Svetlana Ziuzina

Opening evening 25th October 2010

2012 Group exhibition at Bella Pais Abbey, April
2011 Group exhibition at Bella Pais Abbey, 1st May – 29th May
2010 Group exhibition in Near East University, Nicosia, organised by the East
Mediterranean Arts Association (EMAA).
Solo Exhibition2010 at EMAA Capital Art Centre, Nicosia, 25th October –
12th November
2009 Group exhibition organised by Anglo-Turkish Association,
Bellapais
Group exhibition organised by the Mediterranean Lions Club, Ataturk
Cultural Centre, Nicosia
2008 Group exhibition, Bellapais
2007 Group exhibition organised by the UN, Nicosia
2006 Solo exhibition in The Round Tower, Kyrenia
Solo exhibition in The Eave House , Nicosia
2000 Group Art Exhibition, Kyrenia
1999 Group Art Exhibition, Kyrenia
1998 Group Art Exhibition, Kyrenia
1996 Exhibited Works at Kybele Art Collection, Istanbul
1995, 1996 Solo Art Exhibitions, Fukuoka, Japan
1988 Took part in at the International Poster Exhibition, Moscow
( the poster was published )

Joined art exhibition at the Bella Pais Abbey, Kyrenia Cyprus, April 2012. Was presented with six paintings, watercolour on paper.

Joined art exhibition at the magnificent Bella Pais Abbey.

Svetlana Ziuzina was born in Berdiansk, Ukraine in 1963. She graduated from Art and Design State Academy in Kharkov. She lives and works in Kyrenia, Norht Ctprus since 1996. She has had several solo and joined exhibitions internationally and locally.

There is time to be spontaneous and a time to be reflective. However, reflection can be spontaneous. Time has no end and no beginning, there is only this moment. Through my art, I express what I feel about these unique moments.
Art has power when it is sincere. It can create a unique world in it’s form or expression. It doesn’t have to be beautiful but it must have integrity. Beautiful or not, I have learned to welcome and absorb all experiences. They are the foundations of my art.
Svetlana Ziuzina
2010

Press Release

The new book “Art and Creativity in North Cyprus” by Heidi Trautmann

Heidi Trautmann’s new bi-lingual book “Art and Creativity in North Cyprus, the first volume, will be launched by EMAA (the European Mediterranean Art Association) on January 15, 2010. In cooperation with the author, EMAA will also open the accompanying exhibition of work by forty-seven of the artists whose interviews feature in this volume. The art event will be opened by President Mehmet Ali Talat at 19:00 at the Atatürk Congress Centre at the Near East University.

Zehra Şonya, member of the EMAA Board of Executives, speaking for EMAA in the foreword of the book, says:
“Heidi Trautmann’s work takes the reader directly into the world of the artist and creative individual and therefore makes it possible to discover and comprehend this world. In doing this she presents us with an overview of those individuals living and creating in northern Cyprus, with romantic eloquence. When we consider the paucity of written and visual works in the field of plastic arts, the colourful scope and the diversity that this overview encompasses is astonishing. Another dimension is added to the book, one of richness and reality presented by creative individuals from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures who have chosen to live in northern Cyprus. It is our dearest wish that this multicoloured and multicultural nature of the island should promise hope that Cyprus will be recorded in the pages of history as “the island of peace”.

Heidi Trautmann, painter and writer, a traveller as she calls herself, a traveller in the world of the arts, first became acquainted with representatives from the Cypriot Turkish art scene in 2005. When she and her husband first came here in 1999, she was astonished to find hardly any interaction between the art scenes of national and foreign artists; neither had any knowledge of the other, there were no archives of any sort available to the art lover, no professional art galleries or art museums. Having lived on a sailing boat for six years and having travelled the Mediterranean and its countries, she was most curious to unravel the art scene in the alleys and back alleys of the country to discover the core of life which for her is art and creativity. She found it and since then she has talked her way through to a great percentage of the important artists.

This book is a reflection of a people, of a community of artists, randomly chosen for interviews by Heidi Trautmann over a stretch of four years. These four years fell during a period of great impact, hopes and disillusionment. The impact is imprinted in the art work of these artists; but there is also the impact of the past, the fear of the future, the questions that people live with, especially the question of identity. There is not much joy to be found in their art works but there is never mere despair; perhaps there is resignation, but there are also desperate onslaughts against destiny. Thus an important part of the book must be seen in terms of the collaboration between the artists and between the art associations across the divide, a collaboration that has been active for many years. Friendships have blossomed as we all feel that art knows no borders.

The artists have welcomed Heidi Trautmann into their studios and their lives, and have confided in her the many experiences of hardship and ways of life that are representative of their people. Images were unrolled before Heidi that cover eras from early in the last century right up to the present. There are also non-Cypriot artists included in the book, artists who have lived here for more than 20 years, who have also experienced the country’s destiny and have contributed in many ways to the cultural image. (North) Cyprus has always been open to multicultural co-existence.

So far, only Volume I has been published, containing interviews with visual artists, who work in photography, educational institutions and universities. Heidi Trautmann started working on Volume II a year ago and will cover literature, theatre, music, dance and caricature. She hopes to complete it by the end of 2010, so with hope, the book might be available in 2011.

The artists represented in the exhibition are:
Ali Atakan(*2007), Ruzen Atakan, Gönen Atakol, Ayhatun Ateşin, Baki Boğaç,
Marilyn Bosworth, Muriel Clutten, Cevdet Çağdaş, Sevcan Çerkez, Emin Çizenel,
Sheila Davis, Ilsa Easson, Emel Erkan, Mustafa Erkan, Sinem Ertaner, Ümit Ali Esinler, Özgül Ezgin, Nilgün Güney, Günay Güzelgün, Mustafa Hastürk, Christina Hessenberg,
Anne Hughes, Feridun Işiman, Kadir Kaba, Inci Kansu, Giray Karahasan, Eser Keçeci, Osman Keten, Veli Kaymaklılı, Deirdre Kirk, Aşik Mene, Ayhan Menteş, Vedia Okutan, Lisani Otağ, Ilkay Önsöy, Şenol Özdevrim, Güner Pir, Rüya Reşat, Emel Samioğlu,
Özden Selenge, Zehra Şonya, Ersin Taşer, Ismet Tatar, Mehmet Uluhan, Hikmet Uluçam,
Svetlana Ziusina

Sponsors for the publication of the book are gratefully acknowledged:

The TRNC Presidential Office;
The TRNC Cultural Department;
Kaleidoskop Turizm, Kyrenia, TRNC
Ontime Courier, Munich, Germany

EMAA (European-Mediterranean Art Association) and Heidi Trautmann
cordially invite you to attend the book launch
and opening of exhibition of all the
interviewed artists

19.00, January 15, 2010
Near East University,
Atatürk Congress Centre

The event will be officially opened by President Mehmet Ali Talat

Exhibition ends on January 29, 2010
Viewing hours: Mon-Fri 08:00 – 16:30
Heidi Trautmann will be present every day to sign books.