Galerie Krinzinger & Krinzinger Schottenfeld curated by René Block
„Zwischenlager“

Curator(s):

René Block More

Born in Velbert on the lower Rhine in 1942, lives and works in Bremen and Berlin René Block opened his gallery in Berlin in 1964. at about the same time, he began working as a curator for the neue Berliner Kunstverein, the Berliner Fest wochen, and the city’s akademie der Künste. From 1997 to 2006, Block was director of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. after realizing the nordic Pavilion for the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), he retired from major international projects. in the same year, he founded a platform for contemporary Turkish art, TanaS, in Berlin.

Artist(s):

• Pravdoliub Ivanov
• Vikenti Komitski
• Miklos Onucsan
• Cengiz Tekin
• Gabriela Vanga
• Şener Özmen More
  Sener Ozmen (1971) is a new media artist, writer, editor and translator living in Wilmette, Illinois, US. He was an both actor of dissident contemporary art practices that developed in Istanbul after the 1990s, and in Diyarbakir in 2000s, the city where he lived and produced, and he was one of the art writers who wrote this development through period exhibitions and artists (especially Kurdish). His articles on Kurdish identity, nationalism, militarism, sexism, production of art and literature in war and conflict zones, migration and post-migration trauma problems in his unique language have been published in art magazines and newspapers. He also published two books and many catalog texts on the same subjects. Ozmen's short films and video works have been shown in the world's most respected contemporary art museums and group exhibitions. In 2016, he was a judge at the Love & Change Film Competition at if Istanbul (Istanbul International Independent Film Festival) together with documentary director and screenwriter Adam Curtis (UK) and documentary producer Philippa Kowarsky (Israel). Ozmen curated many exhibitions and presented solo exhibitions and won the Prix Meuly (Hoch Hinaus, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland) in 2005.

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