Gallery Talks

In 2012, Istanbul Modern started its Gallery Talks program, which includes new approaches to artmaking, reevaluation of artworks in different contexts, and propositions of new studies in art history.

Gallery Talks covered artworks, artists, movements, inspirations, techniques, materials, and interdisciplinary relationships between art forms. Gallery Talks took place monthly and free of charge on the second Thursday of each month at the top-floor exhibition hall in Istanbul Modern.

Past Events:

April 12, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Burcu Pelvanoğlu

Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Associate Prof. Dr. / AICA International Co-Chair

The Modernization of Canvas Painting in Turkey

A process that began with the invention of photography. How Did Painting Originate in Turkey?

April 19, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Birnur Temel

Istanbul Modern, Assistant Curator

Two Videos, Two Emotions

A comparison of works by Nezaket Ekici and Şükran Moral.

May 10, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Nusret Polat

Plato Vocational School, Assistant Prof. Dr. / Artist Actual-Modern, Editor

The World of Ideas and Art in 19th Century Ottoman Empire

The intellectual partnerships of the reform. New Ottomans and the founders of Turkish painting.

May 31, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Zeynep Günsür Yüceil

Kadir Has University, Theatre Department, Assistant Prof. Dr. / Movement Atelier Company, Art Director

The Body in the Process of Creation

A study of the body in terms of visual arts and performance art

June 7, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Derya Yücel

Curator / Member of AICA Turkey

Feminist Art Practices in Turkey: Identity and Women / Diversity and Otherness

Feminist Art from 1980s to Now: Gender, Women, and Identity

On the works of Nil Yalter, İpek Duben, Şükran Moral, and CANAN…

June 21, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Çelenk Bafra

Istanbul Modern, Curator / Member of AICA Turkey

From Whence We Came: Following site-specific works created for other sites…

A proposal for a curatorial study of Monica Bonvicini, Tomas Saraceno, and Jennifer Steinkamp’s works exhibited in Istanbul Modern.

July 5, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Fırat Arapoğlu

Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Lecturer / Curator / Member of AICA Turkey

Art and Interdisciplinarity

Social-iconographical studies of artworks and artists who produce interdisciplinary work in relation to other fields, such as sociology, economics, and politics.

July 26, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Senem R. Sekban

Istanbul Modern, Assistant Curator

The Viewing of Sculpture

The indoor and outdoor positioning and environmental interactions of sculpture

August 2, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Zeynep Baransel

Gravure Artist

The Creation Process of a Gravure from the Plate to the Print

A formal reading of Aliye Berger’s gravures

August 30, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Gizem Tongo

Boğaziçi University Department of History, Graduate Student

A “National Painter” Envisioned in Ottoman Empire

On Hoca Ali Rıza and “Göksu Landscape” Considering Cultural and Social Changes

September 13, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Sena Çakırkaya

Istanbul Modern, Assistant Curator

Autobiographical Narratives in Art

Visions of life in the works of Semiha Berksoy and Aliye Berger

September 27, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Sami Kısaoğlu

Musicologist and Music Writer

Sound in Painting, Colour in Music

A comparison of artworks on sound and colour as a metaphor.

October 11, 2012, 18.30 – 19.30

Ebru Yetişkin

Sociologist / Member of AICA Turkey

Conditions of Imprisonment and Ways to Escape

October 18, 2012, 18.30

Seda Yörüker

Member of AICA Turkey / Editor of Genç Sanat magazine

In the Periphery of Narrative

November 15, 2012, 18.30

Ayşe Erek

“Art and Space in Turkey”: Imaginations of space in canvas painting and periodical differences in the perception of space

November 22, 2012, 18.30

Marcus Graf

The Art of Curating - A Few Thoughts on the History and Present of Curatorial Practice

March 13, 2014, Thursday, 18.30

Birnur Temel

Istanbul Modern, Assistant Curator and Director of Artistic Programs

Istanbul: The City’s Imprints on the Past and Future

April 24, 2014, Thursday, 18.30

Senem Sekban

Istanbul Modern, Assistant Curator

“Signs of Shamanism in Contemporary Turkish Art”

29 Mayıs 2014, Thursday, 18.30

Yasemin Ülgen Saray

Istanbul Modern, Curatorial Department Researcher

“Transmission of Personal and Social Memory in Works of Art”

Panel: Human Conditions

Sunday May 6, 16.30
Istanbul Modern Cinema

Panelists: Prof. Dr. Emin Önder (Moderator), Prof. Dr. Tamer Aker, Doç. Dr. Levent Mete

Within the scope of La La La Human Steps exhibition and in collaboration with Psikeart magazine, Istanbul Modern organized a panel that intertwine the science of psychiatry and visual arts. Prof. Dr. Emin Önder, founder of the Psikeart magazine which deals with psychiatry and art as two fields that nourish each other, moderated the panel, and discussed human psychology through experts’ presentations. After talks by Prof. Dr. Tamer Aker on “violence” and by Associate Prof. Levent Mete on “alienation,” the panel will examine in different aspects the basis of La La La Human Steps: the human and human condition.

In collaboration with Psikeart