Susanne Weiß

Year 2013

Discipline Fine arts

Susanne Weiß is a museologist and lives and works as a curator and art educator in Berlin. In her work, it is important to her to produce a polyphony and to show art at the interfaces of its context. Since February 2021 she has been running the ifa gallery Berlin together with Inka Gressel (on behalf of Alya Sebti). From 2017–2021 she was a teacher for special tasks (QPL) at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. In 2017, together with Daniela Bystron, she developed the “Unfinished Glossary” and the associated workshop and communication program for the Hello World Revision of a Collection exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. Since 2015 she has been developing the touring exhibition The Event of a Thread – Global Narratives in Textiles together with Inka Gressel (ifa), which deals with textiles as a carrier of information. From 2012 to 2016, she was director of the Heidelberg Kunstverein. Since 2008 she has been a member of the RealimusStudio of the nGbK. Since 1996 she has worked in international exhibition contexts in places such as London, Oxford, Jerusalem, Vienna, Dresden, Sharjah, and Berlin.

Susanne Weiß was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from August to October 2013.

Year 2013

Discipline Fine arts

Susanne Weiß is a museologist and lives and works as a curator and art educator in Berlin. In her work, it is important to her to produce a polyphony and to show art at the interfaces of its context. Since February 2021 she has been running the ifa gallery Berlin together with Inka Gressel (on behalf of Alya Sebti). From 2017–2021 she was a teacher for special tasks (QPL) at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. In 2017, together with Daniela Bystron, she developed the “Unfinished Glossary” and the associated workshop and communication program for the Hello World Revision of a Collection exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. Since 2015 she has been developing the touring exhibition The Event of a Thread – Global Narratives in Textiles together with Inka Gressel (ifa), which deals with textiles as a carrier of information. From 2012 to 2016, she was director of the Heidelberg Kunstverein. Since 2008 she has been a member of the RealimusStudio of the nGbK. Since 1996 she has worked in international exhibition contexts in places such as London, Oxford, Jerusalem, Vienna, Dresden, Sharjah, and Berlin.

Susanne Weiß was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from August to October 2013.

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Nevin Aladağ

Year 2013

Discipline Fine arts

Nevin Aladağ, born in Van, Turkey, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her work is shown internationally on a regular basis. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Sculpture 21st (Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 2021), Nevin Aladağ: Fanfare (Southbank Center, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, 2020), Nevin Aladağ: Traces (Arter, Istanbul, 2020), Nevin Aladağ (Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China, 2020), New Work: Nevin Aladağ (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,2019/2020), Nevin Aladağ (Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, 2019), and Exercises in Harmony 1 (Kunsthal 44, Møen, Denmark, 2019, with Dorothee Diebold). In recent years she has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum Tinguely, Basel; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Galeri Nev, Istanbul; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main; The High Line, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; 57th Venice Biennale and documenta 14, Athens/Kassel. She lives and works in Berlin.

Nevin Aladağ was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from May to July 2013.

Year 2013

Discipline Fine arts

Berlin; 05.04.2013: Nevin Aladag arbeitet als K¸nstlerin in Berlin; f¸r ihr neues Projekt hat sie Freunde fotografiert, die sich ‰uﬂerlich (dresscode) auch sehr ‰hnlich sind; Kleiderordnung ist eben alles

Nevin Aladağ, born in Van, Turkey, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her work is shown internationally on a regular basis. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Sculpture 21st (Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 2021), Nevin Aladağ: Fanfare (Southbank Center, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, 2020), Nevin Aladağ: Traces (Arter, Istanbul, 2020), Nevin Aladağ (Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China, 2020), New Work: Nevin Aladağ (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,2019/2020), Nevin Aladağ (Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, 2019), and Exercises in Harmony 1 (Kunsthal 44, Møen, Denmark, 2019, with Dorothee Diebold). In recent years she has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum Tinguely, Basel; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Galeri Nev, Istanbul; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main; The High Line, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; 57th Venice Biennale and documenta 14, Athens/Kassel. She lives and works in Berlin.

Nevin Aladağ was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from May to July 2013.

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Zora Volantes

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Zora Volantes studied from 1994 to 2000 at the University of the Arts, Berlin, with Rebecca Horn and Katharina Sieverding, and in 2000 she graduated from Rebecca Horn’s master class. As an artist, she deals with questions relating to the protection and preservation of the earth and the danger that humans pose to it, for example, in the room installation and performance Planet Lost? in Weimar (2019) and Berlin (2021). She also addresses social and political changes. Recently, she conducted a series of nocturnal performances about the Coronavirus in public places, including: Don’t Touch Me (November 2020) and Dead Walk (March 2021) on the Museum Island in Berlin. The work of Zora Volantes includes room installations, performances, and drawings. She is represented in exhibitions in Germany and abroad, and she has received numerous grants and awards. From 2018 to 2019, she was a lecturer at the EC-Europa Campus Frankfurt and developed a module for a new course in the field of arts management.

Zora Volantes was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from May 2014 to January 2015.

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Zora Volantes studied from 1994 to 2000 at the University of the Arts, Berlin, with Rebecca Horn and Katharina Sieverding, and in 2000 she graduated from Rebecca Horn’s master class. As an artist, she deals with questions relating to the protection and preservation of the earth and the danger that humans pose to it, for example, in the room installation and performance Planet Lost? in Weimar (2019) and Berlin (2021). She also addresses social and political changes. Recently, she conducted a series of nocturnal performances about the Coronavirus in public places, including: Don’t Touch Me (November 2020) and Dead Walk (March 2021) on the Museum Island in Berlin. The work of Zora Volantes includes room installations, performances, and drawings. She is represented in exhibitions in Germany and abroad, and she has received numerous grants and awards. From 2018 to 2019, she was a lecturer at the EC-Europa Campus Frankfurt and developed a module for a new course in the field of arts management.

Zora Volantes was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from May 2014 to January 2015.

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Berthold Reiß

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Berthold Reiß, born in 1962 at Salzburg, and now lives and works as an artist in Munich. In his pictures, sculptures and texts, signs from the everyday world or collective memory reappear. Even if these seem to be pictograms, they are not used to convey information, rather an image surface that presents itself as primarily formal and often transparent. Most of his works are therefore watercolours. In 2021 he began doing the illustrations for the horoscopes in German Vogue. Recent solo exhibitions include Antinomia (Kunstraum München, 2020), Everything lost is meant to be found (Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, 2019), Sphinx (Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, 2019), Exemplar (Kunstverein Freiburg, 2019) and und du wirst nichts vergessen (and you will not forget anything) (Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, 2016).

Berthold Reiß was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from May 2014 to January 2015.

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Berthold Reiß, born in 1962 at Salzburg, and now lives and works as an artist in Munich. In his pictures, sculptures and texts, signs from the everyday world or collective memory reappear. Even if these seem to be pictograms, they are not used to convey information, rather an image surface that presents itself as primarily formal and often transparent. Most of his works are therefore watercolours. In 2021 he began doing the illustrations for the horoscopes in German Vogue. Recent solo exhibitions include Antinomia (Kunstraum München, 2020), Everything lost is meant to be found (Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, 2019), Sphinx (Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, 2019), Exemplar (Kunstverein Freiburg, 2019) and und du wirst nichts vergessen (and you will not forget anything) (Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, 2016).

Berthold Reiß was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from May 2014 to January 2015.

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Ola Kolehmainen

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Ola Kolehmainen, born in 1964 in Helsinki, lives and works in Berlin. As part of the first generation of the Helsinki School, he became known for his minimalist-abstract approach, which takes modern architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries as a starting point. In recent years he has turned his minimalist eye to the meta-level of art and architecture history. The turning point came in 2014 with a commission from Borusan Contemporary Museum in Istanbul, when Kolehmainen was working with Ottoman and Byzantine sacred monuments and developed an abstract, constructive way of photographing these historically charged buildings. In 2015 the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded him the RIBA Honorary Fellowship. From December 2017 to March 2018, the Helsinki Art Museum hosted a large-scale exhibition of his works entitled Sacred Places. He has held 50 solo exhibitions, published five monographs, and participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. He is currently working on new works for the 9th edition of the Beijing Biennale 2022.

Ola Kolehmainen was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2013 to March 2014.

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Ola Kolehmainen, born in 1964 in Helsinki, lives and works in Berlin. As part of the first generation of the Helsinki School, he became known for his minimalist-abstract approach, which takes modern architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries as a starting point. In recent years he has turned his minimalist eye to the meta-level of art and architecture history. The turning point came in 2014 with a commission from Borusan Contemporary Museum in Istanbul, when Kolehmainen was working with Ottoman and Byzantine sacred monuments and developed an abstract, constructive way of photographing these historically charged buildings. In 2015 the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded him the RIBA Honorary Fellowship. From December 2017 to March 2018, the Helsinki Art Museum hosted a large-scale exhibition of his works entitled Sacred Places. He has held 50 solo exhibitions, published five monographs, and participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. He is currently working on new works for the 9th edition of the Beijing Biennale 2022.

Ola Kolehmainen was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from October 2013 to March 2014.

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Nezaket Ekici

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Nezaket Ekici, an internationally known performance artist, lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. Born in 1970 in Kırşehir, she immigrated to Germany with her family at the age of three. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and received a master’s degree in art education from the University of Munich. At the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, she was a master class student of Marina Abramović in the field of performance (graduated in 2004). She has presented more than 250 different performances and installations in more than 60 countries on four continents in over 170 cities, museums, galleries and at biennials. In 2016/17, Ekici was awarded the Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, in 2018 the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize, and in 2020 the Cultural Exchange Grant of the State of Berlin for Fine Arts: ISCP New York.

Nezaket Ekici was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2013 to October 2014.

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Nezaket Ekici, an internationally known performance artist, lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. Born in 1970 in Kırşehir, she immigrated to Germany with her family at the age of three. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and received a master’s degree in art education from the University of Munich. At the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, she was a master class student of Marina Abramović in the field of performance (graduated in 2004). She has presented more than 250 different performances and installations in more than 60 countries on four continents in over 170 cities, museums, galleries and at biennials. In 2016/17, Ekici was awarded the Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, in 2018 the Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize, and in 2020 the Cultural Exchange Grant of the State of Berlin for Fine Arts: ISCP New York.

Nezaket Ekici was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2013 to October 2014.

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Silvina Der-Meguerditchian

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic work, she deals with questions of the burden of national identity, the role of minorities in society and the potential of a “space in-between.” Reconstructing the past and building archives are a common thread in her artistic research. Among her most important group exhibitions are Fokus Istanbul (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2005), Armenity (Armenian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale), which was awarded the Golden Lion for the best national representation (2015), and Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung (Hello World. Revision of a Collection) (Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2018), a critical examination of the collection of the Berlin National Gallery and its predominantly western orientation. At the 2020 Sharjah International Film Festival she received a special award in the documentary category for her film The Wishing Tree. In 2021 she was awarded the Falkenrot Prize. In January 2021, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, published her first comprehensive catalogue.

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from May to October 2014 and from September to October 2015.

Year 2014

Discipline Fine arts

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic work, she deals with questions of the burden of national identity, the role of minorities in society and the potential of a “space in-between.” Reconstructing the past and building archives are a common thread in her artistic research. Among her most important group exhibitions are Fokus Istanbul (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2005), Armenity (Armenian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale), which was awarded the Golden Lion for the best national representation (2015), and Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung (Hello World. Revision of a Collection) (Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2018), a critical examination of the collection of the Berlin National Gallery and its predominantly western orientation. At the 2020 Sharjah International Film Festival she received a special award in the documentary category for her film The Wishing Tree. In 2021 she was awarded the Falkenrot Prize. In January 2021, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, published her first comprehensive catalogue.

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from May to October 2014 and from September to October 2015.

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Mariana Vassileva

Year 2017

Discipline Fine arts

Mariana Vassileva works with the resources of sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and installation. After studying psychology and pedagogy at the University of Veliko Tarnowo, she studied theater studies at Leipzig and later fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. Exhibitions of her work and residencies have taken her to the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Tate Britain, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Stenersen Museum, Oslo; Total Museum, Seoul; and Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong. She has participated in various biennials, including the 17th Biennale of Sydney The Beauty and the Distance (2010), the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2011), and the 1st Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia (2007). Her works can be found in international collections, including the Wolfsburg Art Museum, Wolfsburg, Koc Museum, Istanbul, Rene Block Collection, Berlin and Israel Museum, Israel.

Mariana Vassileva was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2016 to July 2017.

Year 2017

Discipline Fine arts

Mariana Vassileva works with the resources of sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and installation. After studying psychology and pedagogy at the University of Veliko Tarnowo, she studied theater studies at Leipzig and later fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. Exhibitions of her work and residencies have taken her to the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Tate Britain, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Stenersen Museum, Oslo; Total Museum, Seoul; and Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong. She has participated in various biennials, including the 17th Biennale of Sydney The Beauty and the Distance (2010), the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2011), and the 1st Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia (2007). Her works can be found in international collections, including the Wolfsburg Art Museum, Wolfsburg, Koc Museum, Istanbul, Rene Block Collection, Berlin and Israel Museum, Israel.

Mariana Vassileva was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2016 to July 2017.

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Youssef Tabti

Year 2017

Discipline Fine arts

Youssef Tabti, born in 1968 in Paris, studied art history and visual arts in the city of his birth. His interdisciplinary, often cooperative projects revolve around social processes. In his works, which are shaped by his own multicultural origins and which encompass sound, spatial and video installations, photography, texts, and performative actions, he uses research methods of mapping and documentation to reflect critically on histories of geopolitical, post-colonial and social upheaval. They have been shown at the 3rd Berliner Herbstsalon (2017), Sinopale (2017), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2015), and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (2018). Tabti has received numerous grants, including from the city of Hamburg for a cultural exchange in the city of Busan, South Korea (2017), the ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin (2013), and the mare artist house of the Roger Willemsen Foundation (2021).

Youssef Tabti was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2015 to May 2016, from March to May and in September 2017.

Year 2017

Discipline Fine arts

Youssef Tabti, born in 1968 in Paris, studied art history and visual arts in the city of his birth. His interdisciplinary, often cooperative projects revolve around social processes. In his works, which are shaped by his own multicultural origins and which encompass sound, spatial and video installations, photography, texts, and performative actions, he uses research methods of mapping and documentation to reflect critically on histories of geopolitical, post-colonial and social upheaval. They have been shown at the 3rd Berliner Herbstsalon (2017), Sinopale (2017), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2015), and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (2018). Tabti has received numerous grants, including from the city of Hamburg for a cultural exchange in the city of Busan, South Korea (2017), the ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin (2013), and the mare artist house of the Roger Willemsen Foundation (2021).

Youssef Tabti was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy from December 2015 to May 2016, from March to May and in September 2017.

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Discipline: Fine arts

Hêlîn Alas

Susanne Weiß

Nevin Aladağ

Zora Volantes

Berthold Reiß

Ola Kolehmainen

Nezaket Ekici

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian

Mariana Vassileva

Youssef Tabti