The exhibition İstanbul Eindhoven – SALTVanabbe, a joint venture between SALT and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, is running this year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of diplomatic relations between The Netherlands and Turkey. The first part of the exhibition focuses on artwork produced in the post-Cold War years following 1989; it will be followed later this year by a second installment focusing on art in the period from 1968 to 1989, and then a third dealing with pre-1968 art. All artworks in İstanbul Eindhoven – SALTVanabbe: Post ’89, with the exception of those by local Turkish artists İnci Eviner, Leyla Gediz, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, and Cevdet Erek, are on loan from the Van Abbemuseum collection.

Highlights of this exhibition, comprising works in a wide range of different media and techniques, include the photographic portraits by Rineke Dijkstra and portraits in painting by Leyla Gediz; Allen Ruppersberg’s fluorescent Singing Posters (as well as his textual art project concerning Allen Ginsberg’s Howl); the eery multiple-exposure images of Douglas Gordon; and much more.

Although the bulk of the exhibition can be seen at SALT Beyoğlu, there are also three sculptures on display at SALT Galata, two of them by late Spanish artist Juan Muñoz, and another by Turkish artist İnci Eviner.

The complete list of artists participating in the first part of the exhibition is as follows: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Abdellatif Benfaidoul, Stanley Brouwn, Chto Delat, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Cevdet Erek, İnci Eviner, Leyla Gediz, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Pierre Huyghe, Mike Kelley, Atelier van Lieshout, Paul McCarthy, Juan Muñoz, Gabriel Orozco, Allen Ruppersberg, Wilhem Sasnal, and Jan Vercruysse.

When: January 27 – April 6

How much: Free