Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors

Berksoy was eight when her mother died in the Spanish flu, nine months pregnant with a boy. She painted her for decades. In a 1965 portrait the mother has large coal eyes, a cross-shaped mouth and a pink heart shaped like a flower.

Berksoy (1910-2004) was Turkey's first female opera singer, sang in Berlin for Richard Strauss's 75th birthday, and performed at New York's Lincoln Center at 89. The show holds more than 200 works, grouped by theme, not date. At the centre you stand in the Red Room, built like a stage, among her Tosca, Salome and Fidelio. Around it are charcoal nudes, paintings on bedsheets, film clips, sound recordings and a re-creation of her bedroom, piano included.

Artforum's Kaya Genç said it does justice to her "dreamlike imagination" and her "lifelong exploration of loss". Expect that loss to be literal: the mother paintings return to it again and again. Entry is in the 1,000 TL museum ticket, Fridays run to 20:00, and it closes on 22 November.