In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, award-winning director and producer Chiara Clemente talks to filmmaker and creative director Ivan Olita about how the cinema culture is affected by the pandemic and what kind of charges we will see.
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, contemporary visual artist Angel Otero talks to curator and art writer Osman Can Yerebakan about the conception of his latest show “Present Memory” the deep, personal connections to his art, as well as the ways this period has affected him
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, artist and entrepreneur André Saraiva talks to art director and curator Jenny Mannerheim about how the pandemic affected him personally and what he hopes for the future. “The role of the artist depends on each artist. But we are all
Born in Istanbul. Kezban Arca Batibeki graduated from The Fine Arts Faculty of Istanbul Marmara University’s Graphic Arts Department. She worked for the best art and women magazines in Turkey as an illustrator, designed book covers, children books and movie posters. She created an animation film for Swedish State TV and worked as a production
Fascinated by the blend of art with various disciplines and out-of-the-box forms of display, Bryce Wolkowitz, Founder of Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York, dedicated his career to support an array of innovative and multi-disciplinary practices on art. ‘74 Co-Founder Demet Muftuoglu Eseli asked Wolkowitz how he got involved in the field of public art,
In this episode of “Nasıl Bir Yarın?”, co-founder of Autoban Seyhan Özdemir Sarper talks about the state of coming together in public areas during the new normal period, the redesign of the spaces, and the material approaches that will be applied to later designs after this process, moderated by Director of the Istanbul Design Biennial
How Gozde Ilkin got started… When I was in college, there were certain rules. I was in the painting department and there you were only supposed to paint with paints but I also attended the carpet atelier where you can be interested in many other things such as classical weaving. During that phase I started
Angel Otero is a Puerto Rico born contemporary visual artist specializing in painting. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Angel Otero is a visual artist best known for his process-based paintings. While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, designer and founder of eponymous fashion label Ümit Benan talks to Sven Schumann, founder, and editor-in-chief of the interview magazine “The Talks”, about his lifestyle during and after quarantine, the best choice he has ever made in the pursuit of
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, Avangard artist and cyborg activist Moon Ribas talks to ISTANBUL‘74 Communications Assistant Işıl İlkter about how she defines cyborgism as an identity, her various experiments with cybernetics and her works as a cyborg artist as well as how the cybernetics
The young and talented artist, Zeynep Solakoglu, lives and works in her apartment in Topağacı, where one would not expect such an artsy “inn” would exist. Her choice of bright colours both in her works and in her decoration taste gives one a feeling of being in a playground. Starting to draw and paint at
We paid a visit to the studio of young multi-disciplinary artist Zeynep Birced, located in Galatasaray. Her modest atelier mirrors her effortless eclectic taste, and her similarly varied work. Birced confessed she works best in there when she invites other artists to work in the studio, in order to create a collective atmosphere of concentrated
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, architect Han Tümertekin and designer & architectural critic Gökhan Karakuş talk about super-regionalism and explore how we can create sustainable paradigms for architecture and construction by analyzing architectural geographies. “Every locality had its own existence, but everything was in relation
Our latest contribution from Sleek Magazine Berlin. Painting in three dimensions while reframing art history. Given that she usually works in series of six or seven, it comes as no surprise that Eva Berendes’ two most recent works are named after days of the week – “Untitled (Monday & Tuesday)”, 2013. “I tend to do
Our visit is to our beloved friend Serdar Gulgun’s mansion in the Asian side in Çengelköy, situated right on the Bosphorus. Serdar, for those of you who have’t heard about him, is somewhat of a renaissance man who carries the grace of a nobleman. He is an interior designer, collector of Ottoman art as well
Marit Ostberg is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sweden. Her visual world has been described as uncompromising – uncompromisingly current and uncompromisingly sexy. How did you start directing queer feminist porn?I was asked to make a short porn for the Swedish feminist-porn-DVD compilation called “Dirty Diaries”. I was excited to do something that I
Canadian photographer Andrew B. Myers is based in New York City. He has collaborated with many brands and publications such as American Express, Airbnb, Apple, Vogue, Google, Time magazine, GQ and The New Yorker. Source Let’s jump straight into the conversation; what are you focused on nowadays?Right now I’m focused on settling into New York life and trying
Hanne Lippard (1984, Milton Keynes, England) is a writer and visual artist working with text in the idioms of concrete poetry and text art, using her own voice as her main medium. She lives and works in Berlin. Considering the constant move that we are all dealing with in our era, are you on this
JR is an artist who is in equal measures, a photographer and a graffiti artist. By fly posting black and white photographic images in public locations such as buildings, he states that the street is “the largest art gallery in the world. Initially beginning his career as a teenage graffiti artist on the streets of
Swedish fashion designer Johan Lindeberg is the founder of J. Lindeberg, Paris68, and BLK DNM. He has previously worked with Hans Brindfors Annonsbyra ad agency, Justin Timberlake, Diesel, William Rast, and Absolut. Johan has a daughter, Blue Lindeberg, who is a model. Source Tell us a little bit about your background. What was it like to pursue an interest in
German journalist Sven Schumann is co-founder of the online interview magazine The Talks. Schumann is also editor of Purple Magazine and started his own company, Black Ink. Source How did you end up with this profession?I always enjoyed talking to people, so it came to me pretty naturally. I started working with magazines around the world first
In 1986, Alain Passard opened his restaurant Arpege, previously run by his own master Alain Senderens under the name Archestrate. He named it so to pay tribute to music, his second passion and decorated the restaurant in an Art Deco style. Source First and Foremost thank you for welcoming me here today. It is such an
José Parlá (born 1973) has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. Parlá is a documentarian of city life. Using the backdrop of New York City and many other
Joseph Dirand has been sharpening his eye since childhood, he knows how to see, a rare quality indeed. He sees the space and perspective of a place. His sense for composition comes from his creative family background, he has a scenographer’s eye and frames volume with extreme precision. Dirand is sensitive to the way light
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