CRIS talk: Övul O. Durmusoglu


Welcome to a public conversation on February 23rd at the Nordic Guest Studio, Malongen, in conjunction to Durmusoglu's residency within the project Curatorial Residency in Stockholm (CRIS).

Övul O. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer. She is the director/curator of YAMA screen in Istanbul. She works as a curatorial advisor to Gulsun Karamustafa's monograph in Hamburger Bahnhof in 2016. She also co-leads 'Solar Fantastic’, a research and publication project between Mexico and Turkey. Durmusoglu has recently curated 'Future Queer', the 20th year anniversary exhibition for Kaos GL association in Istanbul. In the past, she acted as the curator of the festival Sofia Contemporary 2013 titled as 'Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground'. She organized different programs and events as a Goethe Institute fellow at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13).

Curatorial Residency in Stockholm (CRIS) is a collaboration between the Nordic Art Association in Sweden and Jonatan Habib Engqvist, curator and writer. During their residency period, curators live in central Stockholm and can immerse themselves in the local art scene. It was conceived in 2015 as free-space for curators. Previous guests have been Eva González-Sancho (ES) and Abir Boukhari (SY).

CRIS is supported by The Swedish Arts Council and the city of Stockholm as well as local collaborations for each guest. CRIS is currently developing collaborations with, among other places HIAP (Helsinki), MASS (Alexandria), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo) and Residency Unlimited (New York).

For more information please contact: jonatan[a]philosophy.se The Nordic art association (NKF) is an organization of visual artists in the Nordic countries aiming to create networks.

När: 23 februari 2016 18:00 - 23 februari 2016 20:00

Var: Nytorget 15 a / Stockholm

Arrangör: NKF - Nordic Art Association

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