CIF DIALOGUES

Organized in partnership with Artsy, a leading marketplace for emerging and renowned artists, the program will be moderated by Sarp Kerem Yavuz, CI New York representative and artistic content advisor for the fair. This event brings together international speakers to explore themes centered on Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, with a special focus on art and digital art in the age of artificial intelligence.

October 23rd, 2024

Opening Remarks

Sarp Kerem Yavuz, CIF Artistic Advisor

Keynote Speech

Fatih Altaylı, Journalist, Presenter, Columnist
 

How to own & exhibit digital art today?

Stefanie de Regel, Director of Business Development at TAEX

Steven Sachs, Founder and Director of bitforms Gallery NY

Lauren Jones, Director of Business Development at FeralFile

Ahmet Burçin Gürbüz, Founder & CEO of Atlas Space

Moderated by Sureyya Wille, Digital Sales Strategist

The Art Car of the Future: BMW iX Flow featuring E-ink

Stella Clarke, Development Engineer & Project Lead, BMW iX Flow featuring E-ink, BMW Group

Ali Güreli, Founder & Chairman of Contemporary Istanbul

Can we make peace with AI-generated art?

Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève

Nicole Sales Giles, VP and Director of Digital Art Sales, Christie’s

Sarp Kerem Yavuz, Artist & Artistic Advisor to the Contemporary Istanbul Foundation

Moderated by Jenn Pratt, Partnerships Director at Artsy

Emerging Artists and its Market

Wilko Austermann, Director of Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst

Amar A. Zahr, Founder of AAZ Art Advisory & Beirut Art Residency

Emirhan Elkorek, Art Advisor & Patron

Moderated by Maria Gracia de Pedro, Founder of Artepreneur & Chair of the Badr El Jundi Foundation

October 24th, 2024

Panel

Can Elgiz, Founder of Elgiz Museum

Yahşi Baraz, Collector, Gallery Founder

Feride İkiz, Advisory Partner at PwC Turkey, Collector

Moderated by Hasan Bülent Kahraman,mCurator, Rector of Işık University, Executive Committee Member, Contemporary Istanbul
 

Art: Patronage, Collectors, and Museums in Latin America and Spain

(This panel will be conducted in Spanish with simultaneous English and Turkish translation)

Carmen Reviriego, President at Callia Art & Callia Foundation

Isaac Cerdeira, Director of Callia Foundation

Juan Manuel Bonet, Writer, Art Expert, and Curator. Former Director of Reina Sofia Museum Madrid and IVAM in Valencia and Former Secretary of State for Instituto Cervantes worldwide

Enrique Juncosa, Former Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin & Former Deputy Director of Museo Reina Sofia

Painting Today: A Spanish Perspective of Contemporary Art

(This panel will be conducted in Spanish with simultaneous English and Turkish translation)

Juan Manuel Bonet, Writer, Art Expert, and Curator. Former Director of Reina Sofia Museum Madrid and IVAM in Valencia, Former Secretary of State for Instituto Cervantes worldwide

José María Luna, Director of the Public Agency for the Management of the Pablo Picasso Birthplace, the Russian Museum Collection and the Centre Pompidou of Malaga City Council, as well as Patron of the Ankaria Foundation

Sema d’Acosta, Independent Commissioner, Art Critic & Researcher

Keynote Speech

Miguel Blanco-Carrasco, Public Art Expert (Advisor to the Royal Commission for Riyadh City)
 

Art in Public Spaces

(This panel will be conducted in Turkish)

Gülveli Kaya, Artist & Dean of Fine Arts at Yeditepe University

Meriç Hızal, Sculptor & Professor Emeritus at Mimar Sinan Faculty of Fine Arts

Moderated by Nazlı Pektaş, Art Historian, Curator, Lecturer at Marmara University & Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts

Documentary Screening: “Crossroads”

(This film is in Turkish with English subtitles)

Produced by Vanessa Medini Arslan and Bulut Reyhanoglu, directed by Mahmut Fazil Coskun, this award winning documentary features studio visits and intimate conversations with leading Turkish artists.