Curator:
Dr. Necmi Sönmez

Special projects:
Burak Bedenliler, Lale Delibaş, Nejat Satı, İskender Yediler

Guest artist:
Gavin Turk (U.K.)

The first museum of contemporary art in Turkey, Proje4L/Elgiz Museum is hosting Gavin Turk with Turkish artists in its 10th anniversary exhibition “Elgiz 10 Istanbul” starting on 17 September 2011.

“Elgiz 10 Istanbul” is curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez who lives in Dusseldorf and organizes exhibitions in Europe and United States. It will be a reinterpretation of the Elgiz Collection which includes artists as Gerhard Richter, Louis Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Tracy Emin, Gilbert&George along with the Turkish contemporary artists as Abdurrahman Öztoprak, Ömer Uluç, Azade Köker and Bahar Oganer.

Turk will be displaying a new 2.45M Turkish 'amulet' painting, as well a wall mounted Turkish rug, “Cave Rug”. Both these works will be hung on Turks’ turkey wallpaper depicting hundreds of roasted turkeys. This will be the second time Gavin Turk has exhibited in Istanbul after his participation in the 6th Istanbul Biennial in 1999.

Other artists doing site-specific works to accompany the collection exhibition are Burak Bedenlier, Lale Delibaş, Nejat Satı and Iskender Yediler.

She mainly supports artists from her region. These activities are in the map of Istanbul Biennial that will be inaugurated in the same dates.

Proje 4L was founded by collectors Sevda and Can Elgiz under the name of “Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art” in its former premises in Levent. The museum opened in 2001, when there were no non-profit institutions in Turkey dedicated to contemporary art.

Established with a mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey, the initiave focussed on providing space, support and international visibility to projects by young Turkish artists.


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