Halil Altındere: Humour Is a Political Tactic for Me

Presented in a solo display by Pilot Gallery at the first edition of Art Basel Qatar, Halil Altındere's works — a selection shaped around migration, identity, and socio-political concerns — made visible the distance the artist maintains from the everyday and the

Who Is Doing What in the New Market?

The Gulf region is rapidly rising as one of the multicultural and dynamic centers of contemporary art. With mega museum projects, a succession of newly opening galleries, exhibitions, and international art fairs, the attention of the global art world has long been

Building Culture in the Desert

In recent years, a wave of newly opened museums across the Gulf has been transforming the region into one of the emerging hubs of contemporary art. Stretching from Abu Dhabi to Doha, the coastline is being reshaped by landmark buildings designed by

Curtain Falls, Legacy Lives On: Haldun Dormen

Haldun Dormen, who assumed a founding role in the modernisation of Turkish theatre during the Republican era, was not merely an artist who existed on stage, but a figure of memory who built theatre as a field of culture, discipline, and continuity

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My Beautiful Mistakes

My Beautiful Mistakes! at x-ist, open throughout the summer, brings together works by Esin Keskinoğlu, Pamir Yıldıran, and Sefa Karakuş. The exhibition explores “error” not as a flaw but as a creative potential. While the summer art calendar largely shifts to the

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Artists of Istanbul

50 Artists, 50 Studios, published by Galeri Selvin, is a special publication that visits the studios of 50 significant figures of contemporary Turkish art. We spoke with Selvin Gafuroğlu about the creation of the book. In one of the historic neighborhoods of

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