Çanakkale Bienali

8th Çanakkale Biennial, Turkey

Within the scope of the 8^th Çanakkale Biennial, SAHA provides support for 5 art iniatives from different cities of Turkey, namely Ka Atölye (Ankara), AVTO (Istanbul), Garp Sessions (Çanakkale), ARE Project (Antalya), Monitor (İzmir) which includes production and artist-curatorial fees. The 8^th edition of the Çanakkale Biennial is on view between 1 October - 5 November 2022 and focus on experiences of community, endeavour, and togetherness.The exhibitions and parallel events should be held at different venues in Çanakkale city centre and at the Troy Museum.

Since its first edition in 2008, has been organized by CABININ, the conceptual structures of the biennial were aimed at integrating contemporary art into the everyday lives of citizens and into the city’s everyday landscape. Artists and art initiatives from Turkey and around the world are invited to explore the connections/nodal points of the complex relationships between all living and non-living structures, through questions on "How can we produce together?", "How do we live together?", "How do we work together?". The 8th Çanakkale Biennial will suggest looking at different forms and methods, as well as paradoxes, impossibilities, singular chances, and probabilities of dreaming together, living alone in crowds, meeting around a table, and acting as a part of nature, while crossing different concepts such as hospitality, friendship, cooperation, labour, responsibility, justice, forgiveness, memory, mourning, joy…

About International Çanakkale Biennial

 Çanakkale Biennial Initiative (CABININ) is a Çanakkale-based non-profit initiative, founded by a group of collaborators from various fields and occupations. As a platform for producing artistic and cultural ideas and events, CABININ organizes and supports local as well as international events that would touch on socially responsible projects in particular, International Çanakkale Biennial. Hence, since the 1st Çanakkale Biennial (2008), all of the conceptual frameworks have been determined on the principle to oversee, examine and criticize the social problems relating to the country, region and the world through works of art.