Talks
The Director of capitArt and curator Dr. Işıl Ezgi Çelik and Michael Elson, The Founding Director of ArtSect Gallery and DAO will discuss decentralisation in art and illustrate how new organisational governance practices, induced by digitalisation and new technologies, are influencing the creative industry for the “Curating Contemporary Art” seminar series organised in cooperation by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Akbank Sanat.
The Although women continue to fight for visibility and equality in all professions, within the world of art, paradoxically, they can also be marginal among marginals. The end of the Second World War was marked by the beginning of a specific avant-garde artistic tendency called Art Brut, which in different contexts and time periods was marked with different terminologies and meanings. The creativity of outsiders – mentally and physically ill people, self-taught creators, prisoners, people from the margins of society have become the subject of interest in “high” art, and even the art market. However, bearing in mind that even the field of Art Brut/Outsider Art is a predominantly male territory, the question of the existence of women within it inevitably arises. Discussion entitled “Women in Art Brut: outsiders among to outsiders” wants to shed light and bring it closer to the audience, not only this artistic tendency that is generally not given enough attention, but also the position, aesthetics and themes of the artistic practices of marginalized women. Conceived as a dynamic form of presentations and discussions, the discussion aims to present the past and present situation, both in our country and in Western Europe and the Far East.
- The Wrong Biennale o6 Becoming-Machine Pavilion London Exhibition Opening Talk Event at Artsect Gallery on AI Art with Emre Sunter, Christophe Bruchansky, and Isil Ezgi Celik.
- This year Galatasaray University’s 17th Technology and Communication Seminars addresses Visual Arts and hosts academics, industry experts and artists for a day-long talks and discussions.
- The Opening talk of The Dream VR exhibition with curator/moderator Dr Isil Ezgi Celik – director capitArt, Dr Sharon Sliwinsky – The Founder of The Museum of Dreams, Dr Marek Wojtaszek, Dr Duane Rousselle and the screening of the artwork by Vesna Petresin The Dreams Our Things Are Made On in collaboration with Agora Digital Art and Cloud Fairy.
- Dr Isil Ezgi Celik on capitArt and Art Brut at Wienwoche Festival in Vienna 24 September 2022.
Almost eighty years after the movement Art Brut got its name, it seems to be increasingly challenging to understand it based exclusively on its original definitions, aesthetics, and a myriad of names and subforms. Can terms Art Brut, Outsider art, Naïve Art, Raw Art, and others still function in a context that has been considered socially, politically, and artistically transformed since the movement’s emergence? Who is an Art Brut artist? Who has the right to engage in Art Brut? What is Art Brut in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East? Is there Art Brut in Austria outside Gugging? Is there a feminist dimension of Art Brut and how is it represented? What makes Art Brut attractive to the art market? Daniela Bilopavlović Bedenik, Head of Collection of Outsider Art, Museum of Contemporary Zagreb Işıl Ezgi Çelik, Art Brut Researcher, capitArt London Johann Feilacher, Artistic Director, Museum Gugging Florian Reese, Head of Atelier 10, Vienna Goran Stojčetović, Artist, President of Art Brut Serbia, Belgrade Moderation: Amalija Stojsavljević, Curator, Verein Kunstentropie Vienna (cooperation partner) WIENWOCHE in collaboration with Kunstentropie
- Dr Isil Ezgi Celik on misconceptions of Art Brut and Outsider Art.
- Dr Isil Ezgi Celik on Deleuzian concept of Art and Art Brut in late capitalist era.
- Kelimat Art Brut Museum 5 Story Exhibition Opening Speech on Art Brut by Dr Isil Ezgi Celik.
- NFT Biennial twitter space talk with head curator Isil Ezgi Celik.
