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curators Ovul Durmusoglu (b.1978), is an Istanbul/Vienna based curator and critique. She completed her BA in Translation and Interpreting at Bogazici University (Istanbul) and MFA at the theory branch of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design in Sabanci University (Istanbul). She was a participant of Critical Studies (2005-06) at Malmö Art Academy. Besides contributing to the local art and culture magazines such as Genis Aci, Cogito, Kaos GL, she has been working with Altyazi Monthly Cinema Magazine (Istanbul) from its foundation. She published her recent work at Paletten (Gothenburg) and n.paradoxa (London) and Muhtelif (Istanbul/Berlin). After co-curating "Ittihad Sigorta Exhibition" at 2005, she took part in the projects realized by Critical Studies 05-06 Collective such as "Common Ground" (Rooseum Test Site, Malmö), "Lund Museum", (Galleri Pittura, Lund) and "Billboard Project" for Normalization (Rooseum, Malmö). In 2006, she initiated and organized international street action performances and talk series "EXOCiTi" in Istanbul. Recently, she has been involved with some projects of Generali Foundation in Vienna and coordinated the billboard project for Radikal newspaper "RadikalArt: Face-to-Face" presenting over 40 contemporary artworks all around Istanbul. Marcus Graf (b.1974) lives and woks in Istanbul since 2001. After studying Cultural Sciences and Esthetical Communication in the Institute for Fine Arts, Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, he has worked for several institutions of art and culture as a curator, instructor, writer, project manager or artist. Since 2004, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic and Art Theory at Stuttgart Art Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. He is the artistic director / curator of Aviva Art Program (since 2006) and Under Construction - Tepe Insaat Contemporary Art Space (since 2005). He was the resident curator of Siemens Sanat (2003 – 2007). He is a lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University, VCD Department and Adschool Istanbul Master Program and Yeditepe University, Fine Arts Faculty. He was an instructor at Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. He trained the guides and coordinated the guided tours of the 7th, 8th and 9th International Istanbul Biennial. He worked as project manager and guide in the Protocol Department of the German Pavilion at Expo2000. He was the project manager and curator of the exhibition series sichten (1997 – 2000) and the off gallery Kunst im Bau (1996 – 1998) in Hildesheim, Germany. Borga Kanturk (b.1978), is an Izmir based artist and curator. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Dokuz Eylul University Fine Art Faculty Painting Department. He has been working as a research assistant in the same department since 2002. In the recent years Kanturk has participated in many international and national exhibitions. In 2005 he completed a three-month artist residency supported by Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre and HIAP in Helsinki, Finland. After this programme he has curated some international exhibitions and events with the supports by FRAME (Fin), Av-Arkki (Fin), K2 Art Center (Izmir). He is the founder and director of KUTU Portable Art Gallery (2001). Also he is co-founder of K2 Art Centre (2002) where he still continues to work as a project director. Pelin Uran (b. 1974) is an Istanbul based curator. She worked as an assistant curator for the retrospective exhibition of Erol Akyavas before she left for the States. After she completed her studies at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies in 2005, she has worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Now, working as a free-lance curator, Uran recently co-curated If it is not love, it is the bomb and curated An Artist Who Cannot Speak English is No Artist at Artists Space, New York in May 2006 and a forest and a tree in Newbourg, New York in April 2005 which has traveled to Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienne in March 2007. Besides contributing to Uovo Contemporary Art Magazine and an online contemporary art biweekly, Might Be Good, she regularly writes for Speech, a project by the collaborative duo, a constructed world. Adnan Yildiz (b.1978) is an Istanbul based artist and curator. He studied Psychology (B.A.), and Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design (MFA). Yıldız has been doing a residency (2006-07) at Curatorlab (research based curatorial residency program) this year, traveling around Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and Istanbul and working in collaboration with IASPIS. He is granted by S.I. (Sweedish Institute). Starting as an artist, he has shown his work in different countries like Italy, Sweden, Germany and Denmark. Recently, he works as a curator focusing on the levels of curatibility, survival strategies and "mobile identities" in the context of contemporary art. Some of his previous projects are "alice vs. Alice", "Ittihad Sigorta Exhibition", "Copykiller" and "i don't know what else to do with myself!" He was one of the participants of the 12nd European Young Artists Biennial (2005) as an artist, and he also participated to the 4th Berlin Biennial (bb4) as a curator ("Fast Forward / Young Curator Workshop"). He is the co-editor of Muhtelif, Istanbul based contemporary art publication. In 2007, he collaborated with Christian Hillesoe for their project shown in the "Homecoming" exhibition (Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjorring) and he curated "Endless Possibilities" showing Marcel van Eeden and Gökçen Cabadan (Kasa Galeri/Istanbul).
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