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Sakıp Sabancı MuseumEmirgan

Scribbled Exercises, Practice Pages

Now showingFrom 9 June 2026Ticketed — see website

Practice sheets and scribbled exercises by Ottoman calligraphers of the 16th to 20th centuries, including Ahmed Karahisarî and Hafız Osman.

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Memo Akten, Dalgalar 2.0: Toprak, 2023

Haunted

Borusan Contemporary

Olivo Barbieri, Efes Türkiye, 2023

Time Space Geometry

Borusan Contemporary

Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors exhibition banner

Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors

Istanbul Modern

All exhibitions in Istanbul this month Coming up in December

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Exterior of the Perili Köşk mansion, home of Borusan Contemporary, on the Bosphorus

Borusan Contemporary

Image credits

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HauntedMemo Akten, Dalgalar 2.0: Toprak, 2023, Borusan Çağdaş Sanat Koleksiyonu
Time Space GeometryOlivo Barbieri, Efes Türkiye, 2023, Borusan Çağdaş Sanat Koleksiyonu
Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All ColorsCourtesy of Istanbul Modern
Sakıp Sabancı MuseumEdal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Borusan ContemporaryHelge Høifødt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

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