Exhibist (2025)

27/09/2025

Fatma Bucak's solo show 'Sound of a Setting Sun'

On view until 23 November!

'Sound of a Setting Sun' at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery is Fatma Bucak’s first solo exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. Bringing together a selection of recent works by the artist, alongside a newly commissioned installation and a performance video, the exhibition charts Bucak’s ongoing conceptual and poetic approaches to loss. Working across photography, performance, sound, video, and installation, Bucak addresses the consequences of ecological collapse and geopolitical tension, often by highlighting the impacts of human activity on animals and plants.

Fatma Bucak (1984) lives and works between Istanbul and London. She studied Philosophy at Istanbul University and History of Art and Etching at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts before completing her Master of Art in Photography at the Royal College of Art. Since 2008, Bucak has worked across photography, performance, sound, video, and installation to address the consequences of geopolitical tension and climate change on people and culture, as well the impacts of human activity on animals and plants.

Image: Fatma Bucak, 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

25/09/2025

Gülsün Karamustafa is participating in the exhibition 'Global Fascisms'

der Kulturen der Welt

On view until 7 December!

Curated by and

Participating Artists:

, & , , Matthew Barney , , .borremans, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gemeinschaftsschule mit and Claire Fristot, , , .cortinas, , , Hao Jingban, Daniel Hernández-Salazar, , , & Adrian Cioflâncă, Yoonsuk Jung, , Martin Kippenberger, , Firenze Lai, , , Franz Lehmkuhl, , Carlos Leppe, Anna Maria Maiolino, .mansour, , Nguyễn Tân Hoàng, ,, , , , Glauber Rocha, , Julia Scher, , , , Maree Sheehan, , .hoon, , , Top lista nadrealista & Nadreality Show, & Florin Tudor (with )

The exhibition critically examines the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism, questioning its appeal and ideological mechanisms. Bringing together over 50 international artists, the exhibition details their response to the rise of fascist ideologies through a variety of media.

Image: Gülsün Karamustafa, Window (1980). Courtesy Gülsün Karamustafa und BüroSarıgedik , Salt Research, Gülsün Karamustafa Archive

22/09/2025

Gözde Ju's solo show 'Under the Same Sky'

On view until 12 October!

“Gözde Ju’s exhibition Under the Same Sky at Candyland gracefully invites the viewer, like a gaze evoking a memory that can be read, touched, and felt. Flowers, writings, photographs, and stitches rewrite migration stories of both past and present with sensitivity and a fragile yet rising strength. The search for home, the rupture of roots, the fading of faces, and their re-blooming as red chrysanthemums are transformed into a poetic yet resilient narrative—one that invites everyone to imagine, smell, and root their own red flowers, offering this experience openly to the viewer. Read through a feminist lens, Ju’s exhibition reminds us once again that it is women who carry the concept of family. The lace they weave at home, the dowries they sew, or the silent labour they sustain transform into cultural archives in the wake of migration and cultural change.”

Gözde Ju (1992, Adana) graduated from a Fine Arts High School in 2009 and later studied at Anadolu University, completing double majors in Printmaking and Painting. In 2018 she obtained her master’s degree with the thesis Spatial Searches in Contemporary Printmaking Art, which examined printmaking in the context of space and contemporary art. She also completed the course period of the Proficiency of Art Program (PhD).
The artist has taken part in various exhibitions in different countries and continues her work at her studio in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Image courtesy of and Candyland Stockholm

20/09/2025

Ayşe Erkmen is participating in the exhibition 'Language/Text/Image
Can you hear me? Can you see me?'

On view until 7 December!

Participating Artists:

, , , .ayse, .fecht, , NATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT, GORDON PARKS , ,

curated by Dr Barbara Segelken and Birte Hinrichsen. Curatorial adaptation for KAI 10: Ludwig Seyfarth.

Language, text and image are among the most important means of human expression. Far from being neutral in character, they are allied to certain values, norms and cultural procedures, as well as being anchored in social systems. Inevitably, they also serve to draw boundaries which can include or exclude people. Who or what arbitrates whether something may be said or seen?

At first glance, Ayşe Erkmen’s mural Typed Types looks like an incomprehensible code. If
you look a little longer, you can recognize individual letters. These letters form the sentence
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” This sentence is an example of a dummy
text. Dummy texts usually don’t have any particular meaning. What’s important is that this
kind of text has to contain every letter of the alphabet. People use dummy texts to see
how a text will look in a particular font. Erkmen uses diagonal lines and parentheses in this
artwork, along with vertical and horizontal lines. These form the rather strange-looking
shape of the sentence. Even if we can read the sentence, it still challenges us. Ayşe Erkmen
shows us that being able to read or comprehend a text depends on various things. It
depends on the place where the text is found, and it also depends on the background and
expectations of the people who want to read it. The artist challenges us to look at texts
from a new point of view.

Images:

1: Exhibition view Ayşe Erkmen in KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, 2025, Courtesy the artist & , Berlin; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Photo: , Düsseldorf

2: Exhibition view Ayşe Erkmen, Markus Vater & Alice Bidault in KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Photo: , Düsseldorf

18/09/2025

Nevin Aladağ's solo show 'Raise the Roof'

Darmstadt

On view until 1 February 2026!

The Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt presents a solo exhibition of the internationally renowned installation and performance artist Nevin Aladağ (*1972 Van, Turkey, lives and works in Berlin). In her multifaceted works, Aladağ playfully intertwines artistic forms of expression such as sculpture, painting, textiles, video and sound. By experimenting with form, material and sound, the artist activates a new perceptual experience. For the exhibition at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Aladağ has created a site-specific installation that explores the boundaries of genres, the human body and space. The interplay of visual art, music and performance creates resonance spaces that open up a variety of associations on themes such as identity, community and globalization.
The exhibition brings together around 40 works created between 2012 and 2025 across more than 1,000 square meters of exhibition space – including several new pieces being shown in a museum for the first time.

Images:

1. Nevin Aladağ, Vibrating Images, pastel waves (detail), 2024, © 2025
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo credits: Matthias Kolb

2. Nevin Aladağ, Vibrating Images, improvising fields, 2024, © 2025
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo credits: Matthias Kolb

3. Nevin Aladağ, Resonator Wind, 2019, © 2025
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo credits: Trevor Good

16/09/2025

Mehtap Baydu is part of the exhibition 'Shards of Reality. Berlin – Three Cities'

On view until 9 November!

Participating Artists:

, , , , .lesniak.art, , , Hanna Nowicka, .agata,

The group exhibition ‘Scherben der Realität. Berlin – Dreistadt’ (Shards of Reality. Berlin – Three Cities) presents works by contemporary artists connected to the Three Cities (Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia) and Berlin.

The exhibition maps themes relating to the fragmentation of today's world and confronts viewers with political conflicts and their impact on people's everyday lives.

The artistic works address violence and oppression of women resulting from patriarchal traditions and the collapse of political and religious power structures.

The exhibition deals with the fragments of these broken realities, but at the same time shows solidarity with those affected and calls for action by sensitively focusing on those who otherwise receive little visibility.

curated by

Image:
Mehtap Baydu, Durchlaessigkeit/Geçirgenlik, 2021, stoneware, porcelain.
Photo courtesy of Mehtap Baydu

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

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