Exhibition
59th Venice Biennale: The Milk of Dreams
23 Apr 2022 – 27 Nov 2022
Venice
Venice, Italy
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Füsun Onur, Once upon a time..., 2022. Metal wire, crepe paper, ping-pong balls, variable dimensions. Photo Noyan Ayturan. Courtesy the Artist
Exhibition
Füsun Onur, Turkish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale
23 Apr 2022 – 27 Nov 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 19:00
Address
- Sestiere Castello
- Campo della Tana 2169/F
- Venice
Veneto - 30122
- Italy
Event map
An installation by the influential artist Füsun Onur will be presented at the Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, to be held between 23 April and 27 November 2022.
About
The Pavilion of Turkey is located in its long-term venue at the Arsenale, secured by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) for the duration of 20 years from 2014 to 2034.
As one of Turkey’s pioneering contemporary artists, Füsun Onur’s works deal with potentials of space, time, rhythm and form that are inherent in simple, everyday materials charged with narrative and oblique autobiographical references. In her prolific career that spans over half a century, Onur defied boundaries between painting and sculpture, becoming a pivotal figure to introduce avant-garde into the artistic canon in Turkey in the early 1970’s. Onur participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (2010), Istanbul Modern (2011), Maçka Art Gallery, Istanbul (2012), and ARTER, Istanbul (2014). Her works were featured at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2001), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2004) and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2005) as well as in the Istanbul Biennials (1987, 1995, 2011, 2015), the Moscow Biennale (2007), and dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel (2012).
The curator of the pavilion will be Bige Örer. Örer is currently the director of the Istanbul Biennial and contemporary art projects at İKSV.
