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NEW PHOTOGRAPHY II The contemporary art exhibition series, NEW PHOTOGRAPHY of which 2nd exhibition will be hold this year, pursuits basic questions such as ‘’What is photography?’’, ‘’What are the limits of it, if there are any.’’ ‘’How artists deal/communicate with today’s world via photography?’’, ‘’What are the new possible ways of story telling and [...]

“LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE WOLF” ALAN Istanbul presents Ali Gel‘s new show “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf”! A short while later a red hooded girl will come out of the woods, and right after her the wolf… This is the reason why this place is so silent; we are standing on [...]

INFORMAL ALAN Istanbul presents Harun Antakyalı’s 25th solo show “Informal”!. According to TDK, the word “Informal” is defined as being not formal, not official. It’s also the name of an art movement that emerged after the 1950s, the purpose of which was to transcend traditions instead of being loyal to them. This attitude can be [...]

The Disaster Takes Care of Everything Huri Kiriş is unique among Turkish contemporary painters. Through her works containing figurative elements and landscapes, Kiriş depicts the social and political tensions of her homeland to the paintings. In “The Disaster Takes Care of Everything”, while she creates the illusion of intense depth with oil paintings in which [...]

Living Creatures Sait Mingu holds his 8th solo show “Living Creatures” at ALAN Istanbul! Sait Mingu has a unique place in the Turkish contemporary art scene. By combining handmade drawings and paintings with possibilities offered by technology, the artist blends illustrative elements with conventional painting and works on paper, thus creating an effective language of [...]

A Season in Hell The current art scene is of a hybrid nature, in many ways. The various ways in which things merge and combine leads to a transitive insight on aesthetics which itself is a result of new ways of perception. These ways arise with the use of new tools of communication, and they [...]

HIDING ON THE WALLS The show comprises contemporary art reproductions of posters featuring various cultural and political content that have long become a common sight on walls in modern cities. Urban walls without owners function sometimes as spaces of resistance, other times they are means to alternative ways of expression against all the elements of [...]

CHE VUOI? At what point does an image trigger desire? This question is obviously on the agenda of every artist and theoretician working in the field of contemporary art. It’s an important question, for it’s been a part of all thought systems that have influenced art theory since the beginning of the 20th century. However, [...]

TAKING FROM BEHIND With his new show, Taking from Behind, Zafer Aracagök forces the line and the watercolour to a realm of figural trajectories. Finding a point of departure in the rhythms of composition/decomposition backed up with strategic approaches to the figure, he aims to capture the figural. Aracagök opens up the multi-layered styles of [...]

REM In the show entitled “REM”, Kadriye İnal invites viewers to a new reality with her 3-dimensional works, which are one of the most powerful spatial tools of contemporary art. In this fictional world comprising various human figures, viewers are offered an experience residing on the interface between alienation and identification; that is the result [...]

New Photography One of the most decisive artistic and technical tools of production in today’s contemporary art, photography is indispensable as an exceptional field in the production of fine art, in addition to its influence on plastic arts. As both a wide-spread “medium” in contemporary art, and a unique way of expression with the possibilities [...]

Merve Şendil // What If Presenting the traces of her imagination through the utilization of various mediums, Merve Şendil invites us to a world different than the one we’re used to. Narrated in the form of a story of the artist’s return from the Orion Nebula back to Earth, this new universe is imagined as [...]

DOLLS // Kezban Arca Batıbeki Kezban Arca Batıbeki's solo photography exhibition "DOLLS" opens at ALAN Istanbul on May 22, 2014! From the beginning of an artist’s career, his/her inner world and home (which is a reflection of this world) are what determines the fundamental starting point and the kind of visual materials to be utilized, [...]

SCULPTURES // Ardan Özmenoğlu Young contemporary artist Ardan Özmenoğlu presents her “SCULPTURES” exhibition in ALAN İstanbul! Having become a world-renowned artist and also one of the most prominent contemporary artists of Turkey in her field, Ardan Özmenoğlu presents for the first time in this solo exhibition her 3-dimensional work, which had previously attracted great interest [...]

PERCEPTION MACHINE ALAN İstanbul brings together 3 prominent artists of contemporary art Bahadır Çolak, Ceylan Öztürk and Sevgi Kesmen for the exhibition Perception Machine. ““Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.” was engraved on the door of Plato’s school. According to Plato, there exists a perfect world of forms beyond our world of daily [...]

THE SPIRIT OF PAPER Digital technology has imprisoned almost the whole world within the boundaries of virtual reality. Our lives are irreversibly changed. The transfer of newspapers, periodical publications and even libraries on to the web has on the one hand made the circulation of information easier, on the other hand it began to threaten [...]

A.I.R. / Ryan Paul Simmons Ryan Paul Simmons, an American contemporary artist with a great reputation for his work in the Pop Art genre, is in Istanbul! New Yorker artist Ryan Paul Simmons, who was born in Florida, meets audience at ALAN İstanbul with his first personal exhibition in İstanbul where he came at the [...]

THE IDEOLOGY OF THE IMAGE “’Ideology’ can designate anything from a contemplative attitude that misrecognizes its dependence on social reality to an action-orientated set of beliefs, from the indispensable medium in which individuals live out their relations to a social structure to false ideas which legitimate a dominant political power. It seems to pop up [...]

“THE CIRCUS HAS LEFT TOWN // İpek Kurşuncu İpek Kurşuncu, a young artist who stands out with her talent in the field of contemporary art, is at ALAN İstanbul with her 3rd solo exhibition “Sirk Kasabadan Ayrıldı / The Circus Has Left Town”. İpek Kurşuncu continues her fantastic paintings by reproducing spaces without time. The [...]

MULTI CITY // Monika Bulanda Monika Bulanda, a young artist of contemporary art who stands out with visual aesthetics, is at ALAN İstanbul for the first time in Turkey with her solo exhibition ‘MULTI-CITY’. Monika Bulanda has begun her art life in early ages. The first prize she has received in Poland, which is her [...]

Social Animals “Sociology begins with two basic facts: The behavior of human beings shows regular and recurrent patterns, and human beings are social animals and not isolated creatures.” Ely Chinoy ALAN Istanbul is pleased to host the exhibition ‘’Social Animals’’ started on March 7th, 2013.. Social Animals exploits personal narratives, practices and aesthetics. The explorations [...]

RIGHT NOW / A. Cem Şahin Having continued his work in his workshop in Izmir, after completing his master’s degree in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Department of Painting 1991, the artist won many prizes in exhibition competitions while focusing on his research on painting aesthetics. A.Cem Şahin positions his painting on a string of [...]

Sanctity and Despotism of Progress ALAN İstanbul will be hosting the exhibition “Progress”, starting on January 4th, 2013. The exhibition, fashioned after an article written by Emre Zeytinoğlu called “Sanctity and Despotism of Progress”, which was printed in “Duvar” magazine, features artists such as: Murat Germen, Borga Kantürk, Erol Eskici, Melih Görgün and Vahit Tuna. [...]

MARTIAL ARTS // Turgut Yüksel We kept longing for the fears, like guests we consider the dearest. System is a tyrant forcing you to live under its own rules. If we don’t obey we wait for the fear we were thought, with major discipline, to come and to start knocking on our doors, one by [...]

Warhola WARHOLA, an exhibition focusing on current circulation networks producing one another with relation of contemporary art, can be visited at November in ALAN İstanbul… Nowadays, the consumption of art on the social platform is materialized depending majorly on media and Internet relationship. Therefore, the art object is being locked up in between. In other [...]

Broadcast Testing // Murat Pulat Murat Pulat, one of the brightest representatives of Turkish contemporary art in the international arena, is performing his 3rd personal exhibition in ALAN Istanbul after a three-year period. Murat Pulatcontinues to present his depictions viewing the imagery that makes itself visible on the interface between the TV/Movie screen and viewers [...]

Hardworking Little People // Arda Yalkın The first personal exhibition of Arda Yalkın, the upcoming young talent of video art is in ALAN Istanbul! Arda Yalkın, who has been causing sensation with his technique and criticism, is bringing his works on video and plastic together in the exhibition “Hardworking Little People.” The artist, while providing [...]

İLK EV – LEİA In her installations “İlk Ev” (the initial home) and “Leia” which will be exhibited in Alan İstanbul, Seçil Erel takes apart the subjective experience that interferes and guides the canvas from within, back and beyond and she separates the layers of perception and of life which get in, over and behind [...]

Fragments // ISMET DOĞAN Modern Art meets the Movie Theater. Beyoğlu Yeşilçam Sineması sponsored by ALAN İstanbul, is hosting the İsmet Doğan exhibition. The exhibition is rather a big installation where the artist presents a series of videos along with his works where he transfers imagery coding attributed to cinema into modern visual art. The [...]

OUTSIDE – in Starting with the 70’s, the “Graffiti” movement became the embodied form of art’s desire to capture public areas. The most obvious quality of this movement was its will to prevent the imprisonment of art in “sterilized” areas, therefore making it possible for a larger part of the society to become active participants [...]

SELF PORTRAIT ALAN İstanbul celebrates the opening of its new gallery with the exhibition SELF-PORTRAIT covering the works of 11 Contemporary Artists. The exhibition gains a historical significance for bringing together the first self-portrait works of most of these artists that have proved themselves within the international contemporary art world. Self-portrait, having a specific place [...]

If Not That, Than Another ALAN Istanbul will be hosting Komet from 17 November 2011 to 17 December 2011 with “I Got Up and Saw They’d Left Without Me!,” one of a series of solo exhibitions taking place throughout the month of November. Large scale photographs and video works come together as an installation realized [...]

Soft City Galata district, ALANistanbul-I and Manzara Perspectives gallery spaces are hosting a major contemporary art exhibition. Public spaces, walls, shops and art spaces in various parts of Galata are transformed into a large-scale exhibition in relation to the interiors of ALANistanbul. From various installations to street art, from oil paintings to videos, a wide [...]

Red & Black ALANistanbul opens its new venue Selma Gürbüz with his solo exhibition "red & black". In this respect, it is aimed to create a stronger focus for contemporary art in Istanbul and to contribute to the cultural circulation of the city with 2 separate art spaces as ALANistanbul -I and ALANistanbul -II. This [...]