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Culture Desk

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Bora Akinciturk | Artist

Bora Akinciturk was born in Ankara, Turkey– funnily enough, the region where a vernacular representation of the Sphinx, dated 9,500 BC, is believed to be found. Although very specific on a geographical basis, this is not the central link connecting Bora Akinciturk ’s work to the enigma of the Sphinx. Inserted into a realm of

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Tulug Tirpan | Pianist

Born in Istanbul, Tulug Tirpan was accepted to the Bilkent University College of Music and Performing Arts in 1989 with a full scholarship. He studied piano with Martin Berkofsky and Namik Sultanov and studied counterpoint and harmony with Sami Hatipoglu. The artists that he was influenced by and worked with are; composer Jorge Sanchez Chiong

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Yesim Akdeniz | Painter

Yesim Akdeniz ’s stunning paintings have been shown at international contemporary art institutions such as Bonn Kunstverein, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum de Paviljoens Almere, PAK Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunstverein Frankfurt and Saatchi Gallery London. The artist is graduated at the Art Academy Duesseldorf in 2002 then has participated in residency programs of de Atelier’s, Amsterdam and

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Sleek Magazine Visits Juliette Bonneviot

Our first visit contribution from Sleek Magazine Berlin. Meet Juliette Bonneviot… She works from an apartment in Sonnenallee, but it would be more apt to consider the fibre-optic fabric of the internet as Juliette Bonneviot ’s studio – or at least the places where her ideas congregate and converge. Drifts through the plethora of images,

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Mark Romanek | Director

Mark Romanek moves adeptly between commercials, music videos and feature films. His daring, beautifully-crafted work has gained critical and commercial acclaim around the globe. “Never Let Me Go”, starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield was Romanek’s second feature film. He previously wrote and directed “One Hour Photo” starring Robin Williams. Romanek’s commercial work

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Zoe Cassavetes | Director

Zoe Cassavetes grew up in Los Angeles and worked on many productions as a director, writer, producer and actress. In the 1990’s, she teamed up with friend Sofia Coppola to make the TV show High Octane, one of the first shows to be entirely shot in digital video. Zoe Cassavetes also did stints as a

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Nate Lowman | Artist

Nate Lowman was born in Las Vegas in 1979. Having lived and worked in New York since obtaining a BS from NYU in 2001, he works primarily in painting, sculpture and multimedia installation, using objects and images taken from global media and American cultural sources and reconfiguring postmodern techniques of collage, appropriation, and assemblage. In

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Ruediger Glatz | Photographer

For years ruedione aka Ruediger Glatz was an active graffiti writer himself and the documentation of his works led him to photography. Ruediger Glatz says that passion, obsession and even addiction connects him to the medium and by now he exclusively uses the camera for his works. A visual expedition into a world that usually

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Nicolas Pol | Artist

Born in Paris, Nicolas Pol spent much of his childhood in Africa before relocating to France. He went on to earn his degree at the prestigious Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts at La Sorbonne. Following two successful solo shows at Alsopp Contemporary in London, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld presented Pol’s work in four large-scale international exhibitions –

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Isabella Icoz | Art Consultant

Isabella Icoz is of Greek origin, born in London, raised in Switzerland, educated in the United States and currently living in Istanbul. Isabella received a BA with Honors at Brown University, an MA at The George Washington University and a Post-Graduate Diploma with Merit in East Asian Art at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Isabella previously

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Angel Otero | Painter

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 of 20th century painting, his latest works highlights the artist’s unique process as a form of narrative in itself. Through his innovative

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Arem Duplessis | Design Director

Arem Duplessis is the Design Director of the New York Times Magazine Division (the Sunday Magazine, Key and T magazines). He has been Design Director and Art Director at various titles, including The New York Times Magazine, Spin, GQ and Blaze. Arem Duplessis has received numerous awards from organizations such as the Society of Publication

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Sandro Kopp | Painter

Sandro Kopp, one of our favorite artists, was born in 1978 in Heidelberg, Germany, of New Zealand and German descent. He started drawing and painting proficiently at a very young age and his art was exhibited from early childhood on. He had his first solo exhibition when he was seven years old, his second when

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