Past
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A Sort of Invasion
Gülsün Karamustafa 5 May - 1 Jul 2025 Gülsün Karamustafa's latest solo exhibition 'A Sort of Invasion' will run from May 5 through July 1, 2025, at both BüroSarıgedik and Merdiven Art Space. This compelling show examines how city identities, built over generations, become vulnerable when faced with shifting political landscapes. Spanning two venues, the exhibition presents a... Read more -
The Sound of Earth
Lütfi Özden, Curator: Ferhat Özgür 7 Mar - 18 Apr 2025 “On The Sound of Earth Exhibition” Lütfi Özden's exhibition titled 'The Sound of Earth,' which he has been continuing his productions in a place he calls 'workshop house' for a long time, is an ecological awareness call interpreting the relationships between sound and image. The workshop house is a productive... Read more -
Stonehead - Time Traveller
Raziye Kubat, Curator: M. Wenda Koyuncu 5 Dec 2024 - 10 Jan 2025 Stonehead: What an Awry Gaze Makes Us Think According to legend, after witnessing the killing of a bird, Cain crushed Abel’s head with a stone—thus leaving behind not only the first act of murder but also humanity’s first weapon. Later, Cain also learned from a bird, a crow, the grace... Read more -
Soil Saves History II
Berka Beste Kopuz 7 - 30 Oct 2024 That Gentle Hunting Lodge, Once Remembered for Its White Lilacs… To try to understand the memory of a place is perhaps akin to hearing the echo resounding within the rigid walls of the past, to sensing the stories buried beneath the soil. Yet memory is not merely an abstract act... Read more
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Remember
Osman Bozkurt 4 - 26 Sep 2024 Read more -
Parça Parça
Hilal Balcı, Defne Parman, Doğa Çal, Curator: Neriman Polat 7 May - 8 Jun 2024 The Works of Defne Parman, Doğa Çal, and Hilal Balcı Come Together in the Exhibition “Parça Parça” at Merdiven Art Space Curated by Neriman Polat, the exhibition titled Parça Parça (Piece by Piece), which brings together the works of Defne Parman, Doğa Çal, and Hilal Balcı, opens on Tuesday, May... Read more -
Birth of Art
Haluk Akakçe 5 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 Read more -
Extimacy
Berk Kır, Curator: Nazlı Pektaş 5 - 31 Jan 2024 Read more
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Eye to Eye in Dystopia
Melike Kuş 5 - 30 Dec 2023 Read more -
Overcoming the Distance
Fırat Engin 4 - 30 Nov 2023 Merdiven Art Space presents the artist book Bridging the Distance by Fırat Engin, while simultaneously hosting the eponymous exhibition between 4–30 November 2023. Edited and authored by Derya Yücel, with design by Vahit Tuna, Bridging the Distance: Fırat Engin offers a comprehensive reflection on the intersections between art and life,... Read more -
Satılık Sanat Galerisi
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Ringin Ortasında
Alican Leblebici 1 - 30 Sep 2023 Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore... Read more
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Stone Shell Silent
Ateş Alpar 6 - 30 Jun 2023 Stone Shell Silent The view that the planet will be heading towards extinction if the production and consumption relations we live in continue in their current form has been voiced for a long time. Especially in the last two hundred years, the effective exploitation of nature has made the ecological... Read more -
A.g.e.*
Mehmet Dere 12 - 31 May 2023 MEHMET DERE’S IMAGE INVESTIGATIONS AT MERDİVEN ART SPACE The exhibition brings together the autobiographical works of Mehmet Dere, one of the leading figures of contemporary art. For nearly twenty years, Dere has explored how images are perceived and used. He regards images not only as “a window onto the world,”... Read more -
Is Football Life?
Ferhat Özgür 4 - 30 Apr 2023 Is Football Life?, Ferhat Özgür's latest exhibition, greets visitors with a double bed connecting two goal posts - a revised version of his 2002 installation, For the New Couples. The exhibition showcases a range of Özgür's works from 2002 to 2023, and explores how football can simultaneously unite and divide... Read more -
Dress Code
Furkan Akhan 3 - 31 Mar 2023 Read more
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Şefkat Nişanı
Gülçin Aksoy, Curator: Nergis Abıyeva 14 Jan - 28 Feb 2023 Read more -
Sound and Breath
Pınar Baklan 16 Nov - 26 Dec 2022 Merdiven Art Space is hosting Pınar Baklan’s solo exhibition Sound and Breath from 16 November to 26 December 2022. Opening to the viewer the stories and diary of the two-and-a-half years since her resignation from academia—when she moved from the city to the village and began producing as an independent... Read more -
İpek Duben
İpek Duben 12 Sep - 5 Oct 2022 Read more -
Terre Quattro
Group Exhibition: Buğra Özer, Gamze Boz, Hasan Numan Suçağlar, Özge Tan, Curator: Duygu Bağlan 1 - 31 Jul 2022 Read more
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Bu Bir Karo Değildir!
Güngör Güner 4 - 31 Mar 2022 'My works here reflect the last four years—though the last two could almost be left out because of the pandemic. It all began with printing a motif onto a large tile! At that moment I realized this was not a tile at all; on its own, on a bare wall,... Read more -
Uzadıkça Daha Yakın
Fulya Çetin 8 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Read more -
Senin Annen Bir Melekti Yavrum
Kezban Arca Batıbeki 19 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 Read more -
Million Dollar Exhibition
Alican Leblebici 14 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Read more
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About Turkish Reality
Ferhat Özgür 15 - 30 Apr 2021 Within the scope of “SENKRON” video festival, Merdiven Art Space, brings together four selected videos by Ferhat Özgür under the name “About Turkish Reality”, which are spanning almost two decads. The video screening focuses on critical issues, such as identity, migration, nationalism, anti-militarism, cultural differences and otherness dilemmas, particularly in... Read more -
64.000
TUNCA 4 - 25 Apr 2020 Merdiven Art Space hosts TUNCA’s recent performance/exhibition project titled “64.000.” There performance where the gallery walls are used as the main element of the exhibition and and which is both open to visit and broadcasted live on Instagram four days of the week, will finally evolve into a site-specific installation... Read more -
Cannon
Fatih Temiz 9 Jan - 15 Feb 2020 Merdiven Art Space welcomes the new year with Fatih Temiz’s solo exhibition titled “Cannon.” Having become popular after participating in the projects and events such as Base Istanbul and Simbart project, introducing early-career artists to the spectators, Temiz focuses on football’s relationship with globalization, neo-imperialism and social resistance. The exhibition,... Read more -
Stairway: Step by Step
Murat Germen 6 Nov - 14 Dec 2019 Merdiven Art Space celebrates its second anniversary with Murat Germen’s solo exhibition. Germen, known with the works which focus on concepts such as possession/dispossession, overurbanisation, participatory citizenship, the devastation of nature, climate change and global warming; and where he uses photography as a tool for expressing and research, this time... Read more
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The Missing T
Ahmet Öğüt 5 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 Merdiven Art Space welcomes the new season with two different exhibitions simultaneously opening its doors. Hosting Ahmet Öğüt’s solo show in the gallery space, Merdiven introduces an ostentatious group show titled “Winter is Coming” to the audience at the #mebusan25, the nearby independent building. The exhibitions, included among the parallel... Read more -
Screens
Susan Hefuna 26 May - 20 Jul 2019 Merdiven Art Space hosts Susan Hefuna’s solo exhibition titled “Screens” between May 29 and July 20. The artist, interpreting the images of two different continents from her memory, with her productive practice ranging from drawing to sculpture, installation, video, photograph, and performance, brings together a selection of her works which... Read more -
Swaddling the Baby
Gülsün Karamustafa 28 Feb - 13 Apr 2019 Gülsün Karamustafa who addresses to sociopolitical themes such as cultural patterns, social codes, identity struggle, migration, gender, political impotence in her works, invites the spectators to a journey through the basis of purity. 'Swaddling the Baby,' inspired by the artist's trip to Florence in 1969, when she was a student,... Read more -
In the Beginning Dazzling Night
Sarkis, Berat Işık 21 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 Berat Işık , who is mainly known with his sociopolitical works, takes the book titled “Blindness” by José Saramago as the reference point. Along with his wall installation titled “Dazzling,” the artist attributes a symbolic meaning to the source of light which dominates the space. The artist who placed a... Read more
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Merciless
Neriman Polat 9 Nov - 8 Dec 2018 In this period, where social violence becomes more and more visible “Merciless”, presenting the fragile walls of the houses that are constantly damaged both physically and metaphorically, brings together the images belonging to the domestic and external living spaces under the same atmosphere. Neriman Polat, referring to the social and... Read more -
Resurrection: An Attempted Siege By Three Generations
Group Exhibition: Ferhat Özgür, Mustafa Kula, Mehmet Kıvanç Gökmen 21 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Merdiven Art Space welcomes the new season with a site-specific installation aiming to examine three generations of student-professor solidarity. The exhibition bringing together the works resulting from Ferhat Özgür’s collaboration with Kıvanç Gökmen and Mustafa Kula, who were his students at different time periods, emerges from Ferhat Özgür’s video work... Read more -
Recurrence
Neslihan Başer 26 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 Reparation of the self As today’s technology welcomes our memories instead of our brains, what’s left for the quest of the inner self? The young artist Neslihan Baser seeks for inner peace through the act of sewing her memories. From canvas to installations, the process intends to re-enact the memory,... Read more -
Middle East Dreamin'
Orta Doğu Pavyonu 12 Jan 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 Read more
