The coincidental, ephemeral and yet meaningful encounters serve as an extension of knowledge-production, reflection and learning together: Cruising Curators is an open invitation to think, act, recollect, fuse and circulate together with our communities-to-be.
The collective started off as a working group of the 11th Berlin Biennale’s Curatorial Workshop How now to gather and is currently constituted by: Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Luise Leon Elbern, Eirini Fountedaki, Viviane Tabach and Sarnt Utamachote.
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Founding Members
Bengisu Çağlayan (she/her) is a curator and cultural worker practising within the realms of curatorial research, artistic collaboration methodologies, (non-)institutional partnerships and fundraising for the arts. Mainly interested in debates on ‘the moving body’ and the experience of choreographic phenomena, Çağlayan combines research and practice that address the isolated and collective psyche of subjugated bodies. She received a research scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe in 2023. Her five-part radio show that brings together soundscapes of politics, uprisings and identities aired on Refuge Worldwide, a community radio based in Berlin.
Çağlayan currently works at the Berlin Biennale, and is the co-founder of STRÜKTÜR e.V., a non-profit organization for situated and diasporic artistic production and imagination from Turkey.
Keeping a second base in her native Istanbul, Çağlayan worked for the Istanbul Biennial since 2016 while undertaking additional roles for the Pavilion of Turkey at the International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. She writes regularly for the bimonthly magazine Sanat Dünyamız. Çağlayan holds a BA in Arts and Cultural Management from Istanbul Bilgi University and completed an Erasmus exchange program at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. bengisucaglayan.com
Former Members
Nuno de Brito Rocha (2020–2021)
(Workshop)
9.-10.06.2023
University of Cologne, Institute of Art and Art Theory
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(Exhibition)
23.06.–30.06.2023
Vernissage: 22.06., 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
University of Cologne, Institute of Art and Art Theory
Gronewaldstr. 2
50931 Cologne
The themes GROUP DISPLAY (EXPOSURE) deals with are just as varied as the materials and media used in the works shown: (care) work, psyche, body, (reversal of) views, urban spaces, spatial and synesthetic experiences are thematic fragments that gather, merge, circulate and confront. The exhibition illuminates contrasts and navigates in the spaces between light/ shadow, private/ public, inside/ outside, culture/ nature, and orientation/ disorientation.
(Fiona Peters)
With works by Soma Ahmad, Julia Bauer, Antonia Burggraef, Jonas Endres, Jenny Janac, Eda Kivanc, Maybritt Lohr, Teresa McMahon, Elias Müller, Ronja Munko, Sven Naujok, Fiona Peters, Maja Remmler, Elisa Roßkamp, Emre Sezen, Charlie Steinbrügge, Anouk Theißen, Delfina Weidner, and Nabi Wenke.
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