. Toktamış Ateş'in de öğrencisi olan Bali, 2000'li yılların ilk yarısında Bilgi Üniversitesi'nde Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi derslerinden ayrılır. 1995-2002 yılları arasında özel sektördeki yönetim deneyiminin ardından 2002 yılında Türkiye’nin çağdaş standartlarda yayın yapan ulusal çaptaki ilk kalıcı klasik müzik alanında Andante ile kalıcı yayıncılık alanına giren Bali sürekli olarak 19 yıldır derginin genel yayın yönetimini sürdürmektedir. Klasik müzik ve seyahat yazıları 2001 yılından itibaren Radikal, Vatan, Hürriyet gazeteleri ve Atlas dergisinde yayımlanan Bali, Rengim Gökmen'in genel müdürü döneminde Devlet Opera ve Balesi Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından yayımlanan Opera-Bale Gazetesi'nin yayın yönetmenliğini de yapmıştır. 2017 yılında kitap yayımcılığına giren Bali, Kitap Kurdu markasıyla doğadan tarihe, edebiyattan sanata farklı hikayelerde kitaplar yayımlanmaktadır.

2011 yılından bu yana Fest Travel seyahat acentesinin müzik danışmanlığını yürüten Bali, her yıl planladığı turlarla dünyanın pek çok klasik müzik çalıştırılarak çıkartılan gezilerde gezgin klasik müzikseverlere rehberlik yapıyor. Bali'nin İstanbul'daki seminer/atölye kullanımıyla Klasik Batı Müziği seminerleri bugüne kadar binlerce kişiye ulaştı. 2010 yılında klasik müzik sanatçıları ve topluluklarını ödüllendirmeyle yola çıkan, ekibiyle birlikte Andante Klasik Müzik Ödülleri'ni başlatan Bali, 2011 yılından itibaren bu ödül organizasyonu Beyoğlu Belediyesi işbirliğiyle Donizetti Klasik Müzik Ödülleri adıyla ulusal çapta sürdürülmüştür. Bali, klasik müzik ödüllerinin uluslararası çapta yaygınlaşması faaliyetini ise ICMA (Uluslararası Klasik Müzik Ödülleri)organizasyonunda Türkiye'yi temsilen yönetim kurulu üyesi ve jüri üyesi olarak 2011 yılından beri sürdürmektedir. 2001 yılından bu yana radyo programcılığı yapan ve Açık Radyo'da radyoculuk serüvenini bugün Borusan Klasik kanalında sürdüren Bali ayrıca 2014-2019 yılları arasında klasikleşmiş büyük oyuncuların yaşadığı mekânlarla tanıtılan 23 bölümlük Batıya Yolculuk adlı müzik belgeselini yayına hazırlayıp sunmuştur. Bali, belgesel 2021 yılından bu yana Habitat TV kanalında varlığını sürdürmekte ve YouTube üzerinde geniş bir değer veren FluTV kanalında ise Aralık 2020’den beri popüler klasik müzik içerikleri üretmektedir.

2016-2019 yılları arasında Okan Üniversitesi Konservatuvarı'nda Opera-Şan'da yüksek lisans eğitimi alan Bali bariton şan sanatçısı olarak son yıllarda konserler de vermektedir. Bali'nin Müzikte Romantik Dönem Bestecileri (Vakıfbank Kültür Yayınları, 3. Baskı, 2020), 200 Yıllık Miras - Muzika-i Hümayun'dan Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası'na (Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 1. Baskı, 2020), Beethoven: Erken Dönem (Kitap Kurdu Yayınları, 1. Baskı, 2022) adlarıyla yayımlanmış kitapları bulunmaktadır. Serhan Bali evli, biri kız ve biri erkek olmak üzere ikiz çocuk babasıdır.

*Sanat buluşmalarımız üyelerimiz için ücretsiz, misafirler için 500 TL, 12 yaş üstü çocuklar için 250 TL'dir. Misafirlerinizin gezi öncesi dernek hesabımıza bağış olarak yatırılmasını rica ediyoruz.

17 Aralık Salı

12.00-13.00

13.00-17.00 Haral Design’in keyifli dünyada yeni yıl partisi

Adres: Medusa Evi Restoran, Alemdar, Yerebatan Caddesi No:9, Fatih

https://maps.app.goo.gl/v1FtwaDC9MGxTNid6?g_st=ic

*Araç ile gelecek Üyelerimiz için restorana 3 dakika yürüme mesafesinde Günaydın Otopark yer almaktadır. Konumunu paylaşıyoruz.

Günaydın Otopark:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RgJ2Wu4smdAAtp8N7?g_st=ic

485.During our art meeting, we are visiting the exhibition "Taviloglu Collection: A Collector's Story", consisting of works accumulated by collector Mustafa Taviloglu for more than 50 years, at Gallery Eyupsultan.

Mustafa Taviloğlu's collection, “A Collector's Story”, which has been created with great passion and dedication since 1972, met the audience at seven different venues in Istanbul. The collection, which spans seven important places on the cultural and artistic map of Istanbul such as Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum, Artİstanbul Feshane, Istanbul Sanat, Gazhane Museum, Liquor Factory, Eyüpsultan Gallery and Iş Sanat Kibele Art Gallery, includes 2412 works by 903 artists.

The 52-year-old collection, curatorial arrangements of which were made by Derya Yücel and Marcus Graf, includes works by Bedri R from Hodja Ali Rıza to Osman Hamdi, Halil Pasha to Süleyman Seyyid, Fikret Mualla to Ibrahim Çallı. In addition to the works of dozens of famous Turkish artists, from Eyüboğlu to Cihat Burak, Komet, Mehmet Güleryüz and Burhan Doğançay, the works of many foreign artists are also included. In the exhibition, which offers a wide range of artists, periods, styles, techniques and psychics, it is also possible to see the current works of young artists who have been included in the collection in recent years.

Turkish artists make up 81 percent of the 52-year-old collection, which started with Necdet Kalay's work “Köy Evi” in 1972. The artist of the 2112 works in the collection was born in Turkey. Mustafa Taviloglu started buying the works of foreign artists in 2010, in his own words, at a late period. Foreign artists make up 19 percent of the collection. Painting stands out with 1740 works in the collection. While this figure constitutes 71.6 percent of the collection, 1217 works of figures, 453 works of nature, 424 works of city and 336 works are classified as abstract when examined in terms of theme maintenance. The oldest artist was born in 1814 and the youngest artist was born in 2000, 84 percent of the artists in the collection are alive. This feature also makes the Taviloglu Collection stand out as a living collection. 

We are touring the collection accompanied by Derya Yücel, one of the curators of the exhibition.

https://artdogistanbul.com/taviloglundan-bir-koleksiyoner-hikayesi/

*Our art meetings are free for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over the age of 12. For your guests, we ask that they be deposited to our association account as a donation before the trip. 

Tuesday December 10th

12.00-13.00

Address: Gallery Eyüpsultan, Nisancı, Feshane Caddesi No:31, Eyüpsultan

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9FEs54e95eko6LfA9?g_st=ic

484. At our art meeting, the artist, psychiatrist Rahshan Düren presented the exhibition “Verwegenheit” at Tarhan Han. We are visiting in the company of Feride Çelik.

In his artistic practice, which is shaped by a sense of curiosity, Rahşan Düren addresses the problems of individual's alienation from himself and society by approaching the unknown fearlessly. His exhibition titled Verwegenheit, which means “courage” in German, is not just a painting, but a performative installation that invites the viewer to an active participation.

The artist metaphorically Deconstructs the gap between the individual's image in the outside world and his hidden self through the contrast between the exterior and the interior of Beyoğlu's historical Tarhan Han Deconstructs the gap between the individual's image in the outside world and his hidden self. He transforms this space into an “archaeology of the mind” space where the audience can face themselves.

While Düren focuses on the existential problems of man in the world in his art, he performs exhibitions and installations that draw attention to the feelings experienced by the individual. In this context, he takes care that his exhibitions are open to the public in order to make reference to the independence and freedom of art.

Rahshan Düren was born in Germany in 1975. He completed his primary and secondary education in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. He studied Art History, Philosophy and Political Science at RWTH Aachen. he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne in 2002 and received his specialty in Adult Psychiatry from the Faculty of Medicine of Marmara University. He opened his first exhibition in 1993 at the Kunstverein Aachen and Cologne, Germany. He joined Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Sculpture Department as a guest student. Düren, who is the founder and president of the Culture, Art and Nature Association, which aims to develop art in rural regions of Turkey, has been continuing his plastic art and installation oriented works professionally since 2007.

http://www.rahsanduren.net/

*Our art meetings are free for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over the age of 12. For your guests, we ask that they be deposited as a donation to our association account before the trip. 

*Transportation: Ispark is located opposite Pera Museum for our members who come by car.

Tuesday December 3rd

12.00-13.00

Address: Tarhan Han, Meşrutiyet Caddesi, 41

Beyoğlu (opposite Rixos Pera)