With the arrival of July, the art route has shifted towards the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, especially Bodrum. A series of exhibitions opening one after another in the region brings together prominent names in contemporary art. Istanbul, on the other hand, maintains its pace with new exhibitions opening in museums and galleries despite the summer heat. The editors of ArtDog Istanbul have compiled the prominent exhibitions of the summer for you. With the heat of July, the art scene is becoming vibrant both in the city and in holiday destinations. Extensive exhibitions stretching from Bodrum to the Kaz Mountains, from Alaçatı to the Greek islands, witness the meeting of nature and art. Despite the summer tempo, Istanbul awaits viewers with striking exhibitions.
The summer art season in Bodrum is lively. At the Şevket Sabancı Culture and Art Center, Resul Aytemür’s Colors of Memory exhibition brings together traces of memory with colors. In Müptelal Gümüşlük, Ali Atmaca’s special exhibition for his 60th year in art draws attention with works focusing on feminine aesthetics. Galeri Selvin’s The Meeting of Tastes and Forms exhibition in Mezra Yalıkavak brings sculpture art together with gastronomy. The exhibition Becoming One with Place at Anna Laudel Bodrum questions the sense of spatial belonging, while Ekrem Yalçındağ’s Nature. Form. Perform. exhibition at Warehouse by The Stay in Alaçatı focuses on the relationship between nature, form, and architecture. Additionally, the Walls Embraced exhibition realized in collaboration with x-ist at Simurg Inn in the enchanting nature of the Kaz Mountains offers a unique experience where nature and art intertwine. Meanwhile, on the Greek island of Leros, Folding The Sea Into Dresses That Dissolve Like Salt extends beyond the shores with a poetic sea narrative.
In Istanbul, Benim Güzel Hatalarım (My Beautiful Mistakes) at x-ist calls for a reconsideration of the concept of “error” on an aesthetic ground. Asesinos! Asesinos!, the installation by Kader Attia at Arter, offers a powerful visual narrative on collective memory and repair.
From Galeri 77: “Solstice” Exhibition
Galeri 77 invites viewers on a sensory journey with its Solstice exhibition, which brings together the light of the summer season and the energy of transformation through art. Under the light of the summer solstice, when the sun is at its highest point, the exhibition evokes the harvest and renewal celebrations of ancient cultures. The works of 19 artists in diverse styles reflect, from a contemporary perspective, the connection between time, light, and nature. The selection, which combines abstract, figurative, and surreal expressions, focuses on themes of renewal and change. Each work comes to life anew in harmony with the nature of summer, meeting the audience in a fresh context. The exhibition builds a bridge between the past and the present, reinterpreting classical tradition with a contemporary perspective and inviting viewers into the cycle of time and light.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: July 3 – August 23
• Venue: Galeri 77, Karaköy
• Entry Information: Galeri 77
“My Beautiful Mistakes” at x-ist
x-ist is bringing together works by Esin Keskinoğlu, Pamir Yıldıran, and Sefa Karakuş in the exhibition titled My Beautiful Mistakes, continuing throughout the summer. The exhibition approaches the concept of “mistake” not merely as a deviation or defect but as a creative opening, an intellectual leap, and an aesthetic ground. All three artists interpret moments of rupture, loss, inconsistency, and distortion as a process of exploration and reconstruction in their respective practices. My Beautiful Mistakes pushes the viewer out of the comfort zone of the finished and planned, steering them toward the intuitive aesthetics found within the incomplete, contradictory, and accidental. This exhibition stands as a bold invitation to search for new meaning and beauty through the notion of error.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: July 3 – August 23
• Venue: x-ist, Gümüşsuyu
• Entry Information: x-ist
Kader Attia: Asesinos! Asesinos! at Arter
Arter’s exhibition Kader Attia: Asesinos! Asesinos!, curated by Selen Ansen, opens a deep space for reflecting on the repair of historical traumas within collective memory. Attia, through used doors and megaphones, makes visible the voices silenced in the face of violence and injustice. The installation, comprising 135 doors and 47 megaphones, reminds us that collective resistance and healing are possible without denying individual suffering. This crowd rising from within silence emerges as a concrete reflection of the struggles and shared memory that have persisted throughout history.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: Until August 3
• Venue: Arter, Dolapdere
• Entry Information: Arter
The Studio of an Adventurous Architect
Istanbul Research Institute is presenting a new photography exhibition focusing on the life of Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, one of the prominent architects of the early Republican period, and his perspective on Turkey’s changing face. Titled The Studio of an Adventurous Architect, the exhibition sheds light on Koyunoğlu’s multifaceted world through the photographs he took. Beyond his architectural work, Koyunoğlu’s passion for photography attracts attention, and his archive takes viewers on a journey in pursuit of individual and collective memory. While offering a different perspective on the early Republican period, the exhibition narrates the personal story of an architect through visual documents.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 19, 2025 – May 17, 2026
• Venue: Istanbul Research Institute, Pera
• Entry Information: Istanbul Research Institute
Facing Silence: “If It’s Not of Us, It’s One of Us”
Memed Erdener’s exhibition titled If It’s Not of Us, It’s One of Us, presented within the Zilberman Dialogues program, centers on a conceptual space shaped by the absence of language. The exhibition oscillates between metaphors of an infant and a post-historical machine, questioning an age of silence in which humanity has lost its capacity for meaning-making. Through the idea of a world where the desire for recognition has disappeared and otherness has been erased, Erdener constructs a striking narrative about the end of history and identity. His work invites the viewer to remain within this conceptual void woven from silence and to imagine a post-human existence.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: May 27 – July 26
• Venue: Zilberman Dialogues
• Entry Information: Zilberman
Folding The Sea Into Dresses That Dissolve Like Salt in Leros
Perasma’s new exhibition in Leros, Folding The Sea Into Dresses That Dissolve Like Salt, focuses on the island’s intuitive and multi-layered relationship with the sea. The exhibition, featuring works by 27 artists from the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe, meets viewers at the Kandioglou Mansion and Lakki Primary School. Seeking a balance between stability and movement, rooting and exploration, the exhibition listens to the rhythm and memory of the island. With its non-linear narrative, the exhibition offers a poetic experience that searches for meaning within relationships and shared vibrations.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 29 – August 24
• Venue: Leros Island, Greece
• Entry Information: Perasma
Becoming “One” with the Place at Anna Laudel Bodrum
Özlem Yenigül’s solo exhibition Becoming “One” with the Place at Anna Laudel Bodrum prompts viewers to deeply question the relationship between the individual and space. The artist takes the sense of belonging beyond the concept of home, exploring what it means to belong to a place. In her works shaped by techniques such as high-pressure printing, hand-tufting, and punch needle, she presents strong visual representations of the connections people establish with places. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on spatial belonging and to reinterpret this theme through their own experiences.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: July 11 – August 3
• Venue: Anna Laudel Bodrum, Zai Yaşam Bodrum
• Entry Information: Anna Laudel
An Exhibition Bringing Together Flavors and Forms from Galeri Selvin
Galeri Selvin’s exhibition in Mezra Yalıkavak, Bodrum, brings sculpture art together with the flavors of Michelin-starred chefs. Titled The Meeting of Flavors and Forms, this exhibition offers visitors a multi-sensory experience by combining contemporary art and gastronomy in the same venue. The exhibition features significant sculptors from both Turkey and abroad. This unique connection established between sculpture and gastronomy adds a new dimension to the art experience.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 1 – August 30
• Venue: Mezra Yalıkavak – Bodrum
• Entry Information: Mezra Yalıkavak
Resul Aytemür’s “Colors of Memory” Exhibition in Bodrum
Colors of Memory, the exhibition by Resul Aytemür, meets art enthusiasts at the Şevket Sabancı Culture and Art Center in Bodrum. Curated by Serap Atala, the exhibition includes a selection of works in which the artist reflects impressions from his memory through colors.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 20 – July 30
• Venue: Şevket Sabancı Culture and Art Center, Bodrum
• Entry Information: Şevket Sabancı Culture and Art Center
“An Ordinary Day After the Apocalypse” Exhibition at Zai Bodrum
Inspired by Murat Gülsoy’s novel of the same name, An Ordinary Day After the Apocalypse exhibition brings together art lovers at Zai Bodrum, under the collective signature of Monday Art Collective members Ayşenur Köksal, Işıl Güleçyüz, and Joel Menemşe. The exhibition, which unites literature and visual art, establishes a two-way interaction with works that both draw from texts and influence texts. The puzzle-like space series, triptych paintings, and individual works emphasize the idea of thinking and creating together.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: July 12 – August 31
• Venue: Zai Bodrum
• Entry Information: Zai Bodrum
Ali Atmaca’s 60-Year Artistic Journey in Bodrum
Ali Atmaca’s 60-year artistic journey is celebrated with a special exhibition at Müptelal in Bodrum Gümüşlük. Throughout his artistic career, the artist has produced works centered around the theme of women, reflecting elegance, strength, and sensitivity onto canvas with an aesthetic language. At the opening event, a special menu prepared by Chefs Collective and a live performance by Atmaca bring art and gastronomy together. The exhibition can be visited free of charge for a limited time.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: July 4 – July 25
• Venue: Müptelal, Bodrum Gümüşlük
• Entry Information: Müptelal
“Walls Embraced” at Simurg Inn
Taking place amidst the enchanting atmosphere of the Kaz Mountains, Walls Embraced, a collaboration between Simurg Inn and x-ist, brings the works of 11 contemporary artists together with art enthusiasts in a space integrated with nature. The exhibition transforms Simurg Inn’s stone-walled rooms, wooden terraces, and common areas into a gallery, revealing a face of art that transcends urban boundaries. The selection, which makes visible the interaction art establishes with space, invites viewers to build new connections between nature, aesthetics, and ph
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 5 – September 1
• Venue: Simurg Inn, Ayvacık Çanakkale
• Entry Information: Simurg Inn
Two Exhibitions at Karşıyaka Ferry Terminal
The Karşıyaka Ferry Terminal in İzmir is hosting the eighth edition of the İskele Exhibitions, organized by Kendine Ait Bir Oda (KABO) through the initiative of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Directorate of Culture and Arts and İZDENİZ. The multi-layered project Atlas: Aile Haritası (Atlas: Family Map) by father and daughter artists Gören and Ceren Bulut conveys the period of their shared life in England and their memories intertwined with art through woodblock prints and installations. In the same venue, Sevinç Aslan’s solo exhibition Beni Unutma (Forget Me Not) offers visitors a different art experience.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: Atlas: Aile Haritası June 25 – August 24 / Kendine Ait Bir Oda June 25 – July 25
• Venue: Karşıyaka Ferry Terminal, İzmir
• Entry Information: Karşıyaka Ferry Terminal
Ekrem Yalçındağ’s “Nature. Form. Perform.” Exhibition in Alaçatı
Ekrem Yalçındağ’s exhibition titled Nature. Form. Perform. meets the audience at Warehouse by The Stay in Alaçatı. The artist offers a multi-layered visual experience by bringing together representations of nature, the structural subtleties of form, and performative elements. In his works produced using wood and silk printing techniques, the conceptual and physical bond established with nature comes to the fore. The exhibition opens a unique dialogue between art and space with its layout integrated with architecture and its aesthetic inspired by nature.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date:
• Venue: Warehouse by The Stay, Alaçatı
• Entry Information: The Stay
Group Exhibition “Kölemen 7” at Galeri Bosfor
Galeri Bosfor is hosting the group exhibition titled Kölemen 7, curated by Gökşen Buğra, in its new venue. The exhibition features works by Ahmet Çerkez, Barış Göktürk, Betül Kotil, Burcu Erden
, Eda Soylu, Erman Özbaşaran, Funda Susamoğlu, Ilgın Seymen, Işıl Kapu, Mithat Şen, Olgu Ülkenciler, and Yasha Butler.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: July 9 – August 23
• Venue: Galeri Bosfor, Karaköy
• Entry Information: Galeri Bosfor
Seçkin Pirim’s Sculptures at Baksı Museum
Seçkin Pirim’s recent sculptures are meeting viewers at the Baksı Museum in Bayburt with the exhibition Zamanlı Zamansız (Timely Timeless). The exhibition will feature more than twenty works created from various materials, along with models and studies related to the workshop process. Pirim invites viewers on an inner journey through his works, while his formal precision creates a metaphysical and emotional atmosphere. The artist’s works merge with the universal geography of Baksı, offering an experience of existential lightness and intense inner motion simultaneously.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 11 – November 3
• Venue: Baksı Museum, Bayraktar Köyü Çayırlar Mevkii Bayburt
• Entry Information: Baksı Museum
Mahmut Karatoprak’s 50th Exhibition at Decollage Art Space
Mahmut Karatoprak’s 50th solo exhibition Kır İğdesi (Oleaster), meets viewers at Decollage Art Space. Curated by Serap Atala, the exhibition makes visible the poetic connection the artist establishes between the past and the future. The oleaster motif, originating from the vineyards of Kayseri, transforms into a profound symbol in Karatoprak’s memory, while ordinary objects evolve into contemporary icons in his works. Kır İğdesi stands out as a significant milestone in the artist’s fifty-year creative journey.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: May 6 – July 27
• Venue: Decollage Art Space
• Entry Information: Decollage Art Space, Kadıköy
“Staged” at Arkas Art Alaçatı
Arkas Art Alaçatı is launching the new season with a new exhibition focusing on the climate crisis, an issue created by humanity itself, in which humanity is both perpetrator and victim, and its indifference towards it. Curated by Billur Tansel, the exhibition titled Staged brings together 86 works by 35 artists. The exhibition questions the existential dilemmas of humans who have lost their connection with nature and taken refuge in the artificial realities they have created. The project offers a space for confrontation, inviting viewers not only to an aesthetic experience but also to think, question, and take action.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: May 29 – January 4
• Venue: Arkas Art Alaçatı, İzmir
• Entry Information: Arkas Art
“Altı Üstü İzmir” at Bayetav Art
The exhibition Altı Üstü İzmir (Merely İzmir), taking place at Bayetav Art, reflects a collective journey of rediscovery aimed at rereading the city’s fading memory through its streets, buildings, and squares. Works created in various mediums by Ayça Su Değirmenci, Ayça Yasan, Berk Şenol, Derya Bulut Uhri, Dilay Öğmen, Duru Başer, Erdem Barışık, Eylül Erol, Gizem Güler, Güneş Arık, Melisa Geçalp, Poyraz Runa Uhri, Rojbin Deniz Özyürek, and Yunus Çakırtaş come together at the end of this process. The exhibition makes the social, cultural, and historical layers of İzmir visible, offering viewers a new perspective on the city.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: May 3 – August 15
• Venue: Bayetav Art, İzmir
• Entry Information: Bayetav Art
A Critical Look at Family, Body, and Women’s Roles in “Naaile”
Pelda Aytaş’s first solo exhibition Naaile has opened at Gülden Bostancı, Antalya’s contemporary art gallery. The exhibition offers a feminist questioning of the female body, family structure, and traditional female roles. The name of the exhibition is derived both from the name Naile, meaning “a woman who has attained her desire,” and from the ironic transformation of the word maaile (meaning “with the whole family”). The exhibition establishes an alternative narrative focusing on women’s desires, vulnerabilities, and bodies. Aytaş breaks apart the sacred myth of the family imposed by language and culture, creating a political space of expression that critiques heteronormative structures.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: May 30 – July 12, 2025
• Venue: Gülden Bostancı, Antalya
• Entry Information: Gülden Bostancı
“SAMİH RİFAT ‘Much Work to Be Done’” at Pera Museum
The exhibition Samih Rifat: Much Work to Be Done, which brings together photography, poetry, translation, music, and intellectual production, offers a comprehensive look at the intellectual legacy of Samih Rifat, the “hezârfen” of the cultural world. Rifat’s notebooks, translation notes, manuscripts, and previously unseen photographs are brought together for the first time in this interdisciplinary exhibition. The exhibition also serves as a tribute project for the 20th anniversary of Pera Museum.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: March 20 – August 17
• Venue: Pera Museum, Beyoğlu
• Entry Information: Pera Museum
Ali Kazma Exhibition at Istanbul Modern
Ali Kazma’s solo exhibition Landscapes of the Mind opens on June 13 at Istanbul Modern. Among the works Ali Kazma has produced in various geographies, the video work Sumi (2025), documenting the 400-year-old traditional ink-making process in Nara, Japan, stands out as it will be shown for the first time. Curated by Öykü Özsoy Sağnak and Demet Yıldız Dinçer, the exhibition also includes works being presented to audiences in Turkey for the first time, such as Mürekkep Evi (Ink House) (2022) and Sentimental (2022), focusing on writer Orhan Pamuk’s personal archive and living space, and Alberto in Lisbon (2024), which tells the story of the relocation of Alberto Manguel’s library from France to Portugal.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 13
• Venue: Istanbul Modern
• Entry Information: Istanbul Modern
Rosalie Aleksandra Anter’s “Ghost of Presence” Exhibition at Ambidexter
Rosalie Aleksandra Anter’s exhibition titled Ghost of Presence makes visible the silent memory of everyday objects, inviting the viewer on an inner journey. The artist’s works, shaped with pastel paints and fluid forms, reveal the layered structure of memory and emotion like an intuitive map. The piece titled La Tigresse’s Armchair goes beyond an object, depicting a woman’s power, intergenerational emotional heritage, and silent witnessings. The exhibition, meeting viewers at Ambidexter, offers an intuitive archive about the body, memory, and existence through the language of objects.
Exhibition Visit Details
• Date: June 26 – July 13
• Venue: Ambidexter, Beyoğlu
• Entry Information: Ambidexter
Summer Season at Zarastro Art
Contemporary art platform Zarastro Art welcomes the summer season with a strong three-part program. In the main exhibition area, Jo Chate’s solo show Between Clarity and Collapse is presented. The New Voices section features works by Irish artist Sophia Vigne Welsh, while the Focus section brings together for the first time all installations from Cevdet Erek’s Bergama Stereo (2019–…).
Exhibition Details
• Date: 30 June
• Venue: zarastro.art
• Admission Info: zarastro.art
Summer Selection at EArt
EArt’s exhibition Summer Edition IV centers the use of negative space in contemporary three-dimensional practices, offering visitors a fresh perceptual field. The show features works by A. Elif Aydoğmuş, Bahadır Yıldız, Defne Parman, Ebru Zarakolu, Ezgi Bahadır, Gizem Ünlü, Hazer Çoşgun Kırkpınar, Maze Sürer, Pınar Yılmaz, and Songül Girgin. Through their varied materials and approaches, the artists create a strong interaction in the exhibition space, inviting viewers to reconsider notions of void, volume, and boundary. Summer Edition IV invites audiences to wander both physically and intellectually along the edges of three-dimensional art.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 17 June – 31 August
• Venue: EArt, Kağıthane
• Admission Info: EArt
“Reasons of Water” Exhibition at Cendere Art Museum
Opened in the restored Cendere Water Pump Station by İBB Heritage, Reasons of Water draws attention to the fact that a shared future cannot be built without the fair distribution of water. Curated by Ezgi Bakçay and Sena Tural, the exhibition explores the cultural, mythological, and artistic meanings of water through a multilayered narrative. Works by Arzu Arbak, Aşkın Ercan, Bahadır Yıldız, Bedia Ekiz, Bünyamin Bozkuş, Cemil Cahit Yavuz, İlgen Arzık, Kemal Tufan, Özcan Yaman, Seniha Ünay, Serkan Yüksel, Sevgi Akyüz, Yağmur Çalış, and Zeynep Doğa Karabulut are featured.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 26 June – 15 October
• Venue: Cendere Art Museum
• Admission Info: Cendere Art Museum
“Summer Garden” at .artSümer
The new group exhibition at .artSümer, featuring works by Onur Gülfidan, Gözde İlkin, CANAN, Banu Birecikligil, Eymen Aktel, Cansu Çakar, Merve Çanakçı, and Serkan Demir, is shaped around the idea of a Summer Garden. The exhibition approaches the garden both as a utopia and a dystopia, inviting viewers into a multi-layered intellectual space that oscillates between the ideal and the real. In addition to positive associations such as pleasure, joy, and tranquility, it also draws attention to the fragile and contradictory aspects behind these images. Summer Garden offers both an aesthetic and intellectual stop for those who wish to look at the magic of summer through different eyes.
Hezeyan, Delusion, video, 2014
Exhibition Details
• Date: 26 June – 23 August
• Venue: .artSümer
• Admission Info: .artSümer
Sara Baruh’s Works at Bozlu Art Project
Sara Baruh’s solo exhibition Thus at Bozlu Art Project Mongeri Building brings together the artist’s recent works branching into different directions. In the exhibition, nature plays a significant role both in content and through site-specific installations, while indoor plants are presented in unusual ways with special lighting. The visual compositions Baruh creates in her canvases and paper works using dots, lines, and stains offer viewers a meditative flow. These works transform into mental gateways that connect the audience with the artist’s creative process.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 30 May – 26 July
• Venue: Bozlu Art Project, Mongeri Building
• Admission Info: Bozlu Art Project
“Dem bu Dem” Exhibition Bringing Together Nature and Art
Hızır Camp, located in the heart of Mount Ida (Kaz Dağları), celebrates its 20th anniversary with the exhibition Dem bu Dem. Transforming art into an experience intertwined with nature, the exhibition addresses themes such as ecology, the human body, and the transience of space. Aiming to turn viewers into active participants, the exhibition features works by Onur Çanka, Sinem Dişli, Bi Acayip Hâne, Ali Kanal, Kovan Project (Aslıhan Mumcu & Beyza Durhan), Tahir Öztürk, and Ahmet Turgut Yazman.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 27 May – 25 September
• Venue: Hızır Camp, Balıkesir
• Admission Info: Hızır Camp
Works of Fulya Çetin and İlhan Sayın at Yapı Kredi Gallery
The second edition of the exhibition series Bir Arada by Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts brings together the works of Fulya Çetin and İlhan Sayın, who have been producing art since the 1990s. Through an exhibition design specific to the architecture of Yapı Kredi Gallery, the space opens up to both the individual and shared narratives of the artists. Çetin, in her series Daydreams, constructs an ecofeminist narrative centered on nature and women, while Sayın, in The Night of the Deer, reflects on the resistance of nature, time, and architecture. Both artists make visible human domination over nature and environmental and social injustices through their unique, refined styles. In this exhibition, where plants and animals become subjects, the audience is invited to imagine a non-anthropocentric universe.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 9 May – 4 January
• Venue: Yapı Kredi Gallery
• Admission Info: Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts
Two Group Exhibitions at Anna Laudel
Anna Laudel Istanbul welcomes the summer of 2025 with two group exhibitions titled Where the Sidewalk Ends and Where You Are Understood. Continuing throughout the summer in the gallery space in Gümüşsuyu, Istanbul, the exhibitions bring together works by 12 artists who employ different techniques and approaches. The exhibitions invite viewers to confront both the rhythm of the city and the transformations of individual existence.
Anlaşılmak, 2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
150h x 140w cm
59 x 55 1/8 in
(HY314)
Exhibition Details
• Date: 1 June – 31 August 2025
• Venue: Anna Laudel Istanbul
• Admission Info: Anna Laudel
Works of Fikret Muallâ at Erimtan Museum
The exhibition A Route on the Borders of the Mind: Fikret Muallâ has opened at the Erimtan Archaeology and Art Museum. The exhibition brings together works from the Hancan Art Collection featuring Fikret Muallâ, in collaboration between Erimtan Museum and Bor Art, curated by Ebru Nalan Sülün. The exhibition, which includes sketches and gouache works from various periods of the artist, aims to both evoke memories of the past and offer a period analysis through narratives and critical texts by Muallâ’s acquaintances.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 28 February – 7 September 2025
• Venue: Erimtan Archaeology and Art Museum, Ankara
• Admission Info: erimtanmuseum
Works of Iranian Artist Farhad Abdi at Artopol
The exhibition To Become A Tree by Iranian artist Farhad Abdi, held at Artopol Gallery in collaboration with O4 Gallery, invites the audience into a deep and silent dialogue with nature under the curatorship of Zahra Habbzad. Centered around the metaphor of a tree, the works reflect themes of loneliness, resilience, renewal, and silence through strong black lines and earthy tones. Forms reminiscent of the human body symbolize trust, connection, and silent solidarity. The invisible energy spreading through vein-like lines transforms the tree into a symbol not only of nature but also of the body, breath, and the world. The artist invites viewers to experience nature not merely as a theme, but as an inner way of being.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 3 – 16 July
• Venue: Artopol Art Gallery, Maslak
• Admission Info: Artopol Art Gallery
“The Story Takes Place in Istanbul” Exhibition Continues at Meşher
The exhibition The Story Takes Place in Istanbul at Meşher focuses on representations of Istanbul produced in different periods and various literary genres from the 16th century to the present day. The exhibition explores the imaginings of Istanbul in Western literary fiction—from fantastic tales to graphic novels, from science fiction to spy stories. Centered around nearly 300 books from the Ömer Koç Collection, the selection is accompanied by manuscripts, rare first editions, signed and dedicated books by the authors, as well as engravings, paintings, music scores, films, posters, and various works from different sources, along with published Turkish translations and newspaper clippings.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 23 January – 26 January 2026
• Venue: Meşher, Istiklal Street
• Admission Info: Meşher
ARADA 1997-2003: Playing with Documents
Curated by Nergis Abıyeva, the exhibition ARADA 1997-2003: Playing with Documents at Depo focuses on the collective production process and archives of four artists. The exhibitions carried out with primary materials such as documents, photographs, and videos by Gülçin Aksoy, Nancy Atakan, Gül Ilgaz, and Neriman Polat are revisited. The exhibition offers an alternative perspective on contemporary art in the 1990s, making visible the artists’ ways of collaboration, friendship, and co-creation. The selection also highlights the humorous and joyful spirit of the group.
Exhibition Details
• Date: 22 May – 12 July
• Venue: Depo, Istanbul
• Admission Info: Depo
