Artists in residence

VISUAL ARTS

EXHIBITION CURATOR

Kevser Güler (1983, Turkey) is a curator and researcher based in Istanbul. She has been part of the teams of recent exhibitions that include Nix, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Bilsart, İstanbul, 2019; The Future of Ecology, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, 2018; Colony, the 2nd Contemporary Art Exhibition of Kaos GL Association, Istanbul, 2017; Ways Out from the World, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2017; Let Us Cultivate Our Garden, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2016 ; Living/Matter : In and Through, Proto5533, Istanbul, 2016; Cappadocia Struck, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2015 & Agoraphobia, Tanas, Berlin, 2013. 

Kevser Güler was part of the Istanbul Biennale team from 2007 to 2014, working closely with curators Hou Hanru, WHW-What, How & for Whom, Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa and Fulya Erdemci. She has also been part of the exhibition teams of the Online Biennale, 2013; Mediterranean Cities: The Art Biennales of Athens, Istanbul and Marrakech, Sicily, 2010, and What Happens To The Hole When The Cheese Is Gone, Istanbul, 2010 also. 

Since 2014, Kevser Güler has been working as a curatorial researcher for Arter – space for art in Istanbul. She is also a member of the birbuçuk collective, which functions as a platform in which various forms of knowledges and current discussions on art, political will, nature and geography are brought together with an emphasis on Turkey. Kevser Güler’s upcoming projects include Earth Health, Operation Room, Istanbul in 2019 and İris Ergül Solo Exhibition, Istanbul in 2019. 

Photo:

Nermin Er, Listen Series, 2017

Ways Out from the World, Cappadox, 2017 

Curator: Fulya Erdemci 

Associate Curator: Kevser Güler 

Assistant Curator: Ilgın Deniz Akseloğlu

photocredit: Furkan Temir

Amin Gulgee is a visual artist from Karachi, Pakistan. As an art practitioner, he works in sculpture, installation and performance. In his work, he explores spiritual territories and narrative traditions and the intersection between them.

His sculptures and installations have been exhibited in Venice, London, Lisbon, Dresden, New York, Washington, Karachi, New Delhi, Singapore, Beijing and Taipei. In 2018, he presented two solo exhibitions in Rome, one at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale and the other in Mattatoio.

As a museum curator, he is particularly interested in multidisciplinary intersections and South-South dialogues. He has also been actively involved in the field of performance, an emerging field in Pakistan. He has curated or co-curated many large-scale non-commercial exhibitions in his eponymous gallery and was chief curator of the first Karachi Biennale in 2017.

Sunday Emerson Gullifer is an award-winning film director and screenwriter from Sydney, Australia.

Her short film, TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, had its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival in 2017 where it was Highly Commended in the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, and premiered internationally at Telluride Film Festival as one of just 16 short films in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow program. The film later premiered online as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was featured on Short of the Week.

In 2018, Sunday Emerson Gullifer was awarded the Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, presented by Sydney Film Festival. The $50,000 fellowship funded production of her latest short film, BROKEN LINE NORTH, and saw the film premiere at Sydney Film Festival in 2019.

Sunday Emerson Gullifer’s work is internationally acclaimed, having won a slew of awards and two Australian Directors’ Guild Award nominations. Originally hailing from a background in theatre, she is drawn to bold stories told with heart.

During her residency, Sunday Emerson Gullifer will research and write the screenplay for feature film, HELMUT, a sharp and biting satire for the #MeToo era set in the world of theatre, taking inspiration from her celebrated short film, TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW.

David Gumbs is an award-winning multimedia artist from the Caribbean island of Saint-Martin, based in Martinique. He holds a Specialised Master’s Degree in New Media from ENSCI Les Ateliers in Paris.

Recent projects include his appointment to the Ministry of Culture’s Mondes Nouveaux project, his first solo exhibition in the United States From Dust to Gold at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Illuminate Coral Gables in Miami, Tod Town Expo in Shanghai, the Currents New Media digital festival in Santa Fe, and Relational Undercurrents which is the major retrospective of art from Latin America and the Caribbean in the United States. The exhibition opened at MOLAA Los Angeles and has traveled to the Portland Museum of Art, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and Wallach Gallery New York in 2018.

In 2017 he won the National Street Art call for the Martinique and Saint-Martin region and participated in the Prizm Art Fair and the Jamaica Biennial. In 2016, he was selected by the Davidoff Art Initiative Foundation for an artist residency in Beijing. On this occasion, his works were exhibited at the World Art Museum / China Millennium Monument.

He takes part in Open Air Prisons at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. And exhibited at Digital at the National Museum of Jamaica. In 2015, his video series Horschamp was exhibited at Video Islands in New York and at the opening exhibition of Memorial Act in Guadeloupe. In 2014 his work was exhibited at the Trinidad + Tobego film festival, Transforming Spaces in the Bahamas and Beep Bop Boop New Media in Florida. In 2013, his installation Soleil Magma was presented at the 1st Biennale d’art contemporain in Martinique. In 2012, at the Happy Island Project Biennial in Aruba. In 2009, at the Latitudes exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris.

He has taken part in several digital arts festivals in Europe and France, including the Festival Arborescence in Aix-en-Provence. He regularly exhibits around the world and in the Caribbean.

Una Gunjak was born and raised in Sarajevo, which she left at the age of 18 to pursue her vocation as a filmmaker abroad. After studying in Italy and obtaining her MA in Film Editing at the NFTS in the UK, Una Gunjak has extensively worked as editor for documentaries and drama while building her life in London.

Una Gunjak’s filmmaking is both bold and poetic; emotionally engaging and politically engaged, rooted in a raw and unpolished aesthetics, inspired by the faces and cityscapes of her homeland. Despite having departed years ago, despite having called many other places her home, Una is still very much drawn to the issues, themes and metaphors that inhabit the modern Bosnian society and for it has a feeling that actually…she has never left. 

It was after directing her short film The Chicken that Una Gunjak has decided to uproot herself again and focus on writing and directing her own projects. The Chicken, the winner of the European Film Academy award for Best Short Film in 2014, premiered at the Semaine de la Critique in 2014, competed at the Sundance Film Festival 2015 and was screened at the MOMA as part of the New Films New Directors selection.

Una Gunjak’s short film Salamat From Germany, part of the Lebanon Factory omnibus, opened the Quinzaine des Realisateurs selection of Cannes Film Festival 2017. Her shorts opened the doors for Una to develop her feature films Alfa and Excursion which have taken part in and have been supported by institutions such as the Cinefondation Residence, Torino Film Lab, Hubert Bals Fund and MEDIA Creative Europe, amongst others.

At the Cite internationale des arts, Una Gunjak will be developing Excursion, a feature film set in Sarajevo that deals with the sexuality of adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina.