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09/08/2026

Mehtap Baydu's solo exhibition 'Loving You Is So Hard!' at Istanbul is on view until 15 November!

Mehtap Baydu’s first institutional solo exhibition in Türkiye, 'Loving You Is So Hard!', brings together new works conceived for this context alongside a selection of the artist’s recent pieces. The exhibition highlights the interconnections and transitions Baydu forges across diverse media such as performance, sculpture, photography and video, creating a layered sensory space where body and objects engage in a mutual interaction.

Images:

Mehtap Baydu, 'Loving You Is So Hard!', exhibition views at Arter, Istanbul, 2026, Courtesy the artist and Galeri Nev, photos ,

19/04/2026

Last days to see Nevin Aladağ's "vibrating images"

on view until 24 April

With vibrating images Nevin Aladağ presents her second solo exhibition at Galerie Krinzinger. Aladağ playfully combines sculpture, painting, textiles, video and sound to create multi-layered, multimedia works. Through the principle of assemblage, unexpected connections arise between art and music, as well as between different geographies and cultures. With Music Room Darmstadt, Nevin Aladağ continues a series of works she began in 2014 that draws on the European tradition of the music salon. As a type of room associated with bourgeois representation, the music room was a central design task for the artists of the Art Nouveau movement.

Through targeted modifications, Aladağ transforms furniture and everyday objects from around 1900 into musical instruments. Following the concept of the objet trouvé, however, the artist questions the original function of the furniture, as well as the conventions of bourgeois interior design.The diversity of the objects, which have been combined with musical instruments of different temporal, geographical and cultural origins, also reflects the biographies of the people who once owned the furnishings. In the moment of musical improvisation, Aladağ’s music room becomes a meeting place that transcends time and space, revealing the community-building potential of art and music.

Images:
1. Nevin Aladağ, Vibrating Images, exhibition view at Krinzinger Gallery Vienna, 2026

2. Nevin Aladağ, Cabassa Tower, 2025, wood, varnish, steel, aluminum sheet, galvanized ball chains

3. Nevin Aladağ, Music Room Darmstadt, Chessboard Table Chimes, Thunder Drum and Tambourines, 2025, oak wood, tiles, chimes, thunder drum, tambourines

4. Nevin Aladağ, Vibrating Images, Bouncing strings, 2024, acrylic on wood

16/04/2026

Last Days of the exhibition "Soil and Water" at NIROX Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa!

SOIL & WATER, curated by and .johan with curatorial input from Benji Liebmann and the NIROX Team, , Cradle of Humankind, South Africa

The exhibition features works by over 50 international artists including Abri de Swardt (ZA), Alet Pretorius (ZA), Anastasiia Shcherban (UA), Atang Tshikare (ZA), Atul Bhalla (IN), Barbara Putz-Plecko (AT), Bronwyn Lace featuring The Centre for the Less Good Idea (ZA), Caroline Le Méhauté (FR), Christophe Fellay (CH), Coral Bijoux (ZA), Diego Masera (AR), Diane Victor (ZA), Douglas Gimberg (ZA) & Diana Vives (CH), Ebru Kurbak (TR/AT), Egle Oddo (IT/FI), Eugénie Touzé (FR), Francesco Bellina (IT), Hera Büyüktasçiyan (TR), Herrana Addisu (ET), Inma Herrera (ES/FI), Isa Rosenberger (AT), Jacob van Schalkwyk (ZA), Jessica Ostrowicz (UK), Jesper Just (DK), Johan Thom (ZA), Jonatan Habib Engqvist [Author] (SE), Ledelle Moe (ZA), Lorin Sookol (ZA), Lundahl & Seitl (SE), MADEYOULOOK (ZA), Maria Lantz (SE), Marcus Neustetter (AT/ZA), Mithu Sen (IN), Olha Fedorova (UA), Oya Silbery (CY), Raúl Mirlo (MX), Paula Anta (ES), Ramesh Daha (AT), Robin Rhode (ZA/DE), Rojda Tugrul (TR), Sebastian Stumpf (DE), Seretse Moletsane (ZA), Setlamorago Mashilo (ZA), The ZoNE (AT/CH/TR/ZA), and Vibha Galhotra (IN).

Supported by .gallery .

SOIL & WATER is a large-scale artistic research project located in the heart of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. As such SOIL & WATER is uniquely positioned to serve as a dynamic, modular platform for in-depth reflection on the delicate balance between soil and water - the two key material substances that define and support the continued existence of life on earth. The project outcomes comprise a series of public exhibitions, artist residencies, public programmes including dialogues, performances and concerts, a community engagement and research initiative, and finally, a publication.

Ebru Kurbak's "The Golden Fog Collector" is a golden net that captures water from fog and returns it to the pond it hangs on, exploring the entanglement of material, technology, ecology, and history. Installed in a landscape that was once the cradle of humankind, which has been scarred by gold mining and is now facing water scarcity, the installation transforms a tool driven by extraction into a gesture of restoration.

Images
1. Ebru Kurbak, The Golden Fog Collector — First Edition (2025), at NIROX Sculpture Park.
2. Soil and Water exhibition poster, courtesy Soil and Water Project, 2025

24/01/2026

Nevin Aladag is participating in the exhibition 'Archistories'

at Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

On view until 12 April 2026!

With 'Archistories', it presents a rich and multifaceted exhibition exploring the relationship between art and architecture across five centuries of creation. More than 100 works by 70 artists — spanning from the 17th century to today — delve into the many dimensions of built space: from utopias and memories to social critique and visual poetry.
Paintings, drawings, engravings, and sculptures engage in dialogue with contemporary installations, videos, and photographs, creating a vibrant and surprising encounter. The exhibition raises aesthetic, environmental, and cultural questions, revealing how architecture becomes memory, critique, and a source of inspiration.

Image: Nevin Aladağ, Social Fabric, Arch, 2023
Photo: Felix Grünschloß © VG Bild Kunst, Bonn 2024

22/01/2026

Gözde Mimiko Türkkan at 15th ‘Does the flower hear the bee?’

on view until 31 March 2026

Chief Curator: Kitty Scott
Co-curators: Daisy Desrosiers , Xue Tan
Curators: Long Yitang, Zhang Yingying
Editor: Sarah Demeuse
Graphic design: Sara de Bondt

The theme explores communication and intelligence within the industry, addressing the dynamic between the audience, exhibition and environment.

Mimiko (Gözde ‘Mimiko’ Türkkan, ) (1984, Turkey) is an artist based in Istanbul who mostly produces videos, photography series, artist’s books and textual and performative works, focusing on connecting to/through the body and transcending the body.The first decade of her practice focused on gender roles and socially constructed identities through a subjective documentary approach. For the past five years she has been working towards exploring the expression of the inner flow — innergy, an amalgam of inner and energy — in human bodies and water-bodies. By conducting a primarily visual and bodily experience-based artistic research and drawing connections between constructed binaries and dichotomies, she questions global narratives about gender roles, identities and climate and ocean emergencies with a multidisciplinary approach, aiming for creating a disturbance of predisposed personal and social structures.

Image: Gözde Mimiko Türkkan, Waves series, 2025, Acrylic ink on acid-free cotton paper, 56 x 76 cm, unique, Courtesy of Pilot Gallery

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