ODA PROJESİ
İstanbul-Berlin
Oda Projesi artist collective is founded by Özge Açıkkol, Güneş Savaş, Seçil Yersel in İstanbul, in 2000.
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Firuzaga Mah., Yeni Carşı Cad, 29/2, 34425, Beyoğlu- İstanbul - Turkey
Ederstrasse 9, 12059, Berlin-Germany
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2024
Bahnhof Within Radyo and Radio within Radio programs done within Radyo Within Kollektiv at Refuge Worldwide Radio Station, Berlin.
2023
What happened to the public space after the picnic, Urbane Praxis, Satellit, Berlin
How to look at a radio archive that is more than sound?, workshop, Miss Read + Lumbung Radio, Prefair Program, Miss Read Space, Berlin
Much of a muchness, Mad Tea Party performative gathering at Chto Delat Emergency Room, Berlin
2022
Anne(x), Annex no: 7 published as part 17th İstanbul Biennale, İstanbul
Words to Spin, Dialogues Around the Pandemic, (&Nadin Reschke), Tarabya Kulturakademie,İstanbul
“An Auricular Witness”, Til Vaegs, Copenhagen – Denmark. Curators: Oda Projesi, April
Radio Within a Radio broadcast in “Radio Art Zone”, Esch, Luxembourg
2021 – 2022
Contribution to Radyo Bienal in Açık Radyo as part of the 17th İstanbul Biennale
2021
“What is Normal” online exhibition, Structura, Sofia, Bulgaria; Radiator Gallery, NewYork,
USA
2020
“Care, Sisterhood and Witchcraft as a transformative power”, Oda Projesi Workshop, SALT online Working Groups
2019 – 2020
“On Fail[e]d Tales and Ta[y]lors”, Tabakalera – International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastian, Spain. Curated by Madrassa Collective
2019
“The World’s Last Exhibition”, Til Vægs, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Per Brunskog
“Come on!”, Participation and Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Art, Plato Sanat, İstanbul. Curated by Marcus Graf
2018
“Oda Projesi” exhibition at Ariel, İstanbul
Conceptual frame: Norgunk
2017
“Bize Ait Bir Oda” exhibition at Ark Kültür in İstanbul.
Curator: Arzu Yayıntaş together with Güneş Terkol and Sevil Tunaboylu
Public Spaces and Cultural Capitals (workshop) as part of the Timeshare Project in Kunsthal Aarhus in collaboration with SALT
2016
ANA #2, A.N.A. AIR - Astrid Noack’s Atelier residency, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Workshop and lecture in “Mobile Autonomy” Summer School “ORGANIZING OURSELVES AS ARTISTS TODAY”, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
2013
“ANA” (tr. mama, mother) project at Astrid Noack’s Atelier residency, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Deel Staat residency in Extrapool, Nijmegen, Holland, working on Annex newspaper (April 5-20)
Online project, http://bookofprofessions.blogspot.com/
2011
Tongue, (in collaboration with) Nadin Reschke, project documentation, Creative Communication and Artistic Intervention in the Public Space.
Tongue, (in collaboration with) Nadin Reschke, “Other Possible Worlds – Entwürfe diesseits von Utopia”, NGBK, Berlin
2010
Tongue, (in collaboration with) Nadin Reschke, project documentation, Communauté / Gemeinschaft / Community exhibition, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Tongue, (in collaboration with) Nadin Reschke, project documentation, Communauté / Gemeinschaft / Community exhibition, LE GRAND CAFÉ, Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
2009
Cultural Agencies, one year project, Oda Projesi co-curating with Nikolaus Hirsch and Philipp Misselwitz, Maltepe/Gülsuyu-Gülensu, Istanbul, Turkey
Please Don’t Step On the Green, Vertical Gardens exhibition by SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) in Exit Art, New York, USA
17’ Necati Bey, Haksız Tahrik exhibition, Hafriyat, Istanbul, Turkey
Oda Projesi Archive, Special Days and Weeks exhibition, 5533, Istanbul, Turkey
2008
Residency in Sally and Don Lucas Artist Residency Program in Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Please Don’t Step On the Green, The Gatherers exhibition (in collaboration with) Gökçen Ergüven, Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, USA
Conglomeration Map, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Tea Pavillion, Gouangzhou, China
Contribution to the periodical GIST magazine, İstanbul, Turkey
2007
Dreams of Art Spaces Collected workshop, IGBK, Berlin, Germany
15 x 75 m. HINGUCKEN – WEGGUCKEN, &Nadin Reschke. Wilhelmsburger Freitag, Hamburg, Germany
2006
Untitled Neighbourhood, Don Milani primary school, 5th class, Cities From Below exhibition, Teseco Foundation, Pisa, Italy
19+Oda Projesi, workshop project with 19 students from Funen Art Academy from Denmark and a presentation in Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Gentrified Talks I, panel discussion on the issue of gentrification process with sociologists, historians, architects, cartographers, city planners and artists, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2005
“Radyo İçinde Radyo 101.7 EFEM” radio programs by Oda Projesi at Açık Radyo 94.9 local radio channel in Istanbul (2005 – 2007)
İstanbul: A City of Love and Dreams, Tirana Biennale 3, Sweet Taboos, Tirana, Albania
TOOL8.2, Shrinking Cities workshop, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and International Building Exhibition, Halle, Germany (June 1-26 — September 9-30)
Neighbourhood, Room, Neighbour, Guest, publication (124/3, Revolver), 9th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
From Place to Space, Collective Creativity exhibition in Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Balcony Radio, live broadcast in Radio Days, Amsterdam, Holland from İstanbul, Turkey
101.7 Efem, radio project (in collaboration with) Bookstr and THEN, Oda Projesi space, Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Oda Projesi Documentation, Emergency Biennale, Palais de Tokyo/Paris&Grozny
Oda Projesi Revisited, video documentation, Das Neue Europa exhibition, Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria
2004
PROJE4L, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Oda Projesi Documentation, 6th Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany
Summer Celebration Picnic project, Oda Projesi space, Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Oda Projesi Documentation, Old Habits Die Hard, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2003
Untitled Photos, 8th Havana Biennale, RAIN group section, Pabellon de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
ADA, 8th Istanbul Biennale, Poetic Justice (in collaboration with) Mustafa Tetik & colleagues, İstanbul, Turkey
Annex, 50. Venice Biennale, The Structures of Survival, Venice, Italy
Metsastaa, Puu, Tyttö, &Hannah Kaihovirta-Rosvik, ID Contemporary Art, Platform, Vaasa, Finland
The Room Revisited, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
2002
Windows, (in collaboration with the film director) Belmin Söylemez, Exchange&Transform exhibition in Kunstverein München, Germany
Moving Room, MOVING ROOM, IV. Gwangju Biennale, “Pause”, Gwangju, S. Korea
2001
Series of projects with Süleymanşah Primary School children in the neighborhood of museum Proje4L, Gültepe, Istanbul, Turkey
3 Rooms and 1 Living Room, Becoming a Place exhibition, Proje4L - Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Gültepe, Istanbul, Turkey
2000
Wedding and Birthday Party, Seçil Yersel’s project for One Day in the Room, Oda Projesi space Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Bring An Object From Your Home, Özge Açıkkol’s project for One Day in the Room, Oda Projesi space, Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Locked Room, Güneş Savaş’s project for One Day in the Room, Oda Projesi space Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Swing, Seçil Yersel’s project for One Day in the Room, Oda Projesi space Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
About A Useless Space, Özge Açıkkol, opening project of Oda Projesi space, Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
PUBLICATIONS BY ODA PROJESİ
Newspaper Annex
Annex 7, 2022, 17th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey / Annex 6, 2019, “On Fail[e]d Tales and Ta[y]lors”, San Sebastian, Spain / Annex 5, 2012, ExtraAnnex, Nymegen, Holland/ Annex 4, 2009, Migrating Gardens, Kopenhagen, Denmark / Annex 3, 2004, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden/ Annex 2, 2003, 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey/ Annex 1, 2003, 50. Venice Biennale, Italy
Books
Kültürel Aracılar: 2019-2009, e-pub, SALT online, 2019 (link).
Kendi Sesinden Gülsuyu Gülensu, Notabene Publications, İstanbul, 2013
Tongue, with Nadin Reschke, by Revolver Verlag, Berlin, 2012
Neighbourhood, Room, Neighbour, Guest, by124/3, Revolver), 2005
Untitled book project, IVth Gwangju Bienalle, “Moving Room” by Oda Projesi, 2002
Çamaşır İplerinde Resim, book project for 8th Galata Festival, 1999
Selected Bibliography
Maria Lind - “Actualisation of the Space”, October 2004, http://eipcp.net/transversal/1204/lind/en Published later in: From Studio to Situation, Claire Doherty (ed.), Black Dog Publishing, London, 2005, p. 109
Erden Kosova, “Face To Face”, Along the Gates of the Urban, Erden Kosova & Fatoş Üstek (eds.), art-ist contemporary art magazine pub., 2004, pp.14-19
Claire Bishop, “What we made together”, interview with Oda Projesi, Untitled, issue 33, Spring 2005, pp. 20-23
Derya Özkan, “Spatial Practices of Oda Projesi and the Production of Space in Istanbul”, ONCURATING, 2011, pp. 51-54 “Art's Indecent Proposal: Collaboration. An Attempt to Think Collectively”, http://www.on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/old%20Issues/ONCURATING_Issue11.pdf
Claire Bishop - “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents”, Artforum, February, 2006.
Derya Özkan, “Spatial Practices of Oda Projesi and the Production of Space in Istanbul”,
Bonnie Fortune “Oda Projesi at Astrid Noacks Atelier”, July 2013: http://mythologicalquarter.net/2013/07/31/oda-projesi-at-astrid-noaks-atelier/
Oda Projesi, “Like Water, Stories of Motherhood”, Mobile Autonomy Exercises in Artists Self Organization, Nico Dockx/Pascal Gielen (eds.),, Valiz, 2015, pp.107
Oda Projesi, “If I ask you a question and then if you ask a question to me”, M/other Voices column, February 2016: https://www.mothervoices.org/column/2016/3/2/february-2016-oda-projesi-tr
Oda Projesi “Radio as a Space!”, Radio Art Zone, Sarah Washington (ed.), Hatje Kantz Verlag, 2023, pp. 22-23