Çağdaş Türk Sanatında Küratörlük Olgusu ve Öne Çıkan Küratörler
Özet
The first field of work of curators who are one of the importantf actors of contemporary art was
museums and libraries. Nowadays curators are the people who organise exhibitions. The increase in
the number of international –scale exhibitions in the world has caused an increase of curators in the
recent years.
The social, political and cultural structure brought by globalization and ostmodernism have also
manifested themselves in the field of art. With these changes curating became a dynamic process. In
this process, the emergence of new artistic approaches, new conceps of display, the increase in
criticism of art institutions and unsteady relationship between curators and artists have influenced the
shaping of curatorial practices.When we look at the history of art, it can be said that curators took an
active role in this process starting from Salon exhibitions to the biennials. However in this wideranging
process, curatorial approaches have changed. And especiallywith the emrgence of independed
curators, these curatorial approaches have played an active role in every step from concept of
exhibition to the selection af artists. The curator, who first appeared in contemporary Turkish art at the
beginning of 90s, began to play a more active role with the biennalization process. International
İstanbul Biennial with its local and international curators has started a new perspective in Turkish art.In
this process curating has been intensively discussed both as a profession and as a curator-artist
relationship. In Turkey, especially in the 90s three names professionally curated: Beral Madra, vasıf
Kortun, Ali Akay. With the increase of the exhibitions in which the conceptual Works took place within
the years of 2000s, new names emerged and the number of curatorial practices increased both in
nasational and international exhibitions.
