November 2019 - May 2020
Coordinator: Billur Tansel
“Curating Contemporary Art” is a 7-month seminar series organized in cooperation by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Akbank Sanat. The purpose of these seminars is to initiate a comprehensive program on curation that is on an international level, thus creating a prestigious and unequaled platform of education in this field in Turkey that focuses on both the theory and practice of composing an exhibition and developing an ideological framework. The program, which will run under the coordination of Billur Tansel, will be carried out with an educational, practice-based and research-oriented approach. The seminars will be presented in Turkish and English. Speakers will be renowned actors in the field of art from the international art scene. They will both present speeches on theory and provide opportunities to put the theory into practice. The seminars will also feature case studies on biennials, galleries, museums and art fairs. At the end of the seminars, the final projects will be displayed in the form of an exhibition and participants will be presented with a certificate of completion. The program will take place between November 2019 and May 2020.
*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.
Event Poster
Contemporary Art and Art Theory
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
8 November 2019|18:00
Aesthetics 1
Akbank Sanat
9 November 2019|16:00
Cultural Policies and Art
Akbank Sanat
16 November 2019|16:00
Introduction to exhibition planning, Curatorial Strategies
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
29 November 2019|12:00
Galleries and Exhibitions in the Istanbul Art Scene
Akbank Sanat
30 November 2019|16:00
Introduction to exhibition planning, Curatorial Strategies 2
Marcus Graf
Akbank Sanat
6 December 2019|12:00
Research and Determining of Curatorial Concept
Melih Görgün
Akbank Sanat
7 December 2019|16:00
Independent Spaces and Biennials: Projecting and Implementation
Melih Görgün
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
13 December 2019|18:00
Collections, Archives, and Their Users
Özge Ersoy
Akbank Sanat
14 December 2019|15:00
Art Management
Esra A. Aysun
Akbank Sanat
21 December 2019|16:00
Curatorial Texts and Editing
Nilüfer Şaşmazer
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
27 December 2019|18:00
Overview of Important Examples in the Curatorial History
Melih Görgün
Akbank Sanat
28 December 2019|16:00
Art and Globalization
Emre Zeytinoğlu
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
3 January 2020|18:00
‘Sound Art’ with A Historical Prospect
Başar Ünder
Akbank Sanat
4 January 2020|16:00
Writing, Art and Body
Rahmi Öğdül
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
10 January 2020|18:00
Writing About Art
Andrew Finkel
Akbank Sanat
17 January 2020|18:00
Memory, Art ve Museum
Dr. Ayşe H. Köksal
Akbank Sanat
18 January 2020|16:00
Popular Culture and Contemporary Art in Turkey
Hasan Bülent Kahraman
Akbank Sanat
25 January 2020|16:00
Istanbul Biennial: Conceptual Framework and Curatorial Strategies
Bige Örer
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
31 January 2020|18:00
Preventive Conservation: Packing, Shipping, and Storage Management
Nevra Ertürk
Akbank Sanat
1 February 2020|15:00
Independent Spaces and Biennials: Projecting and Implementation
T. Melih Görgün
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
5 February 2020|18:00
Managing International Projects
Akbank Sanat
6 February 2020
A Legal Overview on Contemporary Art and Curatorship Activity
Sadife Karataş Kural
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
13 February 2020|18:00
Relational Aesthetics and Its Critic
Nusret Polat
Akbank Sanat
15 February 2020|15:00
Participative Cultural Planning in Cities
Özlem Ece
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
21 February 2020|18:00
Art and Activism
Nusret Polat
Akbank Sanat
22 February 2020|15:00
International Project Management I
Mahir Namur
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
6 March 2020|18:00
International Project Management II
Mahir Namur
Akbank Sanat
7 March 2020|15:00
Exhibition Planning: Risk Management,
Product Development and Art Insurance
Erdem Altın
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
13 March 2020|18:00
Participation and Audience Development
Mahir Namur
Akbank Sanat
14 March 2020|15:00
Independent Spaces
and International Project Management
Vittorio Urbani
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
20 March 2020|18:00
Curatorial Logistics for International Projects
Vittorio Urbani
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
21 March 2020|15:00
Managing International Projects
Mari Spirito
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
27 March 2020|18:00
Performance Art and Curating
Francesco Kiais
Akbank Sanat
28 March 2020|15:00
Specific Applications In Contemporary Art
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
3 April 2020|20:30
Curating as an Ethical Thought
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
4 April 2020|15:00
Video Enstalasyonu, Kurgulama,
Sergileme Stratejileri
Open Dıalogue Istanbul
10 April 2020|18:00
Curating Contemporary Art
November 2019 - April 2020
One Seminar Price
100.00 TL