Workshop for Contemporary Art Curators
Curating Georgian Visual Art
4-5 November, 2011,
Tbilisi Open Society Georgia Foundation Conference Room
10 a.m. – 10:30 am Welcome: Keti Khutsishvili, OSGF Executive Director
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Istanbul- from obscurity to hot spot of contemporary art: Beral Madra
12:00 p.m. – 13:30 p.m. Istanbul- from obscurity to hot spot of contemporary art: Beral Madra
13:30 a.m. – 14:30 p.m. Lunch
14:30 p.m. – 16:00 p.m. Presenting artist’s works related to Turkey’s political, social and cultural transformation of the last two decades, focusing on daily life, individual stories and in particular İstanbul: Hakan Gürsoytrak
16:00 p.m. – 16:15 p.m. Break
16:15 p.m. – 17:30 p.m. Curating through political and economic transformations: Beral Madra
17:30 p.m. – 17:50 p.m. End of day one.
Day 2
10 a.m. – 11:30 am How to design exhibitions in a city with particulart communities and with particular socio-economic position: Beral Madra
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Deficits and profits of contemporary art infrastructure in the region / How does the art market operate and what is the role of a curator: Beral Madra
12:30 p.m. – 13:30 p.m. Lunch
13:30 p.m. – 15:00 p.m. VIDEO ART: Beral Madra
15:00 p.m. – 15:15 p.m. Break
15:15 p.m. – 16:00 p.m. Networking, Partnerships and Collaborations: Beral Madra & Hakan Gürsoytrak
16:00 p.m. – 17:00 p.m.Questions &; Answers/ Discussion (The participants should prepare their questions beforehand
Workshop for Contemporary Art Curators
Curating Georgian Visual Art
7 November, 2011, Batumi
Hotel Conference Room
10 a.m. – 10:10 am Welcome: Khatuna Ioseliani, OSGF
10:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m
Istanbul- from obscurity to hot spot of contemporary art: Beral Madra
12:00 p.m. – 13:30 p.m How to design exhibitions in a city with particulart communities and with particular socio-economic position: Beral Madra
13:30 a.m. – 14:30 p.m Lunch
14:30 p.m. – 16:00 p.m
Presenting artist’s works related to Turkey’s political, social and cultural transformation of the last two decades, focusing on daily life, individual stories and in particular İstanbul: Hakan Gürsoytrak
16:00 p.m. – 16:15 p.m Break
16:15 p.m. – 17:30 p.m Deficits and profits of contemporary art infrastructure in the region / how does the art market operate and what is the role of a curator: Beral Madra
17:30 p.m. – 17:50 p.m. Networking, Partnerships and Collaborations: Beral Madra & Hakan Gürsoytrak
17:50 p.m. – 18:20 p.m.Questions & Answers Session
Content of Workshop:
- How art museums and other art institutions function in a city and with particular communities?
- What are the objectives and purposes of art museum and galleries in the twenty-first century?
- How to design exhibition;
- Use of digital media;
- What are the innovative practices for presentation cultural artefacts through interdisciplinary collaboration;
- How to re-interpret collections;
- What is the difference between criticism, curatorial writing and art history?
- What is the function of the catalogue? How does it mediate between the work of art and the world
- How does the art market operate and what is the role of curator?
- Research development
