Expositions à 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 GalataGratuit

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 GalataGratuit

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

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.

Istanbul Modern

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

Elgiz Museum of Contemporary ArtGratuit

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 SanatGratuit

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.

SALT BeyoğluGratuit

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

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.

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.

SALT BeyoğluGratuit

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

Arter

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

Pera Museum

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

MeşherGratuit

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

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

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.