Past
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CLICKTRANCE
20 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 SANATORIUM is hosting Berkay Tuncay's solo exhibition titled CLICKTRANCE from September 20 to November 2, 2024. The title of the exhibition CLICKTRANCE combines the words ‘click’ and ‘trance’, referring to the hypnotic state prompted by digital culture. Inspired by the similarities between the exhausting ways of navigating between pages and... Read more -
A Crack We Sprout Through
7 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 SANATORIUM presents “A Crack We Sprout Through”, a group show consisting of works by Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, Ndayé Kouagou, and Elif Saydam, curated by Melih Aydemir. The exhibition will run between June 7 - July 27, 2024. It focuses on co-opting and appropriation mechanisms within oppressive structures, aiming to reclaim... Read more -
All Her Sighs
26 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 SANATORIUM presents Zeyno Pekünlü ’s 6th solo show “ All Her Sighs ” between April 26 and June 1, 2024 . The exhibition addresses the vicious cycles encountered in everyday life through different methods, and points out the possibilities of collective efforts to overcome them. The 4-channel sound collage All... Read more -
Just For The Hell Of It
30 Mar - 28 Apr 2024 SANATORIUM is pleased to present Berkay Tuncay ’s first solo show in the USA, titled “ Just for the Hell of It ” , between the dates March 30 - April 28, 2024 , at DIANA NEW YORK . The exhibition takes its title from a poem by the poet... Read more
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Silhouettes of Power
23 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 SANATORIUM presents Gizem Akkoyunoğlu's third solo exhibition titled 'Silhouettes of Power' between the dates February 23 and April 6, 2024. In the exhibition, Akkoyunoğlu focuses on themes like the uncanny and the boundaries of the sublime by crafting spaces and events that blur the line between reality and fantasy. 'Silhouettes... Read more -
Breathing
22 Dec 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 SANATORIUM presents Yunus Emre Erdoğan's third solo exhibition 'Breathing' between the dates of December 22, 2023, and February 10, 2024. ''Breathing'' consists of the artist's works in which he reflects on dichotomies such as subject-object, existence-absence, inside-outside, and light-shadow by taking into consideration the possible effects of emptiness. ‘‘Breathing’’ shows... Read more -
The Things Behind Our Darkness
3 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 SANATORIUM is hosting Merve Şendil’s second solo exhibition in the gallery titled 'The Things Behind Our Darkness' between 3 November - 16 December 2023. The exhibition includes works that convey the artist’s struggle against the meaninglessness in daily life with abstract and concrete elements based on her own world of... Read more -
Liminal Ghosts
19 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 SANATORIUM is pleased to present Christiane Peschek ’s first solo exhibition in the USA, titled Liminal Ghosts , between October 19 - November 25, 2023 , at DIANA NEW YORK . The exhibition presents Peschek’s research on liminality in the context of physical and virtual spaces and bodies. For her... Read more
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Painter
22 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 SANATORIUM is hosting Yağız Özgen’s solo exhibition titled 'Painter' between September 22 - October 28, 2023. Özgen’s fifth solo show in Istanbul, the exhibition presents the artist’s practice as a performative installation, dealing with the complex relationships between objects and signs, together with the dimension of time. In this exhibition,... Read more -
06.2023-35-exhibition
17 - 29 Jul 2023 SANATORIUM hosts the exhibition titled 06.2023-35-exhibition between the dates June 17 - July 22, 2023, under the coordination of the artist Sergen Şehitoğlu, to which thirty-five participants dealing with visual arts have contributed with their works. The exhibition consists of images of correspondences that the participants have carried out in... Read more -
Astronomy Picture Of The Day
18 May - 23 Jun 2023 SANATORIUM is pleased to present Yağız Özgen’s first solo exhibition in the USA, titled Astronomy Picture Of The Day, between May 18 - June 25, 2023, at DIANA NEW YORK. The exhibition presents Özgen’s art practice as a performative installation, dealing with the complex relationships between objects and symbols with... Read more -
They Were Just Constantly Flying In Circles
5 May - 10 Jun 2023 SANATORIUM is hosting Çağla Köseoğulları's solo exhibition titled “They Were Just Constantly Flying In Circles” between May 5 - June 10, 2023. Curated by Kevser Güler, the exhibition brings together Çağla Köseoğulları’s works produced between 2020 and 2023 using various media and techniques. In They were just constantly flying in... Read more
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Betwixt and Between
24 Mar - 13 May 2023 SANATORIUM presents Betwixt and Between group exhibition proposed by Ankara Queer Art Program featuring works by Arda Asena, Yağız Gülseven, Erin Johnson, Dilan Onay and Alex Turgeon, curated by Aylime Aslı Demir on from 24 March to 13 May 2023. The exhibition focuses on the effort to explore the available... Read more -
REMIX-Material Archeology
3 Feb - 20 Apr 2023 SANATORIUM presents Clemens Wolf's first solo exhibition in Turkey titled 'REMIX-Material Archeology' between February 3 - March 25, 2023. The exhibition focuses on Wolf's long-term research on material using oil paint, mirrors and parachutes. Clemens Wolf transforms the ephemeral moments that he tries to capture in his works into installations... Read more -
Unintended Monuments
25 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 SANATORIUM presents Erol Eskici’s solo show Unintended Monuments between the dates November 25, 2022 - January 21, 2023. The exhibition brings together Eskici’s works based on “Unintended Monuments”, one of the important points of the conceptual framework that Austrian art historian Aloïs Riegl defined and established in his article titled... Read more -
A bit of Unruly Complexity
9 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 SANATORIUM presents A BIT OF UNRULY COMPLEXITY, an exhibition and publication project featuring the works of Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Akhmat Biikanov, Evgeny Dedov, Mehmet Dere, Şafak Şule Kemancı, Çağla Köseoğulları, Kateryna Lysovenko, Yağız Özgen, Sam Samiee, Sergen Şehitoğlu, Osman Sadi Temizel, Viron Erol Vert, Agnes Waruguru and Slavs and Tatars,... Read more
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Floating Images
10 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 SANATORIUM presents Luz Blanco’s third solo show in the gallery Floating Images between the dates June 10, 2022 - July 23, 2022. In Floating Images, Luz Blanco questions the flow of images: how they are born, multiply, transform and disappear in the digital networks, and the situation of memory-images. For... Read more -
Metamorphoses from Causal Relations to Indexical Signs
29 Apr - 5 Jun 2022 SANATORIUM presents “Metamorphoses from Causal Relations to Indexical Signs” curated by Yağız Özgen as artist and featuring works by Hasan Akdaş, Şahsenem Altıparmak, Irmak Canevi, Burak Kabadayı, and Ali Miharbi between the dates April 29 – June 5, 2022. The artists who contribute to the exhibition with their works look... Read more -
Trembling in Every Direction
18 Mar - 24 Apr 2022 SANATORIUM presents Trembling in Every Direction, a duo exhibition featuring works of Nina Kuttler and Natasha Tontey between March 18, 2022 – April 24, 2022. Curated by Jing Yi Teo, the exhibition explores the plurality of approaches towards technology through the non-human embodiment of knowledge in anthropocentric environments. Trembling in... Read more -
OASIS
4 Feb - 13 Mar 2022 SANATORIUM presents Christiane Peschek’s first solo show in Turkey entitled OASIS between the dates February 4 and March 13, 2022. OASIS stands as a potential sanctuary at the end of the Anthropocene, a safe space where a nonbinary, value-free and inclusive corporeality is living. OASIS is a post-body spa, where... Read more
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Hosting Bodies
17 Dec 2021 - 23 Jan 2022 SANATORIUM presents Hosting Bodies, a group exhibition featuring works of Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Semâ Bekirović, and Gülşah Mursaloğlu between December 17, 2021 – January 23, 2022. Curated by Ulya Soley, the exhibition looks at transformative relationships between the body and its environment. The body is a porous concept; it constantly... Read more -
Elective Affinities
5 Nov - 12 Dec 2021 SANATORIUM will host Mehmet Dere's solo exhibition entitled “Elective Affinities” between November 5, 2021 – December 12, 2021. The exhibition takes its title from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's third novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften published in 1809, translated into English as Elective Affinities, and into Turkish by Sadi Irmak as Gönül Yakınlıkları... Read more -
The Gaming Room
10 Sep - 24 Oct 2021 SANATORIUM presents Ludovic Bernhardt 's third solo show at the gallery '' The Gaming Room '' between September 10 – October 24, 2021 . The exhibition brings together works defined by the fields of geopolitics, game, and poetry. The Gaming Room is based primarily on a board game created by... Read more -
Seascapes (at lockdown)
1 - 29 Aug 2021 SANATORIUM presents Sergen Şehitoğlu's project “Seascapes (at lockdown)” between August 8 - 29 in the display window area at the entrance of the gallery space. The project can been seen from the display window during gallery's summer break while it's closed for visitors. Taking its visual references from Hiroshi Sugimoto's... Read more
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I Sacrifice Myself
20 Apr - 27 Jun 2021 SANATORIUM presents Farid Rasulov’s first solo show in Turkey entitled ‘‘I Sacrifice Myself’’ between April 16 – May 23, 2021. In ‘‘I Sacrifice Myself’’, Rasulov explores the sacrificial holiday “Eid al-Adha”. Questioning the greed and excess that the festival has inadvertently come to symbolise, the artist employs a twist of... Read more -
Let's Escape
18 Feb - 9 Apr 2021 SANATORIUM presents Agnès Guillaume’s first solo exhibition in Turkey entitled ‘‘Let’s escape’’ between February 18, 2021 – April 9, 2021. Agnès Guillaume’s pieces all have one thing in common, their style: Allusive, metaphorical, never realistic, but nevertheless connected to an existential reality. As Paul Ardenne stated, her works tend to... Read more -
Future Looms
6 Nov - 27 Dec 2020 Eda Sütunç's exhibition explores the essence of human nature in today's mechanical world and the characteristics we will inherently be carrying over to the robotic age. By leveraging our past, present and future relationship with technology, the artist suggests a more fluid state of mind. In striving for perfection at... Read more -
Pebbles
11 Sep - 25 Oct 2020 SANATORIUM will host Sergen Şehitoğlu's solo exhibition entitled “Pebbles” between September 11 – October 25, 2020. The exhibition is named after “Greek Pebbles”, the origin of the word “calculo” which means calculation in many modern languages. Şehitoğlu's solo exhibition features Google Earth images presenting phenomena on the earth in successive... Read more
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Human, how strange, so vulgar, such a masterpiece and yet so primitive
13 Mar - 27 Jun 2020 Berkay Tuncay’s solo exhibition titled “Human, how strange, so vulgar, such a masterpiece and yet so primitive” opened at SANATORIUM on March 13 2020, is re-opening for visitors from June 3 to June 27, 2020. The artist presents a reading of the Internet culture in relation to its historical connections,... Read more -
Where Do You Stand?
24 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 “We carry what is not to be carried from below to above. We are the juices that rise secretly, not by force, but sucked out of inertia and affixed to what is growing. We know the unknown ways and the inexplicable laws of living matter. We carry up what slumbers... Read more -
Artificial Bloom Fluid Archives
6 Dec 2019 - 19 Jan 2020 SANATORIUM hosts “Artificial Bloom; Fluid Archives ' between December 6, 2019 , and January 19, 2020 . The exhibition brings together the works of Zeynep Beler , Luz Blanco, and Christiane Peschek in the context of non-linear, fluid and hybrid realities with the curation of Melih Aydemir . As the... Read more -
Correspondences
25 Oct - 1 Dec 2019 Correspondences Opening: October 25 2019, 18:00 SANATORIUM is pleased to announce “Correspondences”, a two-person show featuring new works by Turkish artist Yunus Emre Erdoğan and Austrian artist Clemens Wolf, curated by Domenico de Chirico. The exhibition will be held in SANATORIUM between October 25 to December 1, 2019. In the... Read more
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Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words
5 Sep - 20 Oct 2019 Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s solo exhibition “Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words” is about reflecting on “life” on earth. It is organized around the concepts that Kerem has been tackling in his recent work “Great Oxidation Event” (2019). The exhibition opens on September 5th at SANATORIUM and is curated by Kevser... Read more -
Fragments of a Hologram Rose
24 May - 7 Jul 2019 The exhibition Fragments of a Hologram Rose curated by Ludovic Bernhardt & Luz Blanco (Global)*Z with participation of the artist collective Chim↑Pom and the artists Cari Gonzalez-Casanova, Erol Eskici, Luz Blanco, Sergen Şehi̇toğlu, Berkay Tuncay, Eric Arlix and Ludovic Bernhardt will be held at SANATORIUM between May 24 – June... Read more -
Instructions
19 Apr - 19 May 2019 Yağız Özgen's exhibition entitled 'Instructions' will be held at SANATORIUM between April 19 – May 19, 2019. The works that Özgen brings together under the title 'Instructions' deals with the exhibition's date and venue in a structural sense. The exhibition consists of drafts showing spatial relations and the instructions demonstrating... Read more -
Work
28 Feb - 7 Apr 2019 In her fourth solo exhibition to be held between February 28 – March 31, 2019 at SANATORIUM, Zeyno Pekünlü focuses on her “work”. Simultaneously dealing with the contemporary conditions of the artwork’s production and the very experience of working, the artist points to the ambiguity and permeability of the work’s... Read more
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Lonely Trees
25 Jan - 24 Feb 2019 Do trees dream? What kind a forest do the lonely trees in the city dream of? SANATORIUM will host the exhibition entitled ’LONELY TREES’ featuring the new installation of Sinan Bökesoy from January 25 to February 24, 2019. The installation work includes the transformation of urban sound recordings captured around... Read more -
STRATIGRAPHER
7 Dec 2018 - 13 Jan 2019 Erol Eskici’s fourth solo exhibition “Stratigrapher” to be held between December 7, 2018 – January 13, 2019 in SANATORIUM consists of works that the artist started to produce in 2014 by researching the science of geology. The artist created the series of paintings by focusing on the research areas and... Read more -
Dream Logic
23 Oct - 2 Dec 2018 “Dream Logic” appears to be, at first sight, the togetherness of two contradicting or completely opposite concepts, whereas it is a key definition in order to open a space for contemplation concerning our faculty of visualization, intuitions and comprehension. The dream logic embraces our most primitive animal desires and our... Read more -
Horizon of Things
11 Sep - 14 Oct 2018 SANATORIUM will host Yunus Emre Erdoğan’s solo exhibition entitled “Horizon of Things” between September 11 – October 14, 2018. The exhibition consists of an installation composed of readymade objects and charcoal drawings. In this exhibition, the artist explores the possibilities of potential spaces implied by various objects and venues. Recording... Read more
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The Dark Was Turning
24 May - 1 Jul 2018 SANATORIUM will host Çağla Köseoğulları’s third solo exhibition entitled “The Dark Was Turning” between May 24 – July 1, 2018. “The Dark Was Turning” consists of ink on paper works as well as a video. Prepared by the artist using her eyes, hands and instincts as a kind of camera,... Read more -
Chance and Necessity
19 Apr - 28 May 2018 SANATORIUM will host the exhibition entitled “Chance and Necessity” named after Jacques Monod’s book with the same title, to be held between April 19 – May 20, 2018 and featuring works by Kerem Ozan Bayraktar and Sergen Şehitoğlu. “Chance and Necessity” investigates variation and emergence phenomena within the context of... Read more -
PAINTED IMAGES
15 Mar - 14 Apr 2018 When Kasimir Malewitsch showed his work “Black Square” on a white background for the first time in 1915, it was as if it was a period at the end of a sentence – a bold terminal point at the end of the art of painting. For a more intense reduction... Read more -
Hopeless Emptiness
9 Feb - 10 Mar 2018 SANATORIUM will host the exhibition entitled “Hopeless Emptiness” between January 9 – March 10, 2018. The exhibition’s conceptual framework has been developed by Mehmet Dere who also participates in the exhibition as an artist along with Yunus Emre Erdoğan, İsmail Şimşek and Nezaket Ekici. The exhibition took its inspiration from... Read more
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NATURE MORTE_salto mortale
15 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018 SANATORIUM will host Ali İbrahim Öcal’s solo exhibition entitled “NATURE MORTE / salto mortale” between December 15, 2017 – January 27, 2018. The exhibition, which includes works by the artist constructed as painting, sculpture, video and installation and created with seven different techniques, explores the deep balance between nature, its... Read more -
Systems - Visibility
9 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 SANATORIUM will host the exhibition “Systems / Visibility” consisting of works of Yağız Özgen and Alex Anikina and curated by Yasemin Keskintepe between October 9 and December 9, 2017. “Systems / Visibility” looks into the poetics of digital realms and its fluid shifting cartography. The exhibition explores a world of... Read more -
Artifical Hells
10 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 SANATORIUM will host Kemal Özen’s exhibition “Artifical Hells” between September 10 – October 14, 2017. The exhibition will also be the opening exhibition of SANATORIUM’s new space, where the artist will meet the audience with his oil and acrylic paintings on canvas together with his charcoal drawings as well as... Read more -
aRb
15 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 SANATORIUM will host the exhibition “aRb” consisting of works by Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Şeref Erol and Yağız Özgen between June 15 – July 15, 2017. The exhibition’s title comes from L. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. “aRb” is a mark signifying that our minds cannot on their own conceive plain objects or... Read more
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Sibel's Beauty Parlor
11 May - 10 Jun 2017 SANATORIUM will host Nazım Ünal Yılmaz’s second exhibition in Turkey between May 11 – June 10, 2017 under the title “Sibel’s Beauty Parlor”. Nazım Ünal Yılmaz’s paintings function like a diary. They merge the autobiographical with a story seen in a newspaper and transforming all into a manifestation of a... Read more -
TRIALS: 310 Artist Portraits
25 Apr - 6 May 2017 SANATORIUM will host Sergen Şehitoğlu’s recently produced data visualizations between April 25 / May 6, 2017. The recent exhibition of the artist makes the “presence of the individual in online systems” the focal point of his works. However, this time, the individual positioned within the online world and analyzed in... Read more -
If Not?
9 Mar - 15 Apr 2017 Ümit Kıvanç, who is rather known through his writings and documentaries with political and social content, meets the audience with an exhibition indicating the difficulty of penetrating the entirety of perception. Kıvanç, who has been a narrator in his visual and written creations until now, turns the tables in the... Read more -
The Wall
12 Jan - 18 Feb 2017 “THE WALL” : A SOUND INSTALLATION A wall is the simplest architectural element separating two spaces, creating an inclosure and disclosure. It keeps information and space under control, like a firewall. It also conceals events and points to isolation, a potential of an authority. As any other architectural entity, walls... Read more
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Darker Than Night
30 Sep - 5 Nov 2016 'Fulya Çetin's 'Darker Than Night' exhibition is extended until 19 November 2016' Fulya Çetin’s solo exhibition “Darker Than Night” will meet the audience between 30 September 2016 - 5 November 2016 at SANATORIUM. The exhibition includes the artist’s recent works taking shape about Family-State-Woman and the Masculine domination. Underlining through... Read more -
News From Nowhere
2 Jun - 2 Jul 2016 For her third exhibition in Sanatorium, Luz Blanco proposes a series of artworks which appear like a random circulation through fragmented images: Recovered and separated images from their origin, movie and documentary images, scattered and gathered images that direct themselves as a time of graphic recreation. The title of William... Read more -
The Dormant Colony
28 Apr - 28 May 2016 In this world, the artist was the product of a collective representation caught up in the game of individuality. As always when waking up, he would enter the ideological realm of art to occupy its space convinced he would exit empowered. His movements were those of a ghost haunted by... Read more -
Everything I Once Had That Was Fluid Turned Solid In My Dream Last Night
23 Mar - 23 Apr 2016 Can the meaning of our existence be embodied in the dead body of a small bird? Can our frailty be expressed in the balance of rocks placed upon each other? Could a crumpled piece of cloth represent the net that has been cast over us, one we cannot break away... Read more
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I Own You
16 Feb - 18 Mar 2016 In his last series ‘I Own You’, Orhan Cem Çetin presents close-up photographs of objects that we own without knowing or we have already forgotten that we own. Embracing us like a fragmented solid aura, these objects have already lost their functions and are destined to be dispersed to our... Read more -
Memorial Forest
6 Jan - 6 Feb 2016 ‘Memorial Forest’, Hakan Kırdar’s second solo exhibition in Istanbul, focuses on the transformation of Kültürpark in İzmir, which used to be an Armenian neighbourhood called “Haynots” before the fire incident in 1922. Kültürpark, also hosts International İzmir Fair, has almost turned into an urban forest in consequence of a republican... Read more -
Everything I Know
25 Nov - 26 Dec 2015 Zeyno Pekünlü’s latest works in her second solo exhibition deciphers the process of information production and distribution through several methods such as montage, rearrangement and decontextualization; parallel to her previous works.Beginning with found footage and texts, the collector attitude of the artist gravitates to thrash cans of lecture theatres, under... Read more -
Cubbyhole
8 Oct - 7 Nov 2015 ‘Cubby Hole’ is the series that consist of Sergen Şehitoğlu’s pieces that will be exhibited for the first time. The series emphasizes how contractionary, disconnected and imprisoned our daily lives are; despite they have been grounded on idealist vision of modernism at first place. ‘Cubby Hole’ transforms insisted modern big... Read more
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Sounds of Secrecy’
1 Sep - 3 Oct 2015 SANATORIUM will be exhibiting latest works of Yunus Emre Erdoğan in his first solo exhibition ‘Sounds of Secrecy’ between 01.09 – 03.10 2015. The artist, who is in search of physical boundaries of the space and its subjective cognition, continues his act of looking in interior, private spaces. In Erdoğan’s... Read more -
And Every Single Step Of The Way
1 Sep - 3 Oct 2015 “The intolerable brightness faded, and slowly the torn edges of the world closed together. Nearby a voice was speaking as softly as a tree whispers or a fountain plays. Starlight began to shine again, and the grasses of the hillside were whitened with the light of the moon just rising.... Read more -
IN MY MIND
20 May - 27 Jun 2015 Last night, I washed the corpse we carried on our backs. I regretted it the moment I threw the bones into the tub, but it was already too late. I first chose the cleaner (older) ones; they were easy because the fibre-like fluffy bits that connect the joints had dried... Read more -
Metadata
8 Apr - 9 May 2015 SANATORIUM hosts Yağız Özgen’s third solo exhibition “Metadata” between 8 April – 9 May 2015. The exhibition consists of color palletes and arrangements belonging to online documents of various art pieces, which the artist has been obtaining via computer softwares. Units that constitutes the images in Özgen’s recent works, can... Read more
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NOSTOMANIA
24 Feb - 28 Mar 2015 “Nostomania”, Erol Eskici’s first solo show in SANATORIUM, brings together artist’s works from last two years. In the light of the word ‘nostomania’ which refers to an irresistible compulsion to return home, the artist confronts the world of childhood with that of adulthood reigned by the dispositifs of ideology. The... Read more -
Lucky Incident
15 Jan - 14 Feb 2015 Lyon based Handan Figen will be opening her second solo exhibition in Turkey at SANATORIUM. In addition to her drawings combining watercolour and pencil drawing that we have seen on her previous show, the artist uses installation and video techniques in order to make the visitors attract to details of... Read more -
Segues
4 Dec 2014 - 3 Jan 2015 Maja Weyermann, a Swiss artist based in Berlin will present her first solo show in Istanbul in SANATORIUM. In the exhibition, Weyermann‘s video works from the series of „Real-time-nomads“ and “About Paradise“ and stills from these videos as well as an excerpt of her series The Miller House and a... Read more -
Invisible
30 Oct - 29 Nov 2014 Through Sıtkı Kösemen’s photography one is able to see, make note of the social stories and realities hidden behind the portraits and landscapes framed. Mainly focusing on individuals and their respective stories, the artist narrates each individual’s existential situation and her relationship with the environment from a sociological perspective. Kösemen,... Read more
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Reminiscence
16 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 The series 'Reminiscence' of Stephan Kaluza shows painting, oil on canvas, from the year 2014. On view are mostly black-and-white painted landscapes, provided with sharp contrasts and adequate depth effects. The contours get lost in the white 'nothingness' and so clarify the content-related reference: the nature seems to disappear, to... Read more -
SUBLIME
24 Jun - 19 Jul 2014 How do we cope with concepts and feelings that overcome us? How do we establish our personality against the overarching effect of the universe, love, power, society, family? What do we do when the language we use is not sufficient to express experiences such as despair, terror, pleasure, eternity that... Read more -
Eden The End
15 May - 14 Jun 2014 For her second exhibition in Sanatorium, Luz Blanco proposes a series of artworks which appear like a random circulation through fragmented images: Recovered and separated images from their origin, movie and documentary images, scattered and gathered images that direct themselves as a time of graphic recreation. Luz Blanco shows us... Read more -
DRONES, PILLS & YANTRAS
3 Apr - 10 May 2014 Ludovic Bernhardt’s new solo exhibition aims to draw attention to the post-industrial society’s some of the visual rituals. Medicines and pills packaging, military codes, fictional maps, Yantra diagrams and Mandalas, and so on, are used as signs which infiltrate bio-politically our daily life. Bernhardt mentions that “My aim is to... Read more
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Silver Planet
20 Feb - 22 Mar 2014 One of the most prominent figures in the art of contemporary photography in Turkey, Orhan Cem Çetin, returns with his bold and distinctive style. Having reached a simplified, pure, straight visual style in his recent series, Çetin’s works shown at Sanatorium represent a sharp turn as though completing a cycle.... Read more -
Out of Place
8 Jan - 16 Feb 2014 Sanatorium starts off 2014 with a solo exhibition by Çağla Köseoğulları titled Out of Place (Yersiz). Opening on January 8, the exhibition will feature her ink drawings on paper focusing on issues of city and migration, tracking down what is ignored, rendered insignificant and worthless in the routines of daily... Read more -
Hyphologie
28 Nov - 28 Dec 2013 Artists Art of failure, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Ludovic Bernhardt, Erdem Ergaz, Can Ertaş, Yağız Özgen, Stéfane Perraud, Société Réaliste, François Ronsiaux. Multimedia performance by Dorota Kleszcz on November 30, 2013. Sanatorium presents Hyphologie , a curated group exhibition featuring work by five French and four Turkish artists, running from November... Read more -
Be a Good Boy, Blossom with Your Pain
23 Oct - 24 Nov 2013 Kemal Özen presents images that once again touch our personal histories and reminds us of ourselves in his exhibition “Be a Good Boy, Blossom with Your Pain” which is quoted from recently passed away poet Ahmet Erhan’s poem; “Zamanı Oy, Sesini Sakla”. Özen’s works depicts our lives cornered by social... Read more
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Diorama Maps
11 Sep - 2 Oct 2013 Sanatorium opens the new exhibition season with contemporary Japanese photography’s young and emerging name; Sohei Nishino’s first individual exhibition “Diorama Maps”. “Diorama Maps” which will be held in Sanatorium between the dates 11th of September – 12th of October 2013, includes the works from the Diorama Maps series that Nishino... Read more -
00:00
11 Jun - 13 Jul 2013 The common feature in Burcu Aksoy’s latest series is her choice of not using photography as a representation tool of existence and states of existence, based on objective reality. The aesthetic deconstruction she set forth in her works can be defined as Aksoy’s emancipation in her own unique language by... Read more -
0 dB
23 Apr - 25 May 2013 The photography artist Sergen Şehitoğlu’s individual exhibition titled as; “0db” fundamentaly investigates the intensity of unmanned spaces. Being the minimum value for hearing for humans, in fact; “0db”expresses the limit of human perception. So, the sounds and vibrations at “0db” echoes in lonely places that Sergen Şehitoğlu pursues. Following a... Read more -
Entangled Cern Plans
23 Mar - 25 May 2013 In his first individual exhibition; ”Entangled Cern Plans”, Emin Mete Erdoğan pursues a mastery that is fed by the mathematical aesthetics of science and technology. Generally, quantum physics and entanglement theory provides the basis for the artist’s works. According to entanglement theory, two electrons formed at the same time are... Read more
