Fulya Erdemci appointed as curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial
The 13th Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and sponsored by Koç Holding, is set for the autumn of 2013, under the curatorship of Fulya Erdemci.
The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has invited Fulya Erdemci, who is director of SKOR | Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam, to curate the 13th Istanbul Biennial, which takes place from September 14 to November 10, 2013.
Fulya Erdemci is a curator and writer, based in Istanbul and Amsterdam. Erdemci was curator of the 2011 Pavilion of Turkey at the 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. Since 2008, she has been director of SKOR | Foundation For Art and Public Domain. Her projects at SKOR include: ‘Morality Wall: Between You and I’, four facade projects in collaboration with Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2010; ‘Actors, Agents and Attendants’, international research, symposium and publication series, the first edition, ‘Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility’ was co-curated with Andrea Philips and Markus Miessen in 2010, and the second edition ‘Social Housing - Housing the Social’ (Amsterdam 2011) with Andrea Philips.
Fulya Erdemci was among the first directors of the Istanbul Biennial (1994 - 2000). Erdemci was director of Proje 4L in Istanbul (2003 - 2004) and worked as temporary exhibitions curator at Istanbul Modern (2004 - 2005). She was invited to curate the ‘Istanbul’ section of the 25th Biennale of Sao Paulo ‘Metropolitan Iconographies: Cities’ in 2002 and joined the curatorial team of the 2nd Moscow Contemporary Art Biennial ‘Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia’ (2007). Erdemci initiated the ‘Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions’ in 2002, the first urban public space exhibition in Turkey that centred on the “pedestrian” and co-curated the second edition in 2005 with Emre Baykal. In 2008, Erdemci co-curated SCAPE “Wandering Lines: Towards A New Culture of Space”, the 5th Biennial of Art in Public Space in Christchurch, New Zealand with Danae Mossman, presenting the work of 25 international artists throughout the urban spaces of Christchurch city. Erdemci has served on international advisory and selection committees, including “The International Award for Excellence in Public Art” initiated by the Public Art (China) and Public Art Review (United States) Shanghai, May 2012; the SAHA, Istanbul, 2012; the 12th International Cairo Biennial, Cairo, 2011; and, de Appel, Amsterdam’s, Curatorial Programme ‘10/’11 and ‘09/’10. Erdemci has taught at Bilkent University (1994 - 1995), Marmara University (1999 - 2000) and at Istanbul Bilgi University’s MA Programme in Visual Communication Design (2001 - 2007). Recently, in 2012 she was named the Laurie Chair at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
The Board of SKOR is delighted by the great honour of the appointment of our director Fulya Erdemci as curator of the 13th edition of the Istanbul Biennial. It will provide a unique opportunity for SKOR to embark on its international ambitions. We wish Fulya Erdemci every success with developing this fruitful collaboration.
The curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial is appointed by the Advisory Board of the Istanbul Biennial. The advisory board consists of the artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13) Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artist Ayse Erkmen, art consultant Melih Fereli, director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies Program at San Francisco Art Institute Hou Hanru and director of the Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem Jack Persekian.
The curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial is appointed by the Advisory Board of the Istanbul Biennial. The advisory board consists of the artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13) Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artist Ayse Erkmen, art consultant Melih Fereli, director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies Program at San Francisco Art Institute Hou Hanru and director of the Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem Jack Persekian.
Photography: Evert Elzinga
