Speaker: Dr. Ayşe H. Köksal
About the Seminar: This seminar will focus on a hot and enduring debate of the relationship of museum and art. The art museum has had a controversial relationship with art since its emergence within the context of modernity and nation building.While attempting to fabricate the collective memory , the museum also shapes the artistic memory as well as its production. Seminar will build a framework based on the history and theories of museum. Then, we will discuss the curatorial phases and strategies that stage the museum narrative and its effects on artistic memory.
About the Speaker:
AYSE H. KOKSAL is an art historian and an associate professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Özyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from History Department at Bosphorus University, she completed her MA thesis on museums and technology at Maastricht University, which was part of ESST Programme. Her PhD thesis about the institutional history of Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture at Art History Department, at ITU. She is a member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and College Arts Association. Köksal regularly writes on contemporary art, museum, and cultural institutions for several art journals. The areas of research interests include art and museums, organizations of art world, museum and architecture, city imaginary, cultural policies. Her forthcoming book is an inquiry on the sociocultural history of the first modern art museum of Turkey and its relations with the art world in the long durée.
* The single course fee of the event you want to participate in the seminar series is 100 TL and tickets can only be obtained from the ticket offices. For more information: apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org