Exhibits in Residence # 2
GÜLҪİN AKSOY & OLIVER SCHNELLER
Chorus of Choristers. Double Solo.
Opening: Saturday, November 17, 2018, 6 p.m.
Exhibition: November 17 – 25, 2018
Artist Studio Gülçin Aksoy
Kılıçali Paşa Mahallesi
İlyas Çelebi Sk. No:7
Beyoğlu/İstanbul
In this exhibition, the visual and installation artist GÜLҪIN AKSOY shows a visual commentary on her recent installation work “Chorus of Choristers” shown in her large solo exhibit “KORO” at the Galata Greek Primary School in Istanbul, September 2018. The work consisted of a collection of wall carpets showing the portraits of politicians which are customarily fashioned in honor of a visiting political personality at a formal occasion. Exhibit in residence #2 shows drawings and copies of those official carpets made by Gülçin Aksoy studio after the originals had to be given back to the various Turkish cities’ municipalities to which they belong.
Gülçin Aksoy’s meticulous copies of the carpets in pencil transcribe the materiality of wool and silk onto the medium of paper. Alongside those drawings, ghosts and shadows of the past, composer and sound artist OLIVER SCHNELLER (Rochester/Berlin) presents an accoustic mosaique with snippets of voices belonging to the personalities portrayed in the carpets-copies.
Exhibits in Residence are in-situ exhibits in which artists of Meine Kleine Mnemosyne host and present each other’s work in public double-solos in their private studios. Exhibits in Residence last for seven days. Works exhibited are available upon request.
GÜLÇİN AKSOY is a widely exhibited visual and installation artist who lives and works in Istanbul. She holds a professorship at the Painting Department at the Fine Arts University Mimar Sinan in Istanbul.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 ‘Chorus’, Galata Greek School, İstanbul/TR
2017 ‘The Family Semetery I love’, Perşembe Pazarı, İstanbul/TR
2017 ‘A’, Zilberman Gallery, Project Space, İstanbul/TR
2014 ‘Double Story’, DEPO, İstanbul/TR
2010 ‘Present Tense’, Munich/DE
2009 ‘The error of the couch on the table’, MSGSU, Osman Hamdi Hall, İstanbul/TR
2006 ‘S,M,L,X,XXL’, Apartman Projesi, İstanbul/TR
1991 ‘Solo exhibition’, İstanbul/TR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Academiae Biennal 2018, Franzensfeste Museum – Brixen/Bressanone /I
2017
‘Sen ve Ben’ , 5533 , İMÇ- İstanbul/TR
‘Birlik’, Antonia Sanat Galerisi, İstanbul/TR
‘Conspiracy Theory’, Balıkesir/TR
‘My Will’/ Vasiyetimdir is a publication project exploring how art works will subsist over long periods of time. https://m-est.org/2016/12/29/3081/
2016
‘Multiples’, Kuad Gallery, İstanbul/TR
‘Video Art Seçkisi’, Film-mor, İstanbul/TR
2015
’Fine Tuned and Multiple’, Kuad Gallery, İstanbul/TR
’History of Manipulation’, The Batumi Photo Days, Georgia, Batum, Gürcistan
Curator:Beral Madra
’Melior Mundus’, Halka Sanat, İstanbul/TR
‘Mobilizing Memory:Women Witnessing’, Curator:Işın Önol, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna/AT
House of Taswir, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin/DE
‘Popup Exhibition’, Kargart, İstanbul/TR, (İnEnArt Project)
2014
‘Stay With Me’, Apartman Project, Berlin/DE
‘Only the dead have seen the end of the war’, 4. Internatıonal Çanakkale Biennial, Çanakkale/TR, Curators: Beral Madra, Seyhan Boztepe, Deniz Erbaş
‘Mobilizing Memory:Women Witnessing’, Curators: Gül Altınay, Işın Önol, Depo-İstanbul/TR
‘Ruptures-Convergences’, Kuad Gallery, İstanbul/TR
’Unhappy Ready-Made’, Kuad Gallery, İstanbul/TR
‘Middle east’, ODTÜ, Ankara/TR
2013
‘Retaining People/Circulating Objects’, 5533, İstanbul/TR
‘Art Barter’, 5533, İstanbul/TR Curator: Filiz Avunduk
2012
‘Trading Station’, Liverpool/UK
’Keep On Keeping On’, İstanbul da Güncel Sanat, Curators: Susanne Wintsch, Necla Rüzgar, İstanbul/TR
‘Who Left/What Behind?, Curator:Beral Madra , Pleven/BG, Ankara TR
‘1st KloHäuschen Biennial 2012 ‘Bıenale for One’, Munich/DE
’On”Landscape’, Mine Sanat, İstanbul/TR
2011
‘Asphyxiating Culture’, (Reference for Jean Dubuffet) Video ve Performans Exhibition, Malatya/TR
‘Once upon a time… a place’, Curator: Seçkin Aydın, Diyarbakır/TR‘Exhibition’, Françoise Heitsh Gallery, Munich/DE
‘Choosing Another Strategy’, Machine Raum, Kopenhag/DK‘City Scale’, Siemens Sanat, İstanbul/TR
2010
‘TekZIP’, Goethe Institute, Ankara/TR
‘Satelite’, Münih / Munich/DE
‘When Ideas Become Crime’, Curator: Halil Altındere, Depo, İstanbul/TR
‘City Scale’, Lotringer 13, Münih, Curators: Beral Madra, Cornelia Oswald-Hoffmann, Carlotta Brunetti, Deniz Erbaş, Munich/DE
‘Code İstanbul’, Point Otel, Curator:Beral Madra, İstanbul/TR
2009
‘Under My Feet l Want The World, Not Heaven’ , NEXT WAVE, Curators: Beral Madra, Çetin Güzelhan, Levent Çalıkoğlu, Johannes Odenthal, Berlin/DE
‘Unfair Provacation’, Curator: Canan Şenol, Hafriyat/İstanbul/TR
‘Portable Art’, Tuzla, Küçükçekmece, Ümraniye/İstanbul/TR
2008
‘Just Curious’, Rotor I, Göteborg/SE
‘Mold’, Gent/BE
‘Multiple Connections’, Galeri Kent, İstanbul TR, Viyana/AT
2007
‘Mold’, Kapalıçarşı-İstanbul/TR
‘Everything will be allright’, Apartman Project, İstanbul/TR
’43 Artists’, İstanbul Fransız Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul/TR
‘Apartman Projesi ve Kurye Bağımsız Video Organizasyonu’, Rumeli Han, İstanbul/TR
‘2. International Kargart Video Festival // ‚Kurye Sergisi’, İSTANBUL/TR
2006
‘prog:ME’, Turkish Video Selection, BR
‘Topkapı’, Spedition, (exhibition and residency) Bremen/DE
‘Reserved’,Pist, İstanbul/TR
‘Pattern: Modernism as Mediator’, Curator Michele Thursz, Borusan Art Gallery / İstanbul/TR
2005
‘Time and Mystery’, Türkiye ve Kore’den Sanat, Art from Turkey and Korea, Çankaya Çağdaş Sanatlar Belediyesi, Ankara/TR
‘Focus İstanbul’, (Berliner Pool), Berlin/DE
‘Berliner Pool Video Screening-1’, Curator: Sencer Vardarman, Berlin/DE
‘Obsession’, Galeri-X, İstanbul/TR
‘Art-Actually’, Curators Fatos Üstek, Michele Thurz, İstanbul/TR
‘Metamorphosis’, İfsak Fotoğraf Günleri, İstanbul/TR
2003
‘Family Only’, Karşı Sanat, İstanbul/TR (Curated by the artists)
‘The Good+The Bad+The Ugly’, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi/İstanbul/TR
2002
‘Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibition’, İstanbul/TUR Curator: Fulya Erdemci
’60 Years 60 Artists’, Curators: Levent Çalıkoğlu, Ali Akay, Haşim Nur Gürel, İstanbul/TR
‘Asian Bienale’ Curator: Melih Görgün, Bangladesh
2001
‘Reconcider’, Curator: Vasıf Kortun, İstanbul/TR
‘Sounds of Homeland’, Karşı Sanat, İstanbul/TR
2000
‘Young Art’, Curator: Vasıf Kortun, Çankaya Çağdaş Sanatlar Belediyesi, Ankara/TR,
‘Video Art Days’, Pi artworks, İstanbul/TR
‘Made in Homeland’, İstanbul/TR
1999
‘Mixed Exhibitıon’, Curator: Vasıf Kortun, Galatea, İstanbul/TR
‘In Between 99’, İstanbul Technical University Gallery, İstanbul/TR
1998
‘One After Another’, Arnavutköy, İstanbul/TR (Curated by four women artists)
1997
‘In Between’, AKM; Cultural Center, İstanbul/TR (Curated by four women artists)
1986-1996
1996 “Speech(less); Meaning(less); (lack of) Communication”, lSTANBUL/TR
‘Other’, İstanbul/TR
1995 ‘Sanart’ Ankara/TR
1994 ‘Work’, İstanbul/TR
1993 ‘Young Artists’ Exhibitions’, FRANKFURT-VlENNA
1990 ‘Exhibition’, Derimod, İstanbul/TR
1990 ‘Türkische Kunst heute am Beispiel der Universität’, Kassel/DE
1989 ’10. Nation-wide Juried Exhibition held by Museum of Modern Art Association, İstanbul/TR
1989 ‘Group Exhibition’, İstanbul/TR
1989 ‘4 Different’, İstanbul/TR
1986 ‘A Nation-wide Juried Exhibition held by Ministry of Culture, ANKARA, lSTANBUL, lZMlR, TURKEY
Oliver Schneller is a composer and sound artist whose works were presented at numerous international music festivals including Festival Présences Paris, Biennale Quatuor á cordes Paris, MATA New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, the “Millenium Stage Series” at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Festival Résonances, Festival Agora Paris, Wien Modern, Munich Biennale, Beijing Modern, Maerzmusik Berlin, Witten Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Ultraschall Berlin, Musica, IFNM Darmstadt, Musicacoustica Beijing, ICMC 2003 Singapore and Takefu New Horizons Festival (Japan).
Since 2015 he serves as professor of composition and director of the Eastman Audio and Research Studio (EARS) at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and holds a guest professorship at Zhejiang Conservatory in Hangzhou, China.
Oliver Schneller was born in Cologne, Germany in 1966, grew up in Europe, Africa and SouthEast Asia, and studied composition with Tristan Murail at Columbia University in New York, where he completed his doctorate in Music Composition in 2002. He obtained his Masters Degree in Composition with Lee Hyla at the New England Conservatory and additionally studied with Thea Musgrave and John Corigliano at the Graduate Center of City University New York. During his studies he received important impulses through from Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, and George Benjamin.
The focus of Oliver Schneller’s compositional work lies in the creation of networks between musical instruments, architectural spaces, and live computer processing. From 2002-2004 he was “compositeur en recherche” at IRCAM working with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He was a guest artist at ZKM Karlsruhe, at the Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg, and at the GRM Studios at Radio France.
His works have been conducted by Ilan Volkov, Jonathan Nott, Stefan Asbury, Peter Rundel, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enno Poppe, Baldur Brönnimann, Pierre-André Valade, among others, and were presented at numerous international music festivals including Festival Présences Paris, Biennale Quatuor á cordes Paris, MATA New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, June in Buffalo, the “Millenium Stage Series” at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Festival Résonances, Festival Agora Paris, Wien Modern, Munich Biennale, Beijing Modern, Maerzmusik Berlin, Witten Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Ultraschall Berlin, Musica, IFNM Darmstadt, Musicacoustica Beijing, ICMC 2003 Singapore and Takefu New Horizons Festival (Japan). He has received commissions from radio stations in Germany, IRCAM, the Fromm Foundation, Meet The Composer, Radio France, Tanglewood, ZKM Karlsruhe, SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Radio France and the Berliner Festspiele. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, musikFabrik, Avanti!, Ictus, Court-Circuit, Speculum musicae, Wet Ink, New York New Music Ensemble, Tanglewood Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, China Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Philharmonic, SWR Radio Orchestra and others.
As a saxophonist, Schneller has performed with ensembles such as the George Russell Big Band, the Gustav Mahler Youth Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and the Tanglewood Symphony Orchestra, as a soloist in Tan Dun’s Red Forcast, under the direction of the composer.
Besides his work as a composer Oliver Schneller is actively involved in intercultural and cross-disciplinary projects. In 2004 he was the founder and artistic director of “Tracing Migrations”, a music festival in Berlin, featuring the works of contemporary emerging composers from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. In 2005 he curated a project on «East Asian and Western Concepts of Musical Beauty» at Berlin’s House of World Cultures with composers Toshio Hosokawa and Helmut Lachenmann. In 2006 he was a lecturer and mentor for young composers from Cairo as part of the Global Interplay Project hosted by Musik der Jahrhunderte/SWR Stuttgart. From 1990-91 he worked for the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal on a project to support and sustain indigenous music cultures.
Oliver Schneller has held residencies at Ircam/Centre Pompidou, Cincinnati Conservatory, Takefu (Japan), Central Conservatory Beijing, ZKM Karlsruhe, Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg and is the recipient of the Fromm Prize of Harvard University, four ASCAP Awards, and fellowships from the Siemens Music Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Columbia University and the Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo. His music has been released on Mode Records, Wergo, Hathut, Telos, Raumklang, and CPO, and is published by C.F. Peters.
From 2009-10 Oliver Schneller held a professorship in composition at the Conservatory of Music in Stuttgart as sabbatical replacement for Prof. Marco Stroppa. From 2012-2015 he was a professor of composition at Hannover Conservatory of Music, where he was also the director of «Incontri – Institute for New Music». In 2014 he was on the faculty of the Darmstadt International Summer Course in Composition, and in 2015 at the Beijing International Composition Workshop (BICW).