BAUART Gallery: A New Venue for "Art in Istanbul"

The exhibition "Layered Karaköy - Shaped Photographs from Perşembe Pazarı" by Istanbul-based American artist Julie Upmeyer opened to visitors at Bahçeşehir University Galata Campus on 17 September 2013 as the first of the BAUART Gallery exhibitions. The gallery will remain open until 30 October.

Bahçeşehir University Galata Campus is hosting Istanbul-based American artist Julie Upmeyer's exhibition"Layered Karaköy - Shaped Photographs from Perşembe Pazarı".

The exhibition, which opened as the first of the BAUART Gallery exhibitions, features photographs that the artist printed up to eight times each, cut and transformed into three-dimensional works.

In this way, the large-format photographic installations give visitors the feeling of stepping into a life-size scene.

The exhibition aims not only to bring a new art space to Istanbul, a culturally vibrant metropolis, but also to create a space where emerging artists can open their first solo exhibitions and an artistic platform where artists in Istanbul and abroad can come together in group exhibitions.

An American Artist in Istanbul: Julie Upmeyer

Julie Upmeyer is an artist and curator who chooses to use elements we encounter every day in our daily lives, on the streets, in our homes and on the internet, such as paper, plastic, food and photographs. Born in Detroit, USA, Upmeyer focuses her work on interactive structures and site-specific experiences. After choosing a nomadic life in India, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Greece for three years, she decided to settle in Istanbul in 2006 and continues her practice by creating installations, sculptures, performances and objects. Upmeyer is also the co-director and founder of "Caravansarai", an independent and collective production and meeting space where artists reside.