Saim Demircan
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Saim Demircan is a curator and writer based in Turin, Italy. Recently, he has curated the exhibitions Fausto Melotti, Theatre, Hauser & Wirth, London; Exhibition as Image, 80WSE, NYC; Cy Gavin, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, and Rachel Rose, Fridericianum, Kassel. He was the 2017 recipient of the Goethe-Institut New York’s curatorial residency program, Ludlow 38 in NYC, where he curated a 12-month program of exhibitions and events. Between 2012 and 2015 he was a curator at Kunstverein München in Munich, and in 2016, curator-in-residence at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. Previously, he curated a two-year program of offsite projects, as well as Kaiki, an exhibition of works by Kai Althoff at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea. Demircan has published on numerous artistic practices; his writing regularly appears in periodicals such as Art Monthly, frieze and Texte Zur Kunst.