{"id":4793,"date":"2026-04-26T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haraistanbul.com\/?post_type=product&p=4793"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:37:12","slug":"artist-talk-lara-ogel-omer-tevfik-erten-and-zeynep-sayin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.haraistanbul.com\/en\/programs\/talk\/artist-talk-lara-ogel-omer-tevfik-erten-and-zeynep-sayin\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk: Lara \u00d6gel, \u00d6mer Tevfik Erten and Zeynep Say\u0131n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organised as part of the public programme\u00a0for Hara’s current exhibition,\u00a0The Promises of Monsters<\/em>, this talk invites exhibition artists Lara \u00d6gel and \u00d6mer Tevfik Erten to discuss their practices in conversation with Zeynep Say\u0131n.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event is free. To attend, please register by sending an email to info@haraistanbul.com. Admission to Hara is free for visitors with a confirmed registration.<\/p>\n

The nearest bus stop to Hara is Uskumruk\u00f6y, located a one-minute walk away. Regular bus services (152 and 59HS) run from Hac\u0131osman Metro to Uskumruk\u00f6y.<\/p>\n

Event time: 15:00<\/p>\n

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Lara \u00d6gel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lara \u00d6gel (b. 1987) works with sculpture, installation, and moving image to explore how we navigate shifting and unstable worlds. Rooted in feeling, mythology, memory, and material, her practice draws on personal narratives and universal symbols. Guided by intuition and serendipity, her research unfolds through literature, archaeology, and belief systems, reflecting on how we place ourselves in the world and make meaning. \u00d6gel\u2019s environments open poetic, sensorial spaces where the mythic and the everyday, the personal and the collective transact in a shared visual language. Her works dwell in what resists articulation\u2014consciousness, transformation, and the entangled conditions of being. She completed her BA in Film and Communications at Clark University and attended the Intensive Summer Foundation at London Slade School of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n

Her most recent solo exhibitions include Echo<\/em> (Bilsart, 2023), Starry<\/em> Heavens<\/em> Above<\/em> Me<\/em> and<\/em> Within<\/em> Me<\/em> (Galerist, 2023), Verses<\/em> on<\/em> Water<\/em> (Ariel Art, 2019), Public<\/em> Confidentiality<\/em> (\u015eekerbank A\u00e7\u0131kekran, 2019), \u0130mtid\u00e2d<\/em> (Galata Greek School Open School Library, 2018), Go<\/em> Back!<\/em> All<\/em> is<\/em> Forgiven<\/em> (Protocinema, Paris, 2016) and The Happy Average<\/em> (\u00d6ktem Aykut, 2014). Recently, \u00d6gel\u2019s works have been included in the group exhibitions The Volcano Lover<\/em> (Galerist, 2025), Distilled From Scattered Blue<\/em> (Galerist, 2024), Healing Ruins<\/em> (Zeyrek \u00c7inili Hamam, 2023), Collective<\/em> Healing<\/em> (Metrohan, 2023), Rounded<\/em> by<\/em> Sleep<\/em> (Arter, 2022), The<\/em> Promise<\/em> of<\/em> Grass<\/em> (5th Mardin Biennial, 2022), This<\/em> Place<\/em> (Yap\u0131 Kredi Culture and Art, 2021), At the End of the Day<\/em> (OMM, Eski\u015fehir, 2020), Mushrooms<\/em> (Somerset House, London, 2020), I<\/em> Remember<\/em> (Hannah Barry Gallery, London, 2019), Great<\/em> Meadow<\/em> (riverrun, 2018) and Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents<\/em> (Athens, 2017). The artist took part in residency programmes at Delfina Foundation (London), Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts (Paris), PRAKSIS (Oslo) and Beirut Art Residency (Beirut). Lara \u00d6gel lives and works in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

\u00d6mer Tevfik Erten<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00d6mer Tevfik Erten, also known as \u00d6TE (b. 1990, Mardin), is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography. Their practice traces boundaries and thresholds within narratives shaped by gender, the body, and the production of space.<\/p>\n

\u00d6TE works with questions. Informed by inquiries like \u201cIs there space?\u201d (2013-2022) and the guiding question of their current practice, \u201cWhat does the image invoke when a boundary is breached?\u201d, \u00d6TE\u2019s work reveals the spectral layers beneath digital surfaces, summoning an in-between elsewhere where the real and the imagined coexist simultaneously. Their images are haunted by luminous spectres that refuse sanctification, regarding even the possibility of resurrection with suspicion. These ghosts appear both radical and fragile, fragmented yet whole. For \u00d6TE, the boundary is a fissure in the history of photographic representation and in ways of seeing, a crack through which light leaks.<\/p>\n

Between 2020 and 2023, the artist co-curated the queer solidarity network Through The Window Project<\/em>. \u00d6TE\u2019s work has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Trans X Turkey Grand Prize (2013), Prince Claus Fund Seed Awards (2022), PREE Fertile Ground Writing Competition (2024), and the 43rd Akbank Contemporary Artists Prize (2025). Based in Istanbul, the photographer continues to challenge academic modes of representation at the Photography Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, while seeking out new playgrounds for expression.<\/p>\n

Zeynep Say\u0131n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Istanbul in 1961, Zeynep Say\u0131n is a scholar of literary studies, an art theorist, and an academic. Say\u0131n studied literary studies, art history, and philosophy in Istanbul, Salzburg, and Vienna. Say\u0131n taught at various universities in Istanbul, at the Faculty of Architecture at Mardin Artuklu University, and at the Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste in Vienna. Say\u0131n is currently teaching in Leipzig at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Grafik und Buchkunst (as an honorary professor) and at the University of Art and Design in Linz.<\/p>\n

Publications by Say\u0131n include Mithat \u015een ve Bedenyaz\u0131s\u0131<\/em>\u00a0(Kakn\u00fcs, 1999),\u00a0Noli me tangere<\/em>\u00a0(Kakn\u00fcs, 2000),\u00a0\u0130mgenin Pornografisi<\/em>\u00a0(Metis, 2003) ve\u00a0K\u00f6t\u00fcl\u00fck Cemaatleri<\/em>\u00a0(Tekhne, 2016),\u00a0\u00d6l\u00fcm Terbiyesi<\/em> (Metis, 2021) and \u00c7izginin Bo\u015flu\u011fu<\/em> (Norgunk, 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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