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artists & participants
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Sarah Alberti,
Salwa Aleryani,
Ulf Aminde,
Arts of the Working Class,
Kader Attia,
Yael Bartana,
Timur Celik,
Co Enteignen,
Matthias Daenschel,
Jeremiah Day,
Ini Dill / Daniel Drabek,
Christina Dimitriadis,
Discoteca Flaming Star,
Christoph Draeger,
Anne Duk Hee Jordan,
Sam Durant,
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu,
D´Andrade ,
Knut Eckstein,
Theo Eshetu,
Prater Galerie/x-embassy,
Olaf Grawert,
Jan Peter Hammer,
Heinz Havemeister,
Heidrun Holzfeind,
Irene Hug,
Hannah Hurtzig,
Stine Marie Jacobsen,
Monika Jarecka,
Christoph Keller,
Gabor Kocsis,
Matylda Krzykowski,
Joanna Kusiak and Deutsche Wohnen,
LAGE EGAL,
Teobaldo Lagos Preller,
Joke Lanz,
Sonja Lau,
Michelle-Marie Letelier,
Antonia Low,
Cam-Anh Luong,
Lena Mahr,
Juan Maidagan,
Alisa Margolis,
Tom McCarthy,
Kamila Metwaly,
Grischa Meyer,
Markus Miessen,
Müller Dreimalklingeln,
Olaf Nicolai,
Pinar Ögrenci,
Andrea Pichl,
Ana Prvacki,
Krishan Rajapakshe,
Matheus Rocha Pitta,
David Rych,
Harry Sachs,
Susanne Sachsse,
Dachil Sado,
Eva Scharrer ft. Ayse Erkmen,
Max Schneider,
Isabella Sedeka,
Marc Siegel,
Hatef Soltani,
Antje Stahl,
Eva Stenram,
Tommy Stockel,
Sophia Tabatadze,
Felix-Emeric Tota,
Nasan Tur,
Markus Uhr,
Uslar und Rai,
Raul Walch,
Joanna Warsza,
Saskia Wendland,
Christine Würmell,
Dolores Zinny
curators
press release
Die Balkone 2 - Scratching the Surface
30.04.2021 - (02.05.2021) - extended till Sunday, 9 May, 2021
Die Balkone 2 is please to announce that due to the continuous and warm response by the public, the media, and the local community, the installation -Locked Up- by Nasan Tur and his neighbours has been extended.
Together with my neighbours I turned the whole house where we live into a "memorial", a "remembrance", and an "act of solidarity". In the times of pandemic and restrictions, we need to shift attention from our senitivities and inconveniences to those who are currently locked up and forgotten in the prison cells of this world. People who have actively stood up for freedom, truth, and justice and have now lost their freedom for political reasons. It is a call not to forget. - Nasan Tur, the artist
Those currently locked up in the prisons of this world and in the windows of the -Locked Up- include; Shakiro, Julian Assange, Aung San Suu Kyi, Selahattin Demirtaş, Alexei Navalny, and Osman Kavala. Nasan Tur's installation for Die Balkone 2 is also an invitation to negotiate what the pandemic has taught us: the interdependence between the priorities and the needs, the very local and the global, the inside and the outside, the digital and the analogue, the public and the personal.
Nasan Tur (b. 1974, Offenbach) works in an intermediate area between the public and the gallery space, drawing his material from messages and tensions he finds in the urban environment. His works comment on the conflicts and failures of ideologies either directly or indirectly. While suggesting that we must rise against repression and to struggle for fundamental democratic rights, such as freedom of the speech, he also admits the risk that resistance can turn into violence, which expands the scope of his work to cover also the ethic dimension of both individuals and community action. The overarching theme of his artistic work embraces all social struggle and the question of its justification. Tur currently holds a professorship at the post-graduate program Spacial Strategies at Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin.