Newsletter & Infos

EXHIBITION: CITY OF AMBITION AT FESTIVAL GUATEPHOTO, GUATEMALA CITY

This is the first edition of the festival Guatephoto curated by Clara de Tezanos, JJ Estrada, Adriana Teresa, Silvia Herrera and Daniel Chauche. Organized by La Fototeca, co-organized by FotoVisura.

Solo shows by Catherine Aboumrad, Katrina d’Autremont, Rosa Basurto, Jorge Luis Chavarria, Nathalie Daoust, Sally Dennison, Omar Gamez, Ferit Kuyas, Jose Alejandro Medina, Claudio Meneghetti, William Natha, Benjamin Rusnak, Betsy Schneider, Alnis Stakle and Erick Swain will take place at the Museum of Modern Art Carlos Mérida in Guatemala City. Also on display the shows Photography = History, Enamored and Fling.

DURATION: July 6 until July 31, 2010
LOCATION: Museum of Modern Art Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City
OPENING TIMES: Tuesday to Sunday 9 am until 4 pm

Festival Website: http://guatephotofestival.com/

EXHIBITION: GROUP SHOW “FOUND”, JOHN CLEARY GALLERY, HOUSTON TX

I am happy to announce the inclusion of works from my project “Archetypes” in the groupshow “Found”
at John Cleary Gallery, Houston TX. “Found” brings together a selection of work discovered by director and
owner Catherine Couturier during FotoFest and PhotoNOLA. This is my first gallery show with works from “Archetypes”

From the series Archetypes

DURATION: July 10 until September 4, 2010
OPENING TIMES: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and by appointment: +1-713-524 5070 or info@johnclearygallery.com

John Cleary Gallery
2635 Colquitt
Houston, TX 77098
+1-713-524 5070

SOLO SHOW “CITY OF AMBITION REVISITED”, GALERIE MONIKA WERTHEIMER, OBERWIL, SWITZERLAND

The book launch show last October had a duration of only 6 days. So there was a high demand for an additionalshow. “City of Ambition Revisited” is overlapping with Art|14|Basel. If you are visiting the art fair, please come see the show. Oberwil is located only 30 minutes from Basel main station.

From the series City of Ambition

CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, July 23, 2010, 17:00 - 20:00
DURATION: June 10 until July 23, 2010
OPENING TIMES: Saturday 14:00 to 18:00 and upon request: +41-61-403 1778 or mw@galeriewertheimer.ch

Galerie Monika Wertheimer
Hohestrasse 134
4104 Oberwil
Switzerland

UPCOMING GROUPSHOWS: ARTISTS OF THE GALLERY, BAU-XI PHOTO, TORONTO

August 7 until August 21 and August 27 until September 15, 2010 with works by Zoë Jaremus, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Ferit Kuyas, Heidi Leverty, Eamon Mac Mahon, Adam Makarenko, Anthony Redpath, Chris Shepherd and Toby Smith

Bau-Xi Photo
324 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON, M5T IG5
Canada

Please check again for more detailed information on these events.

BOOK PUBLICATION: ART UNLEASHED – CONTEMPORARY ART FROM TURKEY

This book highlights the vibrant contemporary art scene in Turkey, the bridge between two continents.
I’m delighted to be featured as one of approximately 100 artists.

Unleashed – Contemporary Art from Turkey
Editor: Hossein Amirsadeghi
Executive editor: Maryam Homayoun Eisler
Essays: Ali Akay, Ahu Antmen, Emre Baykal, Irit Rogoff
Hardback, 29 x 25 cm, 328 pp.

TransGlobe Publishing, Ltd.
6 New Street Square
London EC4A 3LX
United Kingdom

http://www.tgpublishingltd.com/unleashed1.html

REVIEWS, BLOGS, MAGAZINE FEATURES

Article by Katrin Hafner in Tages-Anzeiger, June 15, 2010 (in German)
Click here for the PDF

Review by Denis Brudna of City of Ambition in PHOTONEWS 6/2010, page 22
http://www.photonews.de/
Thanks Denis Brudna and Anna Gripp!

Article by Ute Noll in PHOTOGRAPHIE 6/2010 (in German)
Ute on FotoFest and Meeting Place including success stories.
http://www.photographie.de/ (in German)

Photograph on the right page by Phillip Toledano

DLK Collection on my first book Ferit Kuyas – Industrial Interiors:
http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-ferit-kuyas-industrial-interiors.html
Thanks for the nice review !

PDN on my publisher Maarten Schilt from Schilt Publishing in PDN’s Players (May issue): here
In this article, Maarten is rated one of the seven most impacting people in photography this year. Well deserved!

EXHIBITION: SOLO SHOW “CITY OF AMBITION”, FESTIVAL TRANSPHOTOGRAPHIQUES, LILLE, FRANCE

This year’s festival theme is “Une Seconde Nature” (A second Nature) and brings work by roughly
30 photographers to Lille. Curated by Gabriel Bauret and Françoise Paviot. Thanks for selecting my project
for the show at Palais Rameau. Sponsored by ProHelvetia.

DURATION: May 19 until June 20, 2010
OPENING TIMES: Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:00

Also on show at Palais Rameau are works by Wout Berger, Myoung Ho Lee, Aki Lumi, Jürgen Nefzger,
Liza Nguyen, Mark Ruwedel, Helene Schmitz, Petur Thomsen, Yoshihiko Ueda and a group show. For the
shows at other locations please visit the website of Transphotographiques.

Transphotographiques
Palais Rameau
39, Boulevard Vauban
Lille

Brief review of Transphotographiques with overview picture by Egle Deltuvaite from Culture Menu, Lithuania: here

GROUP SHOW “GEBAUTE LANDSCHAFT” (BUILT LANDSCAPE), ALTE FABRIK, RAPPERSWIL, SWITZERLAND

Organized by Gebert Stiftung für Kultur* and Architekturforum Obersee. With works by Lorenz Bettler, Lucia Degonda, Ferit Kuyas, Marc Schwarz, Dominique Marc Wehrli and köfer | hess.

DURATION: February 20 until April 11, 2010

*ALTEFABRIK
Klaus-Gebert-Strasse 5
Rapperswil
Switzerland

For further information click: http://www.alte-fabrik.ch/ (in German)

SOLOSHOW AT BAU-XI PHOTO, TORONTO

From the Series “City of Ambition”

DURATION: February 6 until February 27, 2010

Bau-Xi Photo
324 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON, M5T IG5
Canada

For more information please click: http://www.bau-xiphoto.com/
Derek Flack’s review of City of Ambition in blogTO: here
Review of Bau-Xi Photo in BlogTo: http://www.blogto.com/gallery/bau-xi-photo
This Interview by Uluc Ozguven for Turkuaz TV was recorded during the opening at Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto last February: http://vimeo.com/9862214 (in Turkish). Thanks Uluc!
Article in Canadian Art on Bau-Xi Photo: click here

“CITY OF AMBITION” IN REVIEWS, BLOGS, NEWSPAPERS

Elizabeth Fleming in her blog Tethered:
http://elizabethflemingphotography.blogspot.com/2010/01/ferit-kuyas.html

Tableau in Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Zurich, Switzerland (November 23 - 27, 2009, in German):
http://www.nzz.ch/hintergrund/tableau/ferit_kuyas_die_chinesische_stadt_chongqing_1.4052737.html

Ben Reichenbach in Der Freitag, Berlin (October 15, 2009, in German):
http://www.freitag.de/kultur/0942-buchmesse-kuyas-kritik

Ewa Hess in Sonntagszeitung, Zurich (January 3, 2010, in German):
City of Ambition got four out of four stars !  Thanks Ewa !

Steve Bisson and Andrea Filippin in Urbanautica:
http://www.urbanautica.com/blog/ferit-kuyas/
“URBANAUTICA is a research project on photography and human landscapes. Dealing with studies on urban and industrial sociology lead us to the idea of a website, without commercial purposes, that tries to bring back people’s looks on the “ways of doing” territories. A sailing by sight, a trip around ideas, people, and what makes them part of nature, and the world.” Steve Bisson and Andrea Filippin.

Thanks everybody for featuring my project or writing about it !