Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Arts Gallery meets the art-fans again at Contemporary Istanbul, the most comprehensive contemporary art event of Turkey, the 10th edition of which has been organized this year.
Açıkekran will participate in Contemporary Istanbul held in Istanbul Congress Center and Lütfi Kırdar International Congress and Exhibition Center on November 12-15, 2015 with Sibel Kocakaya's video installation in the booth number IKM A1-116. Açıkekran’s exhibition layout is curated by Ali Akay.
Young representative of contemporary art: Sibel Kocakaya
Within the scope of Contemporary Istanbul, which has brought the most important domestic and foreign institutions, galleries and initiatives of the contemporary art throughout the last decade, Açıkekran will this time introduce Sibel Kocakaya, one of the young representatives of the current art, to the art-fans. The artist who will meet the exhibition-goers with her video work called “Waving the Piano Keys” had participated in Açıkekran’s exhibition projects in the past years as well.
Basing her works on her ideational relationship with the daily objects which are around her, Kocakaya attempts to make a silent composition in her work “Waving the Piano Keys” by using the clothes-hangers she has encountered in Lyon, France. The images full of humour and reminding the silent movie scenes establish an ideational relationship between the market and daily life in Lyon and the spectators.
Açıkekran New Media Arts brings contemporary art to Anatolia
As being the unique art platform which is dedicated to video art Açıkekran New Media Arts, brings the contemporary art to Anataolia through particular displayed monitors in Şeberbank branches in 8 cities cities simultaneously with it’s gallery space.
Sibel Kocakaya
Waving the Piano Keys
Video, 2’39”
Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Arts Gallery
The art adventure of Şekerbank started with Ömer Sunar Art Gallery in the 80s and continued its activities in this field in Ankara until 2005. Şekerbank, which carries on banking activities with the target of financing the sustainable development, leads the way in the field of culture within the scope of Açıkekran New Media Arts Gallery within the framework of the missions of supporting art production by integrating the local with global and making the community familiar with art.
Within the scope of its project launched in 2011 under the name of "Açıkekran" in the field of "new media arts", Şekerbank aims at increasing the access to contemporary art and culture.
A work of art from each exhibition is broadcast for 24 hours by means of special monitors, simultaneously with Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Arts Gallery in Teşvikiye, at 9 Şekerbank branches in 8 cities, i.e. Istanbul Downtown, Küçükesat and Kızılay-Ankara, Alpullu-Tekirdağ, Ordu, Izmir, Bodrum, Mardin and Edirne, as well as the common areas of its General Management building in Levent-Istanbul.