"Curating Contemporary Art" Seminar Program
Seminar: Proper Lighting of Artworks and Exhbition Spaces
Speaker: Özlem Yalım
Saat: 6:00-7:30 pm
Lighting is one of the most essential aspects of exhibition design. In this seminar, Özlem Yalım will explain, with examples and in light of technical details, the formulas and fixtures that will best illuminate artworks and their environments.
About Özlem Yalım
After running her own design company between 1995-2001, she started to work at management positions in corporate life. She constantly introduced entrepreneurial projects beside her corporate roles in different industries including furniture, household objects, fairs & exhibitions. Please visit www.vanguardis.world & www.ozlemyalim.com for further information.
She was mentioned within the “Most Creative People of Turkey” by TurkishTime, both in 2010 and 2011. Yalım is well known by introducing and directing the first İstanbul Design Biennale between 2010-2014.
She worked as the Head of Brand Strategy at of the leading distributor companies in Turkey between 2015-2025 dealing with leading brands as iGuzzini, Simes, Linealight, Lasvit, Aqua Creations, Louis Poulsen, Ingo Maurer, Terzani, Lodes, Cattelani & Smith, Brand van Egmond, Bover, Contardi and many more.
She worked at lighting advisor mainly for art & private projects including İstanbul Biennale exhibitions.
She established VANGUARDIS Strategy & Design in 2025. V/LIGHT is a venture of VANGUARDIS.
* This seminar is organized in collaboration between Akbank Sanat and Open Dialogue Istanbul
* 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 850 TL for adults, 650 TL for students (VAT included).
* The program will take place on the online platform Zoom.