GULSEN, B.A.L., 2016.

Curatorial: "What is Left?"

Participating artists: Halil Altindere; Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber; Jan De Cock; Petra Gerschner; Mona Hatoum; Khaled Ramadan; Sener Ozmen; Dimitar Solakov; Nasan Tur

The exhibition "What is left?" questions space as a site for variable forms of intervention and interruption in order to reflect rapid processes of change in light of various historical turning points. Artistic interventions have often been the necessary results of internal struggles to assert the power of self-enunciation and self-emancipation.

The featured works analyze how individuals are able to create alternatives within a system in which many aspects of life are predetermined, as well as how to push back against dominant patterns of thought and forms of agency. What is the position of alternative forms of living, which are situated in a marginal social context and often do not find an adequate place for their public articulation?

The exhibition project "What is left?" is being organized in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (BMEIA).