The bright white walls of the Sanatorium Art Initiative are now witness to new and exclusive works by seven different artists. The new exhibition, “Inventory,” focuses on state culture and its reflections on the lives of people.Artists who realized their first astonishment concerning inventory stocks have come together in the same place to showcase their […]
Not content with mere adequacy, Sanatorium Art Gallery always aims high, coming to the fore with its unconventional and unique exhibitions.The gallery occasionally works without curators, meaning that no one chooses the artworks.In this, the main aim of the founders is evident: They want to stay independent and free in the art scene.While Turkey is […]
Nov. 26 – Dec. 31 Dirimart is hosting German artist Thomas Bayrle’s “Camera degli Sposi – (after Mantegna),” a new show that proves the artist has something to say about popular culture, politics and historical culture.Bayrle said he was returing to the art scene with “sex and rock ‘n’ roll” after 40 years with “Camera […]
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 […]
Hatice UtkanPublished in City Brief- 49th issue The exhibition “Place we have been… Time we have passed by…” focuses on the philosophical aspects of life and denotes the land and people in relation to life. Ekrem Kahraman, an artist who also writes about art and culture aims to explore philosophy in his drawings.Postmodernists have declared […]