Goethe-Institut in collaboration with Experimenter presents
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu at the Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2018.
The Experimenter Curators’ Hub brings together some of the foremost minds in curatorship from all over the world. Founded in 2009, the event is a crucial platform for developing and sustaining discourse on curatorial practice and exhibition making. Each year, ten curators, artists, designers and architects are invited to present and discuss their practice through presentations on recent exhibitions that they have personally conceived. Curators’ Hub presentations and ensuing discussions are extensively video documented and archived as an online, freely-accessible resource offered to fellow curators, researchers, scholars, artists and members of the public. Each year the programme brings together ten leading curators from around the world to present and reflect on their work in the presence of their colleagues and peers. During this unique event artists, writers, critics, historians, architects, designers and art enthusiasts come together to debate and critique the latest concerns and positions on the process of exhibition-making. Since it was founded in 2009, the event has hosted 59 leading curatorial practitioners.
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer based in Berlin, Istanbul and Graz.
After her guest professorship for curatorial theory and praxis in Nuremberg Fine Arts Academy,
she is currently one of the curators for Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz.
In Istanbul she was the director/curator of YAMA screen for which she commissioned site specific works by Banu Cennetoglu, Pilvi Takala and others between 2015-16. Alongside she was curatorial and public program advisor for Gülsün Karamustafa's retrospective exhibition 'Chronographia' at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin) where she co-edited the artist’s first extensive monograph.
Among the recent exhibitions she curated are 'Brief Flashes Against A World (Languages of the Future), Kunsthal ExtraCity, Antwerp (2017); 'The Finger That Shows The Moon Never Moons’, Dan Gunn, Berlin (2017); 'What’s The Riddle', Pi Artworks London (2016); 'In Search of Radical Incomplete #3: Black Hole Hunters', Kunstverein Langenhagen (2016); 'Future Queer', the 20th year anniversary exhibition for Kaos GL, ARK Kultur Istanbul (2016).
In the past, she organized/coordinated different programs and events as a Goethe Institute fellow at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13). She was the artistic director of the festival Sofia Contemporary 2013 titled as 'Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground’ and curated different programs for 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials.
Durmusoglu lectured widely in institutions such as Central European University (Budapest), Grand Union (Birmingham), Dhaka Art Summit’ 16, Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (Sao Paulo), 98weeks (Beirut), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Qalandiya International (Ramallah), Museo del Tlatelolco (Mexico City), Akademie der Bildende Kuenste (Vienna) and ESAD (Grenoble).
As a writer she has contributed to several print and online publications such as Zeit Online, Frieze Online, WdW Review and Art Agenda. She is also among the co-founders of Altyazi Monthly Cinema Magazine in Istanbul, the only independent film magazine in Turkey running for 15 years.
For further details click the links below:
Experimenter website:
http://www.experimenter.in/web/
Please find the link for ECH :
http://www.experimenter.in/web/node/49
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