| | | |  | | | | Old Galata Bridge, İstanbul, 1957 © Ara Güler / Ara Güler Museum. | | | Kısmet: New Perspectives on Turkish Visual Culture | | | Ara Güler » A Play of Light and Shadow | | | | 23 June – 8 November 2023 Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam | | | | | | | 23 June – 1 August 2023 Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam | | | Opening of the new exhibitions by Ara Güler and by Ece Gökalp on Thursday 22 June.
You are welcome from 20.00 until 22.00 hrs for this festive event with free entrance, drinks, and music by the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra. | | | Olgaç Bozalp » Dad on His Search for Hüseyin | | | | 14 June – 17 July 2023 Mercatorplein, public space | | | | | | | 24 June – 17 October 2023 MAQAM | | | | Opening: Friday 23 June 18:00 | | | Kısmet: New Perspectives on Turkish Visual Culture | | | | | | | Project presentation: 23 June at 18:00 CET MAQAM | | |  | | | | | | | ... until 24 September 2023 Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam | | |  | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 . 1017 DS Amsterdam
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© Ara Güler / Ara Güler Museum. | | | | | | A Play of Light and Shadow | | | | 23 June – 8 November 2023 | | | | This summer Foam is thrilled to unveil the exhibition A Play of Light and Shadow, a tribute to Ara Güler, one of Turkey's most legendary photographers. His profound love for İstanbul and Turkey is evident from his evocative black and white photographs. The exhibition is a close collaboration between Foam, co-curator Ahmet Polat and the Ara Güler Museum. | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 . 1017 DS Amsterdam
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| | | | | |  | | | | Tophane, İstanbul, 1958 © Ara Güler / Ara Güler Museum. | | | | | | The exhibition provides the opportunity to explore iconic and unknown parts of Ara Güler’s oeuvre as a renowned photojournalist who captured the essence of Turkey and the world beyond. Through four sections, The Iconic, The Historic, The Ambassador, and The Personal, the visitor is immersed in Güler’s photographic practice from his iconic work as a photojournalist to his remarkable experimental work. Ara Güler A Play of Light and Shadow serves as a testament to Turkey's rich history and offers a glimpse into the ever-evolving Turkish identity.
Ara Güler (1928-2018) was a prominent photojournalist and a driving force in Turkish photography. Celebrated as ‘The Eye of İstanbul’, his poignant black and white images of this city’s inhabitants, streets and docks remain his most celebrated works. Ara Güler immortalized numerous famous artists and political figures throughout his illustrious career. | | | | | |  | | | | Mount Ararat, 1965 © Ara Güler / Ara Güler Museum. | | | | | | Kısmet, an initiative created and developed in close collaboration between Studio Polat and Foam. The multi-year project is inspired by longstanding cultural, diplomatic and economic ties between Turkey and the Netherlands. Kısmet delves into the diverse and intricate facets of Turkish visual culture, as seen through the lens of different generations of image makers.
Publication
The exhibition will also be accompanied by the publication A Play of Light and Shadow, with contributions from several specialists in the field. Hannibal Books is the publisher of this publication, which will be available at Foam and several bookstores.
The Ara Güler Museum and the Ara Güler Archives and Research Center
The Ara Güler Museum and the Ara Güler Archives and Research Center were established as a result of a partnership between Ara Güler and Doğuş Group. The mission of the Ara Güler Museum is to share Güler’s versatile artistic identity, inspiring life and esteemed archives with the widest possible audience. The museum aims to highlight and promote the visual, emotional and social impacts of his photography through local and international exhibitions, publications, events and collaborations. The Center works towards preserving the artist’s archives in the structure it was created during his lifetime and passing on his legacy to future generations. In addition to his photographic archive, the collection comprises Güler’s cameras, dark room equipment, books, diaries, correspondence, personal items and art collection. The Ara Güler Archives and Research Center conducts the digitization, indexing, classification, conservation and restoration of the archives. | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | Image from the series After Anahit, 2023
© Ece Gökalp. | | | | | | After Anahit / Foam 3h | | | | 23 June – 1 August 2023 | | | | Ece Gökalp's exhibition in Foam 3h revolves around two major events that took place in the Northeast of Turkey. With this project, Gökalp sheds light on conflicts related to cultural heritage, ecological devastation, and the complexities of changing geography due to historical events through in-depth research, photography, and archival material. | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 . 1017 DS Amsterdam
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© Ece Gökalp. | | | | | | Gökalp's main interest is the theory of photography. She explores the controversy surrounding photography, the photographic gaze, and the indexicality of photography in various contexts. She also investigates how photography can shape our perception of different places.
Ece Gökalp is a visual artist from Istanbul. She studied photography and video at YTU in Istanbul and spent a semester at the Graphic Design Department of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague with an Erasmus scholarship. Later, she went to Berlin to study Art in Context at UdK Berlin. | | | | | |  | | | Image from the series After Anahit, 2023
© Ece Gökalp. | | | | | | | Ece Gökalp has been part of many group exhibitions, mostly in Istanbul and Berlin. In 2017, she had her first solo exhibition in Apartment Project Berlin, followed by her second solo exhibition in Istanbul, with her master thesis project in 2018. | | |
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© Olgaç Bozalp. | | | | | | Dad on His Search for Hüseyin | | | | 14 June – 17 July 2023 | | | | | | Mercatorplein public space . 1057 CA Amsterdam
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© Olgaç Bozalp. | | | | | | Foam has been working with the West City District for years to present exhibitions in Mercatorplein's public space. In Dad on His Search for Hüseyin, visual artist Olgaç Bozalp follows his father around with his camera on a journey through different locations that serve as backdrops for their personal stories and adventures to unfold.
In the series, photographer Olgaç Bozalp follows his father Hüseyin around with his camera, recording his model’s unique way of travelling. The result is a photo series that brings us back to the family album images many have at home, with their colourful, fuzzy, overexposed, and weirdly framed snapshots. Images that, nonetheless, capture the feeling of temporary relief vacations provide, with their unexpected encounters and sun-drenched memories. | | | | | |  | | | Dad on his search for Hüseyin, June 2021
© Olgaç Bozalp. | | | | | | Olgaç Bozalp (b. 1987, Turkey) is a visual artist with a fictional approach to documentary photography. His photographic research explores topics connected to travel, cultural identity, and migration. Through the juxtaposition of Western and non-Western beauty, masculinity, and femininity, his art promotes a more diversified understanding of these concepts and challenges their traditional roles.
Olgaç became Foam Talent in 2022. His photographs have been published by T Magazine, Dazed, Le Monde, and Atmos as well as exhibited in Aperture Gallery, Unseen, National Portrait Gallery and Sharjah Art Foundation. | | |
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© Olgaç Bozalp. | | | | | | Leaving One for Another | | | | 24 June – 17 October 2023 | | | | Opening: Friday 23 June 18:00, MAQAM | | | | | | MAQAM Jan van Schaffelaarplantsoen 2 . 1061 DN Amsterdam
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| | | | | | | In the series Leaving One for Another the artist explores the cultural identity of transmigrants and their reasons for leaving their homeland. Drawing upon his personal experiences as a migrant, Bozalp combines staged and documentary photography to present emotive matters of migration and finding a home in new environments. | | |
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Galerie Mercatorplein from 17 May until 23 Jun 2022 | | | | | Kısmet: New Perspectives on Turkish Visual Culture | | | | | | | 23 June at 18:00 CET | | | | | | MAQAM Jan van Schaffelaarplantsoen 2 . 1061 DN Amsterdam
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| | | | | | | The multi-year project Kısmet delves into the diverse and complex facets of Turkish visual culture, seen through the lenses of different generations of image-makers. Artists Olgaç Bozalp, Ece Gökalp and Gülşah Bayrak will show different views of contemporary Turkey through their work. By bringing them together within Kısmet, we aim to present diverse perspectives on Turkish identity and show how identity can be expressed through photography. | | | Kısmet
Through the lens of Turkish visual culture
How do different generations of Turkish image-makers give shape to the worlds they live in? With shared heritage as the starting point, multi-year project Kısmet explores the complex and rich perspectives of Turkish visual culture. Initiated by the longstanding cultural, diplomatic and economical connections between Turkey and the Netherlands, Kısmet was created by artist Ahmet Polat and further developed with Foam.
In Kısmet, we explore the diverse and elaborate aspects of Turkish visual culture, as seen through the lens of different artists. From the historically renowned photojournalist Ara Güler, known for his striking black and white street photography, to contemporary image-makers such as Olgaç Bozalp and Ece Gökalp. We particularly offer space for a diversity of new, present-day perspectives, through the works of other emerging artists like Oğulcan Arslan, Alp Peker, Kıvılcım S. Güngörün and Cansu Yıldıran.
This curated theme dedicated to Kismet is the digital meeting point of a wide variety of physical and digital content connected to the topic: from (online) exhibitions showing work of these artists to articles and podcasts, responding and reflecting on the thematics.
Step into Kismet and explore its rich visual landscape. | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Tracy in Camo, 2023 © Sara Cwynar.x | | | | | | S/S 23 | | | | ... until 24 September 2023 | | | | Foam is proud to present a large-scale solo exhibition by Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver, CA), the seventh exhibition in the series Next Level. Sara Cwynar is a leading artist of her generation who seeks to make sense of our current visual culture through photography, essayistic video works, collages, installations and books. In her studio, she collects and documents images and objects to identify the ways that these everyday materials shape our lives as we consume them. In this way, she captures the prevailing ideals and ideologies of an era. | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 . 1017 DS Amsterdam
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© Sara Cwynar, courtesy of the artist and the Approach London | | | | | | Through photographs taken from encyclopedias, the internet and a myriad of catalogues, excerpts from literary essays by leading thinkers as well as witty captions she plucks straight from Instagram – Cwynar gives chapter and verse to the process of imaging that shapes how we perceive the world. A common thread in Cwynar's work is her ongoing research into the effects of consumerism and how it subconsciously shapes our beauty and lifestyle ideals and subsequently, our self-image. Much of her work specifically focuses on the female consumer: from the cultural phenomenon of the New Woman of the turn of the nineteenth century until now. The exhibition title, S/S 23, is the usual designation for the new fashion season – in this case 'Spring/Summer 2023'. It refers to the trends that come and go, that keep pushing us to buy new products and conform to new ideals.
New work will premiere in her solo exhibition, in which she examines not only the products, but also the buildings with which we shape our living environment. Her work is like an index to the Zeitgeist, charting which ideals we strive for and which are lost. In addition, the existing video work Red Film (2018) will be shown, in which the artist hangs upside down and shares her research findings, while interrupting and being interrupted by a male narrator. Red Film uses the perfect red lipstick to reveal and critique what and why we buy, what this says about society's expectations, how our desire is constantly fed, and what value we ascribe to all these products we surround ourselves with.
Like an anthropologist of our contemporary economy of endless choice, Sara Cwynar explores what the products, colours and images are with which we constantly shape our lives and identities and how they change over time. Through her work, she encourages the viewer to go beneath the surface of capitalism and modern visual culture to discover what is ‘real’. The outcome is a detailed examination of the mechanisms that guide and determine our perception, making her work as seductive as it is disturbing.
| | | | | |  | | | | Pamela as Pamela, 2023 © Sara Cwynar. | | | | | | Foam & Sara Cwynar
Next Level: Sara Cwynar marks a long-standing relationship between Foam and the artist, who first exhibited in Amsterdam at Foam 3h in 2013 with her solo Everything in the Studio (Destroyed). In 2015, she was also chosen as one of the Foam Talents and her work was part of the exhibition Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography presented by Foam in 2014, which travelled on to Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY in 2015.
About the artist
In the ten years since her first solo at Foam, her career has swiftly taken off: Cwynar has participated in solo and group exhibitions at international museums including Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2021); The Guggenheim Museum, New York (2021); LACMA, Los Angeles (2020); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2019); Milwaukee Art Museum (2019); Oakville Galleries (2018); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2018); MMK Frankfurt (2017); Fondazione Prada (2016); and MoMA PS1 (2015). Her work is included in the collections of museums such as the Guggenheim Museum (New York), SFMoMA (San Francisco), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York) and Foam. In 2021, Aperture published her second book Glass Life and she has won several awards in recent years, including the Ammodo Tiger Short Award, twice for her video works Rose Gold (2017) and Red Film (2018) at IFFR. Sara Cwynar lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and is represented by Cooper Cole, Toronto and The Approach, London. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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