Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Borusan Holding
Necmi Sönmez
Necmi Sönmez (born 1968 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Düsseldorf-based independent curator, art critic and writer. He studied Art History in Mainz, Germany; Paris, France; Newcastle, UK and Frankfurt, Germany where he earned a PhD with a thesis on Wolfgang Laib. From 1994 to 1997, Sönmez worked as an independent curator, initiating and organizing numerous exhibition projects, mainly involving young artists in Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands and France. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, where he organized exhibitions and projects with artists including Ayse Erkmen, Renée Levi, Martin Gostner, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Saâdane Hafif. From 2006 to 2008, Sönmez was artisticm director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, where he presented artists such as Gregor Schneider, Myriam Holme, Florian Bach, Martin Dammann and Anja Cuipka . Sönmez is currently a guest curator for the Lepsien Art Foundation in Düsseldorf and the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul.
Events & Exhibitions
In back of the real
May 12–May 15, 2011
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2008, Produced with manipulated digital photograph technique, 1151 × 31 in. (2923.54 × 78.74 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri C.A.M., İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Sewing on textile, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the curator and Galeri NON, İstanbul. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project for PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Music (Selimcan Sakar), blue light, fluorescent paint Installation, Founded Materials. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Installation with color tape, 315 inches. Courtesy of the curator and Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. Murat Germen.
Necmi Sönmez, Installation Project For PORT IZMIR 2, International Contemporary Art Triennial, 2010, 2010, Pigments. Courtesy of the curator. Murat Germen.
Residents from Turkey
Past Resident2011: Foundation for a Civil Society
Petra Feriancova
Petra Feriancova’s work conceptualises her own emotional reactions to the processes of perception and memory and examines the conditions of their sharing. Feriancova works mostly with found pictures, texts and archives which she interprets and methodically interchanges. Her primary aim in the manipulation of a reference, pictorial or discursive, is to provide the spectator with an original affective reaction to it.
Petra Feriancova (born 1977 in Bratislava, Slovakia) currently lives and works in Bratislava. She studied at L’Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, Italy and Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia. Her works have been exhibited extensively including at the Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2010; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, 2009; HIT gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2009; and Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France; 2008. She is the winner of the 2010 Oskár Čepan Award.
Events & Exhibitions
The Animal Mirror
November 2, 2016–January 27, 2017
Petra Feriancova, Repetion, Cut, Pair and Again, 2010, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, With My Mom, With My Dad, With My Grandpa, The Supper By Us, With My Sisters, My Daughter, With My Husband, With My Nephew, Etc., 2010, National Geographic archive and magazine pages mounted on glass sheet, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, The Creator (From Oskar Ferianc's Archive, New Breeds 1948-1962), 2008, 85 vintage photographs, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, To Whom It May Concern, 2006, 3 channel video. Courtesy of the artist.
Petra Feriancova, The Creator (From Oskar Ferianc's archive, New Breeds 1948-1962), 2008, 85 vintage photographs, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: TMU - Trust For Mutual Understanding
Zbynek Sedlecky
Zbyněk Sedlecký uses acrylic colors on canvas to create his compositions. His gestures are quick and his brushstrokes give life to rapidly changing cityscapes. The results look like a sketchbook and become an agile collection of transient thoughts. Sedlecký looks at the “process in time” itself, in which something becomes extinct in order for something new to be born.
Zbyněk Sedlecký (born 1976 in Ostrava, Czech Republic) lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. Group exhibitions include 2010 Liverpool Biennial, UK; Prague City Gallery; House of the Golden Ring, GHMP, Prague and CNEAI, Chatou, France. Solo shows include Prinz Prager Gallery, Prague; 35M2 Gallery, Prague and Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Zbynek Sedlecky, Flag, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 102 × 63 in. (259.08 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Zbynek Sedlecky, Sculpture, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 59 × 98 in. (149.86 × 248.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Zbynek Sedlecky, Staff, 2010, Acrylic and wallpaper on canvas, 79 × 55 in. (200.66 × 139.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Zbynek Sedlecky, Airport, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 55 × 78 in. (139.7 × 198.12 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Zbynek Sedlecky, Vitkovice, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 55 × 78 in. (139.7 × 198.12 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
