10 Facts About Genco Gulan

Genco Gulan was born on 1969 and is a contemporary conceptual artist and theorist who lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.

Genco Gulan's work encompasses a variety of media, including conceptual art, new media, performance art, and photography.

Genco Gulan's art has appeared in Pera Museum, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, ZKM Karlsruhe, Triennale di Milano, Biennial of Tehran, and Pompidou Center Paris.

Genco Gulan is a new media artist who uses text, codes and his own DNA in his art.

In 2011, Genco Gulan was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation European Art Prize and held his first exhibition at the White Saloon inside the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, where he studied Political Science and International Relations from 1987 to 1991.

Additionally, Genco Gulan presented his New Landscape series, an interpretation of landscapes as barcodes, and his Digital Ghost series, which involved painting images from his laptop onto large canvases.

Genco Gulan established the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum as an art project in 1997.

Gulan's monograph, Conceptual Colors of Genco Gulan edited by Marcus Graf, is co-published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin in collaboration with Galeri Artist, Istanbul.

Genco Gulan's publications are available internationally at libraries such as the German National Library, SALT Research, the Thomas J Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Robert B Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University.

Genco Gulan founded the Web Biennial at the turn of the century, served on the Board of Balkan Biennial in Thessaloniki, International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore in 2008 and was a guest editor for Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media.