53rd Venice Biennial | Pavilion of Turkey

view from "Exploded City" Ahmet Ögüt © 2009

Lapses | Pavilion of Turkey 
53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
Banu Cennetoğlu, Ahmet Öğüt

curated by Başak Şenova

Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Artists: Banu Cennetoğlu, Ahmet Öğüt

Curator: Başak Şenova
Assistant Curator: Nazli Gürlek
Project Coordinator: Ustüngel Inanç (Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts)

Arsenale, Venice
June 7 – November 22, 2009
Professional Preview: 3-6 June

http://venicebiennial-turkey.org/

AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA 

Fri, May 15 , 2009 - Mon, September 21 , 2009

Laboral - Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial La Universidad Laboral s/n 33394 Gijón Spain

CURATOR: Alberto Martín
ASSISTANT CURATOR: Victoria del Val
EXHIBITION DESIGN: Longo + Roldán
ARTISTS: 

Roy Arden, Eric Aupol, Yael Bartana, Manolo Bautista, Michele Bazzana, Hans Op de Beeck, Valérie Belin, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Etienne Bossut, Frank Breuer, Michel de Broin, Alain Bublex, June-Bomb Park, Edward Burtynsky, Andrew Bush, Hervé Coqueret, Stéphane Couturier, Félix Curto, Stephen Dean, Jeremy Dickinson, Juan Fernández, Sylvie Fleury, Alicia Framis, Juan del Junco, Pannos Kokkinias, Annika Larsson, Miki Leal, Ange Leccia, Zilla Leutenegger, Juan López, Maider López, Chip Lord, Thom Merrick, Vik Muniz, Ahmet Ögüt, Julian Opie, Sven Pählsson, Miguel Palma, Jesús Palomino, Panamarenko, Martin Parr, Tobias Rehberger, Pedro Reyes, Betsabeé Romero, Samuel Rousseau, Bruno Rousseaud, Michael Samuels, Corinna Schnitt, Franck Scurti, Jim Shaw, Roman Signer, Dirk Skreber, Amy Stein, Thomas Struth, Xavier Veilhan, Kelley Walker, Koen Wastijn, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, Erwin Wurm.

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA [AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL] is a multifaceted ambitious exhibition project featuring around one hundred works by over sixty artists. The exhibition mines the depth of influence of the automobile within contemporary art, or more precisely, the relationship between car culture and art creation in recent decades. The lead role assigned to the automobile as a mainstay of 20th century culture and as a symbol of our consumer society, encourages us to address the art-car binomial from more than a strictly aesthetic realm, instead expanding our perspective to embrace social, political and anthropological considerations. Precisely at a moment like the present, when we can already detect a feeling of closure to the era of material culture that ruled throughout the 20th century, it becomes more pressing that ever to cast a gaze backwards on that icon that transformed habits, territory and industry.

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/exhibitions/show/95