Lock Your Mind was the title of an exchange program between two non profit and artist run centres,
Apartment Project in Istanbul www.apartmentproject.com and
sox36 in Berlin http://www.modukit.com/sox36/about.html#istanbul,
initiated in 2004 by Sureyyya Evren and Stephan Kurr.

Stephan Kurr invited the artists from Berlin:
Susanne Bosch www.susannebosch.de/82.0.html,
Mari Brellochs http://www.modukit.com/sox36/brellochs2.php,
Jn. Ulrick Désert http://www.jeanulrickdesert.com/content/metamorphoses and
María Linares http://www.marialinares.com/

Sureyyya Evren invited the artists from Istanbul:
Mustafa Erdem Özler,
Borga Kantürk http://borgakanturk.blogspot.de/,
Ahmet Ögüt http://www.ahmetogut.com/ and
Serkan Özkaya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serkan_%C3%96zkaya.

All artists stayed for a short period in the other city and developed a new piece of work for the show.

Supported by Kunstamt Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg von Berlin and Marli-Hoppe-Ritter-Kunststiftung. With special thanks to Selda Asal.

Catalogue: Lock Your Mind (german-english-turkish), Erich Weiß Verlag, Bamberg, ISBN 3-928591-92-4 ©2006
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