Neş'e Erdok

You walk past a Palestinian mother holding her child, then people with empty bowls waiting in a soup line, then boys stopping to stroke cats on top of the rubble. Neş'e Erdok, now 86, painted these scenes of Gaza over three years, most of them in 2026, from what she followed in the papers and on television.

This is recent work, not a retrospective, and it is her first solo show at the museum of the academy where she trained and later became the first woman to hold a studio. Erdok told Türkiye Gazetesi she has no grand aim to record history: "Mine is a human reflex." The university's rector praised the work's documentary character.

Adults pay 200 TL and non-Turkish citizens 550 TL. Under-18s are free, and students get in free on Tuesdays from 16:00 to 20:00, the late opening. It runs until 31 December.