On 29 June 2012, the residency artists Elize Vossgatter (Cape Town), Emma Wieslander (London) and Rebecca Travis (Newcastle) gave a talk at Gallery/Miz Teşvikiye about their work and artistic interests. They pointed out the overall concepts dominant in their practices by showing selected works of theirs and describing the creation and development processes. Moreover, they revealed the […]

  Alev Berberoglu: I would like to start our discussion with your latest exhibition titled “Sterntaler”. In this exhibition, your departure point was “Die Sterntaler”, also called The Star Money, one of the tales collected by the Grimm Brothers. Briefly, it tells the story of a little girl whose mother and father are dead, and despite […]

The resident artists Elize Vossgatter from Cape Town, Emma Wieslander from London and Rebecca Travis from Newcastle will give a gallery talk about their artistic practice and residency projects on 29 June 2012, Friday at 18:00. The talk will be held in English and is free.

For those on artcitizens, we also publish announcements about our residency programme on http://www.artcitizens.net/ – an e-zine and virtual network for contemporary arts and design.

‘Perdem’ is a Turkish poetry book that she found in a charity shop in Newcastle and brought with her to Istanbul. It seemed appropriate to her that it too was making a return to Turkey and she has started working into it with pin pricks and layers of varnish, using designs taken from Iznik tile […]

Elize Vossgatter Elize Vossgatter was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1981. She attended strict, private all-girls boarding school. This constant living with women has influenced her art production immensely. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town in 2002 UCT. Vossgatter has since […]

In June 2012, Gallery/Miz launched its artist residency programme for the first time, with the aim of bringing young international art into the art scene of Istanbul. Miz offers three terms of residency which accommodate up to 3 artists in each term. The terms and conditions could be viewed on: http://www.galerimiz.com/index.php?cmd=pages&id=37 During the residency, the gallery […]