17th Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), will take place between 11 September and 14 November 2021.
The curatorial team for the 17th edition of the biennial will be Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar and David Teh.
IDEE offers private art tours to museums, galleries and art sites of the Istanbul Biennial, providing compelling views of the world of art.
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Ute Meta Bauer
Ute Meta Bauer is a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, video, and sound that connect artistic work with other disciplines. Since 2013, she is Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and a professor in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. Prior, she has served as Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London, UK (2012-2013), and was an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, Cambridge, MA (2005-2012), where she was Founding Director of the Programme in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) and Director of the MIT Visual Arts Programme.
David Teh
David Teh was born in 1977 in Australia. He received his BA from the University of Sydney in the History and Theory of Art in 1999, and a doctorate in Critical Theory in 2005. Between the years 2005-2009, he lived in Bangkok and has been working in Singapore since 2009. Teh’s research focuses on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. Teh’s curatorial projects include Sovereign Pacific, the CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions, Aotearoa, New Zealand (2020); Returns, a project for the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018); Misfits: Pages from a Loose-leaf Modernity, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017); and Unreal Asia, 55. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2009).
Amar Kanwar
Amar Kanwar is an artist, born in New Delhi, India, in 1964, where he currently lives and works. Between the years 1982-1985, he did his bachelors in History from Delhi University and later between 1985-1987 completed his masters in Film and Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia’s Research Centre for Mass Communication in New Delhi. Recent solo exhibitions of Kanwar’s work have been held at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai and NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, UAE (2020); Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (2019); Tate Modern, London, and Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA (2018).
COVID-19 Update
Your safety is our first priority. Tours are limited to groups of 10 people who reserve together and with social distancing. Guides and participants will wear masks at all time and will utilize audio devices to maintain a minimum of 6-feet (2-meter) distance. IDEE Travel requires that participants submit to a temperature check upon arrival for an in-person tour.