GENCO GÜLAN
Genco Gülan is an artist and theorist who defines all conceptual contemporary art works such as painting, sculpture, photography and video as 'idea art'. He was born in Istanbul in 1969. Gülan, who received his first award from BP in 1993, received a New School scholarship in 2000 and was part of the team that received the 2005 EMAF award. The artist, who was selected as a finalist in the 2011 Sovereign European Art Award, was deemed worthy of the 2015 Ege Art Master Artist and the 2019 New Discoveries in Sculpture, Milliyet Art Awards. He opened solo exhibitions in Istanbul, Izmir, Bodrum, Berlin, New York, Zagreb and Seoul. His works have been exhibited in important museums and institutions such as Paris Center Pompidou, ZKM Karlsruhe, Pera Istanbul, MAM Rio de Janeiro, Troya Çanakkale and La Triennale Milano. Gülan participated in Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art, Tehran on Wheels and Bonn Biennial.
His performances and the projects he participated in were exhibited at important festivals such as İKSV Theatre, Xchange PAP Tel Aviv, Wunderbar New Castle, Fringe New York, Moving Silence Athens and Accente Duisbug. The artist has given lectures at Yale, SVA, Bilgi, New York Institute of Technology, Incheon and Cologne Universities. His works are included in the permanent collections of Rhizome.org at the New Museum, Istanbul Modern, Museum Oswald, Davis Museum, Elgiz, Baksı, MOMus Contemporary Art Museum, Thessaloniki and Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton. His works were taught and are still taught at City University, UC Santa Barbara, Texas Rice and Hamburg Universities. The artist served in the juries of Pınar, Turgut Pura, Odea Bank and Western Anatolia art competitions. Genco Gülan, the founder of the Web Biennial, took part in the advisory board of the Balkan Biennial and the ISEA Singapore International program committee. Gülan's public works are located in six different locations in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, such as Arnavutköy, Ortaköy and Levent. The artist taught at Mimar Sinan, Boğaziçi and Yeditepe Universities. He currently lives and works in Istanbul and Izmir.
