video installation on the facade by Sina Ataeian Dena
Launch Gathering
Cooperation partners 140journos
By Çağdaş Erdoğan
bi’bak is partnering up with Turkey’s most popular ‘counter-media’ channel 140journos for the short-film series Almanya’dan Sevgiler | From Almanya With Love. The series features six mini-documentaries directed by Çağdaş Erdoğan, focusing on a diverse range of stories of migration from Turkey to Germany.
Turbulent politics has played a major role in shaping transnational migration patterns between Turkey and Germany throughout the last century. After 1961, thousands of so-called Gastarbeiters came to Germany in order to build up the post-war economy, forming the hitherto largest ethnic minority group. Violent ideological clashes in the 1970s or oppressive politics in the 90s in Turkey resulted in numerous, mostly leftist and Kurdish asylum seekers coming to Germany. Today, a new wave of migrants from Turkey are settling mainly in Berlin. These journalists, artists, academics and other young professionals are escaping ongoing persecution and seeking a better future. In his films, Çağdaş Erdoğan investigates a diverse selection of backgrounds and stories of migration from Turkey to Germany and brings to light counter-narratives against dominant stereotypes.
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Çağdaş Erdoğan is a photographer and artist born in 1992 in Eastern Turkey. As a photojournalist, his work focuses on minorities in the Middle East. His works have been published in world-leading newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, Stern, The British Journal of Photography, The Times, The Guardian, İz Magazine and many others. He was selected among the ‘Ones to Watch in 2017’ by The British Journal of Photography. His first photobook titled Control was published Akina Books. He works with the video collective 140journos. He has held a fellowship at bi’bak since October 2019.
Book Launch Event
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Ibrahim Arslan, Jasper Kettner and Heike Kleffner
The Cultural and Historical Relations between Greece and Turkey
Curated by Pegah Keshmirshekan and Umut Azad Akkel
bi'bak @ Hansabibliothek
Curated by Florian Wüst
Intersection Sessions
BOOK LAUNCH/ DISCUSSION: German-Turkish Film Culture in the context of Migration
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Eleftheria Gavriilidou
Graphic Short Stories
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Ersin Karabulut and Michael Jordan
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Yaser Safi
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Aisha Franz
A Mobile Job Market for the Neighbourhood
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Çağın Kaya and Uygar Demoğlu
frontend.im_anschluss_x. spacedigger
Animations from the Mobile Language Lab
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Julia Kapelle
A JOURNEY TO MERIÇ
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Caspar Pauli, Birgit Auf der Lauer and KABA HAT
bak.ma
frontend.im_anschluss_x. artıkişler
EMBODIED INTERFACE
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Catriona Shaw and Malve Lippmann
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Çağdaş Erdoğan, Önder Çakar and Engin Önder
Çağdaş Erdoğan is a photographer and artist born in 1992 in Eastern Turkey. As a photojournalist, his work focuses on minorities in the Middle East. His works have been published in world-leading newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, Stern, The British Journal of Photography, The Times, The Guardian, İz Magazine and many others. He was selected among the ‘Ones to Watch in 2017’ by The British Journal of Photography. His first photobook titled Control was published Akina Books. He works with the video collective 140journos. He has held a fellowship at bi’bak since October 2019.
Within the scope of the film series From Almanya With Love, a collaboration between bi'bak and 140journos, we will spend six hours exploring data about the political, cultural and visual connections between Germany and Turkey. We are looking for highly motivated, voluntary researchers who are interested in working with us in a workshop taking place on 22. February between 12am and 6pm at bi’bak (Berlin).
frontend.im_anschluss_x. Çağdaş Erdoğan
Germany’s capital, Berlin, is the city with the largest Turkish community living outside of Turkey. Migration from Turkey to Germany, which started first with the workers recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey in 1961, has reached a new dimension since 2015 with the “New Wave” migration of students, scholars and white collar workers.
Çağdaş Erdoğan’s new short documentary “82 Plaka Berlin – New Migration From Turkey” produced by 140journos and bi’bak will have its premiere on the 22nd of February at 7:30pm at bi’bak joined by the film's crew and protagonists.
Çağdaş Erdoğan is a photographer and artist born in 1992 in Eastern Turkey. As a photojournalist, his work focuses on minorities in the Middle East. His works have been published in world-leading newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, Stern, The British Journal of Photography, The Times, The Guardian, İz Magazine and many others. He was selected among the ‘Ones to Watch in 2017’ by The British Journal of Photography. His first photobook titled Control was published Akina Books. He works with the video collective 140journos. He has held a fellowship at bi’bak since October 2019.
