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Art & Craft lectures: Övül Ö. Durmusoğlu: "Recrafting the Popular"
Inspired by the works of Rossella Biscotti, Selma Selman, Hera Büyüktasciyan, Sandra Poulson, and Maryam Tafakory.
What makes contemporary art breathe in the thickness of now? What renders it necessary? Today the mould and content of the western artistic canons are more openly and chirurgically negotiated. And the craft that had divided ‘popolare’, ‘popular’, ‘populaire’ from the canon acquires a new kind of urgency and meaning in certain installation practices by womxn working to counter-archive the modernity from their border challenging positions such as Rossella Biscotti, Selma Selman, Hera Büyüktasciyan, Sandra Poulson and Maryam Tafakory. In ‘Recrafting the Popular’, curator, writer, and teacher Övül Ö. Durmusoglu analyses and bridges a cross section of versatile materialities and techniques in the planetary and transgenerational folds created by above mentioned artistic practices she has been part of as a curator.
Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is a curator, writer, and educator working on constructive critiques of civilization, sustainability of intersectional futures, and practices of togetherness. She co-leads Art in Discourse program at Braunschweig University of Art. Durmuşoğlu recently curated two major monographic exhibitions: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s Portrait of a Movement at CA2M, Madrid, and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2022–23), and Katrina Daschner’s Burn&Gloom, Glow&Moon: Thousand Years of Troubled Genders’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2022), also editing their publications. Between 2021 and 2023 she co-curated the 3rd the 4th editions of Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo with Joanna Warsza. Earlier, she taught as a guest professor at Universität der Künste Berlin Graduate School; curated programs within the 10th, 13th, and 14th Istanbul Biennials; worked as a curator for steirischer herbst 2018; and coordinated and organized different programs and events at Maybe Education and Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13). She lives and works in Berlin.
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The Art and Craft Lectures, hosted by the Art and Craft Department at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, is an annual lecture series devoted to art education, research, theory, and politics. The program, curated by Sara R. Yazdani and Susanne M. Winterling, nurtures an interdisciplinary exchange of practice and theory.