Yeditepe Biennial is a thematic multiple exhibition form “or a biennial” that aims to bring the great traditional and modern artworks together. It is held between the dates of March 31, 2018 – May 15, 2018 under the auspices of the Presidency of the Turkish Republic, in cooperation with the Fatih Municipality and Classical Turkish Arts Foundation. This first Yeditepe Biennial’s theme is “Ehl-I Hiref”, which is basically craftsmen.
Their program offers themes, workshops, group and solo exhibitions, collection exhibition and international exhibition. You can check their program for more details on each of those. The program also includes a three days symposium that will be held in Kadir Has University.
The Yeditepe Biennial hosts hundreds of artists, and is taking places in multiple venues. All the venues are cultural or historical ones that are placed in Istanbul’s historic peninsula around Fatih. Interestingly some of the mentioned venues in their program is by itself part of the exhibition like Hagia Sophia and the Bozdagn Arch, a venue like Gulhane Park will host performances, while the other venues will host the exhibition itself under their historic and cultural roofs.
From the Organizer:
Yeditepe Biennial is the “first” biennial embodying the artworks, which include fabrics and forms belonging to our cultural codes, which are blended in our geography for centuries, enlivened with the colors of Saka, Hun, Gokturk, Uyghur, Hazar, Artuk, Sokmen, Avar, Kara-Khandis, Seljuq and many more, embroidered by the pen of Hittite, Sumer, Babylon and many more, taking in Yesevi breath and reaching out to sky with Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi. It is the first biennial, because any biennial, which includes all of these, where the artworks of domestic and neighboring (not foreigner, neighbor) artists in the same art branches come together or seperated, embraces everything and flourishes them within its body, has not been made yet. The second purpose of the biennial at the second stage is improving this integrative point of view and make it steadfast.
Along with the purposes such as exploring new places, opening out to public spaces, seizing the agenda with the activities raising awareness, and creating a new global language by attaining the common value of many cultures, it has a particular importance enabling the regions where the biennial places are located to have a common sharing by experiencing this dynamism within this period from tradesmen to educational institutions and from non-governmental organizations to the public enterprises.
We want to see the reflection of our civilization, which has a need-based or value-based philosophy of art, in today’s arts and artists also in the biennial structure, because the content of our art is quite rich in terms of metaphor attribution occurring in the biennials atmosphere.
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For more information, visit the official event page.
E-Mail: bilgi@yeditepebienali.com
Phone: 0212 453 1453 – 0212 453 14 00
Address: Akşemsettin Mahallesi Adnan Menderes Vatan Bulvarı No:54 Fatih – İstanbul
Image sourced via the press release
