What's on in Istanbul

Istanbul Modern

Solo show in the Photography Gallery covering Manuel Çıtak's whole career from the 1980s to 2023, from coastal black-and-white work to cityscapes.

Istanbul Modern

Retrospective of the opera singer, actor and painter Semiha Berksoy (1910-2004), with more than 200 works.

Elgiz Museum of Contemporary ArtFree

New and long-held works from the Elgiz Collection side by side, from Rebecca Horn and Gilbert & George to Cevdet Erek, in sculpture, painting, video and textile.

Yapı Kredi Kültür SanatFree

A timeline from the 1920s to today of the Koç Group's role in Turkish culture, told through artworks and archives from its institutional collections.

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

A retrospective of 67 works over seventy years, from instruction pieces to film and participatory installations, across the galleries, garden and Atlı Köşk.

SALT BeyoğluFree

A ground-floor installation of posters made for Salt's exhibitions over 15 years, showing shifts in graphic design and individual designers' approaches.

Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

Solo show of Neş'e Erdok's recent figurative works from more than fifty years of practice, her first personal exhibition at the museum.

Arter

First institutional solo show in Turkey of Tayfun Erdoğmuş, whose work uses plants, minerals and handmade papers. Curated by Eda Berkmen.

Pera Museum

Frank Bowling's paintings alongside works by Francis Bacon and Victor Willing, including the Map series and a 2026 work, shown partly for the first time in Istanbul.

Rahmi M. Koç Museum

Koç Group's production history from 1926 to 2026 alongside Turkey's industrialisation, told with archives, photographs and a diorama.

SALT GalataFree

Works by belit sağ, Dilşad Aladağ, Merve Bedir and others examine workplaces and production, from the worker's body to the factory and global networks.

SALT GalataFree

Factories by 20th-century Turkish architects, from 1930s state textile mills to private plants, drawn from the Salt Research archives.

SALT BeyoğluFree

Paintings, prints, jewellery, film and archive material tracing artist and educator Özer Kabaş (1934-1998) and his place in Turkey's cultural history.

Pera Museum

Flawed and overlooked press photographs of early Republican Istanbul, 1920s to early 1950s, from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation archive.

Arter

Group show of 24 artists from the Arter Collection on home and homeland, migration, borders and belonging.

MeşherFree

Travel accounts, paintings and objects tracing journeys to Ottoman lands from the late 15th to early 20th century and the motives behind them.

Borusan Contemporary

Collection show on being human in a posthuman world, framed by the Sphinx's riddle, with kinetic, data-driven and AI works by teamLab, Memo Akten and others.

Borusan Contemporary

Olivo Barbieri's solo show of five photo series using optical interventions and aerial views, from Anatolian sites to Istanbul, waterfalls and the Alps.