Contact Zone
“The task of science is not to provide the truth.” — Bruno Latour We walked.We traced the borders of the field, listened to the wind, and went after the colors.Fixed...
Froth on the Daydream Tar in the Cellar
Suffix core- You are so cute, I wanna eat you! It floated upward with its wholesome transparency and lightness, reflecting the light like a rainbow. Its oscillation slowed time, and...
For the Record
The public program under the title For the Record transports Barbare Studio’s production practice from the vineyards of Tekirdağ to Istanbul as a temporary station. The program aims to expand...
Survival Kit for Dummies
We are in the midst of an era where the world deteriorates politically and ecologically. Natural disasters trigger one another, pandemics and social crises escalate the scale of these catastrophes....
Triangle
The curatorial and conceptual framework of the Traingle project was developed by Derya Yücel. Yücel, who also serves as the project’s coordinator, aims through this structure to establish a sustainable...
Oriented Body
THE UGLY DUCKLING Silence. Darkness. The unknown. In a split second, energy is concentrated and erupts with a deafening force, scattering into stardust. In a weightless void, where even warmth…
Sense of Earth
Sense of Earth focuses on the word “terroir,” which refers to the combination of factors such as soil, microclimate, terrain structure, slope, altitude, and the myriad of geographical features that…
Beril Or & Ece Yalçın | Thank You for Your Time
As the routines of the daily flow of life evolve, our relationship with time also changes, affecting how we measure, perceive, and control it. Today’s reality defines time as money….
Meltem Sarıkaya | In Between the Lips
“The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle advanced the influential argument that a woman’s body is monstrous by nature, a deviation from that of the normative male…”[1] Connelly, F. S. It…
Nihal Martlı | Everything is Fine!
A Dream in the Abyss In the morning, as I woke up in the living room, I saw a little girl in a purple dress staring down at me from…
Antonia Breme | Fluidity Unwrapped
The creation of fantasy prepares to become practical as commercial art. Literature submits to montage in the feuilleton. All these products are on the point of entering the market as…
Mert Acar | A Fading Distance
A Fading Distance draws forth cognitively and spatially alternative means of looking nearby and in the distance through photography. Acar presents a view into being on the road, a state…
Doğu Özgün | THE MIRROR and the MASK*
In the exhibition Fake Mustache, Doğu Özgün explores one’s tendency towards the hierarchical structure and evaluates it through the lens of those in power and those who obey. The exhibition delves…
Vision, Mission, Values
Curated by T. Melis Golar Vision, Mission Values exhibition will open at Zilberman Selected at Piyalepaşa from March 15 to May 13, 2023. Bringing together works by Sena Başöz, Guy Ben-Ner, Burak Delier,…
From the Top, On Repeat
From the Top, On Repeat aims to open a space for an alternative way of studying repetition and imitation, which artists often adopt in their practices, through movement, materiality, language,…
Isaac Chong Wai | If we keep crying, we will go blind.
Isaac Chong Wai adopts a narrative that publicly re-evaluates notions concerning the entirety of society; such as power, violence, collectivity, leaderlessness, and mourning. Actively carrying out his artistic practice since…
Alpin Arda Bağcık | Paranoid Fantasies, Real Plots
With Paranoid Fantasies, Real Plots, Alpin Arda Bağcık problematizes conspiracy theo- ries that the post-truth era often brings us face to face with, through the Covid-19 pan- demic. We all…
Eşref Yıldırım | Night Residual
Eşref Yıldırım’s exhibition entitled “Night Residual”, curated by Melis Golar, can be seen atBilsart between the dates of 12 – 24 May, 2022. The show presents a selection of the…
Didem Erk | Can we burn down thoughts?
One of the greatest and most destructive censorships in history can be considered as the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Even today, the destruction of the library is such…
If we only see what we know How do we see what we do not know?
Cyanotype is a photo printing method that has been used quite often lately. It has been on my mind for a long time to investigate the reasons why this method,…
Merve Ertufan | Riddles, Deaths and Detours
Merve Ertufan occupies gaps in the mind and turns questionable sides of the self into new topics of inquiry by manifesting riddles, paradoxes and repetitions. She “mesmerizes” the viewers, so…
New forms of friendship in the art sphere
Artistic creation is generally a solitary process for artists. It’s a period during which most artists isolate themselves to conduct in-depth research and reading on a certain topic; to create…
Can Küçük | The Biography of a Social Animal
I was eagerly awaiting Küçük’s exhibition, which I have been following for a while. I chose to go to the exhibition without any visual or textual direction. This was an…
Daniele Sigalot | Brand New Repetition
Daniele Sigalot centers repetition at the core of his works. The artist departs from the impossibility of identical production in artistic production and in the line of crafting and gets…
Ali Elmacı | The Chair That Walked All Over People
Ali Elmacı strengthens the concepts he frequently criticizes on government, media, power and popularity through a new discourse in his 4th solo show which will take place at Gallery Siyah…
Fırat Engin | How Long Can We Carry This Load?
Fırat Engin meets the audience through his interdisciplinary methods by underlining the issues of consumption society, globalization, market and politics of the culture and criticism of the socio-political order. Engin…
Horasan | Bum Spider
Horasan’s exhibition titled ‘Bum Spider’ will meet the art-lovers of Ankara at Gallery Siyah Beyaz between 06.04 – 08.05.2018. The artist interprets the human body and nature in his distinctive…
Guy Ben-Ner | I wish I was somewhere else
A hope of change offers the possibility of many novelties yet carries the burden of risks along with it. In his video. Drop the Monkey, Guy Ben-Ner writes on a…
Figen Cebe | i see red … i mix up black …
Gallery Siyah Beyaz is opening the 2017 season with painter Figen Cebe’s exhibition titled “I see red … I mix up black …”. The exhibition combines Cebe’s works from the…
Sinan Logie | Samples of Topographies
Academician, architect, artist Sinan Logie, will meet the art lovers of Ankara for the first time with his ‘Samples of Topographies’ exhibition in Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery. Logie who pursues…
Murathan Özbek | Black and White
Murathan Özbek , ‘Black and White’, 2017, Siyah Beyaz Gallery Murathan Özbek who generally deals with time, past, absence, loneliness and subconscious, will take a journey towards the inner world...
Mike Berg | What Is the Meaningless of This?
The latest productions of the artist Mike Berg meet the art lovers of Ankara with the exhibition titled “What is the Meaningless of This?”. American artist’s abstract compositions mesh with…
Ali Kotan | Slathered Silence
Ali Kotan greets us with an exhibition called ‘Slathered Silence’ in which he brings forward the country’s silenced freedom and dreams in political, sociological fields and reflects this silence into…
Stronger Than I Am
Havva Altun / Ozan Bilginer / Aslı Işıksal / Funda Susamoğlu / Seval Şener 08.06.2018 – 09.07.2018 Galeri Siyah Beyaz
Bahadır Çolak | Under the System
Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery is holding Bahadır Çolak’s first solo exhibition ‘Under the System’ comprising his last four years of production. His sculptures predominantly made of marble and metal accompanied…
Mert Acar | Placeholder
Curator: T. Melis Golar METU Department of Music and Fine Arts hosts Mert Acar’s exhibition as a part of “Monthly Exhibition” series. The exhibition ‘Placeholder’ presents us with different locations…