Guerilla Girls: Exploring the diversity and ethical concerns of European art institutions with the exhibition "Is it worse in Europe?" The exhibition presents the answers to the questions directed to the 383 institutions about their program and collections. The questions were prepared to critically examine the practices and narratives that were produced by the cultural institutions.

Kamiar Maleki, the eldest son of Iranian born London based collectors Fatima and Eskandar Maleki, became the new director of Contemporary Istanbul. Maleki, with the tradition of collecting for many years, also curates exhibitions and supports young artists. 

The Oxford dictionary defines beauty as a combination of qualities; such as shape, colour, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. Although highlighting sight as a paradigm of aesthetic pleasure is indisputably true, there is still no clear connotation of what sight is, which opens up many different possibilities. In order to shed light on the sense of sight, Carol Mavor who calls herself an ‘artist historian’, emphasizes that “Touch is the dictionary for sight.”1 If so, could it be assumed to say that what pleases our touch is ‘overlooked’ within the definition of beauty? Then how can we touch a shape, a colour or a form? What about the pleasure that we get through the things we cannot touch physically?

Didem Yazıcı'nın aylık küratör görüşme serisi çeşitli küratörlük metodolojiler, sergi formatları, sanatçılarla çalışma ve sergi uygulamalarını değişen yolları üzerinde duruluyor. o çok Türk sanatçılardan oluşuyor yaklaşan bir sergi için yakından çalışıyor kiminle müze müdürü Christine Litz konuşuyor serisinin ilk röportajda. sanat kurumları ve sanat koleksiyoncuları arasındaki ilişki günümüz kültürel bağlamlarda yeni soruları teşvik edebilirsiniz?

We had started off our interview with Cem Yılmaz, whose appreciation for art and the artist is infinite, in Art Basel Hong Kong and we finally finished it off in Istanbul. The reason he is so successful in so many different forms of art is perhaps because he was raised to tolerate different tastes, choices and to be sensitive towards beautiful things from a very early age.

Behind every creative idea there are people who are willing to push borders and invest in the new collaborations to realize their dreams. Naz and Susanne, the curators of IdentityLab project, are currently working to establish culture-forwarding bridges through the issues of identity and place. They have talked about the story behind this amazing project. And how it was molded into becoming a collaboration of transnational artists, art professionals and thought provoking culture makers. 

CANAN’s exhibition The Shining Darkness is at Rampa from January 15 to February 27. Her questioning of systems of power, political forces on social gender, patriarchal systems and the tyranny of these influences on the individual’s body continue in this exhibition. We talked to the artist on the occasion of her last exhibition. 

We met with İdil İlkin on the occasion of her exhibition “Crystagram” which includes photographs that she took on her trip to the North Pole. The exhibition captures you immediately with its mysticism; as you move through reflections and colors, it is as if you are taking a step into a different dimension. 

Over a hundred art works including painting, sculpture, and kinetic objects by Heinz Mack, a pioneer in German modernism, is at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum. One of the founders of ZERO, Mack’s earth works drew attention to his practice; he is celebrating the 60th year of his career with a series of exhibitions across the Far East, Europe, and Turkey. 

Louis Nègre, a Senior Advisor and co-founder of Pera Capital Partners, has over 16 years of transaction experience in Turkey. Louis has a background in investment banking working for a subsidiary of BNP Paribas where he held several positions including head of M&A. For the last 17 years, he has been the CEO/Founder of Scheffer Investments. Louis holds a PMD from the Harvard Business School and is a graduate from Sciences Po Paris. He also holds a Master in Law from Paris II / Sorbonne.