Fulya Erdemci: appointed Curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial
Date uploaded: February 15, 2012
Fulya Erdemci: appointed 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. Fulya Erdemci, who is currently Director of SKOR | Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam, will curate the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 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 (Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte) Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam. 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), 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 São 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 curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial was appointed by the Advisory Board of the Istanbul Biennial. The advisory board consists of the artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13) Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artist Ayşe 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 13th Istanbul Biennial will be held between 14th September - 10th November 2013 following the professional preview 11-12-13 September. The conceptual framework will be announced by Fulya Erdemciat a press conference in autumn of 2012.
