Artists' Film International 2019

July 23 – August 18, 2019

Istanbul Modern presented Artists’ Film International, a program featuring videos, animations, and short films by artists from around the world, in 2019. The focus of the program was “gender” which is a sociological and cultural phenomenon and artist Senem Gökçe Oğultekin was a participant in 2019 on the invitation of Istanbul Modern. Throughout the year, Oğultekin’s video titled "Dun (Ev)", 2018 was on view at the Istanbul Modern as well as other international partners of the program.

Established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2008, Artists’ Film International included 16 global partner organizations. In the previous years, Istanbul Modern participated in the program with videos by Ali Kazma, İnci Eviner, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Sefer Memişoğlu, Bengü Karaduman, Burak Delier, Vahap Avşar, Zeyno Pekünlü, Cengiz Tekin and Pelin Kırca.

Within the scope of the program, the artists’ whose videos are shown in the exhibition, with the curatorial selection of Istanbul Modern are:

Carolina Caycedo (Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Usa), Theresa Traore Dahlberg (Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden), Atefa Hesari (Ccaa / The Center For Contemporary Art Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan), Lars Laumann (Tromsø Center For Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway), Jacopo Mılıanı (Gamec / Bergamo Modern And Contemporary Art Center, Bergamo, Italy), Senem Gökçe Oğultekin (Istanbul Modern, Turkey), Marko Tirnanić (The Cultural Centre Of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia), Hguyen Haı Yen (Hanoi Doclab, Hanoi, Vietnam).

Program / Content: Öykü Özsoy Sağnak, Deniz Pehlivaner

Artists’ Film International 2019 Program Partners

Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA

Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania

CCAA / Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan

Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

GAMeC / Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

Hanoi DOCLAB, Hanoi, Vietnam

KWM artcentre, Beijing, China

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

NCCA / National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

n.b.k. / Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong

Project 88, Mumbai, India

Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway

Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK