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February 23, 2012

  • Matthieu Paley: Those Forgotten on the Roof of the World

    ART Istanbul Fransız Kültür Merkezi (French Cultural Center) / 09:00 AM

    Photographer Matthieu Paley, known for his work for magazines like Géo and National Geographic, takes a…

  • Charlie Swan: Order, Repetition, and the Race (of the Nomad)

    ART Studio 9 / 09:00 AM

    The current solo show by Charlie Swan (a British artist who has resided in Istanbul since 2009) a…

  • Armaggan Young Output - One

    ART Armaggan Art & Design Gallery / 09:00 AM

    This group show at the Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, on the third floor of the Armaggan store in…

  • From the Shores of the Nile to the Bosphorus: Traces of Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha Dynasty in Istanbul

    ART Istanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul Research Institute) / 09:00 AM

    Did you know that the neighborhood in Üsküdar known as “Zeynep Kamil” is named for the…

  • Painter of the Light: Nazmi Ziya Güran

    ART Rezan Has Müzesi (Rezan Has Museum) / 09:00 AM

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the death of painter Nazmi Ziya Güran, one of those chiefly…

  • Elgiz 10 Istanbul

    ART Proje 4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum / 10:00 AM

    The 10th year of the Elgiz Family’s corporate initiation into the field of contemporary art is being…

  • Kilden Suretler

    ART Sadberk Hanım Müzesi (Sadberk Hanım Museum) / 10:00 AM

    The exhibition entitled Kilden Suretler (Images in Terracotta) at the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Sarıyer, features…

  • Isaac Julien: The Leopard

    ART Dirimart Garibaldi / 10:00 AM

    UK artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien’s The Leopard is the single-screen version of his 2007 five-screen…

  • Van Gogh Alive

    ART Antrepo No.3 / 10:00 AM

    This installation at Karaköy’s Antrepo 3 (one of the venues that hosted last year’s 12th…

  • VitrA Çağdaş Mimarlık Dizisi Sunar: Mutluluk Fabrikaları

    ART Gallery Işık / 10:00 AM

    Countless people around the globe spend a large part of every day in office buildings, shopping centers, and…

  • After Yesterday: From the Photography Collection of Istanbul Modern

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    This show entitled Dünden Sonra - İstanbul Modern Fotoğraf Koleksiyonundan, curated by Engin Özendes,…

  • From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul: Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus

    ART Pera Müzesi (Pera Museum) / 10:00 AM

    This show at the Pera Museum, consisting of late 19th century and early 20th century photos of the Asian shore…

  • Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

    ART Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Sakıp Sabancı Museum) / 10:00 AM

    This year being the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Dutch ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, there…

  • Murat Durusoy: In Transit

    ART C.A.M Galeri Akaretler / 10:00 AM

    The Turkish title of Murat Durusoy’s new exhibit at Akaretler’s C.A.M. Gallery is Seyir, a word…

  • Salvador Dali

    ART Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Tophane-i Amire Kültür Sanat Merkezi / 10:00 AM

    The influential Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí is known not only for paintings like The…

  • Görkem Dikel: Bigger Than You

    ART Soda / 10:00 AM

    The chief inspiration for Görkem Dikel’s exhibit entitled Bigger Than You, at Nişantaşı’s SODA…

  • Sultans, Merchants, Painters: An Overview of Ottoman-Dutch Relations in its 400th Year

    ART Pera Müzesi (Pera Museum) / 10:00 AM

    Sultans, Merchants, Painters: An Overview of Ottoman-Dutch Relations in its 400th Yearcommemorates the 400th…

  • La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Collection

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    As part of a series of visiting art exhibitions in Istanbul commemoratng the 400th anniversary of diplomatic…

  • Angel Otero

    ART Istanbul74 / 10:00 AM

    Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero’s striking and arresting paintings are the result of an original process…

  • Alper Bıçaklıoğlu: Legal Street

    ART Mabeyn Gallery / 10:00 AM

    Alper Bıçaklıoğlu’s Yasal Sokak (Legal Street) at Beşiktaş’s Mabeyn Gallery (the…

  • Christoph Steinmeyer: Trooping the Colour

    ART Dirimart Art Gallery / 10:00 AM

    The seven oil paintings in German artist Christoph Steinmeyer’s Trooping the Colour, at Nişantaşı’s…

  • Solo Snow

    ART Akbank Sanat (Akbank Art Center) / 10:30 AM

    The multi-media exhibition at Akbank Sanat punningly entitled Solo Snow, by versatile Canadian artist and…

  • Tunca Subaşı: Residue

    ART Pi Artworks / 10:30 AM

    The black-and-white, stencil-and-airbrush-generated images of Tunca Subaşı in this exhibit entitled Kalıntı…

  • Consequences are no coincidence

    ART PILOT Gallery / 10:30 AM

    Sonuçlar tesadüf değildir (Consequences are no coincidence), at Cihangir’s Pilot Galeri, is a…

  • Merve Şendil: BirdDay

    ART Pi Artworks Galatasaray / 10:30 AM

    Merve Şendil’s punningly-titled, mixed-media show BirdDay is an ingress into the artist’s magical,…

  • Elif Varol Ergen: Incognito

    ART Cda Projects / 11:00 AM

    The illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen are not for the faint of heart, dealing as they do with often over-the-top…

  • Kübra Ergin Halhallı: Silerim Böyle Aşkın Izdırabını

    ART Galatea Art / 11:00 AM

    In this new show at Asmalımescit’s Galateaart, whose title means I’ll erase the pangs of love,…

  • Elvan Alpay: Kirpi

    ART Galeri Nev / 11:00 AM

    In Elvan Alpay’s artwork, the natural, organic world is typically a point of departure into the…

  • Jose Maria Mellado: Enigmatic Landscapes

    ART Elipsis Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Spanish photographer Jose Maria Mellado’s Enigmatic Landscapes, at Elipsis Gallery in Tophane, is his…

  • İranabak

    ART DEPO (Tütün Deposu) / 11:00 AM

    The Turkish title of this exhibition of black-and-white photos by Özcan Ağaoğlu could be translated…

  • Berna Erkün: Yakın Uçtuk Uzaktık, Uzaktık Yakın Geçtik

    ART Mine Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    The title of Berna Erkün’s exhibit translates to “We Flew Close But Were Far Away; We Were Far…

  • Fotoğrafta Görünenler ve Görünmeyenler

    ART Galeri G-art / 11:00 AM

    This collection of photographs from the private collection of Selçuk Erez at Maçka’s Galeri…

  • Güneş Terkol: The Main Forces That Stir Up Action

    ART Gallery NON / 11:00 AM

    The Main Forces That Stir Up Action at Galeri Non is Güneş Terkol’s fourth solo show, consisting of…

  • Aslı Torcu: Reminiscence

    ART Galeri Zilberman / 11:00 AM

    Hayal Meyal(Reminiscence), by Paris-based artist Aslı Torcu, is her first solo show in Istanbul. The paintings…

  • Sümer Sayın: For a Moment

    ART art ON / 11:00 AM

    To what extent does a still image reflect reality? Does such a brief temporal cross-section distort or enhance…

  • Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu: Kağıt Üzerinde Gezinti

    ART Füsun İnan Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    The works of artist Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu have graced the covers of the New Yorker no fewer than seven…

  • Ali Kabaş: Third Eye

    ART PG Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Ali Kabaş’s work to date has featured photos taken from the air and from under water; he also has the…

  • Halil: Recoil

    ART The Empire Project / 11:00 AM

    The black-and-white prints titled Geri Tepme (Recoil), by the Turkish artist known as Halil, offer a…

  • Kış Karma Sergisi

    ART 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show entitled Kış Karma Sergisi (Winter Group Show) at Bebek’s Evin Art Gallery is…

  • Ebru Döşekçi: Hatırla

    ART Galeri Merkur / 11:00 AM

    Ebru Döşekçi’s Hatırla (Remember), at Galeri Merkur, is the artist’s third solo show.…

  • Hüseyin Rüstemoğlu: Büyütmeyen Masallar

    ART Gallery Artist Çukurcuma / 11:00 AM

    Hüseyin Rüstemoğlu’s new show at Galeri Artist Çukurcuma entitled Büyütmeyen…

  • Özgül Arslan: Erased Traces

    ART Daire Sanat / 11:00 AM

    The title of Özgül Arslan’s Silik İzler (Erased Traces) at Daire Sanat, is a reference to the…

  • Emin Çizenel: Provocation

    ART Kare Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Emin Çizenel’s Provokasyon (Provocation), at Nişantaşı’s Kare Art Gallery, is a continuation…

  • What I Love

    ART Borusan Müzik Evi (Borusan Music House) / 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show by ten young Turkish artists – curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez – is the…

  • Arzu Başaran & Ruth Biller: Transfigurative

    ART Art 350 & Bar / 11:00 AM

    Transfigurative, the opening exhibition of Art 350 & Bar in Erenköy, features the work of Turkish…

  • Aslımay Altay Göney: Piled Up

    ART Gallery Apel / 11:30 AM

    Aslımay Altay Göney’s show entitled İstif (Piled Up), at Galatasaray’s Gallery Apel, features…

  • Siyaha Özgürlük

    ART ARTER - Space for Art / 12:00 PM

    Every child learning to play the piano has probably experimented with the pentatonic scale, which results from…

  • It was a Time of Conversation

    ART SALT Galata / 12:00 PM

    SALT Galata’s Open Archive is a project space which “explores possible relationships between…

  • İstanbul Eindhoven - SALTVanabbe: Post ‘89

    ART SALT Beyoğlu / 12:00 PM

    The exhibition İstanbul Eindhoven – SALTVanabbe, a joint venture between SALT and the Van Abbemuseum in…

  • Geçmişe Hücum: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Arkeolojinin Öyküsü, 1753-1914

    ART SALT Galata / 12:00 PM

    The nascent interest in archaeology in the late Ottoman Empire is one that will be familiar to those who have…

  • !f Istanbul 2012

    FILM 12:00 PM

    Since 2001, the !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival has provided Istanbul cinephiles with the…

  • Ham Hum

    ART Lucca / 12:00 PM

    It’s a dog-eat-dog world at this light-hearted exhibition at Bebek’s Lucca by Ömer Ozan Erdoğan…

  • Gizem Vural

    ART Milk / 01:00 PM

    Professional illustrator Gizem Vural’s new exhibit at Milk Gallery (her first solo show) is an artistic…

  • Jugoslav Mitevski: 15:21

    ART Polistar / 01:00 PM

    This collection of paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional objects at Beyoğlu’s Polistar Gallery by…

  • Self-portrait

    ART ALANistanbul / 01:00 PM

    Otoportre, or Self-portrait, is a group show at Tünel’s ALANistanbul featuring the work of…

  • Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra & Branford Marsalis

    MUSIC İstanbul Lütfi Kırdar Kongre ve Sergi Sarayı (Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Center) / 08:00 PM

    The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (BİFO) has great news for its fans: world-famous saxophonist…

  • Steve Williams Quartet

    MUSIC Akbank Sanat (Akbank Art Center) / 08:00 PM

    Jazz drummer Steve Williams started his musical career at the University of Miami, and played for years with…

  • Ayhan Sicimoğlu & Latin All Stars

    MUSIC Jolly Joker Balans / 09:00 PM

    Ayhan Sicimoğlu and his Latin All Stars have become a byword for great Latin music to their Istanbul…

  • Selah Sue

    MUSIC Babylon / 09:30 PM

    Often compared to Amy Winehouse and Adele, Selah Sue is a young talent from Belgium inspired by artists such as…

  • Beard Newman pres. Rayko

    MUSIC Küçük Otto / 11:00 PM

    The name behind “Broadway” – listed as the number one disco piece of 2011 by Juno –…

Fri

February 24, 2012

  • Matthieu Paley: Those Forgotten on the Roof of the World

    ART Istanbul Fransız Kültür Merkezi (French Cultural Center) / 09:00 AM

    Photographer Matthieu Paley, known for his work for magazines like Géo and National Geographic, takes a…

  • Charlie Swan: Order, Repetition, and the Race (of the Nomad)

    ART Studio 9 / 09:00 AM

    The current solo show by Charlie Swan (a British artist who has resided in Istanbul since 2009) a…

  • Armaggan Young Output - One

    ART Armaggan Art & Design Gallery / 09:00 AM

    This group show at the Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, on the third floor of the Armaggan store in…

  • From the Shores of the Nile to the Bosphorus: Traces of Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha Dynasty in Istanbul

    ART Istanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul Research Institute) / 09:00 AM

    Did you know that the neighborhood in Üsküdar known as “Zeynep Kamil” is named for the…

  • Painter of the Light: Nazmi Ziya Güran

    ART Rezan Has Müzesi (Rezan Has Museum) / 09:00 AM

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the death of painter Nazmi Ziya Güran, one of those chiefly…

  • Elgiz 10 Istanbul

    ART Proje 4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum / 10:00 AM

    The 10th year of the Elgiz Family’s corporate initiation into the field of contemporary art is being…

  • Kilden Suretler

    ART Sadberk Hanım Müzesi (Sadberk Hanım Museum) / 10:00 AM

    The exhibition entitled Kilden Suretler (Images in Terracotta) at the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Sarıyer, features…

  • Isaac Julien: The Leopard

    ART Dirimart Garibaldi / 10:00 AM

    UK artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien’s The Leopard is the single-screen version of his 2007 five-screen…

  • Van Gogh Alive

    ART Antrepo No.3 / 10:00 AM

    This installation at Karaköy’s Antrepo 3 (one of the venues that hosted last year’s 12th…

  • VitrA Çağdaş Mimarlık Dizisi Sunar: Mutluluk Fabrikaları

    ART Gallery Işık / 10:00 AM

    Countless people around the globe spend a large part of every day in office buildings, shopping centers, and…

  • After Yesterday: From the Photography Collection of Istanbul Modern

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    This show entitled Dünden Sonra - İstanbul Modern Fotoğraf Koleksiyonundan, curated by Engin Özendes,…

  • From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul: Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus

    ART Pera Müzesi (Pera Museum) / 10:00 AM

    This show at the Pera Museum, consisting of late 19th century and early 20th century photos of the Asian shore…

  • Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

    ART Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Sakıp Sabancı Museum) / 10:00 AM

    This year being the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Dutch ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, there…

  • Murat Durusoy: In Transit

    ART C.A.M Galeri Akaretler / 10:00 AM

    The Turkish title of Murat Durusoy’s new exhibit at Akaretler’s C.A.M. Gallery is Seyir, a word…

  • Salvador Dali

    ART Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Tophane-i Amire Kültür Sanat Merkezi / 10:00 AM

    The influential Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí is known not only for paintings like The…

  • Görkem Dikel: Bigger Than You

    ART Soda / 10:00 AM

    The chief inspiration for Görkem Dikel’s exhibit entitled Bigger Than You, at Nişantaşı’s SODA…

  • Sultans, Merchants, Painters: An Overview of Ottoman-Dutch Relations in its 400th Year

    ART Pera Müzesi (Pera Museum) / 10:00 AM

    Sultans, Merchants, Painters: An Overview of Ottoman-Dutch Relations in its 400th Yearcommemorates the 400th…

  • La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Collection

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    As part of a series of visiting art exhibitions in Istanbul commemoratng the 400th anniversary of diplomatic…

  • Angel Otero

    ART Istanbul74 / 10:00 AM

    Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero’s striking and arresting paintings are the result of an original process…

  • Alper Bıçaklıoğlu: Legal Street

    ART Mabeyn Gallery / 10:00 AM

    Alper Bıçaklıoğlu’s Yasal Sokak (Legal Street) at Beşiktaş’s Mabeyn Gallery (the…

  • Christoph Steinmeyer: Trooping the Colour

    ART Dirimart Art Gallery / 10:00 AM

    The seven oil paintings in German artist Christoph Steinmeyer’s Trooping the Colour, at Nişantaşı’s…

  • Solo Snow

    ART Akbank Sanat (Akbank Art Center) / 10:30 AM

    The multi-media exhibition at Akbank Sanat punningly entitled Solo Snow, by versatile Canadian artist and…

  • Tunca Subaşı: Residue

    ART Pi Artworks / 10:30 AM

    The black-and-white, stencil-and-airbrush-generated images of Tunca Subaşı in this exhibit entitled Kalıntı…

  • Consequences are no coincidence

    ART PILOT Gallery / 10:30 AM

    Sonuçlar tesadüf değildir (Consequences are no coincidence), at Cihangir’s Pilot Galeri, is a…

  • Merve Şendil: BirdDay

    ART Pi Artworks Galatasaray / 10:30 AM

    Merve Şendil’s punningly-titled, mixed-media show BirdDay is an ingress into the artist’s magical,…

  • Elif Varol Ergen: Incognito

    ART Cda Projects / 11:00 AM

    The illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen are not for the faint of heart, dealing as they do with often over-the-top…

  • Kübra Ergin Halhallı: Silerim Böyle Aşkın Izdırabını

    ART Galatea Art / 11:00 AM

    In this new show at Asmalımescit’s Galateaart, whose title means I’ll erase the pangs of love,…

  • Elvan Alpay: Kirpi

    ART Galeri Nev / 11:00 AM

    In Elvan Alpay’s artwork, the natural, organic world is typically a point of departure into the…

  • İranabak

    ART DEPO (Tütün Deposu) / 11:00 AM

    The Turkish title of this exhibition of black-and-white photos by Özcan Ağaoğlu could be translated…

  • Berna Erkün: Yakın Uçtuk Uzaktık, Uzaktık Yakın Geçtik

    ART Mine Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    The title of Berna Erkün’s exhibit translates to “We Flew Close But Were Far Away; We Were Far…

  • Fotoğrafta Görünenler ve Görünmeyenler

    ART Galeri G-art / 11:00 AM

    This collection of photographs from the private collection of Selçuk Erez at Maçka’s Galeri…

  • Güneş Terkol: The Main Forces That Stir Up Action

    ART Gallery NON / 11:00 AM

    The Main Forces That Stir Up Action at Galeri Non is Güneş Terkol’s fourth solo show, consisting of…

  • Aslı Torcu: Reminiscence

    ART Galeri Zilberman / 11:00 AM

    Hayal Meyal(Reminiscence), by Paris-based artist Aslı Torcu, is her first solo show in Istanbul. The paintings…

  • Sümer Sayın: For a Moment

    ART art ON / 11:00 AM

    To what extent does a still image reflect reality? Does such a brief temporal cross-section distort or enhance…

  • Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu: Kağıt Üzerinde Gezinti

    ART Füsun İnan Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    The works of artist Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu have graced the covers of the New Yorker no fewer than seven…

  • Ali Kabaş: Third Eye

    ART PG Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Ali Kabaş’s work to date has featured photos taken from the air and from under water; he also has the…

  • Halil: Recoil

    ART The Empire Project / 11:00 AM

    The black-and-white prints titled Geri Tepme (Recoil), by the Turkish artist known as Halil, offer a…

  • Jose Maria Mellado: Enigmatic Landscapes

    ART Elipsis Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Spanish photographer Jose Maria Mellado’s Enigmatic Landscapes, at Elipsis Gallery in Tophane, is his…

  • Kış Karma Sergisi

    ART 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show entitled Kış Karma Sergisi (Winter Group Show) at Bebek’s Evin Art Gallery is…

  • Ebru Döşekçi: Hatırla

    ART Galeri Merkur / 11:00 AM

    Ebru Döşekçi’s Hatırla (Remember), at Galeri Merkur, is the artist’s third solo show.…

  • Hüseyin Rüstemoğlu: Büyütmeyen Masallar

    ART Gallery Artist Çukurcuma / 11:00 AM

    Hüseyin Rüstemoğlu’s new show at Galeri Artist Çukurcuma entitled Büyütmeyen…

  • Özgül Arslan: Erased Traces

    ART Daire Sanat / 11:00 AM

    The title of Özgül Arslan’s Silik İzler (Erased Traces) at Daire Sanat, is a reference to the…

  • Emin Çizenel: Provocation

    ART Kare Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Emin Çizenel’s Provokasyon (Provocation), at Nişantaşı’s Kare Art Gallery, is a continuation…

  • What I Love

    ART Borusan Müzik Evi (Borusan Music House) / 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show by ten young Turkish artists – curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez – is the…

  • Arzu Başaran & Ruth Biller: Transfigurative

    ART Art 350 & Bar / 11:00 AM

    Transfigurative, the opening exhibition of Art 350 & Bar in Erenköy, features the work of Turkish…

  • Aslımay Altay Göney: Piled Up

    ART Gallery Apel / 11:30 AM

    Aslımay Altay Göney’s show entitled İstif (Piled Up), at Galatasaray’s Gallery Apel, features…

  • Siyaha Özgürlük

    ART ARTER - Space for Art / 12:00 PM

    Every child learning to play the piano has probably experimented with the pentatonic scale, which results from…

  • It was a Time of Conversation

    ART SALT Galata / 12:00 PM

    SALT Galata’s Open Archive is a project space which “explores possible relationships between…

  • İstanbul Eindhoven - SALTVanabbe: Post ‘89

    ART SALT Beyoğlu / 12:00 PM

    The exhibition İstanbul Eindhoven – SALTVanabbe, a joint venture between SALT and the Van Abbemuseum in…

  • Geçmişe Hücum: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Arkeolojinin Öyküsü, 1753-1914

    ART SALT Galata / 12:00 PM

    The nascent interest in archaeology in the late Ottoman Empire is one that will be familiar to those who have…

  • !f Istanbul 2012

    FILM 12:00 PM

    Since 2001, the !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival has provided Istanbul cinephiles with the…

  • Ham Hum

    ART Lucca / 12:00 PM

    It’s a dog-eat-dog world at this light-hearted exhibition at Bebek’s Lucca by Ömer Ozan Erdoğan…

  • Gizem Vural

    ART Milk / 01:00 PM

    Professional illustrator Gizem Vural’s new exhibit at Milk Gallery (her first solo show) is an artistic…

  • Jugoslav Mitevski: 15:21

    ART Polistar / 01:00 PM

    This collection of paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional objects at Beyoğlu’s Polistar Gallery by…

  • Self-portrait

    ART ALANistanbul / 01:00 PM

    Otoportre, or Self-portrait, is a group show at Tünel’s ALANistanbul featuring the work of…

  • A Different Approach to French Cuisine 2 - Guest Chef Ekin Doğrusöz

    FOOD & WINE Istanbul Culinary Institute / 07:00 PM

    In the second part of ICI’s workshop Fransız Mutfağına Farklı Yorumlar II, Guest Chef Ekin Doğrusöz…

  • Mor ve Ötesi

    MUSIC Iş Sanat Cultural Center / 08:00 PM

    When Mor ve Ötesi was formed by four high school friends in 1995, they probably had no idea how successful…

  • Deux Solos

    PERFORMING ARTS Istanbul Fransız Kültür Merkezi (French Cultural Center) / 08:00 PM

    Come to the Fransız Kültür Merkezi for a pair of astounding back-to-back dance performances by…

  • Jan Garbarek Group

    MUSIC Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall / 08:00 PM

    Come to Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall tonight to hear the entrancing, hypnotizing notes of Norwegian saxophonist…

  • Deform-E

    MUSIC Arkaoda / 09:00 PM

    Made up of Ozan Maral and Tayfun Aras, the duo known as Deform-E run an ordinary record store by day, while…

  • Kerem Görsev & Allan Harris: American Songbook Project

    MUSIC Borusan Müzik Evi (Borusan Music House) / 09:30 PM

    Pianist Kerem Görsev and singer Allan Harris have been working together since 1995; 1997 saw the release of…

  • !f Gökkuşağı Partisi - !f Rainbow Party

    MUSIC Babylon / 10:00 PM

    !f İstanbul’s Rainbow Parties, hosted by Babylon, are now an Istanbul tradition. On the main stage, Naomi…

  • Luis Ernesto Gomez y La Descarga Band

    MUSIC Nardis Jazz Club / 10:30 PM

    Luis Ernesto Gomez, a Parisian of Colombian/Cuban heritage, is a conga player who has been performing for 28…

  • Gevende

    MUSIC Live Haymatlos / 10:30 PM

    Frolicking rhythms and somber melodies go hand in hand when Gevende is playing. Formed in 2000 in the city of…

  • Aeroplane

    MUSIC Indigo / 11:00 PM

    Burn Energy drink’s Electronica Days continue, this time with the infamously smooth disco Belgian DJ…

Sat

February 25, 2012

  • Matthieu Paley: Those Forgotten on the Roof of the World

    ART Istanbul Fransız Kültür Merkezi (French Cultural Center) / 09:00 AM

    Photographer Matthieu Paley, known for his work for magazines like Géo and National Geographic, takes a…

  • Charlie Swan: Order, Repetition, and the Race (of the Nomad)

    ART Studio 9 / 09:00 AM

    The current solo show by Charlie Swan (a British artist who has resided in Istanbul since 2009) a…

  • Armaggan Young Output - One

    ART Armaggan Art & Design Gallery / 09:00 AM

    This group show at the Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, on the third floor of the Armaggan store in…

  • From the Shores of the Nile to the Bosphorus: Traces of Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha Dynasty in Istanbul

    ART Istanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul Research Institute) / 09:00 AM

    Did you know that the neighborhood in Üsküdar known as “Zeynep Kamil” is named for the…

  • Painter of the Light: Nazmi Ziya Güran

    ART Rezan Has Müzesi (Rezan Has Museum) / 09:00 AM

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the death of painter Nazmi Ziya Güran, one of those chiefly…

  • Elgiz 10 Istanbul

    ART Proje 4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum / 10:00 AM

    The 10th year of the Elgiz Family’s corporate initiation into the field of contemporary art is being…

  • Segment #1A

    ART Borusan Contemporary / 10:00 AM

    The exhibition entitled Segment #1A at Borusan Contemporary consists of photographs by a variety of artists,…

  • Kilden Suretler

    ART Sadberk Hanım Müzesi (Sadberk Hanım Museum) / 10:00 AM

    The exhibition entitled Kilden Suretler (Images in Terracotta) at the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Sarıyer, features…

  • Isaac Julien: The Leopard

    ART Dirimart Garibaldi / 10:00 AM

    UK artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien’s The Leopard is the single-screen version of his 2007 five-screen…

  • Daniel Canogar: River of History

    ART Borusan Contemporary / 10:00 AM

    Spanish artist Daniel Canogar’s exhibit at Borusan Contemporary (entitled Tarih Nehri in Turkish),…

  • Van Gogh Alive

    ART Antrepo No.3 / 10:00 AM

    This installation at Karaköy’s Antrepo 3 (one of the venues that hosted last year’s 12th…

  • VitrA Çağdaş Mimarlık Dizisi Sunar: Mutluluk Fabrikaları

    ART Gallery Işık / 10:00 AM

    Countless people around the globe spend a large part of every day in office buildings, shopping centers, and…

  • After Yesterday: From the Photography Collection of Istanbul Modern

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    This show entitled Dünden Sonra - İstanbul Modern Fotoğraf Koleksiyonundan, curated by Engin Özendes,…

  • La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Collection

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    As part of a series of visiting art exhibitions in Istanbul commemoratng the 400th anniversary of diplomatic…

  • From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul: Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus

    ART Pera Müzesi (Pera Museum) / 10:00 AM

    This show at the Pera Museum, consisting of late 19th century and early 20th century photos of the Asian shore…

  • Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

    ART Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Sakıp Sabancı Museum) / 10:00 AM

    This year being the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Dutch ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, there…

  • Murat Durusoy: In Transit

    ART C.A.M Galeri Akaretler / 10:00 AM

    The Turkish title of Murat Durusoy’s new exhibit at Akaretler’s C.A.M. Gallery is Seyir, a word…

  • Salvador Dali

    ART Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Tophane-i Amire Kültür Sanat Merkezi / 10:00 AM

    The influential Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí is known not only for paintings like The…

  • Görkem Dikel: Bigger Than You

    ART Soda / 10:00 AM

    The chief inspiration for Görkem Dikel’s exhibit entitled Bigger Than You, at Nişantaşı’s SODA…

  • The things we can’t do without (2)

    FOOD & WINE Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi (Culinary Arts Academy) / 10:00 AM

    MSA’s classic workshop known as Vazgeçemediklerimiz (the things we can’t do…

  • Sultans, Merchants, Painters: An Overview of Ottoman-Dutch Relations in its 400th Year

    ART Pera Müzesi (Pera Museum) / 10:00 AM

    Sultans, Merchants, Painters: An Overview of Ottoman-Dutch Relations in its 400th Yearcommemorates the 400th…

  • Angel Otero

    ART Istanbul74 / 10:00 AM

    Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero’s striking and arresting paintings are the result of an original process…

  • Alper Bıçaklıoğlu: Legal Street

    ART Mabeyn Gallery / 10:00 AM

    Alper Bıçaklıoğlu’s Yasal Sokak (Legal Street) at Beşiktaş’s Mabeyn Gallery (the…

  • Christoph Steinmeyer: Trooping the Colour

    ART Dirimart Art Gallery / 10:00 AM

    The seven oil paintings in German artist Christoph Steinmeyer’s Trooping the Colour, at Nişantaşı’s…

  • Solo Snow

    ART Akbank Sanat (Akbank Art Center) / 10:30 AM

    The multi-media exhibition at Akbank Sanat punningly entitled Solo Snow, by versatile Canadian artist and…

  • Tunca Subaşı: Residue

    ART Pi Artworks / 10:30 AM

    The black-and-white, stencil-and-airbrush-generated images of Tunca Subaşı in this exhibit entitled Kalıntı…

  • Consequences are no coincidence

    ART PILOT Gallery / 10:30 AM

    Sonuçlar tesadüf değildir (Consequences are no coincidence), at Cihangir’s Pilot Galeri, is a…

  • Merve Şendil: BirdDay

    ART Pi Artworks Galatasaray / 10:30 AM

    Merve Şendil’s punningly-titled, mixed-media show BirdDay is an ingress into the artist’s magical,…

  • Elif Varol Ergen: Incognito

    ART Cda Projects / 11:00 AM

    The illustrations of Elif Varol Ergen are not for the faint of heart, dealing as they do with often over-the-top…

  • Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu: Kağıt Üzerinde Gezinti

    ART Füsun İnan Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    The works of artist Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu have graced the covers of the New Yorker no fewer than seven…

  • Elvan Alpay: Kirpi

    ART Galeri Nev / 11:00 AM

    In Elvan Alpay’s artwork, the natural, organic world is typically a point of departure into the…

  • Jose Maria Mellado: Enigmatic Landscapes

    ART Elipsis Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Spanish photographer Jose Maria Mellado’s Enigmatic Landscapes, at Elipsis Gallery in Tophane, is his…

  • İranabak

    ART DEPO (Tütün Deposu) / 11:00 AM

    The Turkish title of this exhibition of black-and-white photos by Özcan Ağaoğlu could be translated…

  • Berna Erkün: Yakın Uçtuk Uzaktık, Uzaktık Yakın Geçtik

    ART Mine Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    The title of Berna Erkün’s exhibit translates to “We Flew Close But Were Far Away; We Were Far…

  • Fotoğrafta Görünenler ve Görünmeyenler

    ART Galeri G-art / 11:00 AM

    This collection of photographs from the private collection of Selçuk Erez at Maçka’s Galeri…

  • Güneş Terkol: The Main Forces That Stir Up Action

    ART Gallery NON / 11:00 AM

    The Main Forces That Stir Up Action at Galeri Non is Güneş Terkol’s fourth solo show, consisting of…

  • Aslı Torcu: Reminiscence

    ART Galeri Zilberman / 11:00 AM

    Hayal Meyal(Reminiscence), by Paris-based artist Aslı Torcu, is her first solo show in Istanbul. The paintings…

  • Sümer Sayın: For a Moment

    ART art ON / 11:00 AM

    To what extent does a still image reflect reality? Does such a brief temporal cross-section distort or enhance…

  • Ali Kabaş: Third Eye

    ART PG Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Ali Kabaş’s work to date has featured photos taken from the air and from under water; he also has the…

  • Halil: Recoil

    ART The Empire Project / 11:00 AM

    The black-and-white prints titled Geri Tepme (Recoil), by the Turkish artist known as Halil, offer a…

  • Kış Karma Sergisi

    ART 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show entitled Kış Karma Sergisi (Winter Group Show) at Bebek’s Evin Art Gallery is…

  • Ebru Döşekçi: Hatırla

    ART Galeri Merkur / 11:00 AM

    Ebru Döşekçi’s Hatırla (Remember), at Galeri Merkur, is the artist’s third solo show.…

  • Özgül Arslan: Erased Traces

    ART Daire Sanat / 11:00 AM

    The title of Özgül Arslan’s Silik İzler (Erased Traces) at Daire Sanat, is a reference to the…

  • Emin Çizenel: Provocation

    ART Kare Art Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Emin Çizenel’s Provokasyon (Provocation), at Nişantaşı’s Kare Art Gallery, is a continuation…

  • Arzu Başaran & Ruth Biller: Transfigurative

    ART Art 350 & Bar / 11:00 AM

    Transfigurative, the opening exhibition of Art 350 & Bar in Erenköy, features the work of Turkish…

  • What I Love

    ART Borusan Müzik Evi (Borusan Music House) / 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show by ten young Turkish artists – curated by Dr. Necmi Sönmez – is the…

  • Aslımay Altay Göney: Piled Up

    ART Gallery Apel / 11:30 AM

    Aslımay Altay Göney’s show entitled İstif (Piled Up), at Galatasaray’s Gallery Apel, features…

  • French Desserts - Guest Chef Esra Özkutlu

    FOOD & WINE Istanbul Culinary Institute / 11:30 AM

    There’s no denying that the French are masters of dessert-making. At ICI’s workshop Fransız…

  • Siyaha Özgürlük

    ART ARTER - Space for Art / 12:00 PM

    Every child learning to play the piano has probably experimented with the pentatonic scale, which results from…

  • It was a Time of Conversation

    ART SALT Galata / 12:00 PM

    SALT Galata’s Open Archive is a project space which “explores possible relationships between…

  • İstanbul Eindhoven - SALTVanabbe: Post ‘89

    ART SALT Beyoğlu / 12:00 PM

    The exhibition İstanbul Eindhoven – SALTVanabbe, a joint venture between SALT and the Van Abbemuseum in…

  • Geçmişe Hücum: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Arkeolojinin Öyküsü, 1753-1914

    ART SALT Galata / 12:00 PM

    The nascent interest in archaeology in the late Ottoman Empire is one that will be familiar to those who have…

  • !f Istanbul 2012

    FILM 12:00 PM

    Since 2001, the !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival has provided Istanbul cinephiles with the…

  • Ham Hum

    ART Lucca / 12:00 PM

    It’s a dog-eat-dog world at this light-hearted exhibition at Bebek’s Lucca by Ömer Ozan Erdoğan…

  • Gizem Vural

    ART Milk / 01:00 PM

    Professional illustrator Gizem Vural’s new exhibit at Milk Gallery (her first solo show) is an artistic…

  • Jugoslav Mitevski: 15:21

    ART Polistar / 01:00 PM

    This collection of paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional objects at Beyoğlu’s Polistar Gallery by…

  • Self-portrait

    ART ALANistanbul / 01:00 PM

    Otoportre, or Self-portrait, is a group show at Tünel’s ALANistanbul featuring the work of…

  • Winter Chocolate Treats - Guest Chef Joy Ludwig-McNutt

    FOOD & WINE Istanbul Culinary Institute / 05:00 PM

    On these cold winter days, what we need is a warm blanket and a mug of hot cocoa. Guest Chef Joy Ludwig-McNutt…

  • Jan Garbarek Group

    MUSIC Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall / 08:00 PM

    Come to Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall tonight to hear the entrancing, hypnotizing notes of Norwegian saxophonist…

  • Torun Eriksen & İlhan Erşahin

    MUSIC Borusan Müzik Evi (Borusan Music House) / 09:30 PM

    Torun Eriksen, a Norwegian jazz vocalist, mesmerized her fans with her latest album Passage, with her amazing…

  • Scuba (DJ Set) & Walls ( Live)

    MUSIC Babylon / 11:45 PM

    For a great double-barrelled blast of electronic music, head to Babylon to hear WALLS and Scuba!  …

Sun

February 26, 2012

Mon

February 27, 2012

  • Matthieu Paley: Those Forgotten on the Roof of the World

    ART Istanbul Fransız Kültür Merkezi (French Cultural Center) / 09:00 AM

    Photographer Matthieu Paley, known for his work for magazines like Géo and National Geographic, takes a…

  • Charlie Swan: Order, Repetition, and the Race (of the Nomad)

    ART Studio 9 / 09:00 AM

    The current solo show by Charlie Swan (a British artist who has resided in Istanbul since 2009) a…

  • Armaggan Young Output - One

    ART Armaggan Art & Design Gallery / 09:00 AM

    This group show at the Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, on the third floor of the Armaggan store in…

  • From the Shores of the Nile to the Bosphorus: Traces of Kavalalı Mehmed Ali Pasha Dynasty in Istanbul

    ART Istanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul Research Institute) / 09:00 AM

    Did you know that the neighborhood in Üsküdar known as “Zeynep Kamil” is named for the…

  • Painter of the Light: Nazmi Ziya Güran

    ART Rezan Has Müzesi (Rezan Has Museum) / 09:00 AM

    This year marks the 75th anniversary of the death of painter Nazmi Ziya Güran, one of those chiefly…

  • Kilden Suretler

    ART Sadberk Hanım Müzesi (Sadberk Hanım Museum) / 10:00 AM

    The exhibition entitled Kilden Suretler (Images in Terracotta) at the Sadberk Hanım Museum in Sarıyer, features…

  • Van Gogh Alive

    ART Antrepo No.3 / 10:00 AM

    This installation at Karaköy’s Antrepo 3 (one of the venues that hosted last year’s 12th…

  • VitrA Çağdaş Mimarlık Dizisi Sunar: Mutluluk Fabrikaları

    ART Gallery Işık / 10:00 AM

    Countless people around the globe spend a large part of every day in office buildings, shopping centers, and…

  • La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Collection

    ART İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art) / 10:00 AM

    As part of a series of visiting art exhibitions in Istanbul commemoratng the 400th anniversary of diplomatic…

  • Angel Otero

    ART Istanbul74 / 10:00 AM

    Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero’s striking and arresting paintings are the result of an original process…

  • Alper Bıçaklıoğlu: Legal Street

    ART Mabeyn Gallery / 10:00 AM

    Alper Bıçaklıoğlu’s Yasal Sokak (Legal Street) at Beşiktaş’s Mabeyn Gallery (the…

  • Christoph Steinmeyer: Trooping the Colour

    ART Dirimart Art Gallery / 10:00 AM

    The seven oil paintings in German artist Christoph Steinmeyer’s Trooping the Colour, at Nişantaşı’s…

  • Merve Şendil: BirdDay

    ART Pi Artworks Galatasaray / 10:30 AM

    Merve Şendil’s punningly-titled, mixed-media show BirdDay is an ingress into the artist’s magical,…

  • Sümer Sayın: For a Moment

    ART art ON / 11:00 AM

    To what extent does a still image reflect reality? Does such a brief temporal cross-section distort or enhance…

  • Halil: Recoil

    ART The Empire Project / 11:00 AM

    The black-and-white prints titled Geri Tepme (Recoil), by the Turkish artist known as Halil, offer a…

  • Jose Maria Mellado: Enigmatic Landscapes

    ART Elipsis Gallery / 11:00 AM

    Spanish photographer Jose Maria Mellado’s Enigmatic Landscapes, at Elipsis Gallery in Tophane, is his…

  • Kış Karma Sergisi

    ART 11:00 AM

    This mixed-media group show entitled Kış Karma Sergisi (Winter Group Show) at Bebek’s Evin Art Gallery is…

  • Ebru Döşekçi: Hatırla

    ART Galeri Merkur / 11:00 AM

    Ebru Döşekçi’s Hatırla (Remember), at Galeri Merkur, is the artist’s third solo show.…

  • Arzu Başaran & Ruth Biller: Transfigurative

    ART Art 350 & Bar / 11:00 AM

    Transfigurative, the opening exhibition of Art 350 & Bar in Erenköy, features the work of Turkish…

  • Ham Hum

    ART Lucca / 12:00 PM

    It’s a dog-eat-dog world at this light-hearted exhibition at Bebek’s Lucca by Ömer Ozan Erdoğan…

  • Italian Starters - Guest Chef Richard Madzar

    FOOD & WINE Istanbul Culinary Institute / 07:00 PM

    Richard Madzar is the guest chef at ICI’s workshop Italyan Mutfağından Başlangıçlar workshop.…

  • Italian Cuisine 3

    FOOD & WINE Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi (Culinary Arts Academy) / 07:00 PM

    In this workshop entitled İtalyan Mutfağı 3, you will learn how to make green bean salad with balsamic…

Tue

February 28, 2012

Wed

February 29, 2012