TürkçeAlthough different sources assign dates to it varying within a 2-year range, the National Women’s Day emerging as a result of a riot in New York in 1908-1910 begins to be referred to in 1910 as March the 8th World Women’s Day, following the proposal of Clara Zetkin, a women’s rights activist from Denmark. In […]
Thanks to their collectorship tradition and their projects in support of art, Büyükkuşoğlu Family is always under the spotlight. As the founder of The Art Department and the director of the family collection, Gamze Büyükkuşoğlu is also a multi-tasking professional with formal education in the field. We talked to her about their ongoing projects at […]
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Sep
2017
Sep
2017
The newest member of the Art50.net family and a cinema professional, the artist Kerem Topuz focuses on contemporary consumerism and popular imagery. We deeply enjoyed our conversation with Topuz on subjects ranging from Pop Art to Capitalist Critique.
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Apr
2017
Apr
2017
Deniz Defne Acerol is truly a storyteller. In her compositions, she uses classical and mythological references with a contemporary critical approach. We talked with Defne who has recently joined the Art50.net family about her life, paintings and ongoing projects. You were born in Hong Kong. How old were you when you left? What was […]
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Mar
2017
Mar
2017
Losing oneself in Görkem Dikel’s paintings feels like asking questions never asked before and in the middle of a cosmic riddle; she believes an artist should constantly improve herself and should not be afraid of making mistakes. We talked to Dikel about her artistic journey and her compositions defying perception, pushing us to question our […]
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Mar
2017
Mar
2017
Heavily inspired by literature in her abstract compositions and offering a fresh approach to the concept of space, Müge Ceyhan is one of those artists who still experience a childhood enthusiasm while creating art, and she is confident in her intuition. We talked to Müge about her creative journey and her main sources of inspiration. […]
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Dec
2016
Dec
2016
As we say goodbye to 2016, we asked important names from our art circles, Banu Çarmıklı, Gamze Büyükkuşoğlu, Ahu Büyükkuşoğlu Serter and Sevil Dolmacı, about their 2016 evaluations and expectations from 2017. Banu Çarmıklı: The art event of the year in Turkey and the world? For Turkey, it was the cancellation of Art International art […]
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Dec
2016
Dec
2016
1/One Year with Art50.net; I have been part of the Art50.net family, a successful online art platform, for one year. I was going to leave my think piece incomplete if I didn’t mention how we enthusiastically talked about our new projects, how they injected hope in me as I shared my new ideas, and all […]
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Nov
2016
Nov
2016
These days Genco Gülan is working on his new installation in South Korea. The work at the Suncheon National Gardens, the work has a diameter of 20 meters and is composed of 300 old electronic devices; but none of them, most of them being TV moitors, are connected to electricity. Genco Gülan answered our questions […]
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Oct
2016
Oct
2016
In his works, Fatih Dülger focuses on the concept of void. He chooses painting both as a reaction to the loss of nature and an effort to understand it; he refers to painting as an indispensable act that makes life more bearable. We dived deep into a conversation with Fatih about his artistic practice. […]