halka art project welcomes Nadim Assad

Berlin based artist Nadim Assad is the current artist-in-residence of halka art project residency programme. Assad will be in İstanbul from October 11 to November 18, 2011 to investigate questions of the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres. His definition of the ‘public’ describes a field of free movement and communication of the common.
In his artistic statement he declares "My artistic work tries to intervene in this contradiction by experimenting with different kinds of re-arrangements, re-enactments, assemblages and combinations of documents. Themes that I am interested in are Urbanity, Migration and Identity, which stem from my own background as a Palestinian, born and raised in Germany and living in a metropolitan city like Berlin. As an artist I use this kind of self-experience as a departure for my work. Art offers me a space in which I can experiment with these topics in a broader way of expression and exploration, what „reality“ is, how it looks like and what further questions it could possibly expand to."

For more information about the artist and a selection of his works please visit www.nadimassad.com

Images from Vera Korman's first workshop for halka art project Residency Programme

yoğurtçu 52/17 (detail)

Vera Korman, first guest of the Residency Programme

Our Guests

yoğurtçu 52/17 (detail)

Our first audience

18.09. 2011

Today's session "The Art of the Unexpected" of the workshop "Foreigners in the Body of Art" by Vera Korman starts at 16:00 hours at Yoğurtçu 52/17 -Art space & Residency of halka art project.

Vera Korman'ın halka sanat projesi Rezidans Programı kapsamında gerçekleştirdiği "Sanatın Bedeninde Yabancılar" workshop serisinin bugünkü bölümü " Sanatta Beklenmeyenin Öyküsü" saat 16:00'da Yoğurtçu 52/17'de. Türkçe çeviri mevcut.


Osmanağa Mah. Yoğurtçu Parkı Cad. No:52/17 Kadıköy - İstanbul

Vera Korman workshops starts on September 14th, 2011 19:00 hours

“Foreigners in the body of art” STARTS VERY SOON.

The workshop prepared by Vera Korman for halka art project®’s Residency Programme will focus on the question of the self from the perspective of being a “foreigner”, represented upon the body in the contemporary art. Keep following for the time plan and the details.

halka art project Residency Programme starts with Vera KORMAN

As an independent organisation based in Istanbul which focuses on the production, discourse and presentation of contemporary art and culture halka art project initiated a Residency Programme since its foundation in May 2011.

The program offers research and artistic production facilities for theorists and artists in its operational base located in Kadıköy, a vibrant district and one of the city centres of Istanbul.

The aim of the programme is to provide necessary infrastructure for the selected participant(s) to contact and have interactions with the local artistic and cultural circles, and to provide for the local community the background for mutual connections, cultural confrontation and cooperation possibilities with the residents of halka art project.

The Residency Programme of halka art project starts with Vera KORMAN as its first guest in the Residency from August 20 - September 30, 2011. Along with her artistic research and production, Korman will also give weekly workshops and artist talks during her stay.

The workshop will be developed under the name of Foreigners in the body of art and will focus on the question of the self from the perspective of being a “foreigner”, represented upon the body in the contemporary art.

During the Residency, the artist will also introduce her artwork, in a weekly open talk for the public whose main emphasis will be on the experiences of the body in relation to the self, as an ongoing process of becoming.

Further announcements will be made about the details and time schedule of the artist talks and workshop programme.
For further information about the artist http://www.shayaryegallery.com/

Announcement about the Residency Programme

Due to the high frequency of qualified applications to halka art project® Residency Programme, the deadline is extended to August 20th, 2011.

The selecting committee decided not to finish the process at the end of July but instead create opportunity to prepare the required material for those who are newly aware of the project and also to benefit from the priviledge of time for evaluating the applications in the best way possible.