Oda Projesi (Özge Açikkol, Günes
Savas, Seçil Yersel)
invited by kunstprojekte_riem and Kunstverein München
The Istanbul based group Oda Projesi will make a
new work in Munich. The first part will be a participation
project in the Messestadt Riem, a new living area
in the East of Munich, 20 March to 20 April 2003.
The second part will be a project at the Kunstverein
München, 4 June to 31 August 2003.
As its name indicates - "Oda" signifies
"space" - the group is interested in art
as a means to create new ways of living and dynamic
relations among different uses of private and public
spaces, bridging the gap between artists, non-artists
and communities. The Oda group has been working in
a specific neighbourhood in Istanbul since 1997, in
a place where they organise art exhibitions, workshops
with children, and other activities with people living
in the area. All these activities deal with the idea
of how to create different environments by the use
and occupation of the space. The project at kunstprojekte_riem
and at the Kunstverein will function in a similar
way, now involving the spaces, places and people from
Messestadt Riem as well as people from Munich. The
project space in the Messestadt Riem is open to be
visited.
Oda Projesi will introduce themselves and their work
in an artist talk in the Messestadt Riem: 26 March,
at 7 pm, Bewohnertreff, Lehrer-Wirth-Straße
14. They will also give a talk about their work in
Istanbul at the Kunstverein, 3 April, at 7 pm, as
a part of the exhibition program "Totally motivated:
A socio-cultural maneouver".
www.kunstverein-muenchen.de
