Proje 4L | Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art

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The Elgiz Collection is Being Granted The 2013 International Collecting Award

Gelecek Sergiler

TERRACE EXHIBITIONS < 40

26 June 2013 - 29 August 2013

Current Exhibitons

“13”

12 June 2013 - 13 October 2013

A selection from the Elgiz Collection

22 December 2012 - 22 December 2013

Museum

Proje4L 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. In September 2011, Elgiz Museum started celebrating the 10th year of its commitment to contemporary art in Turkey with a book and a panel of international women collectors as well as special exhibitions and events that will be lasting until September 2012.

Established with a mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey, the initiative focused on providing space, support and international visibility to projects by young Turkish artists. As new art institutions and museums bloomed in Turkish art scene in 2005, the collectors converted the space to a private collection museum under the name ‘Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art’ to host the Elgiz Collection. Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art is located in the dynamic business district of Istanbul, Maslak and is open to the public free of charge.

The First Institution of Contemporary Art in Turkey

Elgiz Collection consists of works of by influential Turkish and international artists, such as Ömer Uluç, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Abdurrahman Öztoprak, Tracey Emin, Jan Fabre, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Sol LeWitt, Peter Halley, Paul McCarthy, Gilbert & George, Robert Rauschenberg, Doug Aitken. The eclectic content of the collection allows the viewer to enjoy a comprehensive journey through the major contemporary art movements of the last two decades, while promoting the globalization of Turkish art. With the integration of new works by young artists the Elgiz Collection maintains its dynamism and prevalence.

The new space of the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art is established on 2000m2 of exhibiton space. Aside from the main hall, reserved for displaying selections from the Elgiz Collection, there are two Project Rooms, an Open Archive Room and a conference room. The Project Rooms are commisioned to young Turkish talents to give them a chance to exhibit their work, in some cases, for the first time. The archive room is for gallerists, collectors and art enhusiasts to browse through submitted artist portfolios and contact artists of their interest. The conference room hosts lectures focused on passion for collecting.

A new addition to the exhibition space of the museum was constructed on top of the Elgiz Museum as a 1500 m2 open air exhibition space, in the shade of the surrounding plazas, to provide a platform to young artists. The very first exhibition Terrace Exhibitions <40 is planned to take space between June 18 – August 18 2012. Various contemporary

Art exhibitions are planned to take place on the Terrace.

Exhibitions

A selection from the Elgiz Collection

22 December 2012 - 22 December 2013

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“13”

12 June 2013 - 13 October 2013

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Alienation / Estrangement

22 January 2013 - 03 May 2013

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In memory of Abdurrahman Öztoprak

20 September 2012 - 05 January 2013

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Andrew Rogers’ photography project entitled ‘Time and Space’ will be shown in the project Rooms.

18 April 2013 - 08 June 2013

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Pieter Ombregt 'XYZ Project'

09 October 2012 - 08 December 2012

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TERRACE EXHIBITIONS < 40

26 June 2013 - 29 August 2013

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Land Art in Istanbul dor The First Time ‘Winding Path – The Search For Truth’

18 April 2013 - 08 June 2013

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Terrace Exhibitions <40

18 June 2012 - 22 September 2012

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Terrace Exhibitions >40

09 October 2012 - 08 December 2012

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JULIAN SCHNABEL (detail)

Harold's Always Saying Goodbye IV, 1998

Oil paint, spray paint and resin on canvas (The Artist's frame)

201 x 170 cm

Acquisition date: 1999

JULIAN SCHNABEL (1951 New York --)

“It is fascinating and astonishing to see how aspects which always contrast with each other succeed in living alongside each other in Julian Schnabel’s work. These dichotomous elements which constantly clash, generate a sort of vital impulse in frequently heightened tones and unexpected expressive flourishes. There is no stillness in this art, nor can one speak of a harmonious surface in view of the torn and emaciated structure which is assaulted by colour, trodden down and corroded by a pictorial matter which gives no quarter and allows no respite. Violence appears as a constant presence, a suffocating nightmare which invades space and spreads everywhere, occupying every nook and cranny and penetrating every breath.”

Danillo Eccher “Julian Schnabel” Exhibition Catalogue Bologna, 1997

Schnabel, lives and works in New York.

GÜN (detail)
Last Breakfast, 2010
Photograph
157 x 200 cm
Acquisition date: 2011

GÜN (1956, İstanbul --)

My recent work explores the ancient mythology of this land. However I create a unity with contemporary media. The most important concept for me is to emphasize the ‘remix-like’ formation. A re-mixed form in the same way as one might remix music; a view of this life style of ours. Keeping myself away from nationalistic values, from the past to the present, the land that shelters this process is always more important for me... I have an idea which I carry through today that my parent language expressed in ancient times. I preserve a merciless power in my chromosomes and I nurture it in a way. This is the urgency of my creative process.

Gün

Gün, lives and works in Germany.

GILBERT & GEORGE (detail)
Twenty Three Haunts, 2003
Mixed media
Acquisition date: 2005

GILBERT & GEORGE
Gilbert Proesch (1943, Italy --) (George Passmore 1942, England --)

“In 1989, Gilbert & George reexamined this glossy realm of colour pictures for the people, transforming these cheap, throwaway multiples into emblems of such awesome dimensions, complexities, and dazzle that, in an unexpected leap of the imagination, they have made this free-floating imagine-bank blaze like a new kind of secular altarpiece. The iconic structure of these twenty-five “world” as Gilbert & George call them enforces this unexpected sanctity.”

(…) Robert Rosenblum Robert Miller Gallery,
Gilbert&George Exhibition Catalogue, 1 May – 2 June 1990

The artists live and work in London.

ERGIN CAVUSOGLU (detail)

Resonance, 2002

Acrylic on canvas

71 x 305 cm

Acquisition date: 2001

ERGIN CAVUSOGLU (1968, Bulgaria --)

“Ergin Çavuşoğlu uses in his works paintings, photograps and moving objects. Traditional materials and digital technology display a unity. In his paintings in which the inner space and the outer space are presented. As the other vis-à-vis one another, he examines the relation that the induvidual establishes with the surroundings in the context of the self and the other in the urban environment depicted in the figurative compositions. His latest work in the series titled Bildbegehren (‘the desired image’) are basic on the illusion of mental images and their necessity and their pictorial representation. The conceptual frame work is borrowed from Walter Benjamin’s work Bilddenken (‘thinking with images’). These images exhibit the transformation of Denkbild (‘the imagined image’) and Bildbegehren (‘the desired image’) to a visual formal material. The photographs and paintings are depictions of the urban environment contained within a formal frame. For this reason, the works indicate the issues of display, represantation and aesthetic values. The elements in the images were placed in order to recall mental images or to provake as a means of complementing the reading of the scene. At the same time, keeping in mind the absence of visual image, foundation is presented for the imagined image and the desired image.”

Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Geniş Açı, Volume 21

He lives and works in London

CINDY SHERMAN (detail)

Untitled #184

Color photograph

156 x 231 cm

Acquisition date: 2005

CINDY SHERMAN (New Jersey, 1954 --)

As a member of a generation raised on broadcast media, Sherman, seems to have instinctively tapped into and reflected the archetypal undertones of the TV and movie legends she consumed. As her art making continued, Sherman found herself digging deeper into the myths behind these single-frame "stories." Her intuition, it seems, led directly to the darker subjects of her extreme later works, disturbing visions that draw on our universal fear of nightmares and physical decay. Instinct, Sherman has suggested, is her artistic MO, and it also serves as the best way to approach her work. There is something irresistible about her images, and their magnetism holds firm whether you analyze them or not. Her recent photographs combine elements from fairy tales and horror films, cheesy fake butts and breasts, gruesome but gleeful gore and an incredibly lush sense of color. And frightening as they may be, like passing a bloody five-car pileup on the freeway, it's hard not to look. And just what does Sherman think is so alluring about the grisly Gothic overtones that now dominate her photographs? "This is my theory," she says, "it prepares you psychically for the potential for violence in your own life. Or your own death. I think it's also a way to be removed enough from it to even laugh at it. It just further prepares you for something that you don't look forward to having to experience."

Glen Helfand, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

Sherman, lives and works in New York.

DARREN ALMOND (detail)

Fullmoon@Petten, 2001

Lambda print

128.5 x 129.5 cm

Acquisition date: 2007

DARREN ALMOND (1971 Wigan, England --)

“Darren Almond’s diverse work, incorporating film, installation, sculpture and photography, deals with evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory. Since 1998, Almond has been making a series of landscape photographs known as the Fullmoons. Taken during a full moon with an exposure time of 15 minutes or more, these images of remote geographical locations appear ghostly, bathed in an unexpectedly brilliant light where night seems to have been turned into day.”

Artist’s Catalogue, White Cube Gallery, London, 2003

Lives and works in London

SOL LE WITT (detail)

Irregular Grid, 1999

Gouache on paper

153 x 230 cm

Acquisition date: 2000

SOL LEWITT (1928, Connecticut - 2007, New York)

“Far from the anecdotes that we try to introduce into the interpretation of a work, and estranged from the temporal nature of events, the work of Sol LeWitt calls simply for an exploration of its own language. On paper, lines and geometrical figures, whose contours are caressed by our eyes, are inscribed by their voluntary traces. In space, usually simple volumes stand out one against the other. They are visible manifestations of systems and rules which are defined in creative fashion, bringing all sorts of combinations into play: progressions, permutations, inversions... There thus appears the rigor of a “thought-surveyor”, an inventor of structures, structures which do not exist outside the perception that reveals them. An absolute challenge, which in some way reminds us that lines, forms, colors and volumes can produce an infinitive variety of works, of great simplicity or great complexity, which generate their own movements”.

Zia Mirabdolbaghi, Fondation Emile Hugues à Vence,

“The Image of Thought” Exhibition Catalogue, 5 July – 13 October 2002

He lives and works in New York.

ABDURRAHMAN ÖZTOPRAK (detail)

Painting 440 Missa Solemnis Respect for L.V. Beethoven, In Memoriam of Nüvit Özdoğru, 2005

Mixed media on canvas

300 x 360 cm

Acquisition date: 2005

ABDURRAHMAN OZTOPRAK (1927 Istanbul --)

“It is observed that the phenomenon of “musical” rhythm emerges through form and colour in Abdurrahman Öztoprak’s abstract compositions, beginning from the 1960s. For over half a century, Öztoprak developed a “different painting language through the inspiration of the composers of the classical period in Western Music, primarily from Beethoven. Öztoprak has a privilaged status in Turkish Modern Painting because of the visualization in his canvases of a formerly unattempted synergy between music and painting. Öztoprak captured extremely disparate visual values by using the elements, silver, gold and bronze in his canvases since 1971. When these elements, generally used in the traditional arts, come together with the distinctive colours of the artist, they awaken a feeling of a strong, cosmic atmosphere in his works. When Öztoprak’s forms, appearing, floating on the canvas, defying gravity so to speak, come together with the elements that create the atmosphere, they create exceedingly interesting visual synergies.”

Necmi Sönmez “The Sublime Figures of the Leaping Heart”

Oztoprak, lives and works in Mugla, Akyaka.

PAUL McCARTHY (detail)

Untitled (from Propo-Series) (Mayonnaise, Petroleum Jelly), 2002

Cibachrom on Aluminium

122 x 183 cm.

Acquisition date: 2003

PAUL McCARTHY, (1945 Utah, ABD --)

“Paul McCarthy has dedicated himself to the construction of atmospheres and spaces in which he pursues the constructive devaluation of cultural hierarchies. The claustrophobic character of these architectonic and performative environments can be traced back in McCarthy's case to the fact that nothing stands outside mediated representations and social constructions. Everything is always already entangled in significations that one doesn't have to comprehend in order to be aware of the enormous pressure they exert. McCarthy cannot be reduced to taboo breaker par excellence or representative of the classical epater le bourgeois. This purported maniac seems much more concerned with the analytic and aesthetic manipulation of a cluster of themes, ranging from sociopsychological structures of authority and intrafamilial hierarchies to the traumatic contamination of early childhood by popular culture and the media.”

Tom Holert,

‘Schooled for Scandal’

Artforum, New York, November 2000

McCarthy, lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

JONATHAN MEESE (detail)

“Der Gelbe Baron (rötlich)” (The Yellow Baron-reddish), 2004-2005

Oil on canvas 210 x 420 cm

Acquisition date: 2005

JONATHAN MEESE (1970 Tokyo --)

"Word and image meet in Jonathan Meese’s notebooks and texts. Collages, drawings, photos and literary clichés meet spontaneously or by design, freely combined or directly referring to each other. Visual perception, intellectual processing and formal positioning are played off against one another. And the whole time Meese continues his self-interrogation through photos, exploring his personality in different masks. Memory. Ascertainment. Confirmation. More and more photos, more and more Meese. Ever on the move, ever questioning him self, observing, investigating. Like a pathologist, he dissects the world body, gains insights, discovers dependencies, relations, functions. He puts his finger on the wound where it still hurts, then waits for the pain to die and examines the injury. Jonathan Meese searches for action, in himself and others. In this respect he is similar to James Joyce, whose work is marked by strong autobiographical traits that become hermetic puzzles. A polyphone language conglomerate opens into onomatopoeic ciphers, semantic blind trails and splintered speech parts, whose decryption holds the promise of epistemic fireworks. The author lives out his own unambiguousness in prosaic ambiguity. Like Joyce, Meese develops a paraphrasing universal language, making use of various sources, including parody, to create a composed work of language art."

Jan-Hendrik Wentrup, 2002

Messe, lives and works in Berlin.

JULIAN SCHNABEL (detail)

Harold's Always Saying Goodbye IV, 1998

Oil paint, spray paint and resin on canvas (The Artist's frame)

201 x 170 cm

Acquisition date: 1999

JULIAN SCHNABEL (1951 New York --)

Danillo Eccher “Julian Schnabel” Exhibition Catalogue Bologna, 1997

Schnabel, lives and works in New York.

Activities

MEETING THE ARTIST: PAUL HODGSON - 27.03.2013

International Contemporary Art and Law Conference - 30.03.2012

MEETING THE ARTIST: PAUL HODGSON - 27.03.2013

International Contemporary Art and Law Conference - 30.03.2012

Children/Education

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR KIDS

Educational workshops are designed in line with the exhibitions on display in the museum, for different age groups. The qualified tutors and music accompany the kids to a voyage where they can witness the dance of music and colors and decipher the musicality of colors .

Ata Koleji, Mach 2012

Robert College Summer School Visits

Chronology

2005 – 2011:

PROJE 4L | Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art İstanbul

Collection Exhibitions

5 April- 1 September 2012:A New selection from The Elgiz Collection. The main exhibition hall has been divided into two separate parts featuring permanent and changing collection exhibitions

17 September – 16 March 2011: Elgiz 10th Anniversary Exhibition

23 February - 20 August 2011:Unbounded

12 September 2009 - 25 April 2010:11 Young Artists from the Collection

12 September 2009-19 February 2011:Now New, New Works New Space

26 March 2008-26 April 2008:The Dawn of Tomorrow Contemporary Art in Italy from Italian Collections

12 December 2007-15 March 2008:Poetics Of Space Öztoprak and His Generation

06 May-01 December 2007:Selection 2007

18 October 2006-5 March 2007:Meltem of Istanbul

25 December 2004-October 2006:A View of the Collecton Since1988

Elgiz Collection Exhibitions in Other Venues

5 April-17 May 2011:A Selection from the Elgiz Collection at Çırağan Palace Kempinski Art Gallery

31 May 2008 – 24 August 2008:Sublime Figures of the Leaping Heart Abdurrahman Öztoprak in Venice

21 November - 26 November 2006:Elgiz Collection at the Galerist Collectors Exhibition at Antrepo 3 Masters from the Collection Exhibition Series

18 May - 2 July 2011:Bedri Baykam A Tribute to Edvard Munch Exhibition

3 - 14 May 2011:Gün Staged Photographs Exhibition

Project Rooms Exhibitions

23 March - 21 May 2011:Fold Exhibition

23 Februrary - 19 March 2011:Halil Vurucuoğlu Intoxication ve Semra Özümerzifon Deep- Can You Hear?

16 September - 16 December 2010:On the Edge Exhibition Giovanni Ozzola with projects by Deniz Üster and Elif Süsler

29 April 2010 - 4 September 2010:Chaotic Metamorphosis Exhibition

12 September 2009- 25 April 2010:Mustafa Kula Wall Drawings

12 September 2009 - 25 April 2010:Berke Soyuer Bubbles_001.jpeg

25 October - 1 December 2007:Water between Poetics and Politics Exhibition

20 July 2007 - 1 September 2007:Nancy Atakan, And Exhibition

31 May 2007 - 14 July 2007:Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz, The Overjoyed Ones

3 May 2006 - 30 June 2006:Tomur Atagök Diaries

13 March 2006 - 30 April 2006:Balkan Naci İslimyeli Zifir and Çile

20 January 2006 - 24 Februrary 2006:Ömer Emre Yavuz Mea Culpa, My Fault

9 November 2005 - 02 January 2006:Nezaket Ekici National Anthems

15 September 2005 - 5 November 2005:Kezban Arca Batıbeki I Shot Andy Warhol

16 July 2005:Tulu Bayar Page

25 December 2004 -30 April 2005:Gülsün Karamustafa Fragmenting/ Fragments

Guest Exhibition

5 April – 20 May:Museum inside a Museum

8 June - 9 July 2011:International Art Critics Association AICA Dear Don't Please!

Terrace Exhibitions

18 June – 18 August 2012:Terrace Exhibitions<40, On the 1500 m2 open air exhibition area constructed on top of the Museum premises.

Performances

18 October 2006:Performance Jonathan Meese

6 July - 31 August 2006:Şükran Moral Leyla and Mecnun, Bordello Performance and Video

13 March 2006:Balkan Naci İslimyeli Zifir

Conferences and Panels of Exhibitions

29 April 2010:Chaotic Metamorphosis Exhibition Panel

25 January 2008:Cem Mansur, Kamil Şükun, Necmi Sönmez- A Dialogue of Art and Music

12 December 2007:Symposium with participation of Folkwang, Josef Albers ve Bochum Museum curators

12 October 2007:Symposium Water between Poetics and Politics

6 July 2006:Simonetta Lux Apocalypse Book and Şükran Moral

Collectors, Conferences and Panels

30 March 2012:Contemporary Art and Law Speakers Clive Thorne, Oscar Podda, Moderators Mehmet Ali Bakanay, Sıdıka Boysal

16 September 2011:International Woman Collectors Panel Ella Fontanals Cisneros, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Basma Al Sulaiman/ Moderator Michele Codini

18 May 2010:Wilfried Cooreman

2 March 2007:Harald Falckenberg

31 January 2007:Thomas Olbricht

29 - 30 March 2005:Karlheinz Essl

2001-2004

PROJE 4L ISTANBUL CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Exhibitions and Related Events "A Pioneering Art Space"

4 - 8 March 2003 : "Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in USA", Laura Cottingham video show

23, 30 Nov, 28 Dec. 2002: Panel with Gökçe Cabadan, Elmas Deniz,Gökçe Süvari "Welcome Desolation"

23 November 2002 - 17 January2003: "Under The Beach: The Pavement" Exhibition

19 September 2002 - 9 November 2002: "Coming Under Light" Exhibition

19 June 2002 - 10 August 2002: Arne Jacobsen Exhibition

5 April 2002 - 15 June 2002: "Stop fo a Moment: Painting As Narrative" Exhibition

26 March 2002: Panel with Vasıf Kortun, Tuna Erdem, Erdem Kosova: "Video Art: Documentary or Mocumentary?"

19 March 2002:Panel with Ethen Mahcupyan, Ayşe Durakbaşa, Nevval Sevindi: "Oral History, Official History And a View of Turkey"

12 March 2002: Panel with Ruşen Çakır, Melek Ulagay, Demet Demir

5 March 2002: Kutluğ Ataman-Fatih Özgüven Conversation "Artist and Spectator"

1 March - 28 March 2002: Kutluğ Ataman "Women Who Wear Wigs" Exhibition

19 January 2002 - 16 February 2002: Oda Projesi

10 January -12 January 2002: Net Art Days

8 January 2002: John Peffer "Exotic Strategy" And 'Diaspora And Market'

21 December 2001 - 23 February 2002:"Look Again" Exhibition

24 November 2002:Orhan Esen Presentation "Taksim to Taksim Without a License"

4 November 2001:"Zero And Blind" Performance and Music

21 September 2001 - 24 October 2001: "Becoming A Place" Exhibition

Conferences : "Think Tank Of Contemporary Art"

15 May 2004: Paolo Colombo

28 April 2004: Animated Spaces

10 April 2004: Christoph Tannert

8 November 2003: Suhail Malik

25 April 2003: Jonathan Watkins

8 March 2003: Marta Kuzma

3 January 2003: Edi Muka

31 July 2002: Erden Kosova

23 July 2002: Jérôme Sans

17 July 2002: Francesco Bonami

2 July 2002: Ayşe Erkmen Conference And Presentation

6 April 2002: Panel Moderated by Kari Immoen

23 March 2002: Dan Cameron

7 December 2001: Şener Özmen: "The Art that Flows from Periphery to the Center"

17 November 2001: Charles Merewether: "Practices Against Archiving"

7 September 2001: Chris Dercon: "You can be a museum or modern, but you can't be both"

16 May 2001: Charles Esche: "After The Planners"

10 May 2001: Hans Ulrich Obrist: "Rumour City, Sonic City, Invisible City"

Documentary Presentation

28 April 2004 - 5 June 2004: Hussein Chalayan "Place To Passage" Exhibition

10 March 2004 - 3 April 2004:"Shaman's Diary" Exhibition to the benefit of Baksı Museum

28 February 2004: Conference with "Loud And Clear" Curators

27 December 2003 - 28 February 2004: Loud And Clear" Exhibition

25 October 2003: Panel with curator and artists of "Organized Conflict" Exhibition

4 October,18 October,15 November 2003: Fulya Erdemci Exhibition Tour

2 September 2003: Panel: "New Countries, New Identities"

22 September 2003 - 22 November 2003: Organized Conflict" Exhibition

19 July,26 July,2 August: Halil Altındere Exhibition Tour

10 July 2003:"No Touristic, No Exotic" Multimedia Music Performance

10 July 2003 - 16 August 2003:"I'm Too Sad To Kill You" Exhibition

17 May 2003: Ali Akay Conference With The Artists Of "Entre" Exhibition

3 May 2003 and 7 June 2003: Ali Akay Exhibition Tour

26 April 2003 - 14 June 2003: "Entre" Exhibition

4 April 2003: Erden Kosova Presentation

29 March 2003: Nermin Saybaşılı Presentation

25 March 2003 - 12 April 2003: Endurance Video Series

15 March 2003: Vasıf Kortun, Aydan Murtezaoğlu Conversation

14 March 2003: Yona Friedman,"Theory and Image" Conference (İTÜ Maçka )

11 -15 March 2003: Aydan Murtezaoğlu, 2001-2003 Video Presentation

Performances "Stage For Innovation"

7 March 2003:'Zero' Zafer Aracagök Electronic music performance

24 November 2002: 'Resonance, Rythm, Echo ''Zero And Blind', Zafer Aracagök electronic music performance

23 - 25 May 2002:'Vertigo' (dance choreography)

2001-2004

PROJE 4L ISTANBUL CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

Exhibitions and Related Events "A Pioneering Art Space"

4 - 8 March 2003 : "Not For Sale: Feminism and Art in USA", Laura Cottingham video show

23, 30 Nov, 28 Dec. 2002: Panel with Gökçe Cabadan, Elmas Deniz,Gökçe Süvari "Welcome Desolation"

23 November 2002 - 17 January2003: "Under The Beach: The Pavement" Exhibition

19 September 2002 - 9 November 2002: "Coming Under Light" Exhibition

19 June 2002 - 10 August 2002: Arne Jacobsen Exhibition

5 April 2002 - 15 June 2002: "Stop fo a Moment: Painting As Narrative" Exhibition

26 March 2002: Panel with Vasıf Kortun, Tuna Erdem, Erdem Kosova: "Video Art: Documentary or Mocumentary?"

19 March 2002:Panel with Ethen Mahcupyan, Ayşe Durakbaşa, Nevval Sevindi: "Oral History, Official History And a View of Turkey"

12 March 2002: Panel with Ruşen Çakır, Melek Ulagay, Demet Demir

5 March 2002: Kutluğ Ataman-Fatih Özgüven Conversation "Artist and Spectator"

1 March - 28 March 2002: Kutluğ Ataman "Women Who Wear Wigs" Exhibition

19 January 2002 - 16 February 2002: Oda Projesi

10 January -12 January 2002: Net Art Days

8 January 2002: John Peffer "Exotic Strategy" And 'Diaspora And Market'

21 December 2001 - 23 February 2002:"Look Again" Exhibition

24 November 2002:Orhan Esen Presentation "Taksim to Taksim Without a License"

4 November 2001:"Zero And Blind" Performance and Music

21 September 2001 - 24 October 2001: "Becoming A Place" Exhibition

Conferences : "Think Tank Of Contemporary Art"

15 May 2004: Paolo Colombo

28 April 2004: Animated Spaces

10 April 2004: Christoph Tannert

8 November 2003: Suhail Malik

25 April 2003: Jonathan Watkins

8 March 2003: Marta Kuzma

3 January 2003: Edi Muka

31 July 2002: Erden Kosova

23 July 2002: Jérôme Sans

17 July 2002: Francesco Bonami

2 July 2002: Ayşe Erkmen Conference And Presentation

6 April 2002: Panel Moderated by Kari Immoen

23 March 2002: Dan Cameron

7 December 2001: Şener Özmen: "The Art that Flows from Periphery to the Center"

17 November 2001: Charles Merewether: "Practices Against Archiving"

7 September 2001: Chris Dercon: "You can be a museum or modern, but you can't be both"

16 May 2001: Charles Esche: "After The Planners"

10 May 2001: Hans Ulrich Obrist: "Rumour City, Sonic City, Invisible City"

Documentary Presentation

28 April 2004 - 5 June 2004: Hussein Chalayan "Place To Passage" Exhibition

10 March 2004 - 3 April 2004:"Shaman's Diary" Exhibition to the benefit of Baksı Museum

28 February 2004: Conference with "Loud And Clear" Curators

27 December 2003 - 28 February 2004: Loud And Clear" Exhibition

25 October 2003: Panel with curator and artists of "Organized Conflict" Exhibition

4 October,18 October,15 November 2003: Fulya Erdemci Exhibition Tour

2 September 2003: Panel: "New Countries, New Identities"

22 September 2003 - 22 November 2003: Organized Conflict" Exhibition

19 July,26 July,2 August: Halil Altındere Exhibition Tour

10 July 2003:"No Touristic, No Exotic" Multimedia Music Performance

10 July 2003 - 16 August 2003:"I'm Too Sad To Kill You" Exhibition

17 May 2003: Ali Akay Conference With The Artists Of "Entre" Exhibition

3 May 2003 and 7 June 2003: Ali Akay Exhibition Tour

26 April 2003 - 14 June 2003: "Entre" Exhibition

4 April 2003: Erden Kosova Presentation

29 March 2003: Nermin Saybaşılı Presentation

25 March 2003 - 12 April 2003: Endurance Video Series

15 March 2003: Vasıf Kortun, Aydan Murtezaoğlu Conversation

14 March 2003: Yona Friedman,"Theory and Image" Conference (İTÜ Maçka )

11 -15 March 2003: Aydan Murtezaoğlu, 2001-2003 Video Presentation

Performances "Stage For Innovation"

7 March 2003:'Zero' Zafer Aracagök Electronic music performance

24 November 2002: 'Resonance, Rythm, Echo ''Zero And Blind', Zafer Aracagök electronic music performance

23 - 25 May 2002:'Vertigo' (dance choreography)

Open Archive Room

The open archive room that has been active since 2005, was created to present the artist & curator portfolios to national and international visitors.

Publications

"PURE CONCRETE" Last Decade of Abdurrahman Öztoprak

ELGIZ10

Press

25 October 2012

Todays Zaman

Elgiz Museum's Expanding Empire

Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum to celebrate 10th year

26 August 2012

Proje 4L

Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum to celebrate 10th year

E-Newsletter

Elgiz Museum İstanbul E-Newsletter Registration Form

Directions

Proje 4L | Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
Beybi Giz Plaza Meydan Street
Maslak / İstanbul

Visiting

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00-17:00

Saturday: 10:00-16:00

Tuesday: With appointment only. Tel: 0212 290 2525

The museum is closed on Sunday, Monday and official holidays.

Entrance is free.

Phone: +90 212 290 2525

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by Bus or Minibus...

Coming from Besiktas direction: Get off the bus at the Plazalar stop in front of Istanbul Technical University. Take the footbridge to pass over the street. Walk right for about 100 meters and turn left. After about 50 meters you will see Beybi Giz Plaza on the right.

Coming from Sariyer direction: Get off the bus at the Plazalar stop opposite to Istanbul Technical University. Take the side road from the stairs under the footbridge. Walk about 50 meters towards your left and turn right. After about 50 meters you will see Beybi Giz Plaza on the right.

by Boat

from the Asian Side: You can come to Istinye by Sea Bus. Take a bus from Istinye in Maslak direction and get off at the Plazalar stop opposite to Istanbul Technical University and follow the directions given above "from Sariyer".