FUTUREGARDEN, Kemal Seyhan’s most recent exhibition at Pi Artworks in Istanbul, begins with a question about the relationship between the painting object and the possibilities of space—namely, spatiality in the most abstract sense. The fact that this question has been asked before
In the era of technological developments with mind blowing speed , we as human beings had a delusion that we would find immortality in near future. Then we all experienced the pandemic. It has been a year since we first locked down
Zack, can you please introduce yourself and SuperRare? I am the Chief Marketing Officer and head of artist relations at SuperRare since early 2018. SuperRare was the first digital art marketplace that was officially launched on Ethereum back in 2018. We decided
During the first week of March, we held meetings with publishers and agencies from all over the world for the Istanbul Fellowship Program, trying to spread Turkish literature to the world while introducing new books to our language. We bustled between tables
Theater is a live form of art realized by a group of people – performers and the audience – gathering in a certain place, at a certain time. The three components involved in this definition were interrupted by the pandemic. Because of
The last decade was full of successes for Turkish cinema. It began with Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Golden Bear win at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival with Honey (2010), his latest installment of the Yusuf Trilogy. The achievements of Turkish filmmakers continued to
How It Started… In the first days of the new decade, theaters opened with the final chapter of the iconic trilogy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Sam Mendes’ one-shot war drama 1917, and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women. On February
We owe the things we noticed, rethought and faced this year to an awareness gained through the global pandemic crisis. We have faced the consequences of our choices and decisions. We have learned what we cannot give up, what we make, produce
After a career as an architect, later joining the OMA architecture studio founded by Rem Koolhaas as a partner, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli has established 2050+, his own interdisciplinary studio in the city of Milan this year. He continues teaching at the Royal
Given the physical and social isolation we experience on a global level, art in the public space is much more influential today, due to the social interaction it creates, Murat Cem Baytok proposes this with a work four meters long and six
The world of art and culture has been interrupted for a long time due to the pandemic. How do you think the current period affect our cultural lives? Undoubtedly, as in all domains, the world of culture and arts was caught unprepared
Tabanlioğlu Architects are engaged in the restoration of the historic 15th Century Haliç Tersanesi (Golden Horn shipyard) The project regenerates a former industrial area of coastline to create a new cultural destination for the city, with hotels, housing, offices and leisure alongside
