December 2025 Exhibitions

Museums and galleries are preparing for an exceptionally full December with newly opened and ongoing exhibitions, and these shows accompanying the final days of the year once again reveal the restorative and renewing hope of art. The editors of ArtDog Istanbul have compiled the standout exhibitions of the last month of 2025 for you.

The December art calendar is once again brimming with activity. As art galleries across Istanbul open their doors to new exhibitions, museums continue their ongoing programs, offering audiences multilayered experiences. In addition to Istanbul, galleries and museums in Ankara, Eskişehir, İzmir, Antalya, Adana, and Bodrum also present new and continuing exhibitions in the final month of the year. As the year comes to a close, December exhibitions offer an opportunity to bid farewell to the past year through art and to welcome the new one in its company.

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan “Phantom Quartet” at Arter
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s solo exhibition Phantom Quartet offers a comprehensive look at the artist’s practice, which centers on themes of identity, memory, and nature. Bringing together new and early works rooted in her personal history in Kurtuluş and Tarlabaşı, the exhibition sheds light on the ruptures embedded in the city’s past. Structured around dualities such as presence and absence, life and death, body and soul, the exhibition can be viewed on the third floor of Arter.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 27 November – 9 August
• Venue: Arter, Dolapdere
• Admission Information: Arter

OMM Presents a New Exhibition: “Ferahfeza”
OMM – Odunpazarı Modern Museum welcomes visitors with its new exhibition Ferahfeza, curated by Yağmur Elif Ertekin. Centered on the concept of the table, the exhibition translates the life affirming joy that extends from past to present into a visual language and invites viewers to meet within the shared emotions behind moments of joy, celebration, friendship, flirtation, neighborliness, and togetherness.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 29 November – 13 September
• Venue: Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir
• Admission Information: OMM

Elvan Alpay at Sevil Dolmacı Gallery
Elvan Alpay’s exhibition Pánta Rheî / İşler – Works 2021–2025 approaches flow not as a metaphor but as a behavioral form intrinsic to the nature of matter, giving painting a dynamic and physical process. Bringing together the works the artist produced over the past five years for the first time, the selection offers an experimental space that brings forms of movement, light, and energy found in nature into the realm of painting.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 2 December 2025 – 3 January
• Venue: Sevil Dolmacı Gallery, Beşiktaş
• Admission Information: Sevil Dolmacı Gallery

İpek Duben’s 1970s Archive at Galerist
İpek Duben’s exhibition ’70, curated by Farah Aksoy and Amira Arzık, presents the artist’s early drawings from the 1970s as a way of thinking and sensing, making visible the foundational elements of her practice. The exhibition sheds light on the origins of the layered, spatial, and multifaceted approach that Duben would develop in later years.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 22 November – 3 January
• Venue: Galerist, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Galerist

Nejad Devrim’s Works at Galeri Nev Istanbul
Galeri Nev Istanbul presents a special selection focused on the turning points in Nejad Devrim’s practice and the evolution of his abstract language. The exhibition features the lyrical and geometric abstractions he developed during his years in Paris, as well as works that carry the colorful influence of Byzantine mosaics. These pieces highlight Devrim’s distinctive relationship with European modernism and underscore the role of exploration and intuition in his painting. The exhibition offers an opportunity to reassess the artist’s place in international art history from a contemporary perspective.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 5 December – 10 January
• Venue: Galeri Nev Istanbul
• Admission Information: Galeri Nev Istanbul

Two New Exhibitions at EVİN
𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘜𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘌𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦; 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯 presents scenes that disrupt the linear flow of time and render space ambiguous. The works draw upon both personal experiences and references to collective memory. The exhibition titled EVİN’Salon II brings together artists from different generations and disciplines by combining past and future, as well as traditional and innovative approaches. In doing so, it reveals the dynamic structure of contemporary art.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 2 December – 3 January
• Venue: EVİN, Bebek
• Admission Information: EVİN

Sandra del Pilar “Gaps and Ghosts” at Zilberman
Sandra del Pilar’s exhibition Gaps and Ghosts traces censored narratives and distorted historical truths, making visible the suppressed layers of collective memory. Working with layered surfaces created through transparent fibers that unite the personal and the political, the artist reimagines the voids pushed outside official history through a postcolonial and feminist perspective. Bringing together strategies of intervention and reconstruction, the exhibition confronts viewers with the fluid and fragile boundaries between past and present.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 11 December – 31 January
• Venue: Zilberman, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Zilberman

“Gözde İlkin | Gelgit” at .artSümer
Curated by Zehra Begüm Kışla, Gözde İlkin’s exhibition Gelgit follows fluid forms, folding fabrics, and various materials as expressions of movement and as processes of formation that function as a kind of memory. In İlkin’s conceptual framework, fabrics, roots, sand dunes, animals, and stones do not appear as symbols, but as objects that intensify through action and becoming, and that are experienced rather than merely represented.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 13 December 2025 – 23 January
• Venue: .artSümer, Piyalepaşa
• Admission Information: artSümer

December Exhibitions at Anna Laudel
Curated by Marcus Graf, Kabine 05/25 revisits Expressionism and New Objectivity by bringing together historical masters and contemporary artists from Turkey, demonstrating that both expressive force and critical perspective remain relevant today. Jochen Proehl’s exhibition Kazılmış Görüler offers an intuitive depth in which paintings that hover between abstraction and figuration make the layers of memory visible. Through earthy traces, the artist invites viewers on a personal inner journey.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 28 November – 11 January
• Venue: Anna Laudel, Gümüşsuyu
• Admission Information: Anna Laudel

Güneş Çınar Exhibition at Maçka Sanat
The exhibition Diken Üzerinde Egzersizler focuses on Güneş Çınar’s new works exploring the complex relationship between nature and humans. By using “thorn” imagery to evoke contrasts such as protection and injury, boundary setting and violation, the artist emphasizes an ongoing search through the concept of “exercise”. Employing modern materials such as 3D printing, plexiglass, and resin, these works make visible the silence and transformation of nature, inviting viewers to reflect on the relationships among nature, humanity, and space.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 4 November – 13 December
• Venue: Maçka Sanat Galerisi
• Admission Information: Maçka Sanat Galerisi

ha:ar’s “Unplugged” Exhibition at Galeri Siyah Beyaz
ha:ar examines the impact of technology on the human being through a language that blends archaeology and science fiction. The exhibition reveals the transformation of body and soul through data, taking viewers on a journey from AI temples to the digital twin of the contemporary individual. The works, created with bronze, light, sound, and digital simulations, invite audiences to experience modern rituals and technological evolution.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 21 November – 3 January
• Venue: Galeri Siyah Beyaz, Ankara
• Admission Information: Galeri Siyah Beyaz

Nilüfer Yıldırım’s “Human Landscapes” at MERKUR
Nilüfer Yıldırım’s exhibition Human Landscapes explores the emotional and psychological states of human relationships within the ambiguous space between abstraction and figuration. Through texture, form, and color, the artist conveys the delicate balance between individuality and togetherness.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 13 September – 1 November
• Venue: Merkur Art Gallery, Piyalepaşa
• Admission Information: Merkur Art Gallery

Hüseyin Aksoy Exhibition at Ferda Art Platform
The exhibition presents the sounds and vibrations of nature through painting, video, and site specific installations. Aksoy offers elements such as the rippling surfaces of seas and the mass of mountains as archaeological layers and fields of sensory memory.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 November – 20 December
• Venue: Ferda Art Platform
• Admission Information: Ferda Art Platform

Aslı Özdoyuran’s “Yuvarlak Sayılar” at BüroSarıgedik
The exhibition Başlangıçta Cıvıltılar Vardı explores the act of weighing through universal and fictional units of measurement, connecting this gesture to concepts of everyday life and justice. Through drawings inspired by courtrooms and sculptures derived from everyday speech, Özdoyuran examines the ideologies and power relations produced by space and language.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 21 November – 21 December
• Venue: BüroSarıgedik
• Admission Information: BüroSarıgedik

Group Exhibition at SANATORIUM
Curated by Uras Kızıl, Şeylerin Fısıltısı reconfigures the concept of landscape through research based, process oriented productions, focusing on the stories of the nonhuman other. The participating artists generate new narratives on being and ontology by working with the tensions between reality and fiction, empirical and speculative.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 10 October – 10 January
• Venue: SANATORIUM, Tophane
• Admission Information: SANATORIUM

Sefa Çakır’s Solo Exhibition at Vision Art Platform
In Kapıyı Dışarıdan Kapattım, Sefa Çakır reveals creative processes that many artists prefer to keep hidden, presenting stark yet unsettling images that convey the sense of confinement experienced in youth and the faltering balances of contemporary life. Within this atmosphere, where unease replaces brightness and spectacle, the artist offers an intense experience that draws viewers in both aesthetically and emotionally.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 November – 6 January
• Venue: Vision Art Platform, Akaretler
• Admission Information: Vision Art Platform

SaDe 2024–2025 Exhibition
Works created by Rozelin Akgün, Cemil Çalkıcı, Aylin Çankaya, Gökçe Çetin, Nesime Karateke, and Macide Yalçınkaya within the scope of SaDe (Artist Support Fund), an initiative by İKSV supporting young artists, will be exhibited at the Private Saint Benoît French High School.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 22 November – 21 December
• Venue: Private Saint Benoît French High School, Karaköy
• Admission Information: İKSV

“From Our Theatre Treasury” at Depo
Tiyatro Hazinemizden presents a comprehensive field of memory by making visible the plays, artists, and stage practices that shaped the history of Turkish theatre through archival documents, photographs, posters, and personal records. The exhibition emphasizes theatre as a living cultural heritage and invites viewers on a rich and emotional journey between past and present.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 27 November – 31 January
• Venue: Depo, Tophane
• Admission Information: Depo

New Exhibition at KUN Art Space
Tao Ulusoy’s exhibition Çekelim Bu Dünyadan Perdeleri reveals the connections between personal memory and collective fragilities within a multilayered arrangement of paintings, found objects, and installations. The red of the watermelon slice shifts from its association with summer’s lightness to a powerful metaphor evoking blood, mourning, and vanished cities. A personal search dedicated to the artist’s father and a monumental space of remembrance for the children who lost their lives in Gaza come together in the exhibition, inviting viewers into a deep state of reflection.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 3 December – 10 January
• Venue: KUN Art Space, Adana
• Admission Information: KUN Art Space

Georgina Gratrix’s “Sunday Painting” at Dirimart Pera
Georgina Gratrix’s exhibition Sunday Painting brings together still lifes, object studies, and scenes from everyday life produced in the calm atmosphere of the artist’s Sunday studio sessions. Mexican born and based in South Africa, Gratrix combines an ironic and critical perspective on daily life with a vibrant color palette and impasto technique. Her paintings depicting friends, family, and at times familiar figures reveal her distinctive style through a playful and dynamic approach.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 22 October – 23 November
• Venue: Dirimart Pera
• Admission Information: Dirimart

“Ece Özel: Self Titled” at Ambidexter
Ece Özel’s first solo exhibition Self Titled recounts a personal story intersecting with the transformation of Istanbul in the 2000s through atmospheric fragments in which the boundaries of time and space dissolve. Treating the night as a realm of escape and transformation, the paintings form a whole composed of bodies and moments appearing at the threshold between dream and reality, drawn from the artist’s personal archive.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 November – 20 December
• Venue: Ambidexter, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Ambidexter

Group Exhibition “Ephemeral” at Gülden Bostancı Gallery
The exhibition Ephemeral traces moments that oscillate between presence and absence, making visible a nearly weightless temporality that rejects permanence. In this fleeting space, where what is felt outweighs what is seen, the show confronts viewers with the delicate silence of disappearance. The exhibition features works by Alp Ismen, Baran Kurtoğlu, Berkay Kahvecioğlu, Burhan Kum, Cem Adrian, Gurur Birsin, Hale Feriha Hendekçigil, Hüseyin Arıcı, Meltem Sarıkaya, Murat Balcı, Murat Koç, Pelda Aytaş, and Şeyma Barut.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 7 November – 13 December
• Venue: Gülden Bostancı Gallery, Antalya
• Admission Information: Gülden Bostancı Gallery

Ezgi Yakın’s “Interval in Flux” at Simbart Projects
Ezgi Yakın’s exhibition Interval in Flux investigates how tools used in urban construction support and constrain both the body and movement, exploring the transient balances and fragile spaces between environment and bodily experience.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 14 November – 27 December
• Venue: Simbart Projects, Çukurcuma
• Admission Information: Simbart Projects

Group Exhibition at EArt Gallery
Defined by Alfred Jarry as the “science of imaginary solutions,” Pataphysics here reveals the creative potential of exceptions, alternative scenarios, and mental escape routes within the productions of contemporary artists. Curated by Dilara Güven, İstisnaların İhtimali delves into the dreamlike geographies shaped in the artists’ minds and the sanctuaries they propose.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 4 December – 18 January
• Venue: EArt Gallery, Kağıthane
• Admission Information: EArt Gallery

New Exhibition “İyileştiğim Yer” at RS Sanat Alanı
Curated by M. Kıvanç Gökmen, İyileştiğim Yer focuses on the modern individual’s state of being, wellbeing, and healing, presenting artists’ creative processes as internal spaces of restoration. The exhibition features works by Ahmet Duru, Asaf Erdemli, Bedran Tekin, Ceylan Dökmen, Emrah Yücel, Gönül Nuhoğlu, Haşime Altaylı, İrfan Erdal, and İsmet Doğan.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 29 November – 14 December
• Venue: RS Sanat Alanı, Nişantaşı Koru
• Admission Information: RS Sanat Alanı

Ryan Gander “Pussies and Places” at PİLEVNELİ
PILEVNELİ presents Pussies and Places, Ryan Gander’s first solo exhibition in Turkey. Focusing on overlooked details of daily life and encouraging viewers to construct their own narratives, Pussies and Places centers on a large installation that brings together a storytelling magpie animatronic sculpture, marble sculptures depicting street cats, and paintings that repeat place names. These new areas of inquiry intertwine the public and the private, questioning the sense of belonging and testing our attachment to the everyday.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 12 November – 31 December
• Venue: Pilevneli Dolapdere
• Admission Information: Pilevneli

Group Exhibition at Belm’art Space
The exhibition Yöntem Olarak Soyutlama: Bir Pratiğin Anatomisi brings together the diverse technical and aesthetic approaches of Gizem Renklidağ, Hayri Esmer, Kerim Dündar, Müge Ceyhan, Nermin Ülker, Seçil Erel, Selçuk Artut, Suat Akdemir, Taner Şekercioğlu, and Y. Bahadır Yıldız. Curated by İpek Yeğinsü, the exhibition highlights the aesthetic and intellectual diversity of artists in Turkey who employ abstraction as their primary method. Spanning local motifs to organic and futuristic forms, this wide spectrum invites viewers to discover the connective tissues between the works.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 22 November – 28 December
• Venue: Belm’art Space, Ankara
• Admission Information: Belm’art Space

Tuba Önder Demircioğlu’s Sculptures at Decollage Art Space
Tuba Önder Demircioğlu’s exhibition Karşılaşma (Encounter) explores the human existential journey through the fragile yet resilient nature of porcelain. By creating zones where touch, gaze, and silence intensify within each sculpture, the artist establishes a space of dialogue with the viewer. The exhibition reflects an ongoing state of waiting through the quietude of porcelain surfaces, weaving together life and the self.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 18 November – 28 December
• Venue: Decollage Art Space, Kadıköy
• Admission Information: Decollage Art Space

Three New Exhibitions at Haliç Sanat
The restored Fener Houses in Balat host three new exhibitions at Haliç Sanat 1, 2, and 3, offering Istanbul audiences an art filled experience while exploring themes of space, memory, and identity. The exhibitions Taşın Belleği by Tansu Kırcı, Karanlığın Hafızası by Özge Kahraman, and Boş Ev by Mine Kemertaş are open to visitors free of charge. Conducted under the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s vision for preserving cultural heritage, the restoration and programming transform these historic structures into lived spaces once again, reconnecting them with art.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 13 November – 15 February
• Venue: Haliç Sanat 1, Haliç Sanat 2, Haliç Sanat 3
• Admission Information: kultursanat.istanbul

Dolce Paganne “Burası Hiçbir Yer, Benim Anavatanım.” at x-ist
Dolce Paganne’s exhibition dissolves the boundaries of reality, reconstructing the symbols of the inner world within an experimental space where nature, body, and mind merge. Instead of a fixed narrative, viewers are invited into an open space completed through their own experience, confronting repressed images and the possibilities of alternate realities.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 November – 20 December
• Venue: x-ist, Gümüşsuyu
• Admission Information: x–ist

Esra Gülmen and Cengiz Tekin “Sonuçta Bu Kimin Hikâyesi?” at Meshru
The exhibition Sonuçta Bu Kimin Hikâyesi? by Esra Gülmen and Cengiz Tekin approaches soil as both a site of memory and a witness, presenting paths that intersect through migration and remaining. Through mosaics, the space reveals a fragmented yet vibrant memory, inviting viewers not only to observe but also to question and contemplate collectively.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 19 November – 8 February
• Venue: MeshRu, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: MeshRu

Zeynep Beler “Intraface” at Martch Art Project
Zeynep Beler’s exhibition Intraface investigates how digital interfaces shape the ways we see and experience the world. Translating images collected from the internet into painting, the artist slows down the speed of online visual culture and transforms pixelated visuals into lasting, material images. The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider how moments of looking and waiting are shaped by digital processes.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 31 October – 21 December
• Venue: Martch Art Project, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Martch Art Project

“EKAV-ARTIST New Generation 10”
EKAV-ARTIST New Generation 10: RE:FORM, curated by Dr. Feride Çelik, brings together the multidisciplinary productions of seventeen emerging artists and explores the tension between past and future through the idea of reconstructing form. Featuring materials and modes of expression ranging from drawing to metal and from digital media to ceramics, the exhibition offers a tribute to the continuity of art and the new generation’s effort to transform form.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 18 November – 18 December
• Venue: Ekavart Gallery, Süzer Plaza, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Ekavart Gallery

Berk Güntürk Exhibition at C.A.M Gallery
The exhibition Corpus Prohibitum – Yasaklı Beden addresses the individual’s desires, fragility, and existential struggle through the body under the shadow of social norms, taboos, and regimes of repression. Using baroque lighting and a dramatic figurative language, the artist turns the body into an icon not of sin but of existence, inviting viewers to reflect on personal freedom, privacy, and boundaries.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 15 November – 31 December
• Venue: C.A.M Gallery, Çukurcuma
• Admission Information: C.A.M Gallery

“Hayati Misman Retrospective” at İş Sanat
The exhibition Hayati Misman Retrospektif showcases more than 170 works across painting, engraving, sculpture, and metal découpage, revealing the artist’s sixty-year journey. Combining the linear discipline of engraving with layered color, Misman creates a unique visual language in both canvas and sculpture. His treatment of the female figure as a symbol of existence and social identity, nourished by traditional Anatolian culture, gives rise to a universal expression.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 October – 19 January
• Venue: Kibele Art Gallery, Levent
• Admission Information: İş Sanat

Robert Capa Exhibition at the Ara Güler Museum
Prepared in collaboration with the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and with the support of the Istanbul Hungarian Cultural Institute, Robert Capa | Gerçek En İyi Fotoğraftır presents the most comprehensive selection of Robert Capa’s work ever shown in Turkey. Alongside his iconic images, the exhibition includes a special group of 37 photographs taken in Turkey in 1946.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 12 September – 22 March
• Venue: Ara Güler Museum
• Admission Information: Ara Güler Museum

Edward Burtynsky “Dönüşen Yeryüzü”
Borusan Contemporary presents Dönüşen Yeryüzü, the first major solo exhibition in Turkey by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, known for documenting the impact of industrial activity on nature through striking imagery. Featuring Burtynsky’s thematic investigations into erosion, mines, quarries, and water resources, the exhibition reveals the traces humanity leaves on the planet through an aesthetic lens. Spanning all floors of the Perili Köşk, this extensive selection brings viewers to the threshold of a shared planetary responsibility.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 September – 16 August
• Venue: Borusan Contemporary, Sarıyer
• Admission Information: Borusan Contemporary

Handkerchief Collection at the Sadberk Hanım Museum
Turkey’s first private museum, the Sadberk Hanım Museum, presents İftihâr ve Yâdigâr: Sadberk Hanım Müzesi Oğuz Aydemir Hatıra Mendilleri Koleksiyonu, showcasing the handkerchief collection meticulously assembled over the years by H. Oğuz Aydemir and donated to the museum in 2018. Coordinated by Museum Director Hülya Bilgi and curated by Dr. Ozan Torun, the exhibition features 82 handkerchiefs selected from the collection.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 9 October – 30 June
• Venue: Sadberk Hanım Museum, Sarıyer
• Admission Information: Sadberk Hanım Museum

A Literary Journey Through Istanbul Continues at Meşher
Meşher’s exhibition Hikâye İstanbul’da Geçiyor continues. The exhibition focuses on how Istanbul has been imagined in Western literature from the sixteenth century to the present. Featuring approximately 300 books from the Ömer Koç Collection, the selection spans genres from fantastical tales and graphic novels to science fiction and espionage. Enriched with manuscripts, rare editions, signed books, engravings, film posters, and Turkish translations, the exhibition offers a unique narrative where literature and visual culture intertwine.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 23 January – 18 January 2026
• Venue: Meşher, İstiklal Caddesi
• Admission Information: Meşher

Pera Museum Exhibitions
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the Pera Museum presents two new exhibitions: Ortak Duygular and Toprak, Ateş, Su ve Havayla Yazılmış Bir Dize. Ortak Duygular approaches works by twenty-nine artists from the British Council Collection through a contemporary and speculative lens, investigating how collections relate to today’s social dynamics beyond preserving the past. Åsa Jungnelius’s first solo exhibition in Turkey explores the relationship between humans and matter through glass and stone. Produced in collaboration with Şişecam masters, the works invite viewers into a sensory experience of existence.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 16 September – 18 January
• Venue: Pera Museum, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Pera Museum

Group Exhibition at Pg Art Gallery
Curated by Meltem Sırtıkara, Merdiven Bir Dairedir examines artistic existence through the ideas of Eagleman and Brandt. The exhibition reveals the relationship between the staircase, space, body, and environment in both physical and conceptual terms. It unfolds as a dialogue between a character yearning for reality and the designer of the space in their imagination.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 21 November – 20 December
• Venue: PG Art Gallery, Maslak
• Admission Information: PG Art Gallery

“REWIND / Slovenia” at CerModern
The exhibition Rewind / Slovenya – Slovenya Seyahati presents a meeting ground centered on intercultural interaction, shaped by collaborative production processes between artists from Turkey and Slovenia. Bringing together the memories of different geographies, the exhibition conveys to the viewer the new meanings generated through encounters in art.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 6 November – 28 December
• Venue: CerModern, Ankara
• Admission Information: CerModern

“VarYok” at YUNT
Curated by Merve Elveren and Meriç Öner, VarYok unfolds at YUNT over the course of a year in three chapters. The exhibition intersects visions of past and future through individuals, spaces, and temporalities. Participants reconfigure their research and production by drawing on the ambiguities between private and public realms.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 11 October – 16 August 2026
• Venue: YUNT, Sultanbeyli
• Admission Information: YUNT

“Side by Side” at the İş Bankası Painting and Sculpture Museum
Side by Side brings together works by Melahat and Eşref Üren alongside those of Eren and Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. Focusing on both the shared lives and individual oeuvres of these two artist couples, the exhibition makes visible their intersecting artistic journeys. It offers a polyphonic narrative that traces collaboration, shared production, and the often-invisible labor behind artistic practice.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 20 September – 10 July
• Venue: Türkiye İş Bankası Painting and Sculpture Museum, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Türkiye İş Bankası Painting and Sculpture Museum

Exhibition Illuminating the History of Light at the Rezan Has Museum
The exhibition Geçmişin Işığında: Aydınlatmanın Kronolojisi at the Rezan Has Museum reveals humanity’s millennia-long relationship with light. The show brings together approximately 200 lighting devices used from the Paleolithic period to Byzantine and Islamic civilizations.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: From 23 October
• Venue: Rezan Has Museum, Cibali
• Admission Information: Rezan Has Museum

A Photographer-Architect’s Restless Eye
The Istanbul Research Institute presents a photography exhibition focusing on the life of Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, one of the prominent architects of the early Republican era, and his view of Turkey’s changing landscapes. Maceraperest Bir Mimarın Fotoğrafhanesi sheds light on Koyunoğlu’s multifaceted world through the photographs he took. His archive, enriched by his parallel passion for photography, takes the viewer on a journey through individual and collective memory.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 19 June 2025 – 17 May 2026
• Venue: Istanbul Research Institute, Pera
• Admission Information: Istanbul Research Institute

“90’lardan Beri Halı’dayız” at Salt Beyoğlu
The exhibition 90’lardan Beri Halı’dayız centers on the pedagogical practice and collective production of the Carpet Workshop at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University’s Painting Department. The workshop’s anti-hierarchical structure, its relationship with contemporary art, and its long-developed educational approach come to the forefront. The exhibition makes visible the memory of this unique production space through archives, testimonies, and artworks.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: Until 1 March 2026
• Venue: Salt Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: Salt

Group Exhibition at Ruzy Gallery
Curated by Thom Oosterhof, Formative focuses on the transformative potential of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from various geographies, the exhibition presents experimental, thought-provoking, and formally rich works. It encourages viewers to develop new readings around form, body, material, and representation.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 2 October – 2 December
• Venue: Ruzy Gallery, Etiler
• Admission Information: Ruzy Gallery

MAYA in Mardin
MAYA, organized in collaboration between Bor Sanat and EXIT, brings together four cycles of production created within the Guest Artist Program. Curated by Ebru Nalan Sülün, the exhibition focuses on the dialogue and transformation generated through collective production processes in Mardin. Featuring works by Ahmet Öktem & Mehmet Akan, Fulya Çetin & Sidar Alışık, Serhat Kiraz & Ayşe Ceren Solmaz, and Handan Börüteçene & Rıdvan Aşar, the exhibition creates a space for shared thinking.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 11 October – 16 January 2026
• Venue: Exit, Mardin
• Admission Information: Exit

Group Exhibition “Zamanın Eşiğinde” at INSPERA
Curated by Deha Çun, Zamanın Eşiğinde presents a wide-ranging selection of works by Serdar Acar, Mahmut Akdemir, Yasemen Latife Ayvaz, Nida Erdoğan, Tuba Geçgel, Özge Gürkan, Hazerico, Gökçe İrten, Karis Deniz Kara, Selma Koç, Loya Kader Öztürkmen, Gülşen Pazarbaşı, Yahya Perviz Tan, Muhammet Emir Taşdemir, and Dila Uzun. The exhibition offers a comprehensive perspective on contemporary artistic practices.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 23 December – 12 February
• Venue: INSPERA BODRUM – Art Space
• Admission Information: INSPERA BODRUM – Art Space

Mustafa Ata’s “Askıda” at Anıt Atölye
Askıda / Suspended brings together paintings, works on paper, and newly revealed stained-glass pieces by Mustafa Ata under the curatorship of Gönül Karakan Ata. Presenting the artist’s deep engagement with nature, animals, and color, the exhibition pays tribute to his nearly sixty-year artistic journey. The collection can be viewed at Anıt Atölye in Şile’s Meşrutiyet neighborhood, where the artist has long lived amidst the area’s natural beauty.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 28 September – 5 January
• Venue: Anıt Atölye, Şile
• Admission Information: Anıt Atölye

Final Days to See the Ömer Uluç Exhibition
One of the most comprehensive selections of the artist’s work ever shown in Turkey, Ömer Uluç: Ufuk Çizgisinden Öteye brings together Uluç’s production from the 1960s—featuring early examples of his practice—to the works created up until his passing in 2010. The exhibition presents the diverse expressive modes that distinguish his oeuvre across various themes.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 21 March – 12 December
• Venue: Istanbul Modern
• Admission Information: istanbulmodern

Banu Cennetoğlu at İMALAT-HANE
Banu Cennetoğlu’s exhibition ne karanfil ne kurbağa., curated by Yavuz Parlar, draws on the artist’s intellectual and emotional inquiries into fatherhood, power, loss, and rights. Rooted in long-term research, Cennetoğlu’s practice opens into both correspondence and collective memory. The layered structure built around the written word expands through a special publication produced alongside the exhibition.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 25 October – 4 January 2026
• Venue: İMALAT-HANE, Bursa
• Admission Information: İMALAT-HANE

Group Exhibition at Quick Art Space
Curated by Nergis Abıyeva, Kısmet Büfesinden Dolaşarak draws inspiration from Bilge Karasu’s book Kısmet Büfesi, focusing on the relationship between the visual and the conceptual. Bringing together works specially produced or reconfigured for the space by Çınar Eslek, Şafak Şule Kemancı, Kerem Giriş, Yekateryna Grygorenko, Seda Oturmak, and Cansu Sönmez, the exhibition highlights each artist’s unique way of constructing, disrupting, and transforming narrative through visual language.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 26 September – 31 December
• Venue: Quick Art Space, Ataşehir
• Admission Information: Quick Art Space

“Sarnıç” at Gülhane Sanat
Ali Emre’s solo exhibition Sarnıç, hosted at Gülhane Sanat restored through İBB Miras, foregrounds fish and the movement of water in works created specifically for the cistern environment. Reflecting the artist’s personal connection to the sea and his life intertwined with the shoreline, the exhibition offers a journey into both the artist’s and the space’s memory.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 18 October – 18 January
• Venue: Gülhane Sanat
• Admission Information: İBB Kültür

MAYZU: The Tree That Bears Coconut
and Banana
Exhibition view
Curator: Selen Ansen
Arter, 2025
Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz

2022
Mixed media
400 × 640 × 200 cm
Photos: Kayhan Kaygusuz

Nilbar Güreş “Kadife Bakış” at Arter
Nilbar Güreş’s first institutional solo exhibition in Turkey, Kadife Bakış, is on view at Arter. Curated by Emre Baykal, the exhibition brings together the artist’s early works with her recent productions. Featuring works across various media, this extensive selection is presented in Arter’s second-floor gallery.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: From 11 September
• Venue: Arter, Dolapdere
• Admission Information: Arter

What inspires the artists for their ideas? at SANATORIUM
Curated by Necmi Sönmez, What inspires the artists for their ideas? brings together works by thirteen artists from different geographies, focusing on artistic production processes. Featuring painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing, the exhibition reveals the stances artists develop in response to contemporary economic, political, and social conditions. The show opens discussions on contemporary art’s layered structure through themes such as cultural identity, belonging, and political position.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 7 November – 20 December
• Venue: SANATORIUM, Beyoğlu
• Admission Information: SANATORIUM

New Exhibition at Pg Art Gallery
Egemen Kemal Vuruşan’s new glass sculpture exhibition Circus in the City transforms the chaotic rhythm of the modern city and the invisible performances of daily life into playful figures shaped through hot glass techniques. Beneath a cheerful surface, the series reveals the tension between control and chaos, offering a dynamic universe that reconstructs the energy of the city within glass.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: From 24 December
• Venue: PG Art Gallery, Maslak
• Admission Information: PG Art Gallery

“Sahnelenmiş” at Arkas Sanat Alaçatı
Arkas Sanat Alaçatı welcomes visitors with Sahnelenmiş/Staged, curated by Billur Tansel. Featuring 86 works by 35 artists, the exhibition questions climate crisis and humanity’s retreat into artificial realities. It invites viewers not only to reflect but also to take action beyond the aesthetic experience.

Details for Visiting the Exhibition
• Dates: 29 May – 4 January
• Venue: Arkas Sanat Alaçatı, İzmir
• Admission Information: Arkas Sanat