Английская Википедия:Fatoş Üstek

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Fatoş Üstek, born 1980 in Ankara,[1] is a London-based independent Turkish curator and writer, working internationally with large scale organizations, biennials and festivals, as well as commissioning in the public realm.[2] In 2008 she received her MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College London, after completing her BA in Mathematics at Bogazici University in Istanbul.

Work

In 2014, Üstek acted as Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale[3][4] in South Korea. subsequently, she curated the fig-2 project,[5] hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Art ICA in London in 2015.[6] The series of 50-week-long exhibitions showed works by artists Laura Eldret, Charles Avery, Rebecca Birch, Annika Ström, Beth Collar, Allison Katz, Tom McCarthy, Shezad Dawood, Suzanne Treister, Lynn Marsh, Jacopo Miliani, Kathryn Elkin, Marjolijn Dijkman, Ben Judd, Karen Mirza, Oreet Ashery, Eva Grubinger, Melanie Manchot, Bruce McLean, Vesna Petresin, Young in Hong, and duo Wright and Vandame, among others.

Üstek was in charge the Akbank 40th Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition in Istanbul 2022.[7] The same year, she curated Cascading Principles: Expansions within Geometry, Philosophy, and Interference at Oxford Mathematics, one of the largest exhibitions by the artist Conrad Shawcross in the UK. It is accompanied by a four-part symposium in partnership with Modern Art Oxford and Ruskin School of Art.[8]

Üstek sits on selection and award committees for the Scottish and Dutch Pavilions at Venice Biennial and was a judge on Turner Prize 2020.[9] Early 2022, Üstek was appointed as Chair of Trustees of New Contemporaries.[10]

Together with artists Anne Hardy and Lindsay Seers, Fatoş Üstek is co-founder of FRANK, an alliance for fair artists’ pay. She is also a founding member of The Association of Women in the Arts AWITA,[11] a non-profit networking group that aims to advance the careers of women in the visual arts.

In 2023, Fatos Üstek made her deput as curator of Frieze Sculpture, a major annual public art exhibition placing monumental works by leading artists throughout London's Regent's Park.[12] Her first exhibition will include works by more than 20 international artists like Ghada Amer, Angela Bulloch, Catharine Czudej, Ayşe Erkmen, Gülsün Karamustafa, Suhasini Kejriwal, Louise Nevelson, Hans Rosenström and Yinka Shonibare.[13]

Recognition

Fatoş Üstek was listed among the 100 most important people in the art world in the Artlyst Power 100 list in since 2017.[14]

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