DRAWN IN - The Comic Jam

For one weekend artillerie will host an improvisational Comic Jam festival with international comic artists Beldan Sezen (Amsterdam), Helena Janecic (Croatia) and IF (Berlin), who will create unique stories and drawings in one long jamming session.

Curated by Alexandra Lazar

Saturday, 7th November – Sunday, 8th November

 Open participation: Sunday, 8th November from 4 to 7 p.m. Participation is FREE but bring spare cash for food and art goodies!The artworks will stay on exhibition until 1st December. ..

"My Own Sex in the City" published in Qunst.mag's current "experiments in living" issue!

Qunst.mag is an e-zine created by members of Bildwechsel and the contributing artists. Our aim is to provide a platform for queer feminist artists working in various media. Qunst.mag is free for download.

 

Update on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:10PM by beldan sezen

BAck from the Opening!

Open Space Projekt ZWISCHENRAUM für KUNST & MIGRATION

ZWISCHENRAUM für KUNST & MIGRATION nimmt seinen Ausgang beim Sujet Migration, Flucht, kultureller Diversität. Sie soll selbst ein Zwischenraum sein für transitorische Umdeutungen von Innen und Außen, Eigen und Fremd in der Sprache von Malerei, Photografie und Literatur.

In seiner Nobelvorlesung "Versuch über die Vernunft der Poesie" von 1973 verortet Heinrich Böll die Kunst im "Zwischenraum": jenem Ort der unvorhersehbaren Differenz des konkreten Kunstwerks gegenüber den allerbesten und vernünftigsten Absichten. Im Zwischenraum, in der Differenz, im Rest des Unerklärlichen ereigne sich "Poesie, Gott, Widerstand". Jedes Kunstwerk sei lebendiges "Experiment und Entdeckung". Es sei Pflicht der Künstlerinnen und Künstler, mit einer Haltung poetischer Demut - nicht nach oben, sondern nach unten gerichtet -  in die Zwischenräume einzudringen, in die unerklärten und unerklärlichen Reste, wo es ganze Kontinente des "Abfalls", ja der "Abfälligkeit" zu entdecken gebe: Abfall der Geschichte der Verlierer wie der verlorenen Kontinente - "geistigen Explosivstoff für die plötzliche Erkenntnis".

Initiated by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, a selection of my drawings is being showcased here. 

London baby!

Dear Beldan Sezen,

Thank you for submitting your short film to the GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival.We are very pleased to inform you that your submission'3 films From the diaries of two breasts'have been selected for the GFest.

by tha way, 3rd time in a row.

baCk frOm beRliN!

The opening of the “Personally Political – Contemporary Sensation” Drawing: exhibition at the Art House Tacheles was way cool!

Barbara Fragogna, the curator, put a lovely exhibition & catalogue together with a variety of artists all of them showing a high quality of work that easily responded to the exhibition's theme.

Furthermore, it was surprisingly good to be in Berlin once again. Haven't been there in more than two years...

Well, here are some artists and spots I met and came across while walking/talking the streets of berlin:

Jamika Ajalon (my heads still buzzin'), TekTek (coolest shirts, limited editions, ecologically AND economically correct! ), Adwoa Hackman (juuust music!), Goal - eine Welt für Fussball (dykes rule!) and the Kuma gallery (cooldudes!).

Last but NOT least my (still) favorite hang out place for coffee&tart or beer&tart, the "Bierhimmel".

And, as you can see my piece got noticed. Ha!

there it is!

Today I received the first prints of "a girl called halt" in its final form as a BookBox. The story of a little girl's name folded into a matchbox.

You can buy this lovely BookBox through the official website at www.bookbox.nl .

it's getting serious...

the openings date for my comic-book exhibition at the frauenmuseum in Wiesbaden, Germany has been set. October the 25th, 2009 !  uuuuh..

Update on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 7:20PM by beldan sezen

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Botschaft des Königreichs der Niederlande

just lovely...

spent my afternoon playing at  Coraline.com.  yep!

In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one window and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close, The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different....

Tacheles!

“Personally Political – Contemporary Sensation” Drawing: June 26 through July 17, 2009.

ONE of my works has been selected for

the Personally Political Drawing Exhibition

at The Art House Tacheles in Berlin.

Update on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 6:16PM by beldan sezen

just got notice that my friend and colleague Doreen Wittenbols will also participate in the exhibition! yay! 

Update on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 5:21PM by beldan sezen