An artist born and based in Istanbul, works all around
Born in 1966 in Istanbul, she is educated in Western – English Literature and Language Department in Bosphorous University and did her master degree on theater theory and dramaturgy in Istanbul University.
She start dancing in the university's modern dance club and established, with her friends an interdisciplinary art group for the first time in Turkey, « Yesil Üzümler », where she made performances, actions and also did her choreographies. She also wrote and directed plays for movement and physical theater and devised work 1991 on.
In 1997 she took part in the establishment of Izmit Municipal Theater, where she worked as a dramaturg before directing her plays there . She wrote theatre's documentary book, focusing on the artistic policy and the process that is led to establish an autonomus and state subsidized theatre as an example for the others to come.
In 2009 she was invited to Istanbul Municipal theatre as one of the theatre’s directors, where she still works as a house-artist. In the theatre she founded ÇGSM, Contemporary Performing Arts Center, where master class workshops and international collaboration projects in an interdisciplinary collaborations in arts are being realized. She directed the space and the centers artistic program from 2010 on.
Starting in 2014 she curated a concept based, site-specific performance arts festival in one of the biggest museum in İstanbul, in Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi.
She also works in different theaters in various countries and cities as director, playwright, artist film maker, creating performances for communal actions and as choreographer. Her works of art and herself have been invited to France, Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Cyprus, Belgium, Portugal, Tunisia, Georgia, Greece, Egypt, Macedonia, USA.
She gives courses in various universities (recently Koç University) on contemporary performing arts in practice.
Her adaptation for stage of a 10th century prophesy text of the Asian shaman Turks, “Irk Bitig” as a sound theater play won the 2009 best Play Price in the International Strumica Theatre Festival for the innovative approach to performing arts. With Simon Wachsmuth she was the first tandem of the German-Turkish co-production grants to stay from October 2021 to January 2022 at the Tarabya Cultural Academy.
experimental, team work, documantary
"Spot Whelming" A free adaptation from Bertold Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle" with experimental use of masks and voice using adjusting the performance to the contemporary audience with documantary additions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0lGITtnV_U
multi disciplinary, site-specific, autobiographical
"African Dance" a performance, video installation, exhibition project, based on a short story written by an famous avangard woman writer Sevim Burak
from literature to movement theatre / contemporary dance choreographies
cutting edge images, converting the traditional essence to postfeminist aesthetics
cutting edge images, converting the traditional essence to postfeminist aesthetics
For transfering different literary art forms and voices to stage, a unique creative language is being explored. Experimental proposals are realized with actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists etc.
cutting edge images, converting the traditional essence to postfeminist aesthetics
cutting edge images, converting the traditional essence to postfeminist aesthetics
cutting edge images, converting the traditional essence to postfeminist aesthetics
well-know for her strong images and specific aesthetic for each work and every time different choice of tools and materials depending on the work, work place and audience.
https://saltonline.org/tr/2298/calisma-gruplari-yasemin-nur-ve-emre-koyuncuoglu-atolyesi
multimedia, international work, working/directing in different languages
cutting edge images, converting the traditional essence to postfeminist aesthetics
multimedia, international work, working/directing in different languages
working experience in the theaters of Poland, Germany, France, Belgium for their repertuar using French, German and English as communication language
Working in Public Institutions/Realizing Art Events for NGO'
Director of the Contemporary Art Center / ÇGSM in the Istanbul Municipal Theatres
Writer of the Documentary Book on Izmit Municipal Theatre's Artistic Policy (1997-2003)
Kocaeli Municipal Theatre is the first subsidized theatre in Anatolia, also in its artistical policy an example for the other municipal theatres founded just after.
"Join and Be a Part of It" Video Instillation
A manifesto writen and an action performed, recorded for a installation in SINOPALE with the citizens of Sinop, a call for active Participation in the Decisions in Social Events
https://sinopale8.org/tr/katilin-soz-sahibi-olun/
THE ROOM OF ONES OWN No:104
THE ROOM OF ONES OWN No:104
THE ROOM OF ONES OWN No:104
Emre Koyuncuoğlu
Lush Otel Production , Istanbul
written for a hotel room after Virginia Woolf's "The Room of Ones Own"
IRK BİTİG
THE ROOM OF ONES OWN No:104
THE ROOM OF ONES OWN No:104
An adaptation to a contemporary music performance after a shamanic prophecy text from 10th century asiatic turks
İÇTİMA-İ HAKİKİ
SINOP KOMUNİKASYONU
SINOP KOMUNİKASYONU
A site-specific action- performance-exhibition-interactive play, film screening event, discussing the Arab Spring
SINOP KOMUNİKASYONU
SINOP KOMUNİKASYONU
SINOP KOMUNİKASYONU
Tobias Hering and Emre Koyuncuoğlu after Peter Watkins fictional documantary "La Commune" the opening performance for SINOPALE
International productions, written and staged works
Home Sweet Home
Proust - Pamuk Memory
Home Sweet Home
A co-production between Kunstenfestival des Artes/Brussels and Tanz im August/Berlin, there after realized for different cities instillated in different sites in Hamburg, Faro, Istanbul, Diyarbakır
Nathan Schweigt
Proust - Pamuk Memory
Home Sweet Home
A free adaptation of Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" with a use of animation film, questioning Islamophobia in Europe, produced by Theater Freiburg
Proust - Pamuk Memory
Proust - Pamuk Memory
Proust - Pamuk Memory
After Orhan Pamuk's works on memory esp. "Museum of Innocence" Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Foundation, produced by and for the Teatr Opole /Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego / Poland
Porto Communidade
Porto Communidade
Proust - Pamuk Memory
For site specific performances, curation and direction work with Tobias Hering and many artists from different disciplines from the city Porto
Silent Migration
Porto Communidade
Silent Migration
One of the six parts of the" Eurotopia Project", an artistic statement written and performed in Theater Freiburg /Germany
Misfit
Porto Communidade
Silent Migration
A devised theatre project with volunteers, amateur and professional artists, opening performance "Beyond Belonging" organized by the Hebbel Theatre / Berlin
FICTION AS REALITY -2
FICTION AS REALITY -2
FICTION AS REALITY -2
A result for a contract to do a premiere in the KunstenFestival 0090, a performance in Antwerp/Belgium, half working time in Istanbul, half in Antwerp, performed after in Strasbourg, Marseillais, Tunis, Monastir, Nabeul, Kairouan, Istanbul etc.
FICTION AS REALITY -1
FICTION AS REALITY -2
FICTION AS REALITY -2
Free adaptation from Chechov's "Three Sister"s for a movement theatre piece, independent production
LIFE GOES ON
FICTION AS REALITY -2
LIFE GOES ON
An independent project co-produced by the Municipal Theates of Istanbul and Izmit, invited to the "Life and Death" season in Battlesea Art Center/ London
Local Works and Stage Productions
HEDDA GABLER
The GLASS MENAGERİE
The GLASS MENAGERİE
The GLASS MENAGERİE
The GLASS MENAGERİE
The GLASS MENAGERİE
Tennessee Williams
Eskişehir Municipal Theatre Production
THE PRICE
The GLASS MENAGERİE
THE PRICE
Arthur Miller
Bağlantısızlar Production/Istanbul
CRAVE
FAR AWAY
THE PRICE
Sarah Kane
Independent Project for
The International Istanbul Theatre Festival
THE WEIR
FAR AWAY
FAR AWAY
Conor McPhearson
Kocaeli Greater Municipality Theaters
BLACKBIRD
PSYCOSIS 4.48
PSYCOSIS 4.48
David Harrower
DOT Theater
PSYCOSIS 4.48
PSYCOSIS 4.48
PSYCOSIS 4.48
Sarah Kane
Independent Project for
The International Theatre Festival
Curating Art Events Organizing Festivals
Artistic Director of the 1,2,3 and 4. Sakıp Sabancı Museum Outdoor Performing Arts Festival
Programing and Curating Performances for The Russian Avangard Exibition
Mayakovsky's Bedbug, Khielebnikov's Mrs. Laneen, Aleksei Kruchenykh's Victory Over the Sun are being performed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnKd_SPJf-E&list=PLfmUvnXHpT5Wa8x8VkZZEgeDRQ16JW5v6&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0I9hbMkk4&list=PLfmUvnXHpT5Wa8x8VkZZEgeDRQ16JW5v6&index=2
Adapting theater text/poesy for Readings in the art spaces and in Sakıp Sabancı Museum
A text is performed reciting Anna Ahmadova's life story, letters with a selection of her poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtAgQsR8_ug&list=PLfmUvnXHpT5Wa8x8VkZZEgeDRQ16JW5v6&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQXTOsEdCJE&list=PLfmUvnXHpT5Wa8x8VkZZEgeDRQ16JW5v6&index=3
