KUTU

" Kutu is a modular, transportable art gallery,project led since 2002 by Borga Kanturk, a Turkish artist/academician. He aims to gradually make the project into a foundation; it already has a graphic designer, architect along with the founding artists and curators.KutuV.1, the first version of thegallery is made entirely of ardboard, and hasalready held afew exhibitions at its current location. Afterwards, KutuV.2, an "info kiosk" version with a tougher structure was installed in the exhibition "B-Fact", which was put together by Huseyin Alptekin in Istanbul and featured some estalished artists from the Balkans.The mostrecent activity of the project was called "KutuV.3 : audio_files", which consisted of a listening booth installed at a group exhibition with a theme centered on music. Spectators were able tolisten through headphones to five sound art works with the ommon theme of "Hypoxia", creating another curated exhibition as a subset of

KUTU " portable art gallery" Team: Founder - Director: Borga Kanturk Founder Artists: Gokcen Cabadan, Elmas Deniz, Gokce Suvari Architect: Evrim Yigit , Art Director: Ali Bati

KUTUv.1 , which is consisted of gallery room and office, covers an area of 20,25 m2. The place, with the height of 2.3 m. , keeps the chance of alterations in the lighting system and surface coverals according to due to the artists wishes. KUTUv.1 “portable Art Gallery” is presented to an audiene for the first time in Proje4L’s group exhibition : “ Under the beach : The Pavement” from 22 november 2002 to 17 january 2003 After the first exhibition in Istanbul , Kutu has been transported to IZMIR. This project rebuilded in a D.E.U. Faculty of Fine Arts and then Kutu will go an other activities in the faculty with an another artists. Kutu welcomes all artists and curators to propose new ideas and projects for the gallery.

Merhaba İç Sıkıntısı / "Hello Tedium" (22.11.2002 – 17.01.2003) Artists: Gökçen Cabadan, Elmas Deniz, Gökçe Süvari Curator: Borga Kantürk Place: PROJE4L İstanbul museum of contemporary art From the “Under the Beach: The pavement” exhibition ABOUT THE EXHIBITION The situation, which is meant to be the centre of attention in "Merhaba İç Sıkıntısı" exhibition, looks like a weariness to lack of communication. The greeting in the title of the exhibition emphasises on the effort to communicate. However by means of the works, the issues of ways of resisting like self confinement and self focusing making communication are the also lack communication. Therefore the bashful atmosphere of the works of existence greets a different meaning; which is more likely an exclamation of boredom, than an aim to communicate. Elmas Deniz creates scientific schemes and plans in her works as a way of communication. But these schemes, which are like scientific expressions, are not placed

Kusursuz Seyirci / Perfect Spectator 30.04.2003 - 10.05.2003 Kutu v.1 "portable Art Gallery Place: D.E.U. Faculty of Fine Arts - İzmir Artists: Murat Gunes, Zafer Gungen, Gencer Yuzer Curator:Borga Kantürk ABOUT THE EXHIBITION "THE PERFECT SPECTATOR" The second exhibition held in Kutu V.1 titled "The Perfect Specator" is presenting three recent works by three artists in an interwoven manner within the prefabricated interior of the gallery, inviting its spectators to a new way of reading these works created independently of each other. The photographic images Zafer Güngen has extracted from international weekly news magazines and newspapers are spread over large pieces of flowing fabric, not bound to a frame. The works bring together unrelated images that the artist does not belong in and watches from a distance on the same surface, freeing them from their contextual meanings. Regardless of the amount of violence on the images, the density that forms when the i

Alexandre Yorgi // RETROSPECTIVE 20-30.05.2003 KUTU v.1 "Portable Art Gallery" Place: D.E.U. Faculty of Fine Arts, İzmir Curator: Ahmet Uhri ABOUT THE EXHIBITION The third exhibition held in Kutu V.1 titled "Alexandre Yorgi Retrospective"; is presenting selected works by Alexandre Yorgi.

Kendisi; Nesne Olarak resim, Resim Olarak Nesne Itself: Painting as an object, Object as a painting (30.10. 2003 - 14.11.2003) Artists: Nilay Atsiz , Gokcen Cabadan, Seda Ozen Curator: Borga Kantürk Place: KUTU v.1, in DEU GSF, Floor-1, IZMIR

' the city-engraver' (18.12.2003 – 20.01.2004) Artists: Elmas Deniz ,Merve Sendil Uygar Ozel, Isik Yaren Place: KUTU v.1, in DEU GSF, Floor-1, IZMIR

KUTU v.2 : office: Borga Kantürk, Evrim Yigit, Ali Bati, Elmas Deniz, Gokce Suvari, Gokcen Cabadan, Murat Günes KUTU v.2 is a place which was designed as an art office for the purpose of documenting the works of the artists of “KUTU” B-fact: “Black Sea / Baltic Sea / Barents Sea” Mutual Realities/ Artistic Exchange/ Inter-regional Solidarity, Recognition/Switch/Hospitality” realized within the scope of the international exhibition. Place: Bilgi Atelier 111, ISTANBUL Date: 20 – 27. September. 2003

KUTU v.3 : audio_files “Derinlik Sarhoslugu”(Hypoxia), “Kutu v.3:audio_files” (Sound-Music Project.) This project is an inner Cd exhibition, edited as an Audio-Cd. It was displayed within the scope of the joint exhibition of “80m² Music” . “Hypoxia” Curator: Borga Kantürk Artists: Dissastrato, Murat Gunes, Okan Oganer, Ugursal Sark, Fergun Urgancioglu Place: A.S.G., Istanbul - Date: 7 – 30. November. 2003

KUTUV.4 team: Founder / Director: Borga Kantürk Arhchitecht: Evrim Yiðit Artists: Gökçen Cabadan, Elmas Deniz, Murat Güneş, Gökçe Süvari,Oliver Noens Art Director: Ali Batı ABOUT KUTUv.4: KUTU v.4 made up of EPS, is the box that has the maximum space as compared to the pervious ones. The interior seems almost without any boudaries, as the material is light, easy to break and white. The entrance, which is 1.5 meters high, is designed to minimize the perception of the interior of “KUTU”. The 2.5-meter long corridor, through which the viewers will have to stoop to pass, will be insulated from sound and noise to crate a deep silence in comparison to the noisy hum of the gallery. As artist will be working at the construction of “KUTU”, the construction should be completed without any difficulty. Some details have to be taken care of during the initial stages of the construction. The artists will decide where they will hang up their works or how they shall display them. This means that the

"the deepest breath” Artists: Ali Bati, Gökçen Cabadan, Elmas Deniz, Murat Günes, Borga Kantürk, Gökçe Süvari, Oliver Noens, Evrim Yigit Place: Kutu v.4 ( in exhibition “Rainbow for Tedium” AKBANK Art Centre) Date: 7 May - 12 June 2004 About the exhibition; Why carry out an exhibition called “the deepest breath”? What kind of structure is its existence based upon? What are the priorities? What has been altered sine the first exhibition - the initial “KUTU” exhibition of “Merhaba ic Sikintisi”( Hello Tedium) which portrayed the identical feeling as well as the pessimist search for a way-out? (And let us not forget that it was “Hello Tedium” that actually created “KUTU”(the box). It revelated the intencitive that provided strategic solutions to the implications of the title.) “the deepest breath” emerges from a condition, which encompasses the desired to experience, to approach and eventually to reach. It consist onf the indication (suggestion) of a special place and the state t

CHECK-IN EUROPE. Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art 18 May to 13 July 2006 p2p curated by Marketta Seppälä/Veronica Wiman EPO, Erhardtstr. 27, 80469 Munich Participants: Jasper Sebastian Stürup (DK) Joachim Koester (DK) Kathrine Aertebjerg (DK) Veli Granö (FI) Jari Silomäki (FI) Tellervo Kalleinen (FI) Anu Tuominen (FI) Jacob Dahlgren (SE) Frida Fjelllman (SE) Uglycute (SE) Hale Tenger (TR) KUTU (TR) Ahmet Ögüt (TR) http://epart.epo.org/exhibition/check-in/index.en.php

KUTUv.5 (place 02) , P2P , Epo, Munich, May 2006

KUTUv.5 (place 03), P2P , Epo, Munich, May 2006

KUTUv.5 (place 01) , P2P , Epo, Munich, May 2006

KUTUv.5 (place 01): left: Jari Silomaki (FI), right: Jasper Sebastian Stürup (DK)

KUTUv.5 (place 02): Joachim Koester (DK), Ahmet Öğüt (TR)

KUTUv.5 (place 03): left: Kathrine Aertebjerg (DK) , right: Frida Fjelllman(SE)

This is a paper model of KUTUv.1 that hosted the first KUTU exhibition called 'Merhaba ic Sikintisi' (Hello Tedium) (22.11.02-17.01.03)

KUTU v.1 : 1-“Merhaba ic Sikintisi”(Hello Boredom) Curator: Borga Kanturk Artists: Gokcen Cabadan, Elmas Deniz,Gokce Suvari Place: Proje4L Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (within the scope of exhibition “under the beach: the pavement”) Date: 22 October 2002 - 17 January 2003 2- “Kusursuz Seyirci”(Perfect Spectator) Curator: Borga Kantürk Artists: Murat Günes, Zafer Gungen, Gencer Yuzer Place: DEÜ, Fine Arts Faculty, First Floor, Izmir Date: 2 - 12 May 2003 3- “Alexandre Yorgi” Retrospective Place: DEÜ, Fine Arts Faculty, First Floor, Izmir Date: 20 May – 5 July 2003 4- “ITSELF:painting as an object, object as a painting” Curator: Borga Kantürk Artists: Nilay Atsız, Gokcen Cabadan,Seda Ozen Place: DEÜ, Fine Arts Faculty, First Floor, Ýzmir Date: 30 October - 14 November 2003 5- SEHIRKAZICI (the City-engraver) Curator: Borga Kantürk Artists: Elmas Deniz, Merve Sendil, Uygar Ozel, Isik Yaren Place: DEÜ, Fine Arts Faculty, First Floor, Izmir Date: 18 December 2003 - 20 January 2004 KUTU