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Exhibitions
Address : Meclis-i Mebusan Cad. Liman İşletmeleri Sahası Antrepo No:4 Karaköy
      
 

May 23 - September 23

Fifty Years Of Urban Walls: A Burhan Doğançay Retrospective


February 16 - June 3

After Yesterday


New Works, New Horizons



Address : Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.3 D.10 Beyoglu
      
 

May 18 - June 16

Nobody'S Death

Eşref Yıldırım





Address : İstiklal Cad. Postacılar Sokak No:6/A Santa Maria Apt. Asmalımescit Beyoğlu
      
 

April 25 - June 2

Subliminal Operations

Rafet Arslan

Rafet Arslan thru leaked collages from his operations, his détournements and illustrations invites us with his current interventions to a visual and spiritual journey from daydreams to nightmares, from his outer space to his inner one, from robotic delusions to the verses of alchemy, from surreal to the assumed real and to the age/art of mutants.

‘Subliminal Operations’ more so than being a first exhibition is rather an intimate advice; the artist's strive to build himself and to test our habits by winking at the reconstructed state of situationists.




Address : Abdi İpekçi Caddesi No:7/4 Nişantaşı
      
 

May 17 - June 16

Pictures from The Surface of the Earth

Wim Wenders


May 10 - May 27

Sea Of Tranquility

Hans Op De Beeck’s Work Entitled





Address : Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No.12 34425 Tophane
      
 

May 4 - May 26

Reality Terror 

Periferi Kolektif

Periferi Kolektif, scales up the discussion that it initiated with the exhibition Yıkım/Destruction 2011 with new events entitled Gerçeklik Terörü/Reality Terror. The international exhibitions coordinated by Rafet Arslan and Alper T. İnce will be held at the beginning of May in Depo, Mars and Asfalt Kadıköy respectively.

With the participation of the team who created Yıkım/Destruction 2011, one of the exhibitions which made a tremendous impression last year, and with participation of 65 artists including 17 from abroad, Gerçeklik Terörü/Reality Terror brings together artists and works from different disciplines again with an independent collective stance without patrons or sponsors.

Gerçeklik Terörü/Reality Terror aims to create a questioning, destructive, poetical language and aesthetics against arts and life in a world where the last traces of reality has been wiped off. Is an existence against the fake realities constructed by the intertwined relations of arts and the market, of media and censorship, of politics and pornography possible?

With its poetical and destructive praxis of contemporary arts, Gerçeklik Terörü/Reality Terror invites you to question your beliefs, to find the world odd - the world that we live in and that we take as real -, to open the doors of new realities, of new possibilities, of other worlds despite all their pessimism.

Triggering a new language, a new aesthetics and even a new evolution for the new consciousness/human, the politics of mutation!




Address : Meşrutiyet Caddesi No.65 34443 Tepebaşı - Beyoğlu
      
 

20 April - 29 July

Goya - Witness of his Time

Known as one of the most unique artists of European painting and a pioneer of modern painting, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), meets the Turkish audience for the first time with four series of engravings as well as paintings in 20 April to 29 July 2012 at the Pera Museum (...)



Address : Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santralı Kazım Karabekir Cad. No: 2/13 Eyüp
      
 




Address : İstiklal Cad. Mısır Apt 163/4 Galatasaray
      
 

May 24 - June 16

Shadows

Neslihan Karaağaç

Neslihan Karaağaç is at Pi Artworks Galatasaray with her first solo exhibition “Shadows” between the dates May 24th – June 16th 2012.

In her series titled “Shadows” Neslihan Karaağaç creates energetic, unique works with pouring, dropping and spilling techniques around her composition. Her works on pvc are produced at the end of a long process as combinations of both controllable and uncontrollable factors. The artist, who studied psychology, takes us to our subconscious world in guidance of colors and stains by transferring and expressing emotions with “Shadows”. (...)



Address : Boğazkesen Cad. No:76 34433 Tophane / Beyoğlu
      
 

April 28 - June 16

Seven Sleepers (as)

Juan Botella Lucas



Address : Boğazkesen Caddesi No: 27/A Tophane Beyoğlu
      
 


May 12 – June 15

NON Unplugged 2012

Sislei Xhafa

For his first solo show in Istanbul titled NON Unplugged 2012, Kosovan artist Sislej Xhafa turns NON into a key manufacturing space/shop. This exhibition at NON is a site-specific re-edition of the artist’s 2006 exhibition, MN Unplugged 2006, realized in Frankfurt at the Michael Neff gallery for its final show.

In his works, Xhafa questions the forms and attitudes of social, political, and economical realities of current times using a minimal yet subversive language. A common thread running through his works is an ability to provoke the viewer to actively engage with his works while often ironically highlighting the complexity of modern society. (...)



Address : Şair Nedim Cad. No:4 Akaretler 34307 Beşiktaş,
      
 

May 17 – June 17

Crossroads II

Hayal İncedoğan, Fırat Engin, Yahya Bağcı and Tuğberk Selçuk

In CROSSROADS II, Hayal İncedoğan, Fırat Engin and Tuğberk Selçuk will be displaying their new media works, while Yahya Bağcı will be presenting his hyper-reality works. Including independent works and the exhibition will be a futuristic look from where plastic arts stand today. (...)



Address : Mim Kemal Öke Cad. Lal Apt. No:23/3-4 Nişantaşı
      
 




Address : Sıraselviler 10, Hrisovergi Apt Kat 1 D4, 34433 Taksim
      
 




Address : Kemankes Caddesi, Galata Sarap İskelesi Sokak Suha Fazlı Han No.8 D.3 Karakoy
      
 

May 25 - 27

Istanbul International Arts and Culture Festival
25-27 May 2012

Istanbul International Arts and Culture Festival 2012 once again promises to be a mesmerizing festival of art, design, fashion, literature, film, architecture, music and ideas. (...)




Address : Sakayik Sokak no 37/1 Nisantasi
      
 




Address : Tomtom mah. Bogazkasen Caddesi, no 45 D3, Beyouglu
      
 




Address : Istiklal Caddesi, 163/18, Beyooglu
      
 




Address : Sıraselviler caddesi. No:83/2 Beyoglu
      
 

May 26 - July 14

Yes, You Can Not

Can Kurucu

PİLOT shows "Yes, you can not", the first solo exhibition of the young artist Can Kurucu.



Address : Necati Bey Caddesi No:32/2 Karaköy İstanbul
      
 

BAS is an artist run space in Istanbul initiated by Banu Cennetoğlu where artists' books and publications are collected, displayed and produced.



Address : İstiklal Caddesi 136 Beyoğlu
      
 

April 20 – August 26

İstanbul Eindhoven-SALTVanAbbe 68-69


May 30 – August 26

In Deed - Certificates of Authenticity in art

In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art is an exhibition of artist certificates. The exhibition focuses on the little known territory of certificates that serve as deeds for artworks, legal statements, and fiscal invoices that can both embody the artwork itself and refer to it at the same time.


April 6 – July 8

Translated by

Sevim Burak, Evliya Cheleby, Ted Chiang, Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Narmin Kamal, Sophia Al Maria, Guy Mannes-Abbott, Vahram Martirosyan, Tom McCarthy, David Peace, Adania Shibli, Neal Stephenson, Murat Uyurkulak


April 13 – June 17

Modern Essays 4





Address : Şahkulu Mah. Balkon Çıkmazı No: 8/A Galata / Beyoğlu
      
 

June

Emrah Ozhan

Göz bakar, beyin tanımlar, insan deneyimler… Hangisi olacağın ya da neyi paylaşacağın tamamen senin elinde. Bu mu, yoksa öteki mi bazen başkalaşmak herşeye? Seçeneklerin sonsuzluğu zorlaştırıyor kim olacağına karar vermene yüksek ihtimalle…



Address : Adres: Ayhan Işık Sok. No: 20 İstiklal Caddesi, 34433 Beyoğlu
      
 




Address : Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.2 D.5 Beyoglu
      
 

May 18  - June 16

Love is in the Air (Remixed)

Carlos Aires

Titled “Love Is In The Air (Remix)”, the exhibition is composed of a selection that Aires has exclusively tailored for Istanbul. In this selection compiling his works from different series, Aires, in addition to his photographs, with vinyl arrangements prepared by cutting long play album disks and with his works referring to famous love songs as well as to Baroque-Period’s icons, leads the audience into a colorful and ironic world full of love, relationships, memories and pains.



Address :  Meydan Sokak Maslak
      
 

April 5 - September 1

New Selection from the Elgiz Collection

Ali İbrahim Öcal, Alper İnce, anti-pop, Çağrı Saray, Eda Gecikmez, Elif Öner, Hülya Özdemir, İnsel İnal, Mehmet Çeper, Orhan Cem Çetin, Özlem Şimşek ve Rafet Arslan.



Address : Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sokak, No 11/4 Hanif Han, 34420 Beyoğlu
      
 

May 18 - June 9

Portrails II

Zulal




Address : Tesvikiye Mh. Sakayik Sok. Aylin Apt. No: 75/5 Nisantasi
      
 

May 9 - May 31

Cin Ali, at the exhibition

Sabire Susuz



Address : Kemankeş Mahallesi Ali Paşa Değirmeni Sokak, no 16–18 Beyoğlu
      
 

May 18 - June 30

Contraband and An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul. 

Contraband is an archive of global desires and perceived threats, presenting 1,075 images of items that were detained or seized from entering the United States from abroad. Captured by Simon during five days at JFK International Airport, some of these items are rather familiar, such as knockoff handbags, drugs and Cuban cigars; while others are quite unexpected, such as various animal specimens, eggshells and dog treats.

A selection from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, including the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Contraband Room, which has given rise to the Contraband series, is also displayed at the exhibition. By capturing hidden and inaccessible spaces such as the CIA headquarters and a nuclear waste storage facility, Simon reveals unfamiliar and uncanny aspects of the present day American culture and confronts the divide between expert and public access. (...)



      
 




Address : Şair Nedim Caddesi No: 21a Akaretler 34357 Beşiktaş
      
 
April 19 — May 26

Nevin Aladağ

The exhibition brings together the works of Aladağ that has not yet been shown in Turkey. Trained as a sculptor at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich Aladağ adopts differing mediums in her works varying from performance to video, photography to sculptures & objects as well as public interventions and site specific installations. She is interested in how cultural and social signs are used and interpreted while employing these signs within her practice and places them in a context where they no longer belong to a specific territory, thus become images and ideas that are equipped with visual rhetoric.




Address : İstiklal Cad. no 211
      
 




Address : kemankeş mah. mumhane cad. no:67/A laroz han karaköy
      
 

May 10 - June 9

Ground Control

Gökçe Er


artSümer holds the second solo show of Gökçe Er, “ground control”. This time, the figures trapped inside spaces (in her first solo show “get out!”) are out! Out in estranged environments. Er turns the space inside out; she creates characters trapped within and without, between the top and the bottom, like an abrupt creation. Gökçe Er freezes the slipperiness of the ground within the time frame of the picture.



Address : Emir Nevruz Sok. Panayia Apt. No:2 K:3 D:5 Asmalımescit Mah.
      
 




Address :  Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No 12 Tophane
      
 

December 18 – February 11

CONSTELLATION (or the inspiration show)

Group show: Mark Aerial Waller, Banu Cennetoglu, Lukas Duwenhögger, 
Haris Epaminonda, Emre Hüner, Iman Issa, Gülsün Karamustafa, 
Shahryar Nashat, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Eftihis Patsourakis, 
James Richards and Joey Frank



Address : Sakıp Sabancı Cad. No:42 Emirgan
      
 

January 2012

While a Country is Changing

Turkish Painting from the Ottoman Reformation to the Republic

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Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum(SSM) showcases its extensive painting collection under the title “While a Country is Changing - Turkish Painting from the Ottoman Reformation to the Republic” starting from end of 2011. The collection, containing the works of the significant artists of Turkish Painting, such as Osman Hamdi Bey, Halil Paşa, Abdülmecid Efendi, Fikret Muallâ and İzzet Ziya, is now exhibited permanently in the gallery designed exclusively for the exhibition. The exhibition, which has been carried out under the scientific consultancy of Prof. Dr. Semra Germaner and Assoc. Prof. Ahu Antmen, gives the visitors a chance to oversee the historical journey of Turkish Painting.




Address : Pürtelaş Hasan Efendi Mh. 34427
      
 




Address : Şht. Muhtar Mh. İstiklal Ave 4
      
 




Address : Asmalı Mescit Mh. Şehbender Sokak 1, Istanbul,
      
 




Address : Balo Sokak No: 42, Beyoğlu
      
 






Address : Istiklal Caddesi Tütüncü Çikmazi No:4, istanbul
      
 




Address : Abdi İpekci Cad. No:42 D.2 Nişantaşı / İstanbul
      
 

December 22 - January 21

TURKISH DELIGHT

Canan

During the 1990’s, the artist preferred to use a realistic language like videos, photography and documentaries, and usually described her body as a figure in the paintings. Then, she started to portray her works as miniatures that are intensive both in the visual representation and symbolism. During the same period, she also positioned herself as the “storyteller," and used collages she made from miniatures, to edit them as video animations with the approach of documentaries and sensation of fairy tales.



Address : Sanatkarlar Cad.No:1 Cihangir/Istanbul
      
 




Address : Ayazma Cad. N/4 Fulya
      
 

December 12 - January 11

ABRAHAM DAVID CHRISTIAN

Abraham David Christian who is considered as an “international artist” by many art critics since his works cannot be circumscribed with a single culture or geography, opens his first solo exhibition in Turkey at Galeri Artist Istanbul.

Beginning from his early works Christian attempts to produce a unique language nourished by different cultures.  Sacrifice and experience are two inexhaustible sources in which Christian finds the productive and transformative power he uses in formulating his language. The artist pursues (...)



Address : Mim Kemal Öke Cad. 11/3 34367 Nişantaşı
      
 




Address : İstiklal Cad. Halep Pasajı No:62 C blok 109
      
 

January 19, 2012

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Yedi Süikast | Seven Conspiracies

ArtProjectBrockmann, Ozer Huseyin Özer, Nejla Yılmaztürk, Leyla Aksoy, Selviye Durmuş, Elif Akar
Model: Sema Çağlar