Seminar: “1. Mediterannean Bienial and the Current Paradigm”
Speaker: Prof. Tansel Türkdoğan
Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
In this seminar, a comparative Contemporary Art Paradigm study and reading will be carried out in the context of the Biennial, Processes, Problems, Solutions and the Biennial, regarding the 1st Mediterranean Biennial centered in Tarsus, which was held for the first time this year by the Çukurova Contemporary Art Culture and Education Foundation.
About Tansel Türkdoğan
After his undergraduate and graduate studies, he worked as an assistant lecturer and lecturer at Middle East Technical University since 1989. He became Associate Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2004, and served as the head of METU Fine Arts and Music Department between 2000-2005. In 2005, he became the Founding Dean of Gazi University Faculty of Fine Arts. Since the early 90s, Türkdoğan has been interested in contemporary art practices and realized productions. Since 1989, he has worked in universities and galleries in the United States of America, Germany, Albania, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Georgia, France, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Greece, Romania and Tunisia, participated in workshops, project and group exhibitions, and curated in Turkey and abroad. Türkdoğan, who has books titled "Contemporary Art" and "Post Modernism Art Debates - Art Culture Politics", has opened 25 solo exhibitions, three of which are abroad, participated in international and national symposiums, biennials with his works, projects and papers, worked as a consultant at TRT, UNESCO UPSD board member, wrote articles in art magazines and daily newspapers, catalogs about his exhibitions, many critical and news articles have been published.
Prof. Türkdoğan has lectured at METU Fine Arts and Music Departments and Faculty of Architecture, Industrial Design Departments, and besides his founding academic duties at Gazi University Faculty of Fine Arts, he has lectured at undergraduate, graduate and doctorate programs, and still continues his duties as a faculty member in the Department of Painting at METU GSMB, Ankara University and AHBVGSF.
Prof. Tansel Türkdoğan is interested in the current problems of art and the postmodern situation.
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 250 TL.
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.