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A drawing from Merve Bedir's Near Miss

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No Admittance Except on Business

En ce moment17 octobre 2026 – 14 février 2027Entrée libre

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.

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Most workplaces, Salt points out, are closed spaces with "no admittance except on business". Metehan Özcan's contribution is the paperwork that got out anyway: job advertisements and factory yearbooks, gathered into an archive he calls Vasıfsız (Unskilled).

Seven artists and groups read production at different scales, from the worker's body to global supply chains. belit sağ follows the privatisation and closure of the Sümerbank Bakırköy cloth factory. Kamil Dalkır and Sibel Karadağ go to Istanbul's recycling yards, where workers sort plastic waste shipped in from Europe. Sultan Gökdemir documents the workers' protests that spread across Turkey in 1989, and Tamar Levit and Yaën S. Levi work with the Çalışan Eller choir on textile workers' fight for their rights.

You don't need a ticket: it's free, starting on the entrance floor and continuing to the first floor and the Mastercard exhibition space. Go up to the third floor afterwards, where Out of the archive shows the factories themselves, as architects drew them from the 1930s to the 1970s.

À ne pas manquer

  • Metehan Özcan's Vasıfsız archive

    Job advertisements and factory yearbooks, collected as found, from modernist workplaces and the workers' housing built alongside them.

  • Dilşad Aladağ's film Nostaljinin Rayından Çıkmak

    A 2026 film on the Simyonoğlu Factory, which became the National Factory and then a museum, set official archives against personal memory.

  • Merve Bedir's Near Miss

    Drawings from a 2026 work on bodies and labour being optimised and handed over to machines.

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