Since 2021, GIUNGLA and the Çanakkale Biennial have worked together in order to give visibility to Turkish artists in Italy and Italian artists in Turkey. As the pandemic started, it was a pretty hard task to achieve. However, GIUNGLA presented and co-produced Eda Sutunç interactive installation Disappearing Bodies in 2021 and hosted in residency Irem Tok who worked in the Botanical Garden of Lucca, giving birth to Hydromancy in 2022. And we are so happy and proud about what we did together!

Now it’s the turn of an Italian artist, Tatiana Villani!

Tatiana went to Çanakkale last July and worked with local ceramists taking inspiration from the surroundings of the city. Her work Seeds&Others, together with Hydromancy by Irem Tok, will be featured in the 8th Çanakkale Biennial.

Artists and art initiatives from Turkey and around the world are invited to explore the connections/nodal points of the complex relationships between all living and non-living structures, through questions on “How can we produce together?”, “How do we live together?”, “How do we work together?”. The 8th Çanakkale Biennial will suggest looking at different forms and methods, as well as paradoxes, impossibilities, singular chances, and probabilities of dreaming together, living alone in crowds, meeting around a table, and acting as a part of nature, while crossing different concepts such as hospitality, friendship, cooperation, labour, responsibility, justice, forgiveness, memory, mourning, joy…

Çanakkale Biennial will start on October 1st and continue until November 5th, with exhibitions and parallel events to be held at different venues in Çanakkale city centre and at the Troy Museum.

More info HERE.