The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) is pleased to announce the list of artists, duos, and collectives that will take part in the 15th edition of the Istanbul Biennial.
The 15th Istanbul Biennial, entitled a good neighbour and curated by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, reveals the participating artists of this year’s edition, which takes place from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding, the 15th Istanbul Biennial brings together artworks by 55 artists from 32 countries, all addressing different notions of home, belonging and neighbourhood. The biennial takes place in six neighbouring venues: Istanbul Modern, Galata Greek Primary School, Ark Kültür, Pera Museum, Yoğunluk Atelier, and Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam.
“Your neighbour might be someone who lives quite a different life from yours. And hopefully you, unlike many politicians lately, are not the one who chooses to deal with your fear of otherness by fencing yourself off. The artists in the 15th Istanbul Biennial raise questions about ideas of home, neighbourhood, belonging and co-existence from multiple perspectives. Some of the artworks examine how our domestic living conditions and modes have changed and how our neighbourhoods have transformed, while others focus on how we cope with today’s geopolitical challenges on a micro-level. The Biennial takes its form from the invited artists’ personal or analytical statements: an engaging mixture of hopes and visions, of sadness and indignation, of history and present day.” Elmgreen & Dragset, curators of the 15th Istanbul Biennial
List of artists
Galata Greek Primary School
Heba Y. Amin
Mark Dion
Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe
Kasia Fudakowski
Pedro Gómez-Egaña
Lungiswa Gqunta
Andrea Joyce Heimer
Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell
Olaf Metzel
Mahmoud Obaidi
Henrik Olesen
Erkan Özgen
Leander Schönweger
Dan Stockholm
Ali Taptık
Bilal Yılmaz
Istanbul Modern
Volkan Aslan
Alper Aydın
Monica Bonvicini
Louise Bourgeois
Latifa Echakhch
Candeğer Furtun
Kim Heecheon
Mirak Jamal
Fernando Lanhas
Victor Leguy
Klara Lidén
Mahmoud Obaidi
Lydia Ourahmane
Rayyane Tabet
Young-Jun Tak
Kaari Upson
Kemang Wa Lehulere
Yonamine
Xiao Yu
ARK Kültür
Mahmoud Khaled
Pera Museum
Adel Abdessemed
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Alejandro Almanza Pereda
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Vajiko Chachkhiani
Gözde İlkin
Liliana Maresc
Lee Miller
Aude Pariset
Sim Chi Yin
Dayanita Singh
Tatiana Trouvé
Tsang Kin-Wah
Andra Ursuta
Fred Wilson
Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hammam
Monica Bonvicini
Stephen G. Rhodes
Tuğçe Tuna
Outside all venues
Burçak Bingöl
Lukas Wassmann
