ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 15TH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL - a good neighbour

a good neighbour, 15th Istanbul Biennial.

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) is pleased to announce the list of artists,

duos, and collectives that will take part in the 15th edition of the Istanbul Biennial. The 15th Istanbul Biennial, entitled a good neighbour and curated by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, reveals the participating artists of this year’s edition, which takes place from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding, the 15th Istanbul Biennial brings together artworks by 55 artists from 32 countries, all addressing different notions of home, belonging and neighbourhood. The biennial takes place in six neighbouring venues: Istanbul Modern, Galata Greek Primary School, Ark Kültür, Pera Museum, Yoğunluk Atelier, and Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam.

“Your neighbour might be someone who lives quite a different life from yours. And hopefully you, unlike many politicians lately, are not the one who chooses to deal with your fear of otherness by fencing yourself off. The artists in the 15th Istanbul Biennial raise questions about ideas of home, neighbourhood, belonging and co-existence from multiple perspectives. Some of the artworks examine how our domestic living conditions and modes have changed and how our neighbourhoods have transformed, while others focus on how we cope with today’s geopolitical challenges on a micro-level. The Biennial takes its form from the invited artists’ personal or analytical statements: an engaging mixture of hopes and visions, of sadness and indignation, of history and present day.” Elmgreen & Dragset, curators of the 15th Istanbul Biennial.

Curators Michael Elmgreen ve Ingar Dragset.

By the Numbers: 15th Istanbul Biennial

2 months

55 artists

32 countries

6 exhibition venues

30 new commissions

LIST OF ARTISTS BY VENUES

GALATA GREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL

Heba Y. Amin

Born in Cairo, lives in Berlin

Mark Dion

Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, lives in New York, NY

Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe

Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Dayton, Ohio, both live in New York, NY

Kasia Fudakowski

Born in London, lives in Berlin

Pedro Gómez-Egaña

Born in Bucaramanga, lives between Bergen and Copenhagen

Lungiswa Gqunta

Born in Port Elizabeth, lives in Cape Town

Andrea Joyce Heimer

Born in Great Falls, Montana, lives in Ferndale, Washington

Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell

Born in Edinburgh and Bedford, both live in London

Olaf Metzel

Born in Berlin, lives in Munich

Mahmoud Obaidi

Born in Baghdad, lives in Burlington, Ontario

Henrik Olesen

Born in Esbjerg, lives in Berlin

Erkan Özgen

Born in Mardin, lives in Diyarbakır

Leander Schönweger

Born in Meran, lives in Vienna

Dan Stockholm

Born in Thisted, lives in Copenhagen

Ali Taptık

Born in Istanbul, lives in Istanbul

Bilal Yılmaz

Born in Manisa, lives in Istanbul

Istanbul Modern.

ISTANBUL MODERN

Volkan Aslan

Born in Ankara, lives in Istanbul

Alper Aydın

Born in Ordu, lives between Ordu, Ankara, Konya, and Istanbul

Monica Bonvicini

Born in Venice, lives in Berlin

Louise Bourgeois

Born in Paris, died in New York, NY

Latifa Echakhch

Born in El Khnansa, lives in Martigny

Candeğer Furtun

Born in Istanbul, lives in Istanbul

Kim Heecheon

Born in Seoul, lives in Seoul

Mirak Jamal

Born in Tehran, lives in Berlin

Fernando Lanhas

Born in Porto, died in Porto

Victor Leguy

Born in Sao Paulo, lives in Sao Paulo

Klara Lidén

Born in Stockholm, lives in Berlin

Mahmoud Obaidi

Born in Baghdad, lives in Burlington, Ontario

Lydia Ourahmane

Born in Saida, lives in Oran and London

Rayyane Tabet

Born in Ashquot, lives in Beirut

Young-Jun Tak

Born in Seoul, lives in Berlin

Kaari Upson

Born in San Bernadino, California, lives in Los Angeles, California

Kemang Wa Lehulere

Born in Cape Town, lives in Cape Town

Yonamine

Born in Luanda, lives in Harare

Xiao Yu

Born in Inner Mongolia, lives in Beijing

ARK KÜLTÜR

Mahmoud Khaled

Born in Alexandria, lives in Trondheim

PERA MUSEUM

Adel Abdessemed

Born in Constantine, lives in London

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Born in Enugu, lives in Los Angeles, California

Alejandro Almanza Pereda

Born in Mexico City, lives in Guadalajara

Berlinde De Bruyckere

Born in Ghent, lives in Ghent

Vajiko Chachkhiani

Born in Tbilisi, lives in Berlin

Gözde İlkin

Born in Istanbul, lives in Istanbul

Liliana Maresca

Born in Buenos Aires, died in Buenos Aires

Lee Miller

Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, died in Chiddingly, East Sussex

Aude Pariset

Born in Versailles, lives in Berlin

Sim Chi Yin

Born in Singapore, lives in Beijing

Dayanita Singh

Born in New Delhi, lives in New Delhi

Tatiana Trouvé

Born in Cosenza, lives in Paris

Tsang Kinwah

Born in Shantou, lives in Hong Kong

Andra Ursuta

Born in Salonta, lives in New York, NY

Fred Wilson

Born in New York, NY, lives in New York, NY

YOĞUNLUK ATELİER

Yoğunluk

Founded in Istanbul, live in Istanbul

KÜÇÜK MUSTAFA PAŞA HAMMAM

Monica Bonvicini

Born in Venice, lives in Berlin

Stephen G. Rhodes

Born in Houston, Texas, lives in Berlin

Tuğçe Tuna

Born in Mons, lives in Istanbul

OUTSİDE ALL VENUES

Burçak Bingöl

Born in Giresun, lives in Istanbul

Lukas Wassmann

Born in Zurich, lives in Berlin

THE 15TH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL’S PUBLIC PROGRAMME

In addition to the two-month-long exhibition, the 15th Istanbul Biennial also features a Public Programme coordinated by artist Zeyno Pekünlü that encompasses a variety of events and discussions related to the concept of “a good neighbour”. Without neglecting the burden of history and the immediacy of actuality, the Public Programme focuses on the shared questions that led to a number of important debates in recent years. During the opening and closing weeks of the Biennial, it features symposiums with thought-provoking speakers such as activist and professor Shahrzad Mojab, recognised for her research on the impact of war, displacement and violence on women’s learning and education; professor Joseph Massad, known for his criticism of liberal policies related to multiculturalism; professor of political economy Massimo de Angelis; and architect and scholar Stavros Stavrides, whose work

focuses on spatial practices.

Entitled Chosen Families, the first trails the quest for different kinds of belongings beyond family as an institution.

The second, Mutual Fate focuses on urban ecology and strives for finding ways out of anthropocentrism. With panel discussions, screenings, workshops and regular events throughout the Biennial, participants can be found cooking, reading and playing music together. Admission to all Public Programme events is free.

More details on the 15th Istanbul Biennial’s Public Programme can be accessed at bienal.iksv.org/en.

The 15th Istanbul Biennial – a good neighbour

The 15th edition of the Istanbul Biennial, entitled a good neighbour, is organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). The Biennial is made possible thanks to sponsor Koç Holding, with the patronage of several other supporters, international funders and funding bodies. It takes place from 16 September to 12 November 2017 and access to exhibitions and programming is free of charge.

Instead of a statement, the curators, artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, developed 40 questions that have guided the process of making the exhibition. These questions were first presented live in Istanbul by 40 performers of different ages, genders and backgrounds in December 2016, and were shared on the Biennial’s website and social media accounts. A video documentation of the press conference can found through this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMPti6Hjac.

From Moscow to Sydney: The International Billboard Project

In anticipation of the exhibition, the 15th Istanbul Biennial launched an International Billboard Project to share the theme of “a good neighbour” in different cities around the world. Through collaborations with cultural institutions worldwide, the International Billboard Project displays a carefully curated selection of photographs by Lukas Wassmann, which capture unexpected encounters paired with questions asking what makes a good neighbour. Host cities include Moscow (Russia), Sydney (Australia), Milan (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Armagh, Ballynahinch, Belfast, Downpatrick and Newry (Northern Ireland), Southhampton (UK), Calgary (Canada), Plovidv (Bulgaria), and Chicago (USA), Seoul and Gwangju (South Korea).

Plan Your Stay

Contact planyourstay@iksv.org for further information about travel and tours.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

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15. İSTANBUL BİENALİ'NE KATILACAK SANATÇILAR BELLİ OLDU

İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı tarafından 16 Eylül - 12 Kasım tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek olan 15. İstanul Bienali'nde yer alacak sanatçılar belli oldu.

Sanatçı ikilisi Elmgreen & Dragset’in küratörlüğünde düzenlenecek olan iyi bir komşu başlıklı bienalde, 32 ülkeden 55 sanatçının ev, mahalle ve aidiyet kavramlarını tartışmaya açan işleri sergilenecek. 15. İstanbul Bienali, İstanbul Modern, Galata Özel Rum İlköğretim Okulu, Pera Müzesi ve Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hamamı gibi daha önce de İstanbul Bienallerine ev sahipliği yapan mekânların yanı sıra Cihangir’deki ARK Kültür ile Asmalımescit’te yer alan Yoğunluk Sanatçı Atölyesi gibi konut özelliği taşıyan mekânlara yayılacak. Türkiye’den 10 sanatçının işlerinin yer alacağı bienal için 30 sanatçı yeni iş üretecek.

Küratörler Michael Elmgreen ve Ingar Dragset iyi bir komşu başlıklı bienali şöyle anlatıyor: “Komşunuz sizden oldukça farklı yaşayan biri olabilir. Ancak umuyoruz ki siz, son dönemde dünyadaki pek çok politikacının aksine ‘öteki’ korkunuzla etrafınıza çitler örerek baş etmiyorsunuzdur. 15. İstanbul Bienali’ndeki sanatçılar ev, mahalle, aidiyet ve müşterek yaşam hakkındaki fikirleri çeşitli perspektiflerden tartışmaya açıyor. İşlerden bazıları ev yaşamımızdaki hâl ve koşulların nasıl değiştiğini ve mahallelerimizin geçirdiği dönüşümü incelerken bazıları da günümüzün jeopolitik sorunlarının nasıl üstesinden geldiğimizi mikro ölçekte ele alıyor. Bienal sergiye davet edilen sanatçıların kişisel veya analitik ifadeleriyle biçimlenerek umutlarla hayallerin, hüzünle öfkenin, geçmişle bugünün birbirine karıştığı alanlar yaratıyor.”

Galata Rum İlköğretim Okulu.

GALATA RUM İLKÖĞRETİM OKULU

Heba Y. Amin

Kahire’de doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Mark Dion

New Bedford, Massachusetts’te doğdu, New York’ta yaşıyor

Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe

Santa Fe, New Mexico’da ve Dayton, Ohio’da doğdular, New York’ta yaşıyorlar

Kasia Fudakowski

Londra’da doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Pedro Gómez-Egaña

Bucaramanga’da doğdu, Bergen ve Kopenhag’da yaşıyor

Lungiswa Gqunta

Port Elizabeth’te doğdu, Cape Town’da yaşıyor

Andrea Joyce Heimer

Great Falls, Montana’da doğdu, Ferndale, Washington’da yaşıyor

Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell

Edinburgh ve Bedford’da doğdular, Londra’da yaşıyorlar

Olaf Metzel

Berlin’de doğdu, Münih’te yaşıyor

Mahmoud Obaidi

Bağdat’ta doğdu, Burlington, Ontario’da yaşıyor

Henrik Olesen

Esbjerg’de doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Erkan Özgen

Mardin’de doğdu, Diyarbakır’da yaşıyor

Leander Schönweger

Meran’da doğdu, Viyana’da yaşıyor

Dan Stockholm

Thisted’de doğdu, Kopenhag’da yaşıyor

Ali Taptık

İstanbul’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor

Bilal Yılmaz

Manisa’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor

İSTANBUL MODERN

Volkan Aslan

Ankara’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor

Alper Aydın

Ordu’da doğdu, Ordu, Ankara, Konya ve İstanbul’da yaşıyor

Monica Bonvicini

Venedik’te doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Louise Bourgeois

Paris’te doğdu, New York’ta öldü

Latifa Echakhch

El Khnansa’da doğdu, Martigny’de yaşıyor

Candeğer Furtun

İstanbul’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor

Kim Heecheon

Seul’de doğdu, Seul’de yaşıyor

Mirak Jamal

Tahran’da doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Fernando Lanhas

Porto’da doğdu, Porto’da öldü

Victor Leguy

Sao Paulo’da doğdu, Sao Paulo’da yaşıyor

Klara Lidén

Stockholm’de doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Mahmoud Obaidi

Bağdat’ta doğdu, Burlington, Ontario’da yaşıyor

Lydia Ourahmane

Saida’da doğdu, Oran ve Londra’da yaşıyor

Rayyane Tabet

Ashquot’ta doğdu, Beyrut’ta yaşıyor

Young-Jun Tak

Seul’de doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Kaari Upson

San Bernardino, Kaliforniya’da doğdu, Los Angeles, Kaliforniya’da yaşıyor

Kemang Wa Lehulere

Cape Town’da doğdu, Cape Town’da yaşıyor

Yonamine

Luanda’da doğdu, Harare’de yaşıyor

Xiao Yu

İç Moğolistan’da doğdu, Pekin’de yaşıyor

ARK KÜLTÜR

Mahmoud Khaled

İskenderiye’de doğdu, Trondheim’da yaşıyor

PERA MÜZESİ

Adel Abdessemed

Konstantin’de doğdu, Los Angeles, Kaliforniya’da yaşıyor

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Enugu’da doğdu, Los Angeles, Kaliforniya’da yaşıyor

Alejandro Almanza Pereda

Meksiko’da doğdu, Guadalajara’da yaşıyor

Berlinde De Bruyckere

Gent’te doğdu, Gent’te yaşıyor

Vajiko Chachkhiani

Tiblis’de doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Gözde İlkin

İstanbul’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor

Liliana Maresca

Buenos Aires’de doğdu, Buenos Aires’de öldü

Lee Miller

Poughkeepsie, New York’da doğdu, Chiddingly, Doğu Sussex’te yaşıyor

Aude Pariset

Versay’da doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Sim Chi Yin

Singapur’da doğdu, Pekin’de yaşıyor

Dayanita Singh

Yeni Delhi’de doğdu, Yeni Delhi’de yaşıyor    

Tatiana Trouvé

Cosenza’da doğdu, Paris’te yaşıyor 

Tsang Kin-Wah

Shantou’da doğdu, Hong Kong’ta yaşıyor

Andra Ursuta

Salonta’da doğdu, New York’ta yaşıyor

Fred Wilson

New York’ta doğdu, New York’ta yaşıyor

YOĞUNLUK ATÖLYESİ

Yoğunluk

İstanbul’da kuruldu, İstanbul’da devam ediyor.

Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hamamı.

KÜÇÜK MUSTAFA PAŞA HAMAMI

Monica Bonvicini

Venedik’te doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Stephen G. Rhodes

Houston, Teksas’ta doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

Tuğçe Tuna

Mons’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor

MEKÂNDIŞI

Burçak Bingöl

Giresun’da doğdu, İstanbul’da yaşıyor 

Lukas Wassmann

Zürih’te doğdu, Berlin’de yaşıyor

THE 14th ISTANBUL BIENNIAL

The 14th Istanbul Biennial.

SALTWATER: A THEORY OF THOUGHT FORMS

The 14th Istanbul Biennial SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will open to the public from 5 September to 1 November 2015 in over 30 venues on the European and Asian sides of the Bosphorus, from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, from Beyoğlu to Büyükada, from Rumelifeneri to the old city and from Şişli to Kadıköy.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

“With and through art, we commit ourselves to the possibility of joy and vitality, leaping from form to flourishing life. SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms looks for where to draw the line, to draw upon, and to draw out, through organic and non-linear forms that connect research in art with other knowledges. It does so offshore, on the flat surfaces with our fingertips, but also in the depths, underwater, before the enfolded encoding unfolds. A number of drawings, paintings, installations, films, objects, books, collaborations, and research-based events will be viewable as thought forms – waves or oscillating patterns of repeating and differing lines that structure and enfold all forms of transference of energy – from brain waves to shockwaves after an explosion, from sound waves and waves of water to electromagnetic waves of different lengths and frequencies, including radio waves and light.” (Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, April 4, 2015).

The 14th Istanbul Biennial takes at least three days to visit fully. Works by over 80 participants from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America, are displayed in over thirty venues on the European and Asian sides of the Bosphorus. SALTWATER takes place in museums as well as temporary spaces of habitation on land and on sea such as boats, hotels, former banks, garages, gardens, schools, shops and private homes.

General Biennial Map.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev states, “Salt water is one of the most ubiquitous materials in the world. Sodium in our bodies makes our neurological system, and thus our vital systems, work; it literally keeps us alive. At the same time, salt water is the most corrosive material threat to the digital age: if you drop your smart phone in fresh water, you can dry it and it will probably work again. If it falls into salt water, chemical molecular changes in the materials of your phone will break it. When you visit the 14th Istanbul Biennial, you will spend quite a bit of time on salt water. There is a slowing down of the experience of art due to the travel between venues, especially on ferries. That is very healthy: salt water helps to heal respiration problems and many other illnesses, as well as calming the nerves.

This sprawling exhibition spans from Rumelifeneri on the Black Sea, where Jason and the Argonauts passed searching for the Golden Fleece, through the winding and narrow Bosphorus, a seismic fault line which opened as a water channel some 8500 years ago, and down to the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara towards the Mediterranean, where ancient Byzantine emperors exiled their enemies and where Leon Trotsky lived for four years from 1929 to 1933. It presents over 1500 artworks, some very tiny, including over fifty commissions by artists as well as other visible and invisible manifestations such as materials from the history of oceanography, environmental studies, marine archaeology, Art Nouveau, neuroscience, physics, mathematics and theosophy. Works range historically from an 1870 painting of waves by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who received a Nobel prize in 1906 for discovering the neuron, to the ground-breaking abstract Thought Forms of Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater (1901-1905), up to a new installation by Aslı Çavuşoğlu which reflects on an ancient and lost Armenian technique for extracting red dye from an insect, and a new multichannel installation by William Kentridge inspired by Trostky’s passage through Turkey.”

SALT Galata.

The 14th Istanbul Biennial is drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Interlocutors and alliances include Anna Boghiguian, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Cevdet Erek, Pierre Huyghe, Emre Hüner, William Kentridge, Marcos Lutyens, Chus Martínez, Füsun Onur, Emin Özsoy, Griselda Pollock, Michael Rakowitz, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, and Elvan Zabunyan.

Novelist Orhan Pamuk is the Honorary Chairman of the International Council of Friends and Patrons of the 14th Istanbul Biennial.

The Istanbul Biennial advisory board members include Adriano Pedrosa, Başak Şenova, İnci Eviner, Iwona Blazwick, and Ute Meta Bauer.

The House Hotel.

The 14th Istanbul Biennial is organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and made possible thanks to the sponsorship of Koç Holding. Admission to the 14th Istanbul Biennial is free of charge in all venues except the Museum of Innocence. The Istanbul Biennial receives further patronage from a number of other supporters, international funders, and funding bodies. These include, amongst others to be announced,  DAI Dilijan Art Initiative - IDeA Foundation, SAHA - Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, Australia Council for the Arts, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Qatar Museums), Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Mondriaan Fund, Canada Council, British Council, The Henry Moore Foundation, Culture.pl, Italian Institute of Culture in Istanbul, Institut français, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Arts Council Norway, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Schering Stiftung, Fiorucci Art Trust, Schwarz Foundation, Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Kadist Art Foundation.

Kasa Galeri.

HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SALTWATER

The 14th Istanbul Biennial takes at least three days to visit fully.

There are venues where the visitors will encounter a group exhibition, such as Istanbul Modern, ARTER, the Italian High School, and the Galata Greek Primary School, but most locations host the work of a single artist or artist collective. Biennial visitors may take various paths and some of the possible itineraries might be the following.

Depo.

Day One:

Beyoğlu on foot or by public transport

Visitors can start from Bankalar Street, visit the former headquarters of the Ottoman Bank which was designed by French Levantine architect Alexandre Vallauri at the end of the 19th century, and has been functioning as SALT Galata after its renovation in 2011; and then the newly opened Vault Karaköy the House Hotel, which was the historical Sümerbank headquarters built in 1863 by Istanbul-born Italian architect Antoine Tedeschi in Neo-Renaissance style.

Museum of Innocent.

As you continue to walk down towards the water, you will find on the left the Kasa Galeri in Minerva Han, which is a landmark historical building that was built in 1913 by architect Vasileios Kouremenos, and today owned by Sabancı University; and as you walk along on Kemeraltı Street, you can visit the Galata Greek Primary School with its neo-classic architectural style formerly serving for the education of Greek children in Istanbul.

The next stop could be Istanbul Modern, a former cargo warehouse built by the eminent architect Sedad Hakkı Eldem in the scope of an urban renewal project between 1957 and 1958. Transformed into the foremost museum of contemporary art in Turkey in 2003 and opened in 2004, Istanbul Modern hosts a group exhibition as well as some of the historical positions of the biennial. The non-profit exhibition space DEPO is another biennial venue, a four storey building used as a tobacco warehouse until the 1950s.

ARTER.

Several biennial venues are located on Boğazkesen Street in the Tophane district, such as a garage and a store. These also include a small red building originally constructed in 1897, three years after the earthquake of 1894, which was acquired by novelist Orhan Pamuk in 1999 and transformed into the Museum of Innocence.

Pera Museum.

The next stop on this walk could be Özel İtalyan Lisesi (the Italian High School) which was established in 1861 and moved to its current location on Tom Tom Kaptan Street in 1919. Here visitors will find new works by five artists on the ground floor, in the gymnasium and in the attic. The French Orphanage, known as the Palace of St. Eugène built in 1869, is one of three fictional venues of the biennial that has no legal public access, to be imagined only.

In nearby Galatasaray, a hotel room in a building originally commissioned and built by the Zenovitch family in the 1890s, which was transformed into the House Hotel Galatasaray in 2010, is used as a biennial venue. Across from the hotel, on Bostanbaşı Street, a house hosts work of an artist and another nearby building from 1901, Cezayir, hosts the public programme throughout the biennial, as well as one artist’s project.

ADAHAN Hotel.

As the visitors walk up to İstiklal Avenue towards the tunnel, they will see Casa Garibaldi, which belongs to the Società Operaia - an association founded by Italian workers in 1863 and named after Giuseppe Garibaldi who lived in Constantinople for a number of years in the 19th century. Casa Garibaldi is currently being restored, and functions as a fictional venue of the biennial with no public access.

Adahan Hotel and Cistern.

The ARTER building, constructed by architect Petraki Meymaridis in the 1910s on İstiklal Avenue as Meymaret Han, was converted to a non-profit art space by the Vehbi Koç Foundation in 2010 and hosts the biennial throughout its three floors. FLO, once the Anatolian Passage built at the end of the 19th century and now a shoe store, is converted into a venue for an artist’s work on its fourth floor.

There are two more biennial venues in the Pera district of Beyoğlu: the Pera Museum, founded in 2005 and located in the former Bristol Hotel designed in 1893 by architect Achille Manoussos, which was later renovated preserving its historical façade, hosts the biennial on its third floor. Finally, a room in the Adahan Hotel, a building commissioned by Camondo family and built in the 19th century and restored in 2007, and the Adahan Cistern, which dates back centuries are also venues.

Büyükada, 18 August 2014. Photo © Francis Alÿs.

Day 2: Kabataş-Kadıköy-Büyükada-Kabataş

circle by ferry boat or hydrofoil (İDO seabus)

Visitors can take a ferry boat or hydrofoil from Kabataş dock to Kadıköy and Büyükada, one of the Princes’ Islands on the Asian side of the city.

A small, street-level artist studio in Yeldeğirmeni will be the 14th Istanbul Biennial’s venue in Kadıköy.

On Büyükada, Kaptan Paşa Seabus that has been used for the purpose of transportation since 1997, will welcome biennial visitors at the docks as one of its venues, as well as Büyükada Public Library, which will function as a greeting point. Five rooms and the courtyard of the Hotel Splendid Palas, built between 1908-1911 in an Art Nouveau style by Kaludi Laskaris, will also host the biennial exhibition and part of its public programmes.

The other venues on Büyükada are the Rizzo Palace, built in the 19th century and used as a residential house until 1961 and which was acquired by Balıklı Greek Hospital Foundation to serve as a social housing pension until 2010; Mizzi Mansion, built in the second half of the 19th century and renovated by prominent Italian architect Raimondo D’Aronco after the earthquake; Çankaya 57, a twin house built by an Armenian tradesman for his daughters in 1907~1908 where Leon Trotsky is said to have lived  briefly when he was exile on the island, and which was more recently used as a location for a Turkish soap opera; and the Trotsky House or Yanaros Mansion, built in 1850s by Nikola Demades, where Trotsky lived between 1932 and 1933.

Rumeli Feneri.

Day 3: Şişli, the Old City and the Northern Bosphorus

by ferry boat, public transport or taxi

The 14th Istanbul Biennial is using two venues in Şişli district: the new headquarters of Hrant Dink Foundation and Agos, former Hığutyun Armenian Primary School from 1903 up to 2004, as well as Hrant Dink Foundation and Agos – Centre for Parrhesia, at the former location of the foundation and of the newspaper Agos, an Armenian weekly published in Istanbul in both Turkish and Armenian languages. The chief editor of Agos and a pivotal figure in the human rights and reconciliation movements in Turkey, Hrant Dink, was assassinated in January 2007 outside this building.

Visitors can take the bus 55T from Taksim to get to the Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam in the Old City of Istanbul, formerly called Constantinople. One of the oldest buildings of the Islamic period in the city, Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam was built in 1477 during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmet and 24 years after the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans. Covering an area of 1900 square metres, it ceased being used as a bathhouse in the 1990s. Located between Sultanahmet and the Byzantine walls, it is a short walk from the south coast of the Golden Horn. The women’s and men’s areas of the hammam, accessible from separate entrances on Şerefiye and Küçük Mustafa Paşa Streets, will be used for exhibiting two artists’ works.

The two other venues of the 14th Istanbul Biennial are located in the Northern Bosphorus and can be reached by bus 150 from Hacıosman Metro Station or by ferry to Sarıyer and bus 150. Located in Sarıyer intercity district, Rumelifeneri, a coastal village near the north-western end of the Bosphorus Strait where you can see the construction of Istanbul’s third bridge, will host an artist’s work on the lighthouse. On the Asian side, where the remains of a rusted, cold-war radar antenna lie, Riva Beach, is one of the biennial’s venues with no public access.

The itineraries suggested above can be reconfigured in many ways, depending on the availability and interests of visitors. Information on guided tours will be available at 14b.iksv.org

Finally, a provisional biennial venue will be Kastellorizo, a Greek island two kilometres away from the Turkish coast. The weeklong project in collaboration with the Fiorucci Art Trust titled “The violent No! of the sun burns the forehead of hills. Sand fleas arrive from salt lake and most of the theatres close” will take place there from 7 to 13 September 2015.

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