Art news from ‘Istanbul’

Pi Artworks, Istanbul: Labyrinth

Labyrinth Horasan 2012-04-05 _ 2012-05-19 Horasan is at Pi Artworks Galatasaray with his solo exhibition “Labyrinth” between the dates April 5th – May 19th 2012. “Getting lost, finding, (Rauch), wondering, getting worried, being afraid, (Coffin), facing with, encountering,  to reaching on impasse, tangling, diving into, (Bruyckere), getting out, concentrating, being oneself again, finding oneself, losing [...]

The Empire Project, Istanbul: Homework

Sean Lee Homework 12 Apr – 02 Jun 2012 Distorting the traditional family portrays by making his own parents pose in humorous ways, Sean Lee is interested in visualizing his own family environment in a different perspective. The subjects of his photographs are shaped by the results of contacts with each individual in his family [...]

PILOT Gallery, Istanbul: City and the Everyday

from the series Idols, photography, 80×120 cm, 2012 City and the Everyday 3 APRİL – 19 MAY PILOT is pleased to host "City and the Everyday" by Hamra Abbas, the winner of 2011 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, between 3 April and 19 May. Hamra Abbas has been exhibiting for a numbers of years in important [...]

RAMPA Istanbul: True Love Soul Mate

Ebru Özseçen True Love Soul Mate 02.03 – 07.04.2012 Ebru Özseçen combines her experience in the fields of architecture, design and contemporary art to explore different aspects of psychological and sociological relationship between space and body. Her work presents great diversity; ranging from urban intervention to sculpture and objects, from photography to video, from film [...]

RODEO Gallery, Istanbul: Make Sure

at the flat, dairede, Camekan Sok. No: 4, D:9, Kuledibi, Istanbul make sure Ian Law 05.04.-26.05.2012 RODEO Gallery Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No 12 Tophane 34425 İstanbul TR www.rodeo-gallery.com

Galeri Nev, Istanbul: EROL AKYAVAŞ exhibition

Erol Akyavas, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, height: 35.5, width: 25.5 EROL AKYAVAŞ 06.04.2012 – 05.05.2012 Galeri Nev www.galerinevistanbul.com

Galeri Manâ, Istanbul: Hell-Heaven

Murat Akagündüz Hell-Heaven 15 March to 28 April 2012 Galeri Manâ is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition with the artist Murat Akagündüz between the dates March 15 – April 28, 2012. Entitled Hell-Heaven, the exhibition will include new paintings from Akagündüz’s Homeland-Anatolia series and a video installation that shares its title with the [...]

Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul: TOUR DE FORCE

TOUR DE FORCE 15/03/2012 – 08/04/2012 Evren Sungur Recent works of the young artist Evren Sungur are at Galeri Zilberman in Misir Apt Having been educated on architecture and sculpture, Evren Sungur interprets, through his much peculiar, pictorial style, the women-men relationships of the patriarchal order in his second personal exhibition titled “Tour de Force”. [...]

Mabeyn Art Gallery, Istanbul: The Feather Game Part Two

“Sleep Walk”, 1986. Oil on canvas, 185 x 255 cm The Feather Game Part Two Hunt Slonem 05 Apr – 27 Apr 2012 Hunt Slonem (b.1951) is an artist who combines abstract expressionism and representational imagery. He is best known for his paintings of tropical birds, based on a personal aviary in which he keeps [...]

SODA Istanbul: Final Frontier

ANDREW BARTON: Final Frontier 01.03.2012 – 14.04.2012 SODA is pleased to announce ‘Final Frontier’, the first solo show of internationally renowned sculptor Andrew Barton to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, between March 1- April 14, 2012. The exhibit consists of space helmets from three major religions. The expanse of religion to our final frontier, space. [...]

Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul: It Will All End in Tears

It will All End in Tears, 2006, 20:00 min, Anamorphic 35mm Courtesy: Galerie Perrotin, Paris Copyright © Jesper Just 2006 Dirimart Garibaldi Presents Jesper Just “It Will All End in Tears” March 15 – April 11, 2012 Dirimart Garibaldi is pleased to present the screening of “It Will All End in Tears”- the meditative, cryptic [...]

CDA projects, Istanbul: TRUTH OR DARE?

"Mickey Mouse",Mixed Media on Canvas,220x160cm TRUTH OR DARE? 15/03/2012 – 08/04/2012 Hossein Edalatkhah The Iranian artist Hossein Edalatkhah’s exhibition in Istanbul is opening up at CDA-Projects at Mısır Apt. Composed of the recent works of the artist who continues to work in Tehran, Istanbul and London, the exhibition titled “Truth or Dare?” is constituted of [...]

x-ist gallery, Istanbul: NOT NOW

Deus Ex Machina, Acrylic and marker on wood, 60 x 90 cm, 2011 Cem Dinlenmiş Not Now 29 Mar – 21 Apr 2012 Artist Talk: 14 April 2012 Saturday, @ 17.00, DEPO The fiction and characters created by Cem Dinlenmiş are not limited to his works in Penguen Magazine. In his upcoming solo show ‘Not [...]

Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul: OFFERING TRANSMISSIONS

OFFERING TRANSMISSIONS Mark Aerial Waller 21.02. – 31.03.2012 Rodeo is very happy to present the third exhibition with Mark Aerial Waller, Offering Transmissions. Mark’s greater understanding of popular culture brings together the works that are presented here: five video projections on pencil drawings and an installation. Offering Transmissions is an ongoing series of drawings of [...]

NON Gallery, Istanbul: They Came From Where They Came From

They Came From Where They Came From April 4 – May 5, 2012 From 4 April to 6 May 2012, NON is pleased to host Nereden Gelmemiz Gerekiyorsa Oradan Gelmişizdir / They Came From Where They Came From, an exhibition co-organized by Extrastruggle and Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş. Where did we come from? From snow-crested [...]

Pg Art Gallery, Istanbul: A GLANCE AT THE METROPOLIS

Jak Baruh A GLANCE AT THE METROPOLIS March 14 – April 8, 2012 Jak Baruh is greeting art-lovers with his new solo show ‘Looking at the Metropolis’ at the PG Art Gallery. Behind the glorious appearances of the world’s most influential metropolises and amidst the commotion that prevails within them, there exist chaotic masses of [...]

Mabeyn Art Gallery, Istanbul: Pleasure Seeks Eternity

"The Answer", 2012. Oil on canvas, 180 x 160 cm. 08 Mar – 29 Mar 2012 Pleasure Seeks Eternity Turgut Mutlugöz One of the first to discover the importance of sexual desire in human psychological development, Freud makes a bold observation: “The majority of the higher values of our cultural heritage were won at the [...]

CAM Gallery, Istanbul: Romantique

Coco, oil on canvas, 160×110 cm, 2012 C.A.M Gallery / Akaretler presents Nihâl Martlı's exhibition 'Romantique' on March 27 – April 21, 2012. As always, a dreamy, nostalgic and poetic structure is experienced with the character in the paintings. It is a tempting and dark romanticism that runs from subject into material and pictorial values, [...]

Pi Artworks Tophane, Istanbul: Nearness at a Distance

Nearness at a Distance Ümmühan Yörük 2012-03-01 _ 2012-04-14 “Nearness at a Distance”, the first solo exhibition of Ümmühan Yörük in Istanbul, is at Pi Artworks Tophane between the dates 1 March – 14 April 2012. The exhibition of Yörük’s latest works is the visualisation of bonding that occurs between the people who have experienced [...]

Pi Artworks Galatasaray, Istanbul: BirdDay

BirdDay

Pi Artworks Galatasaray hosts Merve Şendil’s “BirdDay” between the dates 18 February – 31 March 2012. Shaped around a single meal time a couple spends in a Chinese-looking local restaurant, “BirdDay” invites the audience to the artist’s fantastic perception via the reality of every single detail which is embodied by using different media as soon [...]