Love Me Love Me Not/ YARAT/Baku
Love Me, Love Me Not is an exhibition of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours, featuring recent work by 16 artists from Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, and Georgia. Produced and supported by YARAT, a not-for-profit contemporary art organisation based in Baku, and curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi, the exhibition will be open to the public from 4 April until 25 May 2014 at the recently-opened Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku. Designed by Zaha Hadid, the Heydar Aliyev Center is one of her most ambitious projects to date. Over 100,000 square metres including the surrounding grounds, the center's walls that rise seamlessly from the surface of the surrounding plaza. The exhibition debuted at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, so its launch in Baku will bring the exhibition back to the region that inspired it.
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YARAT Contemporary Art Centre Opening: Shirin Neshat
YARAT CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE LAUNCHES WITH SHIRIN NESHAT’S THE HOME OF MY EYES
24 Mar - 23 Jun 15
YARAT Contemporary Art Centre begins its programme with Shirin Neshat's new series The Home of My Eyes.
24 March – 23 June 2015
To mark the opening of YARAT Contemporary Art Centre in Baku on 24 March 2015, YARAT is delighted to announce the exhibition Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes. This is a major new commission, produced following the artist’s time in Azerbaijan and also includes two of Neshat’s earlier works, the seminal video installations Soliloquy (1999) and Passage (2001) and is guest curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi.
Also marking the opening is an exhibition from YARAT’s permanent collection, with work by artists from the Caucasus, Central Asia and neighbouring countries, alongside work by international artists whose work resonates with Azerbaijan. The collection itself has been accumulated over the past three years and will continue to grow, in part through special commissions for exhibitions at YARAT Contemporary Art Space curated by Suad Garayeva.
Shirin Neshat’s work has explored the complexities of cultural identity, gender and power to express a vision that embraces Persian traditions and contemporary concepts of individuality. In her recent photographic work, she has focused on the portrait as a prism to reveal the cultural dynamics and personal histories of her subjects, exploring the narratives that can be ‘read’ in an individual.
This new commission, The Home of My Eyes (2015), builds on Neshat’s growing interest in portraiture. During time spent in Azerbaijan in 2014, she photographed over fifty individuals who came from communities across the country, ranging from two to eighty years old. While taking the photographs, Neshat asked participants a series of questions regarding their cultural identity and their concept of home. The resulting responses are written in calligraphy overlaying the portraits. The assembled images make up a monumental installation which fills two entire walls of one of the eleven metre-high exhibition galleries of YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, a converted Soviet-era naval building.
As Shirin Neshat explains herself: “I consider the new series of images a portrait of a country that has for so long been a crossroads for many different ethnicities, religions, and languages. This series combines fifty-five portraits of men and women from different generations to create a tapestry of human faces which pays tribute to the rich cultural history of Azerbaijan and its diversity.”
Location: YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Bayil District, Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1000
Dates: 24 March – 23 June 2015
Admission: Free
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IV Moscow Biennale for Young Art. ASTAR (Azerbaijan) / YARAT
Strategic Projects of the Biennale for Young Art at MMOMA:
June 26 – August 10, 2014
Founders:
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Moscow City Department of Culture
National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA)
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Organizers:
National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA)
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
ASTAR
Organizer: YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Azerbaijan)
Curator: Nailya Allakhverdieva (Russia)
Artists (Azerbaijan): Agil Abdullayev, Tahmina Ali, Farkhad Farzaliyev, Lala Gasim, Sitara Ibrahimova, Elturan Mammadov, Nazrin Mammadova, Samir Salakhov, Fidan Seidova, Zamir Suleymanov and Emin Azizbayli
The title of the exhibition seems to refer to the space and heroism, and sounds as an echo
of per aspera ad astra. However, astar means ‘lining’ in Azerbaijani – this notion is rarely used
in the critique and theory of contemporary art. ‘Lining’ (the same title is given to one of the works on display) seems the most appropriate word to comprehend the creation of the new generation of artists from Baku. It is exactly the lining, the basis that these artists are searching for, reflecting upon the surrounding reality and its underlying cultural contexts. An interest in the essence, the lining of the events gives rise to the semantic versatility and intimacy of most part of the works by this generation. The artists participating in the exhibition are visionaries and eyewitnesses. They don’t judge but eagerly study the world they are in. They care less about the issues of national identity or close integration with European culture (which are so important for Azerbaijani artists of the previous generation) than their personal freedom and possibility of speaking out, unbound by the requirements of ‘corporate ethics’ or ‘political correctness.’ It is through this prism of freedom that they assess everyday communal life, Soviet legacy, traditional culture, and the long and fascinating history of their country – in all of this they are looking for hidden meanings, reasons, and the ‘lining’ of things. This is why the works by these artists are at once analytical and dreamy – imagination helps better than deduction in penetrating beyond the ‘lining of reality.’
Address: MMOMA, 17 Ermolaevskiy lane, Moscow.
Current Context of Azerbaijani Contemporary Art / Talk by Nailya Allakhverdiyeva
CURRENT CONTEXT OF AZERBAIJANI CONTEMPORARY ART.
Nailya Allakhverdieva
This talk is dedicated to a new creative generation that is actively developing the Azerbaijan art scene, the first generation of artists to grow up in the post-Soviet era. Their work is not about a search for national identity, the theme that had entirely absorbed the previous generation. Instead, these young artists from Baku are ironically distancing themselves from everything that appears as a national character, or national culture, focusing on the interests of their everyday lives such as personal identity, personal history, and intimacy.
As part of the talk Nailya Allakhverdieva presented the works of Emin Azizbayli, Tahmina Ali, Farhad Farzaliev, Lala Gasim, Sitara Ibragimova, Samira Salakhov, Zamir Suleimanov, Elturan Mamedov, Fidan Seydova, Agil Abdullayev, and Nasrin Mamedova, which can currently be seen at the exhibition Astar at MMOMA on Ermolaevsky, part of the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.
Nailya Allakhverdieva is the director of the Public Art Program at the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM) and a leading expert on the integration of contemporary art into the urban environment and public space. In addition to public art projects, she occasionally curates exhibitions and design projects for large-scale cultural events. Some of her most notable projects include “Portholes, an exhibition of contemporary art at Terminal B of Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg; I love P (the final exhibition of works from the PERMM logo show, held in Perm, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tallinn); Faces of the Streets (an exhibition of design projects for five streets in Perm); The Face of the Bride (an exhibition of contemporary Kazakh art, held in Perm, Izhevsk , Russia); The living classics (a program promoting Perm Theatre-Theatre for younger audiences); the festival The Space of Stage Direction (2012, 2013), and rebranding programs for Perm Opera House and Perm Theatre-Theatre.
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YARAT Participate Baku Public Art Festival 2013 YardArt
Farhad Hagverdi in collaboration with emerging azerbaijani artists: Arif Amirov, Aydin Baghirov Hasan Hagverdiyev and Emil Mejnunov. YARD ART looks to the most private, most neglected, but well-used space in Baku, the backyard and artistically overhauls it. painting and using graphics in a provoke public action; while the city evolves rapidly around Baku`s residents and public facades, this project targets the personal space of daily life and empowers people to improve it.
Beginning on 15 March, PARTICIPATE Baku Public Art Festival 2013 will showcase 10 public art commissions from a selection of Azerbaijani and international artists.
PARTICIPATEBaku Public Art aims to challenge our preconceptions about the role and relevance of public art in cities, and to promote the understanding of contemporary art in Azerbaijan.
Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes / YARAT Centre
Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes
Marks the opening of YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
24 March – 23 June 2015
To mark the opening of YARAT Contemporary Art Centre in Baku on 24 March 2015, YARAT is delighted to announce the exhibition Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes. The exhibition’s focus is a major new commission, produced following the artist’s time in Azerbaijan. The exhibition also includes two of Neshat’s earlier works, the seminal video installations Soliloquy (1999) and Passage (2001) and is guest curated by Dina Nasser Khadivi.
Paola Anziche. The Fibers of Baku: A Portrait of the city / YARAT
İTALİYA RƏSSAMI PAOLA ANZİCHÉNİN TƏQDİMATI
12 Feb 15
BAKININ LİFLƏRİ: ŞƏHƏRİN PORTRETİ
YARAT Müasir İncəsənət Təşkilatı FARE-nin (Milan, İtaliya) əməkdaşlığı ilə birgə həyata keçirdikləri Art-rezident layihəsi çərçivəsində YARAT-ın Art-rezident qonağı olan italiyalı rəssam Paola Anziché-nin Bakıda yaratdığı əsərin təqdimatı barədə böyük məmnunluqla məlumat veririk.
Təqdimat “Kiçik QalArt” Qalereyasında fevralın 12-də keçiriləcək və fevralın 19-na qədər nümayiş etdiriləcək. Açılış mərasimində (saat 19:30-da) rəssamın qeyri-formal çıxışı da nəzərdə tutulub. Bu çıxışında o, sərgidə nümayiş etdirilən əsərindən söz açacaq, yaradıcılıq yolunun bəzi səhifələri barədə və gələcək planlarından danışacaq. Həmçinin rəssam Bakıda art-rezident olmağı barədə şəxsi təəssüratını paylaşacaq.
ƏSƏRİN MAHİYYƏTİ: Rəssam, boş bir məkanda ənənəvi tekstil parçalarından və şəhərin memarlıq kompozisiyalarından götürülmüş elementlərdən istifadə edərək, Bakının qeyri-adi portretini yaratmağa çalışır.
Ünvan: İçəri Şəhər, Kiçik Qala küçəsi 58, “Kiçik QalArt” Qalereyası
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A PRESENTATION BY AN ITALIAN ARTIST PAOLA ANZICHÉ
12 Feb - 19 Feb 15
*THE FIBERS OF BAKU: A PORTRAIT OF THE CITY
YARAT Contemporary Art Organization Education Deparment delightes to announce a presentation by Italian artist Paola Anziché, who is currently the artist-in-residence at YARAT Contemporary Art Organisation as part of collaboration with FARE, Milan.
The work will be shown from Thursday 12th February at Kichik QalArt Gallery and will run until 19th February. The artist will also be giving an informal talk on the opening night at 19:30, in which she plans to frame her current work with a personal introduction and some background on her development as an artist, as well as sharing her experiences of her residency in Baku.
CONCEPT: Using the large space of the gallery, Paola is looking to create an unconventional portrait of Baku using several elements which relate to traditional local fabrics as well as to architectural features of the city.
The title of the exhibition describes the approach she has used in Baku: she looked for local fibres, including wool, closely linked to the cultural origins and identity of Azerbaijan. As her ideas developed and evolved during her time in Baku, so too these aerial sculptures took shape in her imagination and then in reality. ‘The Fibres of Baku’ is an exploratory portrait that honours Paola’s personal cultural experience and the people she has met in this town.
Address: 58 Kichik Gala Street, Kichik QalArt Gallery, Icherisheher (Old City)
Dejan Kaludjerović / Solo Exhibition: Conversations – Azerbaijan / YAY Gallery
Dejan Kaludjeroviç
Fərdi sərgi: Müsahibələr – Azərbaycan
Dejan Kaludjeroviç Müsahibələr – Azərbsycan fərdi sərgisi
27 noyabr 2014 – 19 yanvar 2015
Dejan Kaludjeroviç sabiq Yuqoslaviyanın paytaxtı Belqradda dünyaya göz açıb. Çeşidli təsviri sənət sahələrində əldə etdiyi nailiyyətlərə görə ona Avstriyanın fəxri vətəndaşı adı verilib. Vyanada Tətbiqi Sənət Akademiyasında oxuduğu sinfin rəhbəri Ervin Vurm olmuşdur. Təsviri sənət üzrə magistr dərəcəsini 2004-cü ildə Belqrad İncəsənət Akademiyasında alıb.
Kaludjeroviçin əsərləri bir çox şəxsi və dövlət kolleksiyalarında yer alıblar, o cümlədən MUSA, KONTAKT, STRABAG, Vyanadakı Artothek des Bundes, Zaltsburqdakı Museum der Moderne, October Salon Collection, Belqrad Şəhər Müzeyi, Berlindəki APT və s. kolleksiya və muzeylərdə nümayiş etdirilir.
Şəxsiyyətin formalaşmasını, təmsilçilik formalarının sabitliyini təhlil etmək məqsədilə Dejan Kaludjeroviç 1990-cı illərin ortalarından – peşə karyerasının Belqradda başlandığı vaxtdan öz yaradıcılığını istehlakçı yanaşmanın uşaqlıq dövrü ilə necə uzlaşdığının tədqiqatına çevirdi. Onun yaratdığı rəngkarlıq və qrafika işləri, obyekt, video-film və instalyasiyalar, əksər hallarda, müəyyən təkrar işlənmə proseslərini, surət çıxarmanı, hərəkətlərin təkrarlanmasını əks etdirirlər. Mexaniki çoxalmanı təqlid edən cizgilərlə o, populyar mədəniyyətə hopdurulmuş darıxdırıcı yeknəsəqliyi tənqid edir. Qoran Petroviç Lotina (Kurator)
Rəssamın təqdimat sözü:
Mənim işim, əsas etibarilə, məsuliyyət və manipulyasiya mövzularını əhatə edir. Başqa sözlə, KİV-lərin, təhsil sistemlərinin, ailə vəziyyətinin cəmiyyətə necə təsir göstərdiyini hədəfə alır. Mənim işim – görüntünün necə Qərb mədəniyyətində, cəmiyyətin qorxu və zorakılığa tutulmasında, kapitalizmin struktur və mexanizmlərində mühüm rol oynamasının araşdırmasıdır; yəni, araşdırdığım – kapitalist sisteminin necə “məharətlə” uşaq, zorakılıq və seks görüntülərindən KİV-lərdə istifadə və manipulyasiya etdiyinin araşdırması. Mənim işim, uşaqların müxtəlif mərhələlərdə cəmiyyət tərəfindən necə başa düşüldüyünü və bunun sosial təfəkkürlə necə uzlaşdığı sualını ortaya qoyur. Mən uşaqların istismar olunması və uşaq görüntülərindən kommersiya məqsədləri üçün istifadə olunması problemi ilə maraqlanıram.
Ünvan: İçəri Şəhər, Kiçik Qala küç. 5
Telefon: 012 505 2323
E-mail: info@yaygallery.com
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Dejan Kaludjerović
Solo Exhibition: Conversations – Azerbaijan
Dejan Kaludjerović Conversations – Azerbaijan solo exhibition.
27 November, 2014 – 19 January, 2015.
Dejan Kaludjerović was born in Belgrade, ex - Yugoslavia. For his achievements in the visual arts, he has been granted honorary Austrian citizenship. He studied in the class of Erwin Wurm at the Academy of Applied Arts, also in Vienna, and gained an MA in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2004.
Kaludjerović's work is part of many private and public collections, including, among others, the MUSA, Kontakt and STRABAG collections as well as those of the Artothek des Bundes in Vienna, the Salzburg Museum der Moderne, the October Salon Collection, City Museum Belgrade and APT Berlin.
Since the beginning of his career in Belgrade in the mid-1990s, Dejan Kaludjerović has been exploring the conjunction between consumerism and childhood, analyzing identity formation and the stability of representational forms. Most of his paintings, drawings, objects, videos and installations employ the processes of recycling, copying and reenacting, thus creating patterns that simulate mechanical reproduction, and criticize homogeneity embedded in popular culture. Goran Petrović Lotina (Curator)
Artist Statement:
My work is mainly concerned with issues of responsibility and manipulation. In other words, the ways in which mass media, educational systems or family circumstances influence society. My work explores the central role of image in Western society, the social obsession with fear and violence and the structure and mechanisms of capitalism; and how the capitalist system is using and manipulating the images of children, violence and sexuality in the media. My work questions how society perceives children in different stages and how this is connected with social ideologies. I am interested in the problem of the exploitation of children and the use of their images for commercial purposes.
Address: Icheri Sheher, Kichik Qala str. 5 (in front of A.Vahid sculpture)
Telephone: 012 505 2323
E-mail: info@yaygallery.com
YARAT : BEHANCE AZERBAIJAN, Portfolio Review 2015
BEHANCE AZERBAIJAN PORTFOLIO REVIEW 2015
10 May 15
YARAT Contemporary Art Space and Behance Azerbaijan, the leading online platform for showcasing and discovering creative work, are holding next Portfolio Review Day in Baku on 15th May 2015 in YARAT Centre.
Behance is a network of sites and services specializing in self-promotion, including consulting and online portfolio sites. It offers creative individuals an opportunity to update their work in one place and to broadcast it widely and efficiently on an international scale.
Behance seeks to remove the barriers between talent and opportunity as it helps to distribute work to different online galleries, maximizing exposure and attracting millions of visitors. Members use Behance to showcase their work from start to finish, get proper credit online, and connect with peers, career opportunities, and industry leaders.
Twice annually, Behance presents Portfolio Review Week, an unprecedented series of volunteer-organized events that has spread to hundreds of cities internationally, with the goal of bringing together creative professionals. Since PRW launched in 2012, nearly 1,000 events in eighty countries have taken place around the globe - all run by our community leaders.
YARAT Contemporary Art Space is partnering this year with Behance to hold Portfolio Review Day that will bring together the following creative people from Azerbaijan: Shargiyya Rahmanova, Elnur Babayev, Dima Turcan, Aykhan Khalilov, Shabnam Shukurova, Eltaj Zeynalov, Chalk Studio, Shamil Askerov, Hadi Misrikhanova, Butunay Hagveridyev and Vugar Naib.
Portfolios will be reviewed and final awards will be given by a jury composed of Sanan Aleskerov (photographer), Teymur Daimi (Art Critic, Phd), Fakhriyya Mammadova (artist-designer, photographer).
Venue:
YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Multifunctional Room, 2nd floor
Bayil district (near the National Flag square), Baku, Azerbaijan.
Preview day: 15 May 2015
Time: 19.00
Free admission
Tel.: +99412 505 14 14
YARAT #Residency Conclusive Show
YARAT residency conclusive show by Luke Burton (UK), Vajiko Chachkhiani (GEO), Gvantsa Jishkariani(GEO), Elturan Mammadov (AZ) and Zamir Suleymanov (AZ).
Rubber Duck in Azerbaijan 2013
YARAT Müasir İncəsənət Məkanı Participate Bakı Pablik Art 2013 Festivalı çərçivəsində möhtəşəm layihəsini 15 sentyabr, 2013 tarixində, saat 13.00-da Dənizkənarı Bulvar ərazisində təqdim edilmişdir. Layihə hollandiyalı rəssam Florentin Hofmanın `REZİN ÖRDƏK` (`RUBBER DUCK`) installasiyasindan ibarətdir.
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On September 15, 2013 at 13.00 YARAT Contemporary Art Space proudly presented project of `PARTİCİPATE` Baku Public Art Festival `RUBBER DUCK` by a Netherlands artist Florentijn Hofman.
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