Arter is opening its doors to two new exhibitions in November. Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s solo exhibition Ghost Quartetand the video-focused group exhibition Hah! will be on view starting from 27 November.
Arter is getting ready to host two new exhibitions on 27 November. Curated by Nilüfer Şaşmazer, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s solo exhibition Ghost Quartet offers a comprehensive perspective on the artist’s practice shaped around themes of identity, memory, and nature. Opening on the same day, Hah! brings together recent video works selected from both the Arter Collection and external sources. Curated by Delfin Öğütoğulları, this group exhibition focuses on the role of satire in developing a critical view of power structures as well as questioning today’s socio-political conditions.
Ghost Quartet
On view at Arter’s third-floor gallery, Ghost Quartet gathers Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s newly produced works for this exhibition alongside some of her recent pieces, a number of which belong to the Arter Collection. The exhibition delves into the artist’s production, which explores the notions of identity, memory, and nature in relation to space and time, through the concept of “surface tension.” Büyüktaşcıyan’s personal history rooted in the neighborhoods of Kurtuluş and Tarlabaşı—located in the same geography as Arter—informs her works, shedding light on the transformations of urban memory.
Elements of nature such as fire, water, air, and earth appear in various forms throughout the exhibition, while polarities such as life and death, body and soul, visibility and invisibility, erasure and reconstruction are explored across four distinct sections.
Hah!
Bringing together contemporary video works from the Arter Collection and beyond, the group exhibition Hah!examines the role of satire in critiquing power structures and interrogating contemporary conditions. Shining a light on the material and internal struggles artists navigate within economic and institutional power systems, the exhibition also focuses on power imbalances, authoritarian forms of governance, and gender norms.
The works invite viewers to reflect on the absurdities and contradictions of the issues addressed, fostering an intellectual—and at times silent—awareness. Some works evoke a striking sense of empathy enabled by satire, while others adopt a layered and playful approach that highlights the deconstructive potential of wit. Featuring artists from Türkiye and various geographies, the exhibition aims to offer a multifaceted perspective that exposes the flaws and failures of the systems we inhabit through the formal tools of satire.
