Şükran Moral

Şükran Moral (born in 1962 In Terme, Samsun) is a Turkish artist,[1] best known for her performances, videos and installations. During the 80's and 90's, she wrote poetry and worked as a journalist and art critic in Turkey. Moral currently lives and works in Istanbul and Rome.

Early years

Şükran Moral was born in 1962 in Terme, Samsun. She has three brothers and one sister. Her father refused to allow Moral to attend middle school, insisting that she work in tailors shop. However, with her mother's help, she secretly attended started middle school. Moral graduated from high school despite have to deal with Domestic violence and Peer pressure.[2]

Moral graduated from the Department of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Education at Ankara University. In 1989, she moved to Italy and studied again at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, where she graduated from the painting section in 1995.

Artistic career

Moral's area of interest have mostly been the negative effects of religion on women, the mentally ill and disordered and the alienation and exclusion of immigrants, Transsexuals, and Prostitutes.

In 1997, she made a performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art Workshop Sapienza University of Rome, with the title "Museum & Morgue", where she transformed the museum into a morgue. She has performed works at a women's asylum in Istanbul.

One of her most famous works was "Hamam", performed in the men's section of a Turkish bath in Galatasaray, Istanbul. It was exhibited in 1997 as a part of the International Istanbul Biennial.

"What's scandalous here is not the nudity," she says, "What's scandalous was the fact that here I was, an intellectual woman, who proposes doing something scandalous. If I had really been a whore, it would have been no big deal. Just being a female avant-garde artist is scandalous."[3]

In Press

In 2005, a book about Moral's work, titled Apocalypse, was published by the Italian publisher Gangemi, curated by Simonetta Lux and Patrizia Mania.

Works

Solo Exhibitions:

  • 1992, "La valigia di Pandora", Art Hotel Museo, Prato
  • 1993, Roma, Studio Aperto, Associazione per la Promozione dell’Arte in Europe, Ultimo verdetesto critico a cura di Vittorio Rubiu
  • 1994, "Artista espulsa & Arte Espulsa", Galleria Studio Leonardi, Geneva
  • 1995, "Diffidate della storia dell’arte", Mistrust the History of Art, Milano, Studio Oggetto, Milan
  • 1996, "Cut and cover – il corpo", Galleria Studio Oggetto, Caserta
  • 1997, “Speculum” (Diffidate della storia dell’arte), Sapienza–Università di Roma, Mlac-Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome
  • 2001, "Hayat – nomadi dell’arte (Hamam, Brothel, Mental hospital)", Le Grenoble-Istituto francese, Naples
  • 2001, "Şükran Moral, videoproiezioni (Hamam, Brothel, Transistanbul)", Momart Gallery of Contemporary Art, Matera
  • 2004, "Apocalypse", Sapienza–Università di Roma, Mlac – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome
  • 2005, “Çaresizler – Despair”, Maçka Sanat Gallery, Istanbul
  • 2005, “Leyla and Mecnun”, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo
  • 2006, “Leyla ile Mecnun & Bordello”, Proje4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
  • 2007, “Peace…Fucking fairytale!”, B&D Studio contemporanea, Milan
  • 2007, "Şükran Moral, Underground Istanbul", The Lab Gallery, New York
  • 2007, “Jesus&Muhammad”, Placentia Arte, Piacenza
  • 2009, “Love and Violence”, Yapı Kredi Kâzım Taşkent Art Gallery

Group Shows:

  • 1997, 5. International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
  • 2002, Camera della Donna - Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery - University of Nevada, Reno, NV
  • 2003, Tri (o) ptique - Akerman/Ono/Moral - MLAC - Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome
  • 2005, perdere la testa - Lattuada Studio, Milan
  • 2006, Fair:Play 06 - Play - Gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
  • 2008, Impronta globale - Ex Magazzini Generali – ISA - Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome
  • 2008, Fuori Corso, ovvero come alcuni artisti leggono lo spazio della città dei saperi - MLAC - Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome
  • 2008, Summer Kisses - Museo Laboratorio - Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Città Sant'Angelo (PE)
  • 2008, Made in Turkey - Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt/Main
  • 2009, TransIstanbul - Turchità e identità transgenere - neon>fdv, Milan
  • 2009, City_net Asia 2009 - Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul
  • 2009, Boden unter meine Füßen, nicht den Himmel - AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 2009, Sechs Positionen kritischer Kunst aus Istanbul - Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 2010, ID’s please! - Cer Modern, Ankara
  • 2010, Video Dia Loghi 2010 - Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin

References
  1. "Lezbiyen performansı ile gündeme gelen sanatçı ölüm tehditleri alıyor". Radikal. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  2. Ward, Josh (2009-11-27). "Shocking Turkey: Sükran Moral Tests the Boundaries of Contemporary Art". Spiegel Online.
  3. "Photo Gallery - Photo 3 - Photo Gallery: The Art of Sükran Moral".
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