Abstract:

The effects of the coronavirus (covid-19 global epidemic), which has affected the whole world since 2019, is the most important fact of the last century that should be examined with different dimensions. Interruption of the natural flow of life (change of lifestyle), social and individual isolation that comes with periods of closure, minimization of social interaction, economic and political disorder, fear of a contagious disease, anxiety and depression (mood disorders), quarantine and social Panic and anxiety created by isolation, losses experienced and the physical reality of the thought of death, increasing consumption habits on the basis of uncertainty, virtualization of cultural-specific exhibition spaces, change in the artist's production process and form, change in the areas where the production meets the audience are among the global effects of the coronavirus pandemic, both socially and individually. In the research, it is aimed to analyze the transformative effect of the first period and the second period (normalization period) of the pandemic on artist psychology, cultural production and exhibition spaces, and to examine the change experienced by the cultural structure between the years 2020-2021. For this purpose, by taking the example of Die Balkone, the balcony exhibitions project, which was held for the first time in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg region in 2020; the answers to questions such as how cultural production was shaped during the pandemic period, what the stylistic changes of the exhibited works represent, the artist's perspective on the pandemic as a social being and how it was psychologically affected by the pandemic, and the transformative effect of the pandemic on exhibition venues and methods are examined on the axis of social psychology through the selected works.

 

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