Genco Gulan

Genco Gulan (also Genco Gülan, born 1969 in Turkey ) is a contemporary Turkish conceptual artist and theorist.

Life and work

He lives and works in Istanbul, New York and Frankfurt am Main. His conceptual work examines the relationship between society and culture through painting and sculpture, and new media, performance art and installation.

He studied Political Science and Art at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and is a graduate of the Master New School, New York. Gulan attracted mainly by the political aspects of his work quite a stir.

Gülans work has been shown in the MAM in Rio de Janeiro, the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, at the Triennale di Milano, the Biennial of Tehran, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris and at the Duisburg accents at the Pera Museum in Istanbul. Solo exhibitions of his works found among others in the gallery Artist Berlin, Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara and in the Artda Gallery, Seoul, instead. He is the recipient of the artists BP prices, Lions and has been nominated and awarded in 2011 as a finalist for the Sovereign European Art Foundation Prize. His work has been put into the science curriculum at Hunter College, Rice University, at Hacettepe University and at UCSB. He has conducted at Yale University, the School of Visual Arts, the New York Institute of Technology and the University of Cologne seminars.

" The Duisburg accents are opened this year with an Istanbul Performance: " SURNAME 09: An Istanbul Celebration as a Temporary Sculpture Garden ". The performance developed by Yeşim Özsoy and Genco Gülan is a contemporary interpretation, which refers to Ottoman Festival. Surname 09 will produce an enormous pleasure in this quiet German city with its more than 100 actresses, musicians, dancers and technicians comprehensive occupation. The Duisburg König-Heinrich -Platz will be transformed by the miniature sculptures made ​​of metal, which are carried by balloons, cars and people dancing in a sculpture garden "

In 2012, the artist in Berlin explained that he had become the "First Living Art Museum " by Timm Ulrichs. Genco Gulan teaches at Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi and Bogazici University in Istanbul.