Hypercube Project Space is hosting its founder and artist Özge Topçu’ s first solo exhibition in Portugal. In her exhibition ‘Inside the Cistern’, Özge transforms her art studio into an underground water reservoir in an experimental way. To do so, she transports virtually a cistern from the historical area of Istanbul to the centre of Lisbon.

The exhibition, ‘Inside the Cistern’ adopts an approach that differs from conventional art shows. It is an open work-in-progress exhibition. Ozge, in the exhibition, invites her audience to be part of her journey through their participation in various public programs during the exhibition period.

Özge uses experimental art methods that employ specific digital characteristics of NFTs to render them visible. As such the ‘Inside the Cistern’ exhibition attempts to integrate our physical existence with the virtual.

Opening event will coincide with ArCo and Just LX international art fairs in Lisbon so please don't forget to mark your calendar to visit Özge' s solo exhibition and sign up for the upcoming public programs.

In this opening event, we invite you to join us for a glass of wine and see the art-tech exhibition 'Inside the Cistern' at Hypercube Space.

Event Details

Free entrance

May 21, 2022, Saturday, 6PM - 9PM

Hypercube Space,

Rua Almeida e Sousa 40 B, Campo De Ourique, Lisbon

About Hypercube Space

HyperCube is a non-profit experimental art space founded by artist, Özge Topçu and takes its purpose and identity from her art practice. It is dedicated to curating and hosting projects that further understanding the relationship between space, science, and sociology. It is an open and transparent project space for trans-disciplinary activity and aims to build institutional engagement with non-institutional actors. We are open for project proposals from makers, thinkers, artists, and scientists year-round.

www.hypercubespace.org

About the Artist

Özge Topçu, born in 1987, lives and works in Lisbon and Istanbul.

She is known for her large-scale installations that resonate with architecture and reveal the dynamics of the urban and psychogeography. She is inspired by history, architectural elements, and the positive sciences. Recently she started to create big scale and digital installations in Virtual Reality. She combines real places with digital 3d artworks.

She is a grant 2019 recipient from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2018 she was nominated for MAC Ulster Bank International Art Prize in the UK and participated in Art Night London 2018 with her project “Agora”. She has taken part in several solo and group exhibitions in Istanbul, Berlin, London, Belfast, Amsterdam and Lisbon.

www.ozgetopcu.com