Sen ve Ben: A 5533 event with Fatma Bucak and Isin Önol

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As part of the public programing for 5533’s institutional residency and exhibition Under the Radar, artist Fatma Bucak and curator Isin Önol will collaborate on this evening event. They will orchestrate the Sen ve Ben 5533 Project (You and I 5533 Project) designed by Merve Ünsal and Nancy Atakan, that brings together individuals to realize projects, collaborations, or events that promote sharing, interaction, discussion and dialogue. This project took place at 5533’s space in Istanbul throughout 2018, and this will mark the first New York iteration of the project.

Fatma Bucak lives and works in London, and is currently an ISCP resident. She investigates the fragility, tension and irreversibility of history and the power of testimony and memory in her practice, often questioning traditional forms of history-making as well as cultural and gender norms. Solo exhibitions include Merz Foundation, Torino; GAM Palermo (both 2018); Brown University David Winton Bell Gallery, Boston; Pori Art Museum, Finland (both 2016); Artpace, San Antonio (2015); Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino (2014) and ARTER, Istanbul (2013). Major group exhibitions include GIBCA 2017 – Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art; Mophradat, Brussels; Beirut Art Center; Jewish Museum, New York; International Festival of Non- Fiction Film, MoMA, New York; Bloomberg New Contemporaries 13, ICA, London, Spike Island, Bristol and the 54th Venice Biennale.

Isin Önol lives and works in New York. She has produced a number of exhibitions in the United States, Austria, and Turkey as an independent curator since 2009. Before that, she led the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art in Istanbul as its director and curator. She is an an adjunct professor and guest critic at Montclair State University. As a guest lecturer and critic she has presented her work at New York University, Parsons, the School of Visual Arts, Transart Institute and Columbia University in New York, as well as other respected visual art programs in Austria and Turkey. She is a member of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University and is currently a member of the board of directors at the Roberto Cimetta Fund.