Ovul Durmusoglu

Current Contacts:
Mobile:  ++ 90 (0) 532 7769597 (TR)
	  ++ 43 (0) 699 11553794 (A)
              
E-mail: ovdur@yahoo.com
Blog: www.theladyfromshanghai.blogspot.com

Date and Place of Birth: 2 November, 1978   Ankara, Turkey

Education: 

2005-2006 	Critical Studies, Post graduate prog., Malmö Art Academy, 
                        Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
2002-2005    	MFA in Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, VA/VCD prog.,              Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
1996-2001  	BA in Translation and Interpreting, School of Foreign Languages,     Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

Grants/Awards:

2007	Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per L’Arte –Enterprize IV Edition, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy.

Job Experience: 

2007	Curatorial trainee, Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. (March-June)
2006-2007	Consultancy and Coordination, RadikalArt: Ardindan Degil Karsisina (Face to Face), Istanbul, Turkey.
2006	Curatorial trainee, For a Special Place: Works and Documents From Generali Foundation (Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City), Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. (October-December)
2003 	Assistant to Aernout Mik in 8th International Istanbul Biennial Poetic     Justice, Istanbul, Turkey. 
2002-2005 	Research and Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, VA/VCD prog., Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Projects:

2008		Initiator and coordinator, EGOCITI, Vienna, Austria. (scheduled)
		Data Recovery, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy. (scheduled) 
2007	Producer, Turkish Cinema Now (Altyazi), CinemaEast International Film Festival, New York City, USA.
Curator, Next Code: Love, Steirischer Herbst, Gleisdorf, Austria. 
Guest Curator, sidewalkCINEMA – Vienna, Austria.
Curator, nightcomers, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary - Optimism in the Age of Global War, Istanbul, Turkey. 
Proposal Commitee, Fair Play’07: Film and Video Award, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Coordinator, RadikalArt: Ardindan Degil Karsisina (Face to Face), Billboard project, Istanbul, Turkey.
2006	Contributor, DICTIONARY, ed. Ask, Hillesø, Rasmussen & Rosasco, Printed in Istanbul, Turkey.
Initiator and Coordinator, EXOCITI, Istanbul, Turkey.
            Participant of 2nd and 3rd Acts, AMX 05 (Arhus Malmö Exchange Project), Galleri Signal, Malmö, Sweden.
Critical Studies’05 Collective, Malmö Art Academy Year Exhibition, Malmö, Sweden.
Critical Studies’05 Collective, Billboard Project for Normalization, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden.
Co-curator, Kargart 1. Video Exhibitions, Istanbul, Turkey. 
Critical Studies’05 Collective, Lund Museum, Galleri Pictura, Lund, Sweden.
2005	Critical Studies’05 Collective, Common Ground, Rooseum Test Site, Malmö, Sweden.
                       	Coordinator and collaborator artist, İttihad Sigorta Pasajı, İttihad Sigorta Pasajı, Istanbul, Turkey.
                       	Curator, Public vs. Private, Sabancı University Fass Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.

Publications:

2008	EXOCITI/EGOCITI, Publication production (scheduled)
	Data Recovery, Publication production (scheduled)
2007         	“Fate,” Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales of Zeki Demirkubuz, New York.
“Ourobouro,” Gercekçi Ol, İmkansızı İste, exhibition catalogue, Karsi Sanat Calismalari, Istanbul.
“Sokakta En Temelde Esitiz: Gecegezenler Tecrübesi Üzerine,” icon, October 07, Istanbul
“So Zeitgenössich und privat wie nie: Kulturpolitische Fragestellungen im Kontext der Istanbul Biennale 2007,” Kulturrise, Heft 3 2007, Wien.
Contributor, Kaos GL, Masculinity, Summer 2007, Ankara.
Contributor, For a Special Place: Works and Documents From Generali Foundation, exhibition publication, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City.
“Institution and Crisis: An Interview with Isabell Dahlberg from Rooseum,” muhtelif, No:2, Istanbul/Berlin.
 	“Resimde Yeni Bir Olasilik Hesabi”, (A New Possibility for Painting) Radikal, 06/02/07, Istanbul. 
“Marlene Dumas’ Private Views,” n.paradoxa, In/difference, January 07, London.
Contributor, Art Annual’06, Istanbul.
2006                “Vurkaç: Exociti Üzerine Kısa Bir Rapor,” (Hit and Run: A Short Report on Exociti) XXI architecture, city and design magazine, October 2006, Istanbul.
“Exociti, İllegal Bir Hayalet Proje,” (Exociti, An Illegal Phantom Project) Art-ist, Autumn 2006, Istanbul.
“Functional Amnesia and Critical Positions”, Paletten Art Magazine, #265, no. 3, 2006, Gothenburg.      
“Pornografi: Bir Tartışma, Bir Kategori ve Bir Bakışlar Alanı,” (Pornography: A Discussion, a Category and a Territory of Gazes) Kaos GL, Pornography, Summer 2006, Ankara. (confiscated)
Contributor, Art Annual'05, Istanbul.
2005 	            Regular contributor, Vs. Magazine, Istanbul.
 		Contributor, Art Annual’04, Istanbul.
“Abject ya da Bedenin Okunamazligi Uzerine,” (On Abject or Illegibility of Body) Cogito, Summer Edition 05, Istanbul.
2004-ongoing 	Editor and columnist, “Görüntü” (The Image) in Altyazı Monthly Cinema Magazine, Istanbul.
2002                “Fotoğraf Çekiyorum Oyleyse Varim: Andy Warhol’un Fotograflari,” (I Photo Therefore I Am: Photographs of Andy Warhol) Life and Art of Andy Warhol, exhibition catalogue, YKY, Istanbul.
2001-ongoing  Board Member and regular contributor, Altyazı Monthly Cinema Magazine, Istanbul.
1997-2001 	Regular contributor, Geniş Açı Photography Art Magazine, Istanbul.

Residencies:

2008		Research in Residence, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands. (scheduled)

Public Talks/ Workshops:

2007	2nd Qui Enter Atlas – International Symposium of Young Curators, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
	Guest Lecturer, Marina Griznic’s Conceptual Art Class, Akademie den Bildende Künste, Wien, Austria.
	Video and Urbanity, city system/s, Wolke 7, Wien. Austria.
Public talk for Next Code: Love, Steirischer Herbst, Gleisdorf, Austria.
Nightcomers as a Process, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey. 
2nd Qui Enter Atlas – International Symposium of Young Curators, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy. 
                        Artist Talk with Gokcen Cabadan, Endless Possibilities, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey.
2006                Artists Talk for Normalization, Critical Studies’05 Collective                           Participant, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden. 
2005	“The Use of Body in Feminist Art”, Cogito YKY Talks Series: Identities, Istanbul, Turkey.		
2004                Moderator, “Catherine Breillat: Art or Pornography?,” 5th Flying Broom International Womens Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey.
	“The Banality of Evil of Femme Fatales,” Film Noir Screenings, Mithat Alam Film Center, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.