Design Education talks ep.10 - Murat Germen
Channel: The New Art School
Date: 25/04/2020

Design Education talks ep.10 - Murat Germen

Murat Germen is an artist, academic and archivist using photography as an expression / research tool. Born 1965, he currently lives / works in Istanbul and London. Has an MArch degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he went as a Fulbright scholar and received AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic excellence. Works as a professor of art, photography and new media at Sabanci University in Istanbul. Having many papers, photo series published on architecture / photography / art / new media in various publications; he has lectured at tens of conferences internationally.

His oeuvre focuses on impacts of over-urbanization and gentrification, dis/possession, new forms / tools / methods of imperialism, civic rights, participatory citizenship, sustainability of local cultures, human devastation of nature, climate change, global warming, water rights. Has two monographies, one published by Skira (Italy) and the other by MASA (Turkey). Has opened/joined over eighty inter/national (Turkey, USA, Italy, Germany, UK, Mexico, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Greece, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Iran, India, Australia, France, Canada, Bahrain, South Korea, Dubai, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Egypt) solo+group exhibitions. More than 300 editions of the artist’s several artworks are in personal collections of eminent art collectors inter/nationally, in addition to several that are in Istanbul Modern, Proje4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (Istanbul), Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń (Poland), Benetton Foundation’s Imago Mundi – Istanbul Codex, Yapi Kredi Bank Culture and Arts Center (Istanbul), Odunpazari Modern Museum (Eskisehir, Turkey), Evliyagil Museum (Turkey) collections.

http://muratgermen.com/
http://www.facebook.com/MuratGermenArtistPhotographer
http://artsy.net/artist/murat-germen - http://www.artnet.com/artists/murat-germen/

Skira Monograph (2016):
http://www.amazon.com/Murat-Germen-Stephan-Berg/dp/885722869X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463830475&sr=1-1
http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun/murat-germen/485198

New Turkey monograph from MASA (2013):
http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun/yeni-turkiye-new-turkey/498067


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