Monograph | Turkish, English | Category: Conceptual Art, Sculpture, Painting, Installation, Video,
Translation: Ogün Duman, Bilgin Duman, Jeremy Gaines, Çiçek Öztek, Erden Kosova
Book Editor: Çiçek Öztek | Copy-editing: Matt Hanson, Laura Wünsche, Zeynep Yazıcı
Photographs: Stangl AG, Locus Athens, Roland Baege, Between Bridges, Helmut Claus, Nazlı Erdemirel, Flufoto, Aydın Gökay, Barış Gültürk, Işık Kaya, Anette Kradisch, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Anna Luft, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Merkezi, Kunstverein München e.V., Axel Schneider, Uwe Walter, Stephen White, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Cem Yücetaş, Jens Ziehe
Book Design: Vahit Tuna
Dirimart presents the monography of Özlem Günyol-Mustafa Kunt covering fifteen years of their practice, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled Ses-li Harfler | Ses-siz Harfler held on 20 February–24 March 2019 at Dirimart. Looking at their fifteen-year journey to interpret and scrutinise the projections of the artists’ investigations from various perspectives, the book is the most comprehensive publication on Günyol and Kunt to the date of its publication.
Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt have been living in Frankfurt since 2001. They lead a life dedicated to their practice that evolved into working together soon after their university years. Every puzzle they bring to us is an indication of curiosity, diligence, and elaboration that constitutes that idea of dedication. The volume of the body of work they have produced since 2003 up to 2019 has made this comprehensive publication necessary. Texts by Jörg Heiser, Banu Karaca, and Erden Kosova; and the conversation between Jakob Sturm and Felix Ruhöfer (with Günyol and Kunt eavesdropping and chipping in from time to time), enables us to look at their production from different perspectives and to establish an introduction with them as if we were reading their biography. In the ‘Works’ section of the book, the reader will find an exhaustive compilation of their works from 2003 onwards.
