Ich bin ein Museum circles around issues like personal and cultural memory as well as private and public history. It shows how art’s approach to the recollection of knowledge differs from its populist presentation in mass media and from research methods in social science. Using distortion and irony Ich bin ein Museum criticizes the common methods of recollecting history in order to develop artworks, where the individual gets the chance to actively participate in the construction of a personal memory, which is merged with our collective one. Genco Gülan proves in Ich bin ein Museum that it is possible to overcome the classic methods of recollecting knowledge and get beyond the borders of the traditional models that shape our popularized social and cultural memory.
Genco Gülan who since the 1990’s due to his conceptually complex and aesthetically pluralistic work became a leading figure in Turkey’s contemporary art scene, develops artistic investigations in which the borderline between art and society often is porous in order to involve the spectator in his work. In Genco Gülan’s current exhibition Ich bin ein Museum at Gallery Artist in Berlin, he discusses visual art’s ability to develop alternative strategies for the recollection of knowledge in order to get beyond socio-cultural clichés and prejudices. In an eclectic and multidisciplinary manner, Gülan proposes ways of understanding history in the context of its current reality by deforming and deconstructing its descriptive artifacts, and cultural signs. (Marcus Graf, 2011)
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http://www.galeriartist.com/
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Gallery Artist, Berlin.
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Germany
Genco Gülan is a conceptual artist with an interest in new media and performance art. He studied Political Science and Art at Bogazici University then he pursued an MA degree on Media Studies at New School, New York. He got prizes from BP, New School, Lions, E.M.A.F. Nominated for the European Art prize in 2012 and got selected as a finalist. Gülan made solo shows in Istanbul, Ankara, Graz, Berlin, New York, Seoul and Zagreb. His works are presented in museums such as; Centre Pompidou, Pera, ZKM, MAM, Rio and La Triennale di Milano. He participated to festivals such as; Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art and Istanbul Festival. His net-art pieces have been exhibited at irishmuseumofmodernart.org, rhizome.org and kanonmedia.com/ His works listed in required reading lists such as; City University, New York, Rice University and U.C. Santa Barbara. Gülan gave conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts, Köln University and New York Institute of Technology. Genco Gülan and his art has been referred to by Newsweek, Herald Tribune, NY Arts, Art in America, Art News, Das Kunst, Beaux Arts and Idomenee. His monography edited Dr. Marcus Graf is published by Revolver Berlin the title "Conceptual Colors of genco Gulan". His book "De-Constructing the Digital Revolution" is published by LAP and both of the books are available at amazon.com/ Genco Gülan was in the Advisory Board of Balkan Biennial, Thessaloniki and International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore. He is the founder of the Web Biennial. Currently he teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Bogazici University.
marc garrett