THE 13TH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL BOOK IS PUBLISHED
Free digital copy available at 13b.iksv.org/book
The Book of the 13th Istanbul Biennial (14 September-20 October 2013) titled "Mom, am I Barbarian?" and curated by Fulya Erdemci, is published.
Edited by Fulya Erdemci with coordinating editor Demet Yıldız and designed by LAVA Amsterdam, the book provides a comprehensive documentation of the biennial, bringing together a visual narrative of exhibited works throughout the venues, poems by Lale Müldür and Ahmet Güntan, and commissioned essays by Alberto López Cuenca, Andrea Phillips, Dan Hind, İlhan Tekeli, Suhail Malik, Suna Ertuğrul, Süreyyya Evren and Teddy Cruz.
Following a foreword by Istanbul Biennial Director Bige Örer, the book continues with Fulya Erdemci’s text, in which the curator regards the artworks as protagonists, and highlights their conceptual, thematic, and formal interrelations as well as references to each other. Erdemci seeks to introduce the curatorial thinking, agenda, and grammar of the exhibition in the first part of her text, and then goes on in the second part to describe how these ideas and themes were spatially embodied in the five venues of the biennial.
The Book of the 13th Istanbul Biennial can be downloaded for free on the biennial's website 13b.iksv.org/book or purchased at İKSV Design Store, iksvtasarim.com and Yapı Kredi Publishing.
Two artists’ books published as part of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, İnci Eviner's Co-Action Device: A Study and Maxime Hourani's A Book of Songs and Places are also available at the İKSV Design Store and on iksvtasarim.com.
The 13th Istanbul Biennial was organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the sponsorship of Koç Holding. Throughout five weeks, a total of 337,429 people visited the biennial, which offered free admission, in five different venues. The 14th edition of the Istanbul Biennial will take place between 5 September and 1 November 2015 as a city-wide exhibition held at various venues.
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