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Hatice Utkan Contemporary art is provocative. It focuses on the problems of society. It is pluralist and it draws its inspiration from life. That is what Turkish contemporary artist Şükran Moral, who is known for her extraordinary and provocative works, does in most of her works. Moral once crucified herself and exhibited it in Italy; […]
Sanatorium is presenting the works of artists who focus on state culture and its reflections on the lives of people under the title “Inventory.” The exhibition seeks to ask when people first encounter the notion of an inventory list – was at school?Was it at that time that this Kafkaesque universe where the inventory list […]
The exhibition “No Ifs, No Buts” at Depo Istanbul aims to provide a new understanding of space and self-understanding. Changing experiences with time and space formed the post-modern and postcolonial subject, which, according to Fredric Jameson, has been exposed to a loss of maps. The changing experiences attach less importance to the geographical departure and […]
Highlighting freedom, the figurative and abstract painting, German artist Anton Henning is opening his first solo show at Galerist art gallery in Istanbul this December.Resisting conventional disciplines in art, Henning is an artist who covers a lot of ground, and so much of it is self-referential. His art knows no limits; it is playful, ironical, […]
Erkut Terliksiz opened his second solo exhibition, this time titled “Till we meet again,” at the X-Ist Gallery in Nişantaşı. For Terliksiz painting is an experience close to madness. According to the artist, drawing provides a way for him to discover unknown senses he cannot control. When drawing Terliksiz does not literally go mad, but […]
Published in City Brief – Issue 52 This year’s Contemporary Istanbul art fair will bring together 37 galleries from overseas and 43 from Turkey and show 2,000 works by 420 artists. The event aims to question the meaning of art, being an artist, reveal the unifying characteristic of an art that can communicate directly and […]
The works of one of the most famous living representatives of Turk painting, İsmail Acar, will be on display at the Çırağan Palace Kempinski Art Gallery starting Dec. 1. In almost all of his works, Acar employs the symbols that call to mind the era of the Ottomans. This time, he is presenting art lovers […]
From Hürriyet Daily News- City Brief supplement – Hatice Utkan Once again, Turkey is about to face another Emir Kusturica incident with the Indian writer V.S. Naipaul. The European Writers Parliament, or EWP, a large international literary event, is hosting Naipaul in Istanbul from Thursday to Saturday. However, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul’s invitation to speak at […]
Washi, a type of paper made in Japan, is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat. Now, washi paper will Turkish and Japanese cultures to meet. Artist Aynur Küçükyalçın’s works at the Tolga Eti Gallery aim to create a relationship between the two cultures and make […]
Artist Fuat Cağatay likes to search for the deeper meaning of nature and tries to reflect this with his drawings.Çağatay’s current exhibition opened this week at A.R.K. Kültür in Cihangir. The exhibition entitled “Breath to Breath with Nature” (Doğa ile Nefes Nefese) will continue until Nov. 9. “I have tried to handle these drawings with […]