Beral Madra, “Anadolu’da Sanat Tek Tük”, Radikal, 5 June 2008

Deniz İnceoğlu, “Sinop bienaliyle adını duyuruyor.”, Hürriyet, 1 August 2008

Mehmet Kuvvet, “Sinopale 2”, Taka Gazete, 15 August 2008

Şule Ateş, 28 ‘Asri Zamanlar’ ve Anadolu’da Çağdaş Sanat, bagimsiz-seyir.blogspot.com, 18 March 2009

Vercihan Ziflioğlu, “Black Sea Meets Contemporary Art”, Turkish Daily News, 15 August 2008

Vercihan Ziflioğlu, “Sinop’ta küratörsüz bienalin konusu ‘şey’”, Referans- Türkiye’nin İş Gazetesi, 16 August 2008

Sinop Cezaevi’nde Sanat Günleri, Türkiye Gazetesi, 18 August 2008

“Black Sea province Sinop to host second edition of biennial”, Today’s Zaman, 12 July 2008

Sinopale 2, Nafas-Art Magazin, May 2008

Curatorial Enquiry, gradcam.ie

Biennalen Datenbank, ifa.de

Şey/Thing, basis-wien.at

“Sinopale, 2. Uluslararası Sinop Bienali”, ekavart.tv, 15 August 2008

“Calendar of international Biennials”, universes-in-universe.org

“Sinopale, hedendaagse kunst in historische gevangenis”, volkskrantreizen.nl, 8 July 2008

Virtual Chef-Black Sea, LabforCulture.org, 31 August 2008

Plant Exchange, rhiz.eu, 8 September 2008

Metahaven Sinopale 2008, Cuneiform posters, rhiz.eu

SHOWS include indoor and outdoor exhibitions, installations, interactive digital performances.

Project

T. Melih Görgün

Consulting Comitee

Beral Madra

Vittorio Urbani

Zeki Yılmazer

M. Mahir Namur

Coordination

Elif Kuli

Asistants

Hikmet Nakilcioğlu

Ufuk Kılıç

Press Relations

Işıl Yenersoy

Nilüfer Sülüner

Corporate Identity Design

Umut Südüak

Volunteer Team

Alparslan Karaaslan

Burçak Konukman

Sıtkıcan Saraçoğlu

Güngör Erdem

Erdem Dilbaz

Zerrin Dirihan

Emre Yalçın

Doğa Baş

Levent Yılmaz

Orkan Alparslan

Special Thanks

Payende Görgün

Zeki Yılmazer

Erol Derici

Erdal Yılmazer

Nihat Önder

Recai Yılmaz

Cevat Akkaya

Gül Gürses

Ayşe Şakar

Sema Onur Iraktan

Hale Oğuz

Mert Güvenen

Esra Çıtak Güvenen

Orçun Onur

İrfan Onur

Sibel Yılmaz

Ali Yılmaz

Büke Onur

Osman Onur

Aslan Yılmazer

Ufuk Onur

Fatoş Yılmazer

Alican Yılmazer

Ceren Onur Yücel

Anıl Başoğlu

Cankız Onur

Gün Önen

Aytaç Kuaför

Nesibe Hanım

Ozdemir Korkmaz

Aylin Alparslan

Photographs

Zeynep Oray

Historical Sinop Prison

Old Hotel 117

Old Tekel Building (Old Tabak Building)

Pervane Madrasah Handcrafts Bazaar

Etnography Museum

City Center

Alparslan Baloğlu

Walter Bergmoser

Andre van Bergen

Canan Beykal

Handan Börtüçene

Yael Davis

İpek Düben

Nezaket Ekici

Ekmel Ertan

Mürteza Fidan

Róza El-Hassan

Jürgen Hefele

Eric van Hove

Aylin Kalem

Emre Koyuncuoğlu

Monali Meher

monochrom

Nobuho Nagasawa

Tamas Oszwald

Orgacom (Nadia Tsulukidze & Sophia Tabatadze)

Kerem Onur

Murat Özelmas

Lerzan Özer

Ferhat Özgür

Marc Rees & Neil Davies

Antonio Riello

Gue Schmidt

Juliane Stiegele

Suna Suner

Burcu Yağcioğlu & Ece Kalabak & Nazar Sigaher

Mohaç Yücel

Next Future

1. Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden&Friends)- The Netherland

( http://www.metahaven.net)

2. Roland Stratmann – Germany

www.rolandstratmann.de

3. Roza El-Hassan – Hungary

http://the-artists.org/artist/Roza_El-Hassan.html

4. Dejan Kaludjerovic – Serbia

(http://www.dejankaludjerovic.net)

5. Atilkunst – Turkey

www.myspace.com/atilkunst

6. collabor.at – Austria

www.collabor.at

7. Rob Sweere – The Netherland (curator: Monali Meher)

www.robsweere.nl

8. Marielle Videler-The Netherland (curator: Monali Meher)

www.performancelab.nl

9. Johannes Vogl-Austria (curator: Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen)

10. Leopold Kessler-Austria (curator: Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen)

2. “MYHTOS DOCUMENTA”

Documentary Exhibition of DOCUMENTA

3. Video Selections from MONTEVIDEO

(Netherlands Media Art Institute)

4. Movement Projects

1. Luciano Firi Khorakhanedanza Project – Italy

www.khorakhanedanza.altervista.org/frame2/coreografo.html

2. Hulya Karakas (performance-theatre)- Turkey

5. Workshops

1. Sonja Tanrisever – Sweden (training of the art teachers in sinop with Swedish creativity techniques)

2. Montevideo: “Open Sources”- (How can be use open sources for the video art?)

3. Renan Koen: ” The Giant Symphony  Within Me” – (Music therapy workshop for children)

4. Nezaket Ekici: “Perform it!”- (Performance art workshop for local women)

Time Schedule:

10 August -5th September 2008

Opening of 2. Sinopale: 16 August 2008

Closing of 2. Sinopale: 5th September 2008

PROGRAM

16TH AUGUST

5TH SEPTEMBER 2008

Saturday, 16th August 2008

18:00 – Exhibition Opening

Venue: Historical Prison of Sinop

Metahaven

Roland Stratmann

Roza El-Hassan

Dejan Kaludjerovic

Atılkunst

collabor.at

Johannes Vogl

Adrien Tirtiaux

“Local”

Curator : Murteza Fidan

Alparslan Karaaslan

Burcak Konukman

There will be a tour of the exhibition guided by Beral Madra (curator and art critics)  after the opening coctail.

20:30 Concert

Venue: Tersane

Renan Koen

Sunday, 17th August 2008

10:00 Talk and Breakfast “Art and Citizen”

Venue: Liman Simit Kafe

12:00 Exhibition Opening

Venue: Otel 117

“Sinopale Kids”

This is the exhibition of the works produced by the children during the “Creativity Workshop for Kids with Swedish Creativity Techniques”

In collaboration with Consulate General of Istanbul and Association of Developing Socio-Cultural Life.

17:30 Seminar

Venue: Pervane Medresesi (Historical School)

Heiner Holtappels

“Media Art – Design of Time and Space”

“New works from the collection of Netherlands Media Art Institute”

In collaboraton with Montevideo, Netherlands Media Art Institute

19:30 Documentary Exhibition Opening

Venue: Tekel Blacksea Center for Cultural Cooperation

“Mythos Documenta: 50 Years of Documenta Exhibition”

In collaboration with Goethe Institut Ankara

Monday, 18th August 2008

11:00 Performance

Venue: Liman Simit Kafe

Julie Upmeyer + Ina Stockem

“Virtual Chef”

Cultural actors from the Blacksea countries will cook together the recepies which they will share in an internet platform.

20:30 Theatre

Venue: Tersane

The plays will be shown which have been produced during the workshop “Practicing Playwriting for the Blacksea Region”

Project Management and Workshop Leader: Emre Koyuncuoğlu

Directors: Hülya Karakaş, Zafer Gecegörür, Nihat Alpteki

Costume, Stage Design and Coordination: Can Tuğcuoğlu

Playwriters: Mehmet Kuvvet, Ömer Turan, Selvin Yaltır, Zafer Gecegörür, Duygu Dalyanoğlu.

In collaboration with Kocaeli Municipal Theatre and with the supports of  Trabzon State Theatre, Bartın Regional Theatre, Giresun Regional Theatre and Sinop Art Initiative

Tuesday, 19th August 2008

20:30 Theatre

Venue: Tersane

The plays will be shown which have been produced during the workshop “Practicing Playwriting for the Blacksea Region”

Wednesday, 20th August 2008

20:30 Theatre

Venue: Tersane (Historical Shipyard)

The plays will be shown which have been produced during the workshop “Practicing Playwriting for the Blacksea Region”

Thursday, 21st August 2008

everyday from the 21st to the 26th August

10:00-18:00

Venue: All around the city

Marielle Videler

“Greenhouse”

In the  performance which will take place, Marielle Videler will visit the citizens of Sinop with her portable greenhouse.

Friday, 22nd August 2008

everyday from the 22nd to the 26th August

19:00 Installation-Performance

Venue: Sinop Historical Prison

Rob Sweere

“Silent Sky”

A performance of collective feeling and thinking.

Sunday, 31st August 2008

everyday from the 31st August to the 4th September

18:00 Performance

Venue: Historical Prison

Carlos Pina

“Three Red Flags”

19:00 Performance

Venue: Historical Prison

Maria Cosmes

“No Title”

Wednesday, 3rd August 2008

14:00-17:00 Performance

Venue: Historicak Prison

Nezaket Ekici

“Body and Architecture”

Monali Meher

“Restoring our Temples”

The Works will be shown which have been produced during the performance workshops.

WORKSHOPS

4th-8th August 2008

10:00-18:00

Venue: H117

Sinopale Kids- Creativity Workshop with Swedish Creativity Techniques for Art Teachers

Project Manager: Sonja Böhlander Tanrısever

Trainers: Sonja Böhlander Tanrısever, Esin Tanrısever, Gazi Selçuk

In collaboration with Swedish Consulate and Association of Developing Socio-Cultural Life.

7th-14th August 2008

10:00-19:00

Venue: H117

Practicing Playwriting for the Blacksea Region

Project Management and Workshop Leader: Emre Koyuncuoğlu

Directors: Hülya Karakaş, Zafer Gecegörür, Nihat Alpteki

Costume, Stage Design and Coordination: Can Tuğcuoğlu

Playwriters: Mehmet Kuvvet, Ömer Turan, Selvin Yaltır, Zafer Gecegörür, Duygu Dalyanoğlu, Zehra Konukman

In collaboration with Kocaeli Municipal Theatre

with the supports of Trabzon State Theatre, Bartın Regional Theatre, Giresun Regional Theatre and Sinop Art Initiative

11th-15th August 2008

10:00-18:00

Venue: H117

Creativity Workshop for Kids with Swedish Creativity Techniques

This workshop is adressed to children aged 8-12. The works produced will be exhibited on the 17th August within the framework of the Biennial.

Project Manager: Sonja Böhlander Tanrısever

Trainers: Sonja Böhlander Tanrısever, Esin Tanrısever, Gazi Selçuk

In collaboration with Swedish Consulate and Association of Developing Socio-Cultural Life.

For further information www.sinopalecocuk.blogspot.com

10:00

Music Workshop for Kids: “The Giant in Me”

Workshop Leader: Renan Koen

Open to children aged 6-12

For further information www.sinopalecocuk.blogspot.com

16th-5th September 2008

Design Workshop

“Designing City’s Newspaper”

Workshop leader: Umut Südüak

Designers: Serkan Avar, Ceren Aksungur, Burcu Dayanıklı, Yeşim Endes, Dileda Sipahi

28th August – 3th September 2008

10:00

Venue: Historical Prison

“Body and Architecture”

Nezaket Ekici

“Restoring our Temples”

Monali Meher

Workshops are aimed to teach and practice how to use the own body as a tool for artistic expression.

T. Melih Görgün

Curators

T. Melih Görgün

Beral Madra

Vittorio Urbani

Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Nezaket Ekici

Monali Meher

Mürteza Fidan

Emre Koyuncuoğlu

Umut Südüak

Advisory Board

M. Mahir Namur (President of European Cultural Association)

Zeki Yılmazer (Mayor of Sinop)

Erol Derici (President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Sinop)

Osman Onur (Businessman, Member of City Council, Sinop)

Cemalettin Kaya (Businessman, Culture and Tourism Association of Sinop)

Event Coordinator

Elif Kuli

Event Coordinator Assistant

Ufuk Özgenç

Organization Team

Aslı Zeren, Aykut Yılmazer, Kerem Onur, Nilüfer Sülüner, Suzan Atasever, Tuna Poyrazoğlu

Press Relations and Communication

Mirey Nasi, Zeynep Uğurlu

Website

Ali Keremhan Eke

Exhibition and Artists Assistants

Alican Yılmazer, Aysun Ülger, Aytek Melih Yıldırım, Cana Örnek, Canan Günaştı, Canan Özmen, Çağın Kaya, Çağrı Baş, Doğa Baş, Esra Bezircioğlu, Ezgi Kartal, Funda Oruç, Gökhan Özkan, Güzin Erkaymaz, İlker Yalçın, Kerem Yıldırım, Kübra Baş, Murat Özelmas, Pınar Pelin Özer, Taha Yüksek, Tuncay Yalman, Tutku Ünlütürk, Ufuk Kılıç, Volkan Kaya, Zeynep Bayoğlu