Gülsün Karamustafa (b. 1946) is regarded as one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century in Turkey, where her work has been a decisive influence on younger generations of Turkish artists since the 1990s. 0Karamustafa's oeuvre stretches from the mid-1970s to the present day and encompasses various media, including painting, installation, performance art, and video. Her work focuses on questions of migration, politically-induced nomadism, pop culture, feminism and gender, and often provides a critical analysis of the Western view of Middle-Eastern countries. Rendered in a variety of media, these subjects permeate all phases and forms of her artistic work and are of unmistakable relevance to current debates. 0The exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof illustrates how these themes have recurringly interlaced with each other over the decades: the approximately 110 works are deliberately displayed not according to chronology, but rather by theme, thus revealing the underlying and ongoing dialogue between them. 0Exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (10.06.-23.10.2016).
Catalog of an exhibition held at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, June 10-October 23, 2016.
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Vorwort = Preface / Udo Kittelmann -- Eine chronographie der ungewissheit = A chronography of uncertainty / Melanie Roumiguière -- Der imperiale komplex und eine ährenlese der wunder der moderne = The imperial complex and gleaning the wonders of modernity / Meltem Ahıska -- Ein glanz, ein schimmern... der kosmos der Gülsün Karamustafa = A shine, a lustre... the cosmos of Gülsün Karamustafa / Marion von Osten -- Me in time = Time in me / Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with/im gespräch mit Övul Ö. Durmuşoǧlu.