SPEAKER: Banu Cennetoğlu
Showroom of Gallery Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb
27/02 2020, 7 pm
As a part of the program of the second edition of WHW Akademija, from February 17 – 28th 2020 Banu Cennetoğlu is conducting a two-week intensive for the program participants. Within a series of public events Evenings with WHW Akademija, she will give a public lecture i know it well but nevertheless?
The attempt to talk on behalf of someone else comes with a burden. In general, one will never know if you are doing something good, or if you are taking advantage, or if you are really talking about yourself when you are talking about them. These are blurry borders. How to not fully occupy the agency or space of someone who is silenced? When one says I love the silence, the silence is already disrupted. On the other hand, in the middle of atrocities, staying silent is a form of complicity.
Banu Cennetoğlu lives and works in Istanbul. Cennetoğlu explores the political, social and cultural dimension of the production, representation and distribution of knowledge and asks how it feeds into a society’s collective thought and becomes part of its ideology. Solo exhibitions include: K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2019); Sculpture Center, New York (2019); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2018); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2015); Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2013); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2011). Selected group exhibitions include: Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Bergen Assembly 2019; Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennale (2018); documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); The Restless Earth, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2017); 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014); Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010); 53rd Venice Biennale/Pavilion of Turkey (2009); 5th Berlin Biennale (2008); 1st Athens Biennale and 10th Istanbul Biennial (both 2007). In 2006, she initiated BAS, a project space in Istanbul focusing on collection and production of artists’ books and printed matter. In 2016, she was a guest at the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.