Banu Cennetoğlu, born in 1970 in Ankara, studied in Istanbul, Paris and New York before she was awarded a place at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2002. A major solo exhibition of her work was held at Kunsthalle Basel in 2011 and she was one of two artists who represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Cennetoğlu lives and works in Istanbul where she has also runs BAS, a non-profit project space in the city center dedicated to collecting, archiving, exhibiting and publishing limited edition artist’s books.

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Lonesome in Istanbul

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First published in: On One Side of the Same Water. Artistic Practices between Tirana and Tangier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2012

Lonesome in Istanbul

Three generations of artists: Banu Cennetoğlu, Gülsün Karamustafa and Güçlü Öztekin as well as Özgür Erkök of Ha Za Vu Zu’s in conversation …