Fahrettin Örenli

Mediations Biennale, Bienal de la Habana | Havana, Cuba

SAHA supports Mediations Biennale within the scope of Fahrettin Örenli’s new project Equation: The Evolution and/of Knowledge: Within and Beyond the Human Mind between 27 February – 15 June 2025. Fahrettin Örenli’s site-specific project explores the interplay of knowledge, identity, and human consciousness. Presented in collaboration with La Bienal de La Habana, Mediations Biennale, and Central Habana Contemporánea A(run by La Sindical), this project exemplifies how global networks transcend boundaries to foster cultural exchange and artistic innovation. Through poetry, visual art, and digital technology, Örenli examines cities as living entities and their role in shaping societal values. His work bridges Turkish cultural perspectives with global dialogues, promoting reflection on socio-economic systems and the evolving nature of consciousness. bout the Mediations Biennale

Fahrettin Örenli (1969, Tunceli). He participated in artist-in-residence programs at the MMCA residency Changdong (2017); Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (2006–07) and ISCP, NY (2003). Örenli's solo exhibitions include 'High Heels' (DEPO, Istanbul, 2016), 'Money without Nationality' (Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2017 & Pi Artworks, London, 2018), '3D SUNSET' (Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, 2018). 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' (ARKO Art Center, Seoul, 2018), 'The State of Transparency' (Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, 2019), 'Noncomformity' (Muse Contemporary Gallery, Istanbul, 2021), LOOP Seoul (2022). The artist lives and works in Amsterdam, Istanbul and Seoul.

About the Mediations Biennale

The Mediations Biennale, founded in 2008 in Poznań, Poland, is dedicated to advancing cross-cultural understanding and fostering collaboration through contemporary art. Guided by the belief that art is a vital mediator in bridging cultural, social, and political divides, the Biennale creates platforms for diverse voices to address the complex realities of our interconnected world.

About the Havana Biennial

The Havana Biennial was established in 1984 and its first edition was dedicated to artists of Latin America and the Caribbean.Since the second Biennial of 1986, also artists from Africa, Asia and the Middle East have taken part. This tradition, which has remained during each of the subsequent editions, turned Havana into an important venue for the gathering and exhibition of ‘non-Western’ art. Now, the Havana Biennial takes place within an allegedly globalized world that appears with many faces, complexities and conflicts, particularly when the discourse referred to it tends to arrange in order of importance the economic hegemony, the dependence and the control of information, ignoring the different stages of development and the socio- political orientations that coexist in the planet.