Gülsün Karamustafa

Born:

1970

Residence:

Istanbul, Turkey

Nationality:

Turkish

Trust:

APT Berlin

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We are pleased to announce that the November – December issue of Flash Art International is out now.
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“Lines of Passage (in medias res)” endeavours to demonstrate a variety of connections among narratives of memory and expressions of differing intensities and approaches through artworks selected from the permanent collection of the Elgiz Museum in Istanbul.
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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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This exhibition, showing in both the museum’s galleries and the gardens features works in marble, alabaster
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C24, a new gallery dedicated to presenting outstanding contemporary art from beyond the usual circle of U.S. and European cities,
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The work of the Slovenian art collective IRWIN is making a return visit to İstanbul after their last appearance here in the 2004 İstanbul Biennial
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An ongoing exhibition at Istanbul’s Salt Galata titled “Rainbow in the Dark” brings together a group of works that tackles issues related to religious
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The 31st Bienal de São Paulo "Things that don’t exist” is a poetic invocation of art’s ability to create new objects, thoughts and possibilities. The sentence has a variable formula that constantly changes, anticipating the actions that might make present in contemporary life the things that don’t exist, are not recognized, or have not yet been invented. With 81 projects and more than 100 participants from 34 countries, totaling around 250 artworks on display, the exhibition has been conceived as journey through the Pavilion divided into three different areas: park area, ramp area and columns area.
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We are pleased to announce We’ve All Got Issues: Video Art from the APT Collection the first ever online, selling exhibition of video art featuring 16 videos by an international roster of member artists from Artist Pension Trust® (APT). The show is hosted by MutualArt.com and will be up for a period of two weeks from May 29 to June 12, 2014. All works will be shown in their full-length versions and made available for purchase through the website.
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The work of the Slovenian art collective IRWIN is making a return visit to İstanbul after their last appearance here in the 2004 İstanbul Biennial
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C24, a new gallery dedicated to presenting outstanding contemporary art from beyond the usual circle of U.S. and European cities,
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Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the trajectory of recent Turkish art history. As Chief Curator and Director
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SALT Interpretation invites high school students to participate in “Memory Palace,” a workshop organized within the scope of Gülsün Karamustafa’s
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Gülsün Karamustafa’s most comprehensive show has opened at Salt. A Promised Exhibition is on view at both SALT Beyoğlu and SALT Galata
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Some of Turkey's artists have the unfortunate fate of not being able to bring major artworks they created outside of the country back to Turkey either
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Codes of etiquette, of good manners, politeness and of being 'proper', the do's and don'ts of a community, a society, a school or a household
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Two long-awaited exhibitions, one from established contemporary artist Gülsün Karamustafa and another from world-renowned photographer Elio Montanari,
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This exhibition, showing in both the museum’s galleries and the gardens features works in marble, alabaster
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Gülsün Karamustafa (Ankara, 1946) graduated from the Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy in 1969.

She currently has a comprehensive solo exhibition called “Mystic Transport” at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin (2016-2017). Her solo exhibitions include “Swaddling the Baby”, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2016) / Villa Romana, Florence (2015); “Mystic Transport” (a duo exhibition with Koen Thys), Centrale for Contemporary Art, and Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels (2015-2016); “An Ordinary Love”, Rampa, Istanbul (2014); “A Promised Exhibition”, SALT Ulus, Ankara (2014), SALT BeyoÄŸlu, SALT Galata, Istanbul (2013); “Mobile Stages”; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2008); “Bosphorus 1954”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2008); “Memory of a Square / 2000-2005 Video Works by Gülsün Karamustafa”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2006); “Black and White Visions”, Prometeo Gallery, Milan (2006); “PUBLIC/ PRIVATE”, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (2006); “Memory of a Square”, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2006); “Men Crying presented by Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris”, Galerie Immanence, Paris (2005); “Galata:Genoa (Scavere Finestrini)”, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino (2004); “Mystic transport, Trellis of My Mind”, Musée d’Art et Histoire Geneva, (1999), among others.

Gülsün Karamustafa is one of the laureates of the 2014 Prince Claus Awards that are presented to individuals or organisations whose cultural actions have a positive impact on the development of their societies. She took part in many group exhibitions including “Citizens and States”, Tate Modern, London (2015); “Artists in Their Time”, Istanbul Modern (2015); the 31st Sao Paulo Biennial (2014); the 3rd and 10th Gwangju Biennials (2000, 2014); “Art Histories”, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2014); “Artevida Politica”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2014); the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale (2013); the 1st Kiev Biennale (2012); Singapore Biennial (2011), the 3rd Guangzou Triennial (2008); the 11th Cairo Biennial (2008); “The 1980s: A Topology”, Museu Serralves, Porto (2006); “Soleil Noir, Depression und Gesellschaft”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2006); “The Grand Promenade”, National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens (2006); “Why Pictures Now”, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Vienna (2006); “Projekt Migration”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2005); “Centre of Gravity”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2005); “Contour the 2nd Video Art Biennale”, Mechelen (2005); “Ethnic Marketing”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2004); the 1st Seville Biennial (2004); “In den Schluchten des Balkans, Kunsthalle Fridericianum”, Kassel (2003); “Blood & Honey”, Sammlung Essl, Vienna (2003); “When Latitudes Become Forms”, Walker Art Center, Minnesota (2003); the 8th Havana Biennial (2003); the 3rd Cetinje Biennial (2003); and the 2nd, 3rd and 4thInternational Istanbul Biennials (1987, 1992, 1995).

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