Montag met with the Faculty of Fine Arts at Balıkesir University.
Montag Residency met with students from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Balıkesir University as part of the theme “Local Dialogues.” The program, which took place at the invitation of the Head of the Painting Department, Prof. Dr. Duygu Sabancılar Iştın (@duygusabancilarstudio), featured a presentation by co-founder Eda Emirdağ on independent art spaces, collaboration processes, […]
🌱 Open Call: Urban Artist Gardens
‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ — Jane Goodall Urban Artist Gardens Contribution Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11I0qpmyY-JT1Kv57SPHBI2AF8qvLXSIaLkN4B9wWexc/edit At Montag Residency, we are developing an ongoing research process around the idea of the “Comm-Unity Garden” — a space where ecology, artistic practice, and collective learning come together. This research has grown through encounters across different contexts — from Tulla Urban Farming in Tirana to Islington Mill in […]
TARNetwork
TARNetworkTARN (Turkey Artist Residency Network) is an independent platform that brings together artist residency programs across Türkiye, focusing on collaboration, solidarity, and capacity building.👉 Instagram: @tarnetwork TARN supports knowledge exchange, resource access, and the development of shared standards among artist residency programs.Its goal is to build a sustainable, inclusive, and accessible artist residency ecosystem in […]
‘Local Dialogues 2.0’
The Local Dialogues exhibition opens this Wednesday at Koza Park Gönen at 4 p.m. This exhibition, organized as part of the Montag Residency’s Local Dialogues series, creates a partnership between contemporary art and local craftswomanship. Artists Nathalie Rey and Eda Emirdağ launched the first phase of this exhibition, developed after a year of collaborative work, in […]
WORK-UNITY NO:2 / ‘Social Agendas’ / Liz Wewiora / Salford Uni & Open Eye Gallery
‘WORK-UNITY’ no:2 ‘Social Agenda’ and ‘Meet and Greet’ drop event with Elizabeth Wewiora* met with photographers and a pop-up exhibition event with the display of work by students at Salford University took place in Istanbul @imc5533 and @ma_pathways_uos @salforduni collaboration and @openeyegallery SEPN contributions with support https://openeye.org.uk/whatson/social-agendas-montag-residency-istanbul Participants Katie Aird, David Akinola, Andrea Low, Helen Constantinou, Maggie Kij, Carina Low *Elizabeth […]
WORK-UNITY NO:1 / ‘Open Networks’/ Dr. Helen McGhie/ Manchester Metropolitan University
Digital Exhibition by Montag Residency and Manchester Metropolitan University SODA Collaboration ‘Work-Unity’ No:1 w/ Dr. Helen McGhie •The works of the participants who responded to the open call of Montag Residency for the students and academics of the Manchester Metropolitan University SODA (School of Digital Arts) are coming together in a digital exhibition within the […]
‘TARN’ /artist exchange) SayeCollective
(Turkey Artist Residency Network) is a research and solidarity network initiated by Montag Residency. This project aims to map artist residencies in Turkey and establish a communication network in this field. It also functions as an artist exchange project that builds a community within the network it creates.Montag provides guidance, references, collaboration development, and facilitation, […]
‘Work-Unity’ OpenCall for SODA
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The first step of a long-term project by Nathalie Rey and Eda Emirdağ with women’s communities in Gönen took place.
The exhibition “Lifting the Veil” aims to provoke a healing process through a collective ritual of releasing family memories carried and transmitted by women from generation to generation. The first step of a long-term project by @edaemirdag and @nathalierey_oficial was developed in collaboration with several women communities from Gönen. The exhibition “Lifting the Veil,” created in collaboration by artists […]
What’s in Local Culture? Oil Wrestling?
Montag Residency organizes pop-up events to experience the local culture of Gönen together.The first of these was an oil wrestling event open to the public.The names that took part in the special tribune of the Wrestling Aga upon the invitation of Eda Emirdağ;Emirkan Cörüt, Merve Karvas, Umurcan Şenyuva and Elif Sezer came together and explored […]
