Art Production Grants

Art Production Grants are intended to fund stand-alone productions by artists and art professionals residing in Turkey between the ages of 25 and 45 who will work in tandem with well-established mentors from the Turkish art scene throughout the implementation of their project.

Providing artists with access to crucial mentoring, cultural infrastructure as well as career opportunities, this programme aims to strengthen artistic networks which will result in heightened visibility and resilience for contemporary artists nationwide.

Art Production Grants are open for applications from the field of visual arts. An important focus will be on wide geographic coverage extending beyond the urban and cultural centres of Ankara, İstanbul, and İzmir.

This page is published on 23 June 2021.
Last update: 18 November 2022

A total of 121 applications were made to the Artistic Production Fund's call, which was open between 4 September and 4 October 2023. Applications that fully met the conditions of the Artistic Production Fund and completed all application documents were forwarded to the jury members after the technical evaluation made by the CultureCIVIC team. Applications were evaluated by curator Ulya Soley, Tarabya Culture Academy finance and past artist fund coordinator Tijen Togay, Istanbul Biennial resource development coordinator Ceren Hamiloğlu and curator Başak Doğa Temür, and the projects to be supported were determined.

Stories Whose Sun is Hidden

Ceren Tekin Karagöz

DENİZLİ, MUŞ

Active Landscapes

Rozelin Akgün

DİYARBAKIR

Concrete, Grass and Others

Zehra Seda Boztunalı

DÜZCE, SAKARYA

Craft Tapes

Ertuğrul Berhan Yıldız

İSTANBUL

ENDOPHASIA

Gökçe Uygun

EDİRNE

Galata's Everyday Acoustic Palimpsests

Sena Karahan

İSTANBUL

Kassia: Poems of Protest

Buşra Tunç, Brett Umlauf, Meral Akkent

İSTANBUL

Less Healing Plants

Hatiye Garip, İpek Kay

MUĞLA, İSTANBUL

Lives of Others

Tuğçe Yakar, Rıdvan Oral (Nesin İstasyon)

İlhak Altıparmak

Begüm Çelik, Ayşegül Yapar

İZMİR, İSTANBUL

Missing Bricks

Onur Tatar, Levent Genç

ÇANAKKALE

Reclamation Landscapes

Dilşad Aladağ

ADANA, İZMİR

Root and Foundation

Eda Gecikmez

ANKARA

Solastalgia; The Cadastre of Deterioration

Büşra Kuruçay

ADIYAMAN

The Sound of the Earth

Betül Katıgöz

Ekin Çekiç

Betül Aksu

Özge Yalacak, Çağlar Uzun

ZONGULDAK

A total of 106 applications were made to the Artistic Production Fund's call, which was open between 1 February and 15 March 2023. The applications were evaluated by curator Kevser Güler, Tarabya Culture Academy Cultural Activities Officer Çiğdem İkiışık, Istanbul Biennial Communication and Operations Coordinator Pelin Kuş and curator Başak Doğa Temür, and the projects to be supported were determined.

26 KM

Yeliz Selvi Gölpunar

ŞANLIURFA

A Flâneuse in Sinope

Azize Reva Boynukalın

Gözde Mulla

Na+CTRL

Melt Studio

Özkan Işık

Anatolian Folk Calender from Dionysius Festivals to Hıdırellez

Erdal Demir

ARTVİN

Negative Space

Rendering Nothingness Visible

Sadık Arslan

IĞDIR, HATAY, KAHRAMANMARAŞ, ADIYAMAN, MARDİN, ŞIRNAK, HAKKARİ, DİYARBAKIR

Our Love Memory with “Sevgi”

Kenan Özcan

Ezgi Yakın

Sidar Alışık

Maruz Collective

Telltale of the Stone: Beware of the Evil Eye, Live Happily!

Burcu Günay

BOLU, HATAY, ADIYAMAN, ŞANLIURFA

There

Zeynep Gürler

DÜZCE, İSTANBUL, ANKARA

Thin Air

Cemil Batur Gökçeer

ANKARA, İZMİR, İSTANBUL

User Manual

Özge Akdeniz, Ayşegül Oğuz

İSTANBUL

A total of 209 applications were made to the first open call of the Art Production Grants between 17 January and 18 February 2022. Applications were first evaluated by the CultureCIVIC project team, then by Aslı Çetinkaya, Project Coordinator at Depo; Duygu Şengünler, Business Development and Project Coordinator of Pavilion of Turkey at Biennale Arte and Architettura, curator Başak Doğa Temür, Melida Tüzünoğlu, writer and Head of Programme of Spaces of Culture; artist Dilek Winchester and the projects to be supported were determined.

Arzu Yayıntaş

Şefik Özcan

Anthology of Promises

Özgür Demirci

IZMIR

Close to the View, In the Distance

Seniha Ünay

DÜZCE