Exhibist (2025)

04/07/2025

Ali Kazma is part of the exhibition 'Orhan Pamuk: Consolation of Objects'

at

on view until 19 October!

A video triptych by the artist Ali Kazma entitled 'A House of Ink', which focuses on Orhan Pamuk’s literary and artistic works as well as his studio, library, and extensive archives, is shown as part of the exhibition. Courtesy the artist and Francesca Minini, Milan.

At the heart of the exhibition stands Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence. This story of the unfulfilled love of Kemal, a rich son of a factory owner, for his charming but poorer cousin Füsun was conceived by its author from the beginning as both a novel and a museum, which opened in Istanbul in 2012. It unfolds here through quotidian objects carefully arranged into numerous “cabinets of curiosities” that reflect everyday life in Istanbul from the 1950s to the 2000s. In these three-dimensional Dadaist-surrealist still lifes, Pamuk plays with the ambiguity of the relationship between word and image, lending them poetic force.

The same artistic approach informs Orhan Pamuk’s latest works, created for this exhibition, in which he enters into an imaginary dialogue with artworks of the old masters and modern painters from the Dresden State Art Collections and the collections of the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich. These works are both vivid conversations between the worlds of literature and the visual arts and a remarkable dialogue of cultures.

Curator: Michaela Šilpochová

20/06/2025

Yonca Karakaş is part of the exhibition 'Atlas of Dreams'

in Madrid

On view until 28 June!

Participating Artists: , Agustin Esteso (), &

Yonca Karakaş, drawing from the discipline of photography, presents images in which genetic engineering intersects with forms of plants, animals, and humans, creating scenarios rooted in her memory. These photographs convey the human pursuit of perfection, the “as if” moments, and the ideal life shaped by identity and belonging.

In a world increasingly anchored to the tangible, 'Atlas of Dreams' proposes a journey into the intangible, the ethereal, the deeply human. This group exhibition brings together four artists whose practices explore the dream as a fertile ground for creation—where desires, hopes, and intimate projections are transformed into artistic matter.

Images: Yonca Karakas, Anatomy of Things – The Box, Pigment prints on Hahnemühle matt fibre, 100 x 92 cm
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18/06/2025

Halise Karakaya's installation 'Emotional Reflections: The Soul of Seven Horizons'

On view until 29 June

‘Emotional Reflections: The Soul of Seven Horizons’ is entirely shaped around human emotions, engaging sight and sound to invite visitors into a sensory and emotional journey through the soul of Istanbul. Fifteen sculptural forms developed by Halise Karakaya using her
original material formula are suspended within a modular ceiling system. Though static in form, they dynamically interact with an ambient soundscape of the Bosphorus – ferry horns, seagulls and waves – through a responsive lighting system. The lighting responds purely
to sound frequencies. Louder, more vibrant audio segments trigger the upper sculptures to light up, while softer sounds illuminate the lower layers. This choreography of light transforms the installation into an ever-changing emotional landscape.
By merging audio and light, the installation offers a meditative and multi-sensory experience, grounding the audience in the poetic essence of Istanbul, both timeless and ever-evolving.

Curatorial & Creative Team

Curator
Alinda Kring

Creative Director & Creator
Halise Karakaya

Design Team
Ceren Müfteoğlu
Karina Tertychnya
Zeynep Yeşildağ

Audio Engineer
Fırat Özer

Main Sponsors
Istanbul Convention and Visitors
Bureau - ICVB
Gilan

In Partnership with
Spice Brands

Institutional Supporters
Yunus Emre Institute London
Turkish Ministry of Culture and
Tourism – London Office

Image: Turkey, ‘Emotional Reflections: The Soul of Seven Horizons’, installation view at 5th London Design Biennial ©Halise Karakay & London Design Biennale

10/06/2025

Nevin Aladağ is part of the exhibition 'Constellations'
at Sammlung Pohl Marburg on view until 30 September!

Image:

Arik Levy: MicroRockFormationWood 85 (2021); Nevin Aladağ: Vibrating Image, swinging colors (2024); Gregor Hildebrandt: Ich sammle die Koordinaten auf Anfang geschaltet mein Atem (Anne) (2019) © for the works with the artists and for Nevin Aladağ with VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn (2025)
Photo: Bernhard Strauss

06/06/2025

Ahmet Öğüt is part of the exhibition 'Consider Listening'

On view until 6 July

The exhibition presents works from the Haubrok Collection and loans that address a range of issues, including artistic freedom, ecology, economic constraints, racism, and other forms of discrimination. At the same time, they illustrate the need to look closely and to allow for ambivalences.
Curated by and Axel Haubrok.

with , , .de.rooij, , , , , , Jens Haaning, Mona Hatoum, , , , Louise Lawler, Ghislaine Leung, .mcmillian, , Susan Philipsz, , Adrian Piper, , Gerhard Richter, Cameron Rowland, John Stezaker, Welley Walker, Christopher Williams, Johannes Wohnseifer and

Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a Kurdish conceptual artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Istanbul. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing, painting and printed media.
In 2009, Ahmet Öğüt represented Turkey with Banu Cennetoğlu at the 53rd Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.

Image 1: Ahmet Öğüt, Past, Present, Future, 2025, Courtesy of the artist. 'Consider Listening', installation view

Image 2: 'Consider Listening', installation view

Image 3: 'Consider Listening', installation view

Photos by for the haubrok foundation, Berlin 2025.

03/06/2025

Yeşim Akdeniz' solo show 'New Home'

der Stadt Backnang

On view until 17 August

The exhibition features wall objects and installations. Yeşim Akdeniz's practice is characterized by symbolic narratives that reflect cultural production, negotiation, and appropriation, exploring the migration of forms, materials, and labor, and investigating the intersections between craft and industrial production. Central to her work is a distinct visual language of symbols, through which she interweaves personal and cultural references, offering layered interpretations of history, identity, and collective memory.
A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. The exhibition is supported by the Turkish Cultural Foundation SAHA.

Yeşim Akdeniz (1978, İzmir) graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2002. She participated in the De Ateliers residency program in Amsterdam from 2002 to 2004 and received the Peter Mertes Fellowship from the Bonn Art Association in 2005. She holds a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and lives and works in Brussels and Düsseldorf. In her art, everyday decorative and functional elements merge into idiosyncratic, meticulously crafted assemblages and reliefs consisting of textiles, silicone, buttons, ribbons, and zippers. Clothing, accessories, and elements from fashion and cuisine also flow into her works, reworking them into new, artistic forms.

Images:

1: TBA #1 | 2023 | Silicone, textile, upholstery, wood, rope, buttons | Courtesy of the artist and gallery owner | Photo: Roman März

2: White Cipher 1 | 2024 | Silicone, metal, paint, fabric, wood, upholstery | Courtesy of the artist and gallery owner | Photo: Barış Özçetin

3: TBA #1 | 2023 | Silicone, textile, upholstery, wood, rope, buttons | Courtesy of the artist and gallery owner | Photo: Roman März

4: Self-portrait as an oriental carpet 21 | 2025 | Fabric, upholstery, buttons, buckle, Velcro, seams | Courtesy of the artist and gallery owner | Photo: Roman März

24/05/2025

Gülsün Karamustafa is part of the exhibition 'The Impermanent - Four Takes on the Collection'
on view until 5 October!

Curated by Sebastian Cichocki .cichocki, Tomasz Fudala, Magda Lipska , Szymon Maliborski, Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz

The works presented in the exhibition all come from the same historical period, from the 1950s to the present. Among the works from the museum’s own collection, visitors will also find significant works from the collections of other institutions and private collections.

Gülsün Karamustafa creates films, installations, textiles, and drawings. She grew up in a circle of intellectuals and political dissidents. In the early 1970s, as a student at the state art academy, Karamustafa engaged in political activism and efforts to reform the art education system—influenced by the May 1968 events in France and drawing on experiences from her own family.

In the late 1970s, Karamustafa accepted a commission from the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK). This led to the creation of several May Day posters, including this one in the collection of MSN from 1977—now her most widely recognized poster. It depicts a woman with her eyes closed, sitting at a sewing machine and sewing a vast red flag that seems to engulf the composition. That same year, during the International Workers’ Day celebrations, unidentified snipers opened fire on demonstrators in Taksim Square in Istanbul, killing 34 people.
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Image: “1 May 1977” (Woman Continually Sewing Red Flags on a Sewing Machine, 1977, paintings (visual works), gouache, crayon, pencil on paper mounted on cardboard, ca. 70 × ca. 50 cm

Copyright Gülsün Karamustafa & Collection of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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22/05/2025

Ayşe Erkmen
at Skulpturenpark Köln: KölnSkulptur #11: Body Manoeuvresayse

Curated by

Continuing until 1 June 2026, Ayşe Erkmen is part of KölnSkulptur #11 presenting her bronze sculpture 'Lonesome George' (2020)

For fourteen years, Lonely George, the loneliest snail in the world, lived in a laboratory on Hawaii. For this entire period, scientists tried unsuccessfully to find it a mate. When he died in 2019, the species he belonged to, Achatinella apexfulva, died out with him. Erkmen’s Lonesome George is the smallest sculpture ever to be shown at the Skulpturenpark Köln. Her work makes reference to species extinction and also acts as a memorial to the mollusk, which attracted a great deal of attention, albeit futile, once he became the sole representative of his kind.

Over the course of two years, the smallest sculpture in the Skulpturenpark Köln was encapsulated by the London plane tree (Platanus hispanica) and embedded in the tree. Lonesome George exists on, protected and invisible inside the tree in the sculpture park.

The Skulpturenpark Köln is a museum for contemporary sculpture in the open air. The approximately 35,000 square meter park is an oasis of peace and contemplation in the hustle and bustle of the city and a place to experience contemporary art first-hand. It is located between Zoobrücke, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer and Riehler Straße. Every two years, the Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln appoints an independent curator who then curates the following KölnSkulptur according to his or her own conceptual ideas. Each production redefines and reinterprets the Skulpturenpark Köln with current positions of contemporary outdoor sculpture.

Images: Ayşe Erkmen, Lonesome George, 2020, bronze, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln

© Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln, 2020, Photo: Simon Vogel, Köln

20/05/2025

Güneş Terkol is part of the exhibition 'Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and Contemporary Vision'
in Hong Kong on view until 13 July!

Artists: , , , HE Yongdi
, KOBAYASHI Nanao, .menlibayeva and , Aziza SHADENOVA, , , YIM Yen Sum, YIU Kwan Kit Ellen,

Curated by WANG Weiwei

Lining Revealed examines the interactions between folk craft and contemporary art by juxtaposing artworks, handicrafts and archival documents. Through the critical lens and creative manifestations of contemporary art, it reveals the historical, social and cultural significance embodied in folk craft and the role craft plays in reinvigorating contemporary vision. The exhibition also speaks to the importance of contemporary art in the continuity of cultural heritage, such as challenging the over-celebration of the handmade and encouraging us to look beyond the value frameworks and ideologies of modern society to uncover the deeper content and meaning of folk craft.

Born in 1981 in Ankara, Turkey, Güneş Terkol explores issues of gender through the use of fabric, sewing, sound and drawing. She believes in the significance of collective work and coming together with a common goal and has held collaborative workshops in different countries and cities, drawing inspiration from the everyday realities and imaginations of the participants. Since 2005, the artist has produced works both individually and as part of the artist collective . She has also been a member of the collective since 2017 and the music group since 2016.

Image 1:

Left: Güneş Terkol, Hopes from Mothers, 2024

Right: Güneş Terkol, Ibu Ibu, 2024. Co-commissioned by CHAT and Sharjah Art Foundation.

Image 2:

Right: Zhang Xu-Zhan, Wolf and Tiger and Others, 2022

Left: Zhang Xu-Zhan, Musicians – Rabbit No.1, 2022

18/05/2025

Check out Gülbin Ünlü's commissioned installation 'Nostralgia'

Nostralgia
/ˈnɒs.træl.dʒə/
noun (fictional)
The melancholia for futures that never arrived.

At the edge of function and fiction, Gülbin Ünlü’s new commission for the staff entrance of Haus der Kunst unfolds in a space of ongoing suspension – where access is withheld and completion deferred. The work lingers at a dwelling in a state of anticipation that never resolves.

Nostralgia expands space and time through subtle interventions in the museum’s overlooked thresholds. Beginning at the staff entrance, Gülbin Ünlü invites visitors to navigate the building through inaccessible, yet fully present, doors. It is an invitation to move through the institution without destination, to attend to the act of encountering. The work becomes a quiet choreography of stillness, exploring the latent potential of spaces when activated through presence and liveness.

Rooted in the idea of portals in science fiction, the work invites unexpected encounters – with erased histories, alternate realities, and speculative futures. By drawing attention to non-exhibition spaces, Ünlü encourages a shift in perception: to slow down, look again, and experience the architecture not as fixed, but as a site where parallel worlds hover – unrealised, constantly shifting, tracing connections not through what is shown, but shaped by the way we choose to see.

Gülbin Ünlü works with a range of mediums, weaving together motifs and interlacing painting and prints into layered images that take on sculptural forms and performative possibilities. Her approach connects techno-orientalism with erased or sidelined cultural imaginaries. Ünlü’s portals do not open, and yet they pull us in. They gesture toward timelines that diverged, toward systems that entered standby before they ever activated. These doors remain closed to the body, but open to speculation. They are invitations not to cross, but to dwell – to remain in the tension between what is visible and what is withheld.

25/07/2023

Go and see Eva Koťátková’s exhibition „I Sometimes Imagine I’m a Fish with Legs“ on view at Arter in Istanbul until 27 August 2023!

curated by

Image Info:

Eva Koťátková
Error, 2019, string, paper 225 x 330 x 110 cm (detail)
Courtesy of the artist, hunt kastner and Meyer Riegger
Photo: flufoto (Barış Aras ve Elif Çakırlar)

Eva Koťátková
Monster 1 (Protective Skin), 2022, Textile costume, 145 x 85 x 20cm
Courtesy of the artist, hunt kastner and Meyer Riegger

Eva Koťátková
Daydreaming Workstation, 2022
Installation with sound, textile, fabric, net, rope and shoes
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist, hunt kastner and Meyer Riegger

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