14! F Istanbul International Independent Film Festival opened with a Tim Burton film Big Eyes. One of the subject areas of film, art history's most sensational event! You can watch over for Istanbul. Canyon cocktails followed by great interest in Cinemaximum impression that occurred. Many moviegoers filled theaters for Big Eyes.

14th !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival program was announced at a press conference held at The Hall on January 23 . Then mini music festival of !f Istanbul had been started and the "!f" time of the year officially began.

The first guest of the year in the literature talks had been Yekta Kopan who is known for his short stories, novels, TV programs...Haydar Ergülen and Yekta Kopan interview about Kopan's latest book "İki Şiirin Arasında".

The programme of the 34th Istanbul Film Festival was announced at a press meeting led by the Istanbul Film Festival Director Azize Tan, also with the participation of İKSV General Director Görgün Taner, and Akbank General Manager Hakan Binbaşgil, at İKSV’s official accommodation sponsor Martı Istanbul Hotel on Tuesday, 10 March.​The 34th Istanbul Film Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by AKBANK for the 11th edition, will take place on 4-19 April 2015. The city will satiate with cinema in the two weeks of the festival that will provide a rich palette of award-winning films of the world cinema, the latest of the Turkish cinema, classics, masterpieces and the latest discoveries, along with talks with directors and actors and the most entertaining parties.

Every month Art!Space hosts the Literature Talks and this month’s guest is famous Turkish novelist Tuna Kiremitçi. Tuna Kiremitçi, who is one of the stars from Turkish Literature, has executive talent about poetry, novels, music and cinema. The event, which we talk about Kiremitçi’s latest book “Sonun Geldi Sevgilim”, organized by Haydar Ergülen.  

The exhibition organised by curator Kerimcan Güleryüz "The World That Never Made It" by Dutch artist and photographer Jasper Beijer held until March 31 in the gallery 42 Maslak Art! SPACE. It invites us into the colorful world of imagination and De Beijer.​By implementing unique mythology it intertwines with those distorted visions of reality. According to him, life beyond the grave is very different from that presented in thought and religious discourse. He imagines a deceased person who refuses to die. To present this unusual world for art lovers, it performs a combination of elements to develop multi-layer constructions.

“what memory has in common with art is the knack for selection, the taste for detail. complimentary though this observation may seem to art (that of prose in particular), to memory it should appear insulting. The insult, however, is well deserved. memory contains precisely details, not the whole picture; highlights, if you will, not the entire show. the convinction that we are somehow remembering the whole thing in a blanket fashion, the very conviction that allows the species to go on with its life, is groundless. more than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.”Joseph brodsky wrote about ‘common grounds of memory and art’ in 1985.  legitimized culture manipulates the reality represented by particular objects so that objects do not stand for their concepts any more. meanwhile, our memories continue their construction processes which generally do not depend on us. if an object has been used for hundreds and thousands of yea...

Video works to be exhibited in “Possibilities and Choices” group selection will build a dynamic set up within the Open Space that forms the basis for Mixer.Video works included in this selection, will also reflect Mixer Open Space’s flexible character through a display that does not have a particular conceptual arrangement.As Elif Boyner renders the moves directing the way we perceive our environments in a recycling center, Julie Nymann visualizes a process questioning the individual’s existence. Gif-formatted artworks of Berkay Buğdanoğlu in this selection, whose paintings on metal had been displayed in his solo exhibitions at Mixer before, address illustrative figures about current events. Lara Kahmi’s video installation produced over color and form, on the other hand, annexes a prismatic perception to Mixer’s Open Space area.Group video selection “Possibilities and Choices” is a proposal to discover the language of video art and can be seen at Mixer Open Space between January 23rd a...

In his private solo exhibition named “Red Line” Evren Erol traces the lines surrounding and founding the dimension called as subjectivity. While the exhibition curated by Oğuz Erten is investigating the limit-experience with various forms, it is discussing obedience and infringement possibilities together.“Red Line” of Evren Erol is not flat and continuous; it is short and infrequent, transient and dynamic. With this form, “Red Line” points out the intrinsic lack of each features establishing an order and founding a meaning.  His statues give an end from the weird space within “Red Line”.​The statues in the exhibition stand close to the place of sound where the meaning remain dumb and the existence remains unnamed. “Forms thinking on the existence” of Evren Erol is like the sound echoing in the valley. It hugs negative presence without filling the gap. Exhibition breathes from the wound of the reality and it exhales in a scream. “Red Line” is the lips of this wound that are slightly sp...

Galerist is pleased to present ‘Think Tank’, a solo exhibition by Şakir Gökçebağ between January 20 and February 14, 2015. Recognized for his installations transforming ready-made objects that are used in everyday life, Gökçebağ subverts established ways of perception and creates new possibilities of seeing and understanding. The artist detaches objects from their functionality by ways of collection, repetition and deconstruction; thus, turns them into art objects with unique forms.​For his works, Şakir Gökçebağ explores every part of the chosen ready-made in detail. After countless trials, he designates one final site-specific set up from amongst the dozens of possibilities. Alternatively, at times he is inspired by the space it-self. ‘Think Tank’, the installation which gives its name to the exhibition, is described by the artist as the production of visual thought. In this work, Gökçebağ transforms the metal mesh used in gardens to hold up plants into a visual riddle; thus, revealin...