BİLGİ Center for Migration Research, in collaboration with Koridoor Contemporary Art Programs, ArtHereIstanbul, Art4me, GAR - Association for Migration Research, Support to Life Association, IGAM - The Research Centre on Asylum and Migration, Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants, and BİLGİ European Institute RESPOND Project, organizes the exhibition focusing on the internal and transborder aspects of migration via stories reflected by artists.  

The exhibition entitled ‘The Other Stories’ presents the works of 50 artists from various countries, producing in different disciplines of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, drawing, video art, and performance. 

The exhibition is organized as part of the project ‘Creative Network Plus: Baseline Research and Development (BREDEP)’. Coordinated by University of Derby and funded by the UK Research and Innovation AHRC Program, BREDEP is conducted in Turkey by BİLGİ Center for Migration Research under the coordination of Asst. Prof. Gülay Uğur Göksel. 

 

 

December 16, 2021 – February 7, 2022

İstanbul Bilgi University, santralistanbul Campus Energy Museum

 

OPENING PROGRAM

December 16, 2021, Thursday

15:30       Exhibition Opening

16:30       Opening Speeches

17:00       Performance by IBULOrk

 

ONLINE EXHIBITION is accessible here!

 

EXHIBITION BOOK is open access here! Google Drive version is here!

The exhibition book aims both to sustain the dialogue between art, migration and social cohesion, initiated with the “The Other Stories” exhibition, and bring art and academia together in the context of migration. The book contains personal essays by 28 academics on one or more works in the exhibition or on the exhibition in general, along with the artworks of the participating artists.

 

Artists

Abel Korinsky

Adnan Jetto

Adviye Bal

Ahmet Umur Deniz

Ali Omar

Ali Raşit Karakılıç

Bahadır İşler

Baran Kamiloğlu

Berkan Baycan

Can Memişoğulları

Carole Turner

Corinne Silva

Deniz Pireci

Dilek Toluyağ 

Elena Bellantoni

Ercan Ayçiçek

Fehim Güler

Fevzi Karakoç

Gizem Enuysal

Heather Brown

Hiba Aizouq

Işıl Gönen

İliko Zautashvili

Jack Beattie

Jacque Crenn

Lale Duruiz

Levent Pınarcı

Mahmut Celayir

Martin Wohlwend

Mehdi Farzane

Morteza Khosravi

Mustafa Albayrak

Ömer Serkan Bakır

Özge Günaydın

Özkan Gencer

Paul Donker Duyvis

Resul Aytemür

Rifaae Ahmad

Saghar Daeiri

Sema Özevin

Serina Tara

Stephan Twist

Tahir Ün

Tolga Boztoprak

Tuğrul Selçuk

Ufuk Uyanık

Yeşim Yıldız Kalaycıoğlu

Yıldız Doyran

Zahit Büyükişliyen

Zeynep Yazıcı

 

Curator: Denizhan Özer

 

PODCAST SERIES

The Other Stories - Migration, Art, Living Together

Podcast Producer: Dr. Gülay Uğur Göksel

BREDEP Project / The Other Stories Exhibition Coordinator

Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations 

Broadcast platform: https://anchor.fm/otekihikayeler /  https://open.spotify.com/show/1tmweyb3mp9ZUbSEaT5Mjj

For episodes in English: https://open.spotify.com