The new exhibition project at Sanatorium urges audiences to make a new discovery in their lives. First, this exhibition looks like a conventional contemporary art exhibition, however scrutinizing the works become a discovery of mysterious endeavor. The mystery in this exhibition first comes with its main theme, which suggests that, “everything is part of a […]

“But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction–what, has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain,” is how Virginia Woolf starts her long essay titled “A Room of One’s own.” Woolf suggests that a woman needs a room of her own to […]

Peter Kogler can change audiences’ perception of space and time with his installations. Kogler’s current installation in Dirimart Gallery in Istanbul is an example of this experience. Since the 1980s when he started to use computer technologies in his art, Kogler has developed an approach that involves a series of recurring motifs that create a […]

To what extent can a video artist and a writer share the same platform of creativity? “Lawrence Durell’s major concern, like that of all serious artists, is with the essence of things,” wrote author Jeremy Robinson in one of his essays. Ali Kazma shares the same concern and works to reflect the essence of things […]

Ferhat Özgür, artist, art critic, academic and curator, prefers to feel his existence in every part of art. He proves this in his new exhibition titled “The Room of Emotion.” at Ankara’s Gallery Nev. In his new exhibition Özgür interprets an old story in a contemporary way. He reveals the underlying “emotional situations” which occur […]

Reutilizing and recycling things for the purpose of art is one of the responsibilities of an artist, according to Argentine Maximo Gonzalez, whose current show at Istanbul’s Artane Art Gallery proves his attachment to his principles. Even ideas are reusable, Gonzalez said, adding that it was possible to turn ideas into “valuable” things. Gonzalez working […]

Until April 23 According to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, a work of art gives an audience a starting point (punchline) to think about the “reality” and the “thing,” because Heidegger considers the reality of art as “the coming of reality.” The concept of “approaching reality” occurs in the work of art. Not every work […]

Hüseyin Çağlayan kimlik kelimesinin anlamını ve bu kelimenin algı alanıyla oyunlar oynamayı seven bir sanatçı. Kimlik için farklı algılama şekilleri geliştirirken, anlamı içinde bambaşka boyutlar açıyor ve tüm bunları yaparken gecmişten gelen ama geleceğe ve bugüne ait bir platformda yürüyor. Bu şekilde kimlik, geçmiş, gelecek ve şimdi kavramlarını yıkıp tekrar yapılandırıyor. Kimlik kavramını sorgularken Çağlayan […]

Hüseyin Chalayan likes to play with the meanings of identity and its perceptions. While he tries to create different perceptions for identity, he opens new dimensions for the meaning of identity and he walks in a platform that comes from past but also belongs to the future and present. He deconstructs and then again constructs […]