Exhibitions

Olivia Sterling

Jelly 7 May - 14 June 2026 Dirimart is pleased to present Jelly , Olivia Sterling ’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, marking the artist’s inaugural presentation in Istanbul. Inspired by poetic traditions that pair muses with fruit, Sterling reflects on a romantic tendency to imagine muses as consumable sources of artistic production. The exhibition centres... Read more

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Immersion 21 April - 30 May 2026 Dirimart is pleased to present Immersion , Fahrelnissa Zeid’ s first UK gallery exhibition this century, following her 2017 institutional retrospective at Tate Modern. The exhibition provides a concentrated insight into the most innovative years of Zeid’s five-decade practice, from the 1940s to 1960s, featuring works created in Istanbul, London,... Read more

Ghada Amer

Aurora 9 April - 24 May 2026 Dirimart is pleased to announce Aurora , Ghada Amer ’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, seventeen years after her previous Istanbul show. Bringing together a selection of her recent bronze sculptures, iconic embroidered paintings, a new series of canvases that highlight appliqué techniques, and paintings on wood, the exhibition... Read more

Berke Yazıcıoğlu

Helix 12 March - 26 April 2026 Dirimart is pleased to announce Helix , Berke Yazıcıoğlu ’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Unfolding across the walls of the exhibition space, the animations of the artist occupy the central position within the exhibition, interweaving a range of concepts, from natural cycles and planetary movements to digital surveillance... Read more

Gregor Hildebrandt

Duale Systeme aus der Mauerstadt 10 March - 5 April 2026 Dirimart is pleased to present Duale Systeme aus der Mauerstadt , Gregor Hildebrandt’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which also marks his ‘premiere’ in Turkey. Gregor Hildebrandt is a master of repurposing, renaming and reinterpretation of everyday objects and pop-cultural myths. His multi-faceted practice incorporates heterogeneous elements and references... Read more

Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt

If you wanna go outside, get inside 5 March - 11 April 2026 Dirimart is pleased to announce If you wanna go outside, get inside , Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt ’s first exhibition at the gallery’s London space. Comprising six newly produced works spanning sculpture, performance, video, and installation, the exhibition examines how politically and socially unthinkable situations gradually become the new... Read more

Emma Stern

Champagne Problems 5 February - 1 March 2026 Exhibition Dates: 5.02—1.03.2026 Dirimart is pleased to present Champagne Problems , Emma Stern’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery her debut presentation in Istanbul. The exhibition is a continuation of Stern’s ongoing body of work, which merges traditional painting processes with an interest in avatars and virtual world-building. Utilising commercially... Read more

Seçkin Pirim & Jorinde Voigt

Fractures & Rhythm 15 January - 21 February 2026 Exhibition Dates: 15.01—21.02.2026 Dirimart is pleased to announce Fractures & Rhythm , a duo exhibition bringing together selected works by Seçkin Pirim and Jorinde Voigt. The exhibition establishes a dialogue between two artists, whose paper cut-out works translate personal experience into visual form. Both artists’ works seek a state of... Read more

Çiğdem Aky

Santosha 8 January - 22 February 2026 Exhibition Dates: 8.01—22.02.2026 Dirimart is pleased to announce Santosha , Çiğdem Aky’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new body of work, Aky steps away from the formal structures that have long shaped her painting practice and leaves behind the frameworks that once limited her. Letting go of... Read more

Tony Cragg

Sculpture 15 December 2025 - 18 January 2026 Exhibition Dates: 15.12.2025—18.01.2026 Dirimart is delighted to present Sculpture , Tony Cragg’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Featuring complex, multi-formed sculptures in bronze, wood, aluminium and steel, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s recent body of work, bringing together a selection of new pieces developed in parallel with these... Read more

Sarkis

Stays Together 25 November 2025 - 10 January 2026 Exhibition Dates: 25.11.2025—10.01.2026 Dirimart is pleased to announce Stays Together , Sarkis’s first gallery exhibition in London. The exhibition brings together twenty-four works created by the artist at different time periods, employing diverse techniques and gestures. Rich in imagery, the works offer a cycle of questions and responses that probe... Read more

Georgina Gratrix

Sunday Painting 6 November - 14 December 2025 Exhibition Dates: 6.11—14.12.2025 Dirimart is delighted to present Sunday Painting , Georgina Gratrix’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition takes its title from the artist’s most productive days in her studio, which happen to be Sundays. In the calm and quiet of her workspace, away from noise and... Read more

Çağla Ulusoy

Gardenscapes 22 October - 23 November 2025 Exhibition Dates: 22.10—23.11.2025 Dirimart is pleased to present Gardenscapes , Çağla Ulusoy’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. In this spatial installation, Ulusoy extends her artistic language into the physical environment, transforming the space to enrich the experience of her paintings. By framing the exhibition as a continuation of her... Read more

Karin Kneffel

A House in Hampstead 9 October - 15 November 2025 Exhibition Dates: 09.10–15.11.2025 Dirimart is pleased to present A House in Hampstead , Karin Kneffel’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring the artist’s new body of work centred on the Isokon Flats – the cultural landmark and one of the pioneering examples of the Bauhaus architecture in Britain. Karin... Read more

Austin Eddy

Galata Sunset 2 October - 2 November 2025 Exhibition Dates: 2.10—2.11.2025 Dirimart is delighted to present Galata Sunset , Austin Eddy’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together a new body of paintings created in the artist’s Brooklyn studio, inspired by his visit to Istanbul in the summer of 2024. Drawing on the city’s texture... Read more

Ayşe Erkmen

I still insist 9 September - 4 October 2025 Exhibition Dates: 09.09–04.10.2025 Dirimart is proud to present I still insist , the inaugural exhibition by Ayşe Erkmen at its new London gallery. The exhibition brings together seven new and recent works by Erkmen, conceived in response to the gallery’s relocation to London. These works explore what a physical move... Read more

Canan Tolon

Refrain 6 - 28 September 2025 Exhibition Dates: 6—28.09.2025 These are no gardens; these are dense, impenetrable, demanding terrains. And they are menacing. Nature is no longer confined to silence or submission: it approaches, encircles, and exerts pressure. What once appeared soft now carries force. The illusion of control begins to dissolve; nature no longer remains... Read more

Sarkis

Five Icons Framed in Edirne-style Wooden Ornamentation 3 September - 12 October 2025 Exhibition Dates: 3.09-12.10.2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce Sarkis’s new solo exhibition at the gallery, Five Icons Framed in Edirne-style Wooden Ornamentation . A continuation of the artist’s long-standing research on memory, time, and space, this exhibition refers to Angel of War , a solo exhibition consisting of a single... Read more

Jorinde Voigt

365 Seasons 30 May - 29 June 2025 Exhibition Dates: 30.05–29.06.2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce 365 Seasons , Jorinde Voigt’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition marks a new chapter in Voigt’s artistic practice, with the debut of her oil paintings produced since 2023. Alongside these new works, the show also features her signature stainless... Read more

Mustafa Hulusi

Dünyayı İçine Çekmek 23 May - 22 June 2025 Mustafa Hulusi’s Breathing in the World will be on view at Dirimart Pera from 23 May to 22 June 2025.

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John Armleder

EVER 24 April - 25 May 2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce EVER , John Armleder’s debut in Turkey, a singular figure in contemporary art history who co-founded the Geneva-based Groupe Ecart in the spirit of the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. Presenting the artist’s journey from the 1960s to today , the exhibition showcases a retrospective... Read more

Jak İhmalyan

19 April - 18 May 2025 Dirimart is pleased to present the first exhibition of Jak İhmalyan at the gallery, marking the sixth artist whose estate the gallery recently announced its representation of. The exhibition, held at Dirimart’s Pera space, will feature nearly one hundred paintings and drawings by the artist, offering a comprehensive insight into... Read more

No Rain, No Flowers

No Rain, No Flowers 14 March - 13 April 2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce the New-York based artist Summer Wheat’s second solo show at the gallery, No Rain, No Flowers . The exhibition features a collection of Wheat’s post-pandemic work consisting of paintings and sculptures that chronicle both inner personal and broader cultural changes stemming from the global shutdown... Read more

Seçkin Pirim

Built in a Day 6 March - 13 April 2025 Dirimart is delighted to present Built in a Day , Seçkin Pirim’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition consists of an installation of acrylic and 3D-modeled sculptures created specifically for the show. Designed as a cohesive installation reminiscent of market squares in ancient cities, the exhibition is accompanied... Read more

Osamu Kobayashi

Bedfellow 20 February - 9 March 2025 Dirimart is delighted to present Bedfellow , the first solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Osamu Kobayashi at the gallery. Marking his Istanbul debut, Kobayashi introduces the viewer to his unique gestural abstractions and minimalist forms, characterised by bold colours, simplified shapes, and a playful, lyrical sensibility. Exploring form, colour, and... Read more

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

On the Road 28 January - 23 February 2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s third solo show at the gallery, On the Road . The exhibition features a series of new photographic works by Ceylan, which will be presented to the audience for the first time. On the Road showcases portraits captured by Ceylan in diverse... Read more

Gabriela Těthalová

Hyperbole Rising 8 January - 16 February 2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce Gabriela Těthalová’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Hyperbole Rising . This is also the artist’s debut show in Istanbul, where she displays her most recent body of work, which emerged with the inspiration of French poet and critic Mallarmé’s ‘Prose (for des Esseintes)’. Gabriela... Read more

Sarkis

Children’s Rain Call with the Colours of the Rainbow 4 December 2024 - 5 January 2025 Dirimart is pleased to announce Sarkis’ fifth solo exhibition, Children’s Rain Call with the Colours of the Rainbow , at the gallery. Inspired by the artist’s workshops with children at the Venice and Mardin Biennials, the exhibition showcases the artist’s recent series of artwork titled Rain with Rainbow Colours (Children’s... Read more

Jan Zöller

Conversation With the Others 27 November - 29 December 2024 Dirimart is pleased to announce German painter Jan Zöller’s first solo exhibition at the gallery titled Conversation With the Others . This is also Zöller’s debut show in Istanbul where he aims to create an inviting space for wandering encounters at gallery’s Pera location. The show will be curated by... Read more

Peter Zimmermann

CONTACT 24 October - 24 November 2024 Dirimart is pleased to announce Peter Zimmermann’s sixth solo show at the gallery, titled Contact , emphasising the relationship between sight, touch, and digital abstraction aesthetics. The exhibition comprises digital-based oil paintings created by the artist by modifying digital templates using graphic algorithms, with the resulting images transferred to the... Read more

Neural Crest of an Island

Neural Crest of an Island 3 September - 3 November 2024 Dirimart is pleased to announce İnci Eviner’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Neural Crest of an Island , bringing together the artist’s recent moving image work of the same title and the installation titled Resound of the Studio, a revival of her studio at a gallery space. Drawing lies... Read more

Jennifer Ipekel

Roots Unity 7 May - 30 June 2024 Jennifer Ipekel’s Roots Unity exhibition takes art lovers on a different kind of journey. In this presentation of her works, Ipekel explores various dimensions and understanding of the unity of universe in which form is given by the batik and other textile techniques as well as ceramic works which allow... Read more

Albert Bitran

Land of Shadows Land of Sky 3 May - 14 June 2024 Dirimart is thrilled to announce that it will be hosting the first solo exhibition of Albert Bitran, one of the pioneering figures of abstract expressionism that flourished in Paris after World War II, having an enduring significance within the movement from a very young age, owing to his distinctive style.... Read more

Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt

Upfalling Ones 20 March - 28 April 2024 Dirimart is proud to announce the third solo exhibition by Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt with the gallery, the artist duo who employs methods, such as translation, coding, deconstruction, classification, addition and layering in their works. The exhibition of the duo, which seeks an aesthetic of rearranging things by separating... Read more

Shirin Neshat

The Fury 14 March - 7 April 2024 Exhibition Dates: 14.03.2024–7.04.2024 Dirimart is pleased to present The Fury , an exhibition of the most recent work by Shirin Neshat. Shot in New York in June of 2022, the show comprises a double-channel video installation and a series of black-and-white photographs. These multidimensional bodies of work continue upon her... Read more

Florian & Michael Quistrebert

Silent Symphony 9 February - 10 March 2024 Exhibition Dates: 9.02-10.03.2024 Dirimart proudly presents SILENT SYMPHONY , an exhibition by the artist duo Florian & Michael Quistrebert, focusing on experiencing light and reflection both in the gallery space and on the painting surface. With the exhibition, the duo challenges the boundaries of human perception, exploring physical matter and... Read more

Cihan Öncü

Motus 8 February - 3 March 2024 Dirimart, fotoğraf sanatçısı Cihan Öncü’nün, izleyiciyi hareketin özüne yakından bakmaya davet eden MOTUS başlıklı galerideki üçüncü kişisel sergisini duyurmaktan mutluluk duyar. Öncü’nün, objektifiyle varoluşun yoğun bağlantılarının peşine düştüğü fotoğrafları, duyguların estetikle birleştiği kutsal anları açığa çıkartıyor. Cihan Öncü’nün gündelik yaşamı sanatsal keşfi, izleyicileri farklı varlıklar arasındaki ilişkilenmelerin capcanlı mozaiğinin içine... Read more

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu

Sonsuz Yankı 27 December 2023 - 21 January 2024 Dirimart proudly presents Eternal Resonance , an exhibition featuring Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu – a pioneering figure in Turkish art history renowned as a passionate artist, enthusiastic poet, and visionary teacher. Displayed across three distinct spaces at Dirimart Dolapdere and Pera, the exhibition emphasises the enduring nature of Eyüboğlu’s immortal energy... Read more

Canan Tolon

About the Weather 23 November - 24 December 2023 Dirimart is delighted to host Canan Tolon’s second solo exhibition titled About the Weather . Concentrating on Tolon’s recent series with the same title, the show comprises the artist’s large-scale rust and acrylic on canvas pieces. With her compositions created with stains, traces and random paint puddles, Canan Tolon produces... Read more

Güçlü Öztekin

I, a New Brave World 9 November - 10 December 2023 Dirimart is pleased to announce Güçlü Öztekin’s solo exhibition titled I, a New Brave World , which will be held at Dirimart Pera between 9 November and 10 December 2023. Showcasing the artist’s recent works, the exhibition welcomes the audience to two different worlds, bringing together Öztekin’s paintings on craft... Read more

Anselm Reyle

Cosmic Abyss 19 October - 19 November 2023 Dirimart proudly presents Cosmic Abyss , a solo exhibition by Anselm Reyle, showcasing an immersive installation that draws the viewer in with its gravitational pull. It is an expedition into the enigmatic world of Reyle’s artistic cosmos that challenges the boundaries of perception, blurring the lines between the tangible and... Read more

Ebru Duruman

Fluid Desire 27 September - 28 October 2023 Dirimart is delighted to present Fluid Desire , the first solo painting exhibition by Ebru Duruman at the gallery. The show brings together the artist’s recent oil paintings created in her studio in Geneva. Duruman’s abstract depictions unveil the interactions between the corporeal and emotional realms, portraying sexuality as a... Read more

Sarkis

85 Screams: After Munch 2 September - 15 October 2023 Dirimart is thrilled to host and announce two new solo exhibitions by Sarkis. Titled 85 Screams: After Munch and Sarkis’ Films respectively, the exhibitions meet the audience simultaneously at Dirimart’s Dolapdere and Pera galleries, where the exhibited works address the interactions and time lapses across the artist’s past artworks and... Read more

Sarkis

Sarkis' Films 1 - 24 September 2023 Dirimart is thrilled to host and announce two new solo exhibitions by Sarkis. Titled 85 Screams: After Munch and Sarkis’ Films respectively, the exhibitions meet the audience simultaneously at Dirimart’s Dolapdere and Pera galleries, where the exhibited works address the interactions and time lapses across the artist’s past artworks and... Read more

Vortic

what a nice coincidence 21 June - 23 July 2023 Situations, encounters, and perceptions combine with their visual inspirations and intuitions to construct a new context. Unforeseen or inexplicable coincidences manifest in the artists’ practice as the reflections of their inner and external worlds. Their structural, formal, and conceptual interpretations signify how they make sense of the world. Accidental encounters... Read more

Group Exhibition

Dirimart Presents X: Living in Colour 17 June - 30 July 2023 Dirimart is delighted to present a groundbreaking group show that brings together the works of Ayşe Erkmen, Osamu Kobayashi, Anselm Reyle, Canan Tolon, Çağla Ulusoy, Jorinde Voigt, and Peter Zimmermann. Taking place between 17 June and 30 July, Living in Colour is an exhibition not only sets the stage for... Read more

Çiğdem Aky

Capturing the Day 5 May - 11 June 2023 Dirimart is delighted to announce Capturing the Day, the first solo exhibition of Çiğdem Aky at the gallery. The exhibition features the artist’s recent paintings centred around the theme of light, which were produced in Istanbul and Munich. In these works, she offers a colour-centric style that follows a single... Read more

:mentalKLINIK

PARADISE ON SALE 3 May - 11 June 2023 Dirimart is thrilled to present PARADISE ON SALE , the first solo show of the artist duo :mentalKLINIK with the gallery in its Dolapdere space. Based metaphorically on the idea of the cancelation of utopia in the 21st century, PARADISE ON SALE is a promised land for our saturated faces,... Read more

Vortic

Wingbeats 27 April - 28 May 2023 ‘Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we waiting for? What awaits us?’ Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope Dirimart is pleased to announce Wingbeats , a group exhibition at a virtual and augmented reality art platform, Vortic. Featuring the works of Georgina... Read more

Çağla Ulusoy

SANDYMANSIONAL 30 March - 30 April 2023 Dirimart is delighted to present SANDYMANSIONAL , an exhibition of paintings by Çağla Ulusoy. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, following an announcement of representation earlier this year. The exhibition presents lush, large-scale abstract paintings that Ulusoy paints by using acrylics, oils and sand on both... Read more

Yüksel Arslan

Sui generis 9 March - 16 April 2023 Sui generis is a Latin phrase that means “of its/their own kind”, “in a class by itself”, therefore “unique”. Creative arts, for artistic works that go beyond conventional genre boundaries. It is futile to attempt to register Yüksel Arslan’s works in art historical methodologies; not by its contents nor its... Read more

Berke Yazıcıoğlu

Nighttime 8 February - 19 March 2023 Dirimart is thrilled to announce London-based artist Berke Yazıcıoğlu’s solo exhibition entitled Nighttime . In the exhibition presenting Yazıcıoğlu’s latest paintings and drawings, the artist’s practice, which he bases on body and objects and becomes complete by merging with the spectator’s experience, intertwines painting and illustration. The paintings featuring undefined... Read more

Peter Zimmermann

Sticker 2 - 26 February 2023 Exhibition Dates: 02.02.2023–26.02.2023 Dirimart is pleased to announce Peter Zimmermann’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery featuring his latest works. In this exhibition, Zimmermann focuses on the virtual algorithms applied on canvas through his unique technique. Zimmermann became interested in digitization and its processes of representation in 1990’s. There are... Read more

Vortic

Emerging Abstraction 28 January - 28 February 2023 Dirimart is pleased to announce Emerging Abstraction , a duo exhibition featuring the works of Çiğdem Aky and Osamu Kobayashi on Vortic. Both emerging artists are known for their exploration of the emotional and spiritual reception of colors in their abstract works, creating a vibrant and immersive environment for the... Read more

Ebru Uygun

Wet Light 5 - 29 January 2023 Dirimart is pleased to announce Ebru Uygun’s solo exhibition titled Wet Light . Ebru Uygun, who composes the subject of her painting by questioning the components of the painting itself, meets the audience with her latest works where this time round she carries the focus of her practice beyond the... Read more

Cihan Öncü

Cihan Öncü 16 December 2022 - 31 January 2023 Dirimart is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Cihan Öncü with the gallery. Öncü’s new body of work includes images of estranged liquids pouring over velvety objects that pose next to, but in an urgency to be caught, colorful jello. Öncü’s dynamic constellations display a sense of freedom... Read more

Seçkin Pirim

Retreat 1 - 31 December 2022 Dirimart is thrilled to present Seçkin Pirim’s first solo exhibition at the gallery titled Retreat . The exhibition brings together the artist’s post-pandemic sculptures and paper works shaped around the idea of the introversion and the difficulties of adapting to a calm life. The spontaneous forms in Seçkin Pirim’s works... Read more

İnci Eviner

Houris and Travelers 3 - 27 November 2022 Dirimart is thrilled to present İnci Eviner’s first solo exhibition at the gallery titled Houris and Travelers . The exhibition brings together the artist’s two-channel video installation Reenactment of Heaven (2018), which was previously displayed at the Liverpool Biennial and will be exhibited in Turkey for the first time, and... Read more

Vortic

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Christopher Page

Fading Light in the Picture Gallery 1 - 30 October 2022 Dirimart is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Christopher Page with the gallery Fading Light in the Picture Gallery . As in its name, the exhibition is composed of paintings that play with light or with the disappearance of it. The three recognizable subjects Page tackles with: mirrors,... Read more

Canan Tolon

Tunnel Vision 9 September - 16 October 2022 Dirimart is thrilled to host Canan Tolon’s first solo exhibition Tunnel Vision with the gallery in its new location at Pera, Istanbul. Her exhibition is the outcome of a two-year long labor, during which Covid 19 caused interruption and the persisting social malaise that remained afterward. Composed of multiple paintings,... Read more

Jorinde Voigt

Infinite Rhythm 6 - 25 September 2022 Dirimart is pleased to announce Infinite Rhythm , Jorinde Voigt’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition presents Voigt’s latest series Rhythm (2022), alongside works from the series The Sum of All Best Practices (2021/22), Fugue (2021), Immersion (2020), Infinite (2020), and Double Infinite (2019). Jorinde Voigt’s philosophically inflected... Read more

Group Exhibition

Park Chul | Jeong Hyun Sook 6 July - 7 August 2022 Dirimart is pleased to present the Park Chul | Jeong Hyun-Sook exhibition held in collaboration with the Gallery Dado. Actively contributing to the Korean contemporary art scene since 1994, Dado proposed two established artists from its roster to exhibit their works for the first time in Istanbul. To initiate a... Read more

Group Exhibition

Dirimart Presents IX: The Stay Warehouse 24 June - 21 August 2022 Dirimart primes to meet the audiences with an extraordinary program at the premises of The Stay Warehouse in Alaçatı. A selection of works by twelve artists has been created for The Stay Warehouse which used to serve as a beer warehouse back in the 1980s. The exhibition brings together Nuri... Read more

Group Exhibition

Would you still love me if I painted parrots all day? 8 June - 3 July 2022 Artists: Georgina Gratrix, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Zsófia Keresztes, Güçlü Öztekin, Ugo Rondinone, Fahrelnissa Zeid Curators: Anissa Touati, Marc-Olivier Wahler Would you still love me if I painted parrots all day? Would you still love this world if fishes were floating in your room, if your whole universe turned... Read more

Shirin Neshat

Land of Dreams 9 April - 22 May 2022 Dirimart is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition by Shirin Neshat, presenting her latest body of work, Land of Dreams . In parallel with the exhibition, her third feature film will be screened in three different theaters as part of the 41st Istanbul Film Festival. The Iranian-born NewYork-based artist’s practice... Read more

Güçlü Öztekin

What’s On Your Mind River 14 March - 2 April 2022 Dirimart is pleased to present Güçlü Öztekin’s solo exhibition What’s On Your Mind River. Using various, easily attainable paper and upcycled material in his works, Güçlü Öztekin generally creates at the intersection of the daily life and the fantastic world of kaplankadilak, his alter-ego. He thinks painting as surface: “Surface... Read more

Ayşe Erkmen

I insist 24 February - 27 March 2022 As thinkers often interweave concepts to give them novel borders that allow new perceptions, Ayşe Erkmen dismantles the space and its constituents, insistent on exploring its multiform potential. In her first solo show Kıpraşım Ripple at Dirimart in 2017, Erkmen took down the white drywalls of the gallery in varying... Read more

Alisa Sibirskaya

Sibirskaya 1 February - 13 March 2022 Dirimart is pleased to host the first solo exhibition of Alisa Sibirskaya in Turkey. The exhibition brings together the artist’s photographs from 2017 to 2020. Taking her photographs as a diary, Sibirskaya’s images bear the traces of her personal details. The artist doesn’t aim to convey something to the viewer;... Read more

Anselm Reyle

HEAVY 28 January - 20 February 2022 Dirimart is pleased to present HEAVY, the solo show of Anselm Reyle in Istanbul. Heavy: that is indeed the right description for the works of the Berlin-based artist, also in a quite literal sense. The exhibition brings together the artist’s large-format ceramics, abstract paintings on coarse burlap and the scrap... Read more

Nasan Tur

No Surrender 17 December 2021 - 16 January 2022 Dirimart is pleased to announce No Surrender , Nasan Tur’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition is composed of new sculptures, installations, and drawings of the artist known for his diverse ways of making art. Tur’s recent production focuses on the intersection between human instincts, socio-cultural constructions, and... Read more

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Portraits | İstinyePark İzmir 10 December 2021 - 30 January 2022 Dirimart is pleased to present a selection of portraits by Fahrelnissa Zeid, a prominent figure of modernism in Turkey, from her youth to her last years in Amman where she moved in 1975 and embraced portraiture heavily. Representing various periods of the artist’s life, these portraits invite the audience to... Read more

Komet

Exhibition of Paintings 11 November - 12 December 2021 Dirimart is pleased to celebrate the 80th birthday of Komet, with an exhibition composed of the paintings he had been working on for two years. The exhibition brings together twelve large-scale (intemporal) figurative paintings and six (Alto-Modern) paintings. Exhibition of Paintings will be on view until December 12. Komet (b.... Read more

Group Exhibition

Dirimart Presents VIII 22 October - 1 December 2021 Dirimart is pleased to announce the inauguration of its temporary gallery space at İstinyePark Izmir. Founded in 2002 in Istanbul’s Nişantaşı district, operating exclusively at its premises in Dolapdere since 2016, Dirimart has been instrumental in strengthening Istanbul’s role in the global art world. Having successfully introduced internationally acclaimed artists... Read more

Group Exhibition

‘U’upa a Hina 7 October - 7 November 2021 Artists: Sylvie Fleury, Gonzalo Lebrija, Florian & Michael Quistrebert Curator: Anissa Touati The goddess Hina took her dugout canoe one evening and headed out to sea to admire the moon… The moon that evening was immense and illuminated the ocean with its glitter. Fascinated, she plunged into its reflection to... Read more

Sinan Logie, Güçlü Öztekin

Sky is attached / Say sound, we meet 1 October - 13 November 2021 Sky is attached / Say sound, we meet , a duo exhibition by Sinan Logie and Güçlü Öztekin, will be on view at Barın Han. The show will continue until November 13, in collaboration with Dirimart and Öktem Aykut. On view Wednesday-Sunday, 12:00-18:00 Binbirdirek, Boyacı Ahmet Sk. No:4, 34122 Fatih/İstanbul Read more

Ahmet Öğüt

It can and has been 1 September - 3 October 2021 Dirimart is pleased to present Ahmet Öğüt’s solo exhibition titled It can and has been . The artist’s first major exhibition in Istanbul after five years, accompanied by implausible stories, brings together installations that invite the viewers to bring the stories in their individual memories related to recent history of... Read more

Group Exhibition

Ritmo Zeytino X Dirimart 8 July - 18 September 2021 Dirimart is excited to announce its first appearance in Bodrum Yalıkavak with an exceptional program. Located on top of a hill covered by olive trees, between a residence for artists and numerous studios built in the 90s in tune with the architectural style of the period and in accordance with... Read more

Jennifer İpekel

Mother, Revolt! 26 May - 18 July 2021 Mother, Revolt! explores and plays with the powers of animism and asks “how Earth would dream of us?” “The alchemy of emotions,” the complex psychology that defines the individual and philosophy of creation intertwines. As we walk through the inner world of the individual, we walk through the depth of... Read more

Group Exhibition

All Else Is Far 4 March - 22 April 2021 Artists: Furkan Akhan, Sabri Berkel, CANAN, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Halil Ege Doğramacı, Nilbar Güreş, Gözde İlkin, Can Küçük, Cihan Öncü, Yasemin Özcan, Güçlü Öztekin, Sarkis, Ayça Telgeren, Güneş Terkol, Nasan Tur, Celal Tutant, Berke Yazıcıoğlu Curator: Ceren Erdem Assistant curators: Senem Özgören, Levent Özmen Only within is near; all else... Read more

Karin Kneffel

Haymatlos 13 November 2020 - 19 February 2021 Dirimart is pleased to host Karin Kneffel’s solo exhibition titled Haymatlos . Following her inaugural show in Istanbul in 2013, Haymatlos presents works that generate a dialogue between Germany and Turkey through the concept of “heimatlos”: statelessness. Kneffel’s paintings pry about the past to reveal how remembering penetrates its foreignness... Read more

Sarkis

UNTITLED 10 September - 8 November 2020 Dirimart is pleased to host the exhibition of Sarkis titled UNTITLED. It is where materials such as light, glass, wood, threads; and media such as photography, neon, video, stained glass intertwine. The future begins to form but as fragments: In an effort to repair them, Sarkis puts them together with... Read more

Group Exhibition

Dirimart Presents VII: Still Life 9 June - 29 July 2020 Dirimart Presents VII: Still Life looks back at the seasons from when Dirimart opened its new gallery space in Dolapdere district in May 2016, and brings together select works from twenty two artists of its roster. Novelty and speed having such prestige today, we are bombarded with images that redefine... Read more

Fahrelnissa Zeid

A Three-Character Play 26 February - 31 May 2020 Dirimart is pleased to announce Fahrelnissa Zeid’s solo exhibition. The exhibition brings together works compiled from private collections, some of which were displayed at the retrospective exhibitions held at Tate Modern and Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in 2017. The exhibition organized in cooperation with the collectors in Turkey and artist’s estate,... Read more

Ebru Uygun

The Sky a Silver 15 January - 16 February 2020 Dirimart is proud to present the solo show of Ebru Uygun The Sky a Silver , of her most recent works. Exhibition titled after E.E. Cummings’ eponymous poem; a lyric expression in the direct manner set to declare that the beauty of the experience of spring rain is proof of... Read more

Michel Comte

Light IV 21 November 2019 - 5 January 2020 For his first solo exhibition in Turkey, Dirimart presents a new body of large-scale installations, expanding upon Michel Comte’s exploration of the impact of environmental decline on our glacial landscapes and oceans and the need for collective action. Michel Comte: “At a moment when Switzerland has just bid farewell to... Read more

Group Exhibition

Ad Infinitum 9 September - 10 November 2019 Curator: Ceren Erdem Dirimart is pleased to host the group exhibition titled Ad Infinitum . Opening its doors on September 9, the exhibition gathers the works of Ayşe Erkmen, Lucia Koch, Alicja Kwade, Sarah Morris, Sarkis, Taldans, Nasan Tur, Ebru Uygun, and Jorinde Voigt under the curatorship of Ceren Erdem.... Read more

Davide Balliano

Culebra 25 May - 14 July 2019 Dirimart is delighted to present Culebra , an exhibition of recent paintings of New York-based artist Davide Balliano. Opening on Thursday May 25th, the show marks the artist’s first solo presentation of his work in Istanbul. Balliano’s austere research operates on a cosmos of calculated shapes, halved arches and spirals,... Read more

Summer Wheat

Royal Jelly 11 April - 12 May 2019 Dirimart is pleased to announce Summer Wheat’s first solo show in Turkey. Wheat is presenting new works conceived exclusively for this exhibition in which she synthesizes ancient traditions and human experience of the modern world to create a vision of what being fed on royal jelly might look like, where... Read more

Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt

Ses-li Harfler I Ses-siz Harfler 20 February - 30 March 2019 Dirimart opens its doors to the second solo exhibition of the Frankfurt-based artist duo Özlem Günyol-Mustafa Kunt at the gallery. The exhibition gathers new works for this show as well as their recent Materialistic Paintings series. Material of Günyol and Kunt’s work comprises geographical and architectural measurements, political symbols, language,... Read more

Jorinde Voigt

Immersive Integral 21 December 2018 - 10 February 2019 Dirimart is pleased to host the first solo exhibition of Jorinde Voigt in Turkey. A selection of latest works of the artist from the Immersive Integral series and works specially created for the current exhibition are on view. Jorinde Voigt visualizes thoughts, real experiences, sensual impressions, conceptual texts, and music... Read more

Candida Höfer

Time, Places and Spaces 14 November - 16 December 2018 Dirimart is pleased to host Candida Höfer’s first solo exhibition in Turkey. At two premises of Dirimart, the exhibition gathers the artist’s big-size interior photographs that mark her entire work, her abstract photographs that focus on architectural details, as well as works selected from her Turks in Germany and Turks... Read more

Nissa Raad

Nissa Raad 21 September - 5 November 2018 Dirimart is pleased to host Nissa Raad’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul. In this new series, which would be exhibited for the first time, the artist embraces spontaneity and the freedom of abstraction. Emphasizing the artistic process rather than the final product, the artist employs a method involving the creation... Read more

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Fahrelnissa Zeid 18 September - 4 November 2018 Dirimart is pleased to announce Fahrelnissa Zeid’s solo exhibition. The exhibition brings together works compiled from private collections, some of which were displayed at the retrospective exhibitions held at Tate Modern and Deutsche Bank KunstHalle in 2017. The exhibition organized in cooperation with the collectors in Turkey and artist’s estate,... Read more

Curator: Heinz Peter Schwerfel

KINO DER KUNST 20 June - 29 July 2018 Screenings: June 20–July 1 AES+F, Inverso Mundus (2015) July 3-11 Oliver Pietsch, Tales of Us (2014) July 12-18 Clare Langan, The Human Flock (2017) Lola Gonzàlez, Summer Camp (2015) July 19-29 Yael Bartana, Inferno (2013) Moving images seem to be the most popular art form of today. This is why... Read more

Julian Rosefeldt

Avant-Garde and Apocalypse 11 May - 13 June 2018 Dirimart is pleased to announce Julian Rosefeldt’s first solo exhibition in Turkey. For his first extensive presentation in Istanbul, Dirimart opens both galleries, in Nişantaşı and Dolapdere, to the films and photographs of Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt, who has been celebrated worldwide for his film installation Manifesto (2015), a reenactment... Read more

Bernard Frize

Togetherless 20 March - 29 April 2018 Dirimart is pleased to host Bernard Frize’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul comprised of new works for this show. Since the late 1970s, Frize has been investigating on the materiality of the medium to further develop his method. Free of personal expression, any trace of subjectivity, he keeps generating predetermined... Read more

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz 2 February - 11 March 2018 The exhibition brings together works from his internationally acknowledged Metachrome , Pictures of Magazine , Postcards from Nowhere, and Repro series. Having grown interest in the photographic representations of his sculptural works in early steps of his career, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz eventually focuses mainly on photography. Indeed the artist... Read more

Âbidin Elderoğlu

Creating the Moon Anew 18 January - 29 April 2018 Dirimart is pleased to announce Âbidin Elderoğlu’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition brings together the artist’s oil, and charcoal works as well as sketches where he traced the abstract painting and abstraction beginning from the 1940’s. Elderoğlu’s works point out the search of a new path that... Read more

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu

Babatomi and The Kiss 20 December 2017 - 14 January 2018 The exhibition that brings together works from the series Babatomi and The Kiss , where the artist depicted sexuality one of the themes in overall his practice and moments of intimate intercourse moments. Babatomi includes drawings inspired by sexual drives of women and men, while The Kiss focuses on two... Read more

Güçlü Öztekin

Topsy-Turvy! Selpakla Gorili Bitirdim! 12 December 2017 - 21 January 2018 His latest works on craft paper will meet the audience at the artist’s first exhibition at Dirimart Dolapdere. A comprehensive artist book covering Öztekin’s production since 2009 will accompany the exhibition. The one-time performance of guguou&video collective, of which the artist is a member, takes place on the third floor... Read more

Yago Hortal

How Rocks Move 2 November - 10 December 2017 How Rocks Move is an exhibition in which the artist has experimented with traces and tracing through paintings. Marking, showing, proving are notions that Hortal works with, emphasizing the relationship of these notions with the word “rastro” in Spanish. The artist’s interpretations are focused on conceptions of evolution, progress, and... Read more

Nasan Tur

Splinter in My Eye 24 October - 3 December 2017 Nasan Tur has a diverse practice that ranges from sculpture, drawing, video, and photography to performance, and installation. Placing observation, analysis, and reproduction at the core of his works, Tur explores political ideologies, subliminal messages, and the symbols of power and dissent. The relationship between production and value and modes... Read more

Franz Ackermann

Come On! 14 September - 15 October 2017 Ackermann, known for his passionate paintings and installations dealing with themes of travel, tourism, globalization, and urban life, is bringing together landscapes from cities that he spent extensive periods of time during the last three years at Dirimart Dolapdere, The artist transforms these cities, ranging from Miami to Istanbul to... Read more

Group Exhibition

As Worlds Colliding 13 September - 28 October 2017 Curator: Ceren Erdem The show brings together Jessie Edelman, Raha Raissnia, and Summer Wheat, who implement a distinctive gaze as the core of their work. Each artist presents a window-space, conceptually and figuratively, through which the nature of making art is studied and analyzed by looking at traditional forms, media,... Read more

Haluk Akakçe

AKASHA, Heaven in a Wild Flower 12 September - 28 October 2017 The exhibition, at Dirimart Dolapdere’s pop-up space during the 15th İstanbul Biennial, emphasizes the different aspects of the artist’s practice, foregrounding his balanced relationship with media that goes beyond physical and spiritual worlds. Akakçe’s charcoal drawings exhibited for the first time in Europe, paintings, and reliefs are featured in this... Read more

Jiri Georg Dokoupil

Bubbles in Istanbul 25 May - 2 July 2017 The works from the Soap Bubble Series that the artist has been working on since the 1990s. The works exhibited were all created between 2013 and 2016. Dokoupil here redefines figurative art, articulated through his unique method of working. Jiri Georg Dokoupil is one of the founders of the German... Read more

Peter Zimmermann

may be may 16 May - 2 July 2017 Dirimart Nişantaşı is pleased to announce Peter Zimmermann’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. may be may takes the ambiguity of concepts that people have created over time as a point of reference.Through bringing together different compositions from different series and from various points in his practice since 2000, the... Read more

Yüksel Arslan

Commemoration 26 April - 10 May 2017 - Read more

Ayşe Erkmen

Kıpraşım Ripple 5 April - 14 May 2017 “ Erkmen does not use materials that could be designated as characteristic of her work nor does she have a specific aesthetic or a comprehensive, content-driven message. […] Thus, each work is a new surprise for those who have been following her works for years and for those who encounter... Read more

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Hayal Pozantı 9 March - 22 April 2017 The exhibition consists of paintings inspired by the history and the statistics of information technologies in Turkey. In her work, Pozantı reveals her own cipher system, titled Instant Paradise , whereby numbers and letters from the English language are replaced by her own iconic alphabet. The alphabet emerged in relation... Read more

Shirin Neshat

Dreamers 25 February - 26 March 2017 The show includes 2 video installations; “Roja” (2016) and “Sara” (2016) in addition to a series of new photos titled "Dreamers". Each video revolves around single female protagonists whose emotional and psychological narratives remain on the border between dream and reality; madness and sanity; and consciousness and sub-consciousness as they... Read more

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The World of My Father 1 February - 5 March 2017 Confronting the complexity of Turkish identity at the crossroads of the Eurasian continent, Ceylan’s work focuses on intimate psychological portraits in stunning detail, capturing the subtle richness of geographical locations and local customs along with postmodern existential themes. Ceylan’s films in which long takes and unusual viewpoints are used, betray... Read more

Sarkis

MIRROR 18 January - 19 February 2017 Co-curator: Ceren Erdem Dirimart is pleased to announce MIRROR , an exhibition by Sarkis conceived together by Ceren Erdem. In MIRROR , a space for refractions, proliferation, screams, and silence open as the artist’s timeless works from different periods that mark the time encounter the new works for this exhibition.... Read more

Cenk Akaltun

Ostensible 20 December 2016 - 15 January 2017 Ostensible refers to the nature and the complicated structure of the matters that form everything that is ostensible. The ancient Greeks believed that everything was comprised of four pure elements—earth, water, air, and fire which could not exist in their pure forms. These elements were also used in describing people's... Read more

Mustafa Hulusi

Negative Ecstasy 9 December 2016 - 8 January 2017 Negative Ecstasy consists of six new major works by Hulusi, each of which probes differing notions and physical manifestations of a division. The concept for the exhibition is based on French philosopher Georges Bataille’s assertion that consequential art involves a rupture between the boundary of life and death; the mixing... Read more

Özcan Kaplan

Chats with Mouth Shut... 8 November - 11 December 2016 While focusing on the illusions between the visible and the known, Chats with Mouth Shut… highlights the stratification processes and time lapses in the artist's oeuvres. The depth of Kaplan’s works is correlated with the phases of the production process. It is possible to see countless layers on the canvas,... Read more

Sarah Morris

Hellion Equilibrium 1 November - 4 December 2016 Morris’ paintings, known for their distinct use of color, streamline a way of perception as much as a virtual architecture, which is suggested through her titling. The latest paintings, as well as the title of the exhibition, take their cue from a ship sighted in Abu Dhabi, but originally registered... Read more

Haluk Akakçe

The Dharma of All Things 23 September - 23 October 2016 Akakçe’s new work explores the concept of dharma, or the cosmic order, through the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds, and in particular how our rapidly evolving society interacts with these realms. Channeling the effervescence of dream states as gatekeepers to the subconscious, Akakçe creates work that speaks to... Read more

Melike Abasıyanık Kurtiç

Hidden in the Details 21 September - 23 October 2016 One of the most prominent woman artists of Turkey, Melike Abasıyanık Kurtiç opened the solo show for the first time after a long while. For many years, the artist created authentic works that aim to touch mankind via nature, through the use of sea urchins and seaweed; this focus is... Read more

Group Exhibition

Surface and Beyond 26 May - 30 July 2016 Istanbul’s contemporary art scene continues to flourish. New exhibition spaces, galleries, museums, and art fairs continue to emerge. This May, Dirimart opens a second gallery in the Dolapdere area, next to the new museum of the Koc Foundation’s Contemporary Art Collection (expected to open by the end of 2017). Designed... Read more

Ebru Uygun

Random Process 12 May - 30 June 2016 From May 12 to June 10, Dirimart will be hosting Random Process, Ebru Uygun's sec­ond solo exhibition at the gallery, offering viewers a chance to become acquainted with her latest paintings. Uygun's physical and mental vigor find expression in her work, in which ordinary can­vases and paint take on entirely... Read more

Deniz Bilgin

"Again the eyes, always the eyes" 14 April - 4 May 2016 "We live in a world in which we are always observed by others, and above all by ourselves: a world surrounded by eyes. Yet it is also a world where much hides, or is hidden, from sight... In the paintings of Deniz Bilgin, we encounter a brand new set of... Read more

James Busby

Ripple 17 March - 9 April 2016 While James Busby's work at first glance looks like Minimalism, his process has more in common with Abstract Expressionism. Rather than meticulously planning a painting, Busby meticulously adds and subtracts while painting. He applies oils, acrylics and graphite, sands and burnishes the surface, applies some more and sands again, forever... Read more

Wang Qingsong

One World, One Dream 18 February - 12 March 2016 One World, One Dream includes 8 works curated by the artist himself which allude to the vague boundary between the worldly and the immaterial. The exhibition takes its title from the diptych work by the artist, which itself refers to the motto for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. The... Read more

Peter Zimmermann

CMYK 24 December 2015 - 6 February 2016 In his latest body of work, Zimmermann works with the method of color separation, which the title of the exhibition CMYK adopts. CMYK, refers to four inks, cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black) used in color printing. This color model works by partially or entirely masking colors ona lighter, such... Read more

Özlem Günyol / Mustafa Kunt

minute-by-minute 13 November - 19 December 2015 minute-by-minute addresses the tension of the current times. A tense waiting continues in the minute-by-minute flow of news. The works in the exhibition are positioned around the work Right (2015), which brings together all instances of the word “right” as it is used in the constitution of the Republic of... Read more

Entang Wiharso

Untold Story 8 October - 7 November 2015 "Through my art I am able to speak out and resist the things I disagree with - conventional thinking, the abuse of power and other injustices." excerpt from an interview of Ashley Bickerton with Entang Wiharso Artasiapacific issue 87, March/April 2014 In Wiharso’s works the artist’s personal experiences are blended... Read more

Ashley Bickerton

Walls & Paintings 3 September - 3 October 2015 Ashley Bickerton is associated with the 1980’s “Neo-Geo” artistic movement, which included artists such as Jeff Koons and Peter Halley. He moved to the Indonesian Island of Bali from New York in 1993, and his work has come to be influenced by his location. His early works were high-tech “commodity... Read more

Pelin Kırca

In Bloom 13 June - 11 July 2015 "Dream, it would evolve into nature. If not, how come a flower would grow!" Flowers somehow sprouting in dream-like abysses within the space of the In Bloom opera. Songs are sung amongst leaves unfettering their form. Human voices mix up with those of animals. Thereby the common desires are rediscovered:... Read more

Darren Almond

Darren Almond 14 May - 6 June 2015 "I'm fascinated by the idea that whenever anything seems too far away we turn to numbers. We'll say: a million, billion, trillion, but we can't really grasp the actual scale of them. I'm naturally drawn to numbers... I love the abstract quality of maths and the idea that within the... Read more

O Zhang

I Am Your Mirror, No.1 14 April - 9 May 2015 The empty billboards and all the destroyed or non-existing images around the country brings up a question of the notion of advertising which could not be imagined in China outside of a goal for communist propaganda. Read more

Group Exhibition

Group Exhibition 9 March - 9 April 2015 With the second show of 2015, Dirimart presents a group exhibition of the artists from its family. In this selection that will be seen beginning from 9 March, Dirimart offers 10 works from 10 different artists, whose production dates vary from 2002 to 2014 and techniques from silk screen to... Read more

Dirk Skreber

DIRK SKREBER 30 January - 28 February 2015 "Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real begins and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior." In Skreber's exhibition titled "Gözlemleme" which means the act of observing in Turkish, the artist who mostly aestheticizes the shocking changes resulting from collapse, disaster, political and social movemnets and... Read more

Fahrelnissa Zeid

FAHRELNISSA ZEID 26 December 2014 - 24 January 2015 In speaking of the history of modern painting, it is not possible to overlook the significance and preoccupation that Zeid has ever settled in a particular class and categorization. Zeid's figurative abstraction, geometric and abstract-expressionist technique of the material used by Şakir Pasha's family, which has marked Turkish art like... Read more

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

About Looking 25 November - 23 December 2014 When Nuri Bilge Ceylan portrays people by staging them inside a perfectly ordered, panoramic environment, they seem to look back into his camera – still it’s him who decides how their look looks. Sometimes they seem curious, sometimes proud, sometimes sad or resignated. But it’s always their look back at... Read more

Ekrem Yalçındağ

Vichy Paintings 25 October - 22 November 2014 - Read more

Cenk Akaltun

Stratum 23 September - 18 October 2014 Cenk Akaltun’s works prompt the audience to think on reality as she zooms in and out toward them. In every effort to give a meaning to what is visible, another element regarding the artist’s works interferes to the unity that the viewer tries to form. What enchants in nature, this... Read more

Doğan Doğan

Deep Emotion 12 June - 12 July 2014 Doğan focuses on the paradoxical stance displayed by the eye against space and time. Setting the viewer’s perspective as the point of departure, Doğan Doğan transfers the stratified structure encountered on every scale ranging from micro to macro to his works. He visualizes the works surrounded within a triangle of... Read more

Suzan Batu

Untitled 8 May - 7 June 2014 Suzan Batu, inspired by pop art and op art in her works that include various renditions of color and motif, prefers colors so intense that they cannot slip the attention of the viewer. Her attitude rejecting the notion of harmony of colors reveals Batu’s atonal world. As her engagement with... Read more

Mark Francis

Evidence of Absence 3 April - 3 May 2014 Writing about the art and ideas of Romantic painter Carl Carus, Elizabeth Gilmore Holt says that for him, “a mystical feeling of the universality of nature is insufficient. Nature is not a hieroglyph, behind which hides a secret. Nature itself is the secret”1 Carus was “a naturalist and doctor” who... Read more

Yeşim Akdeniz

Those Opposing and Those Sympathizing 12 March - 1 April 2014 Yeşim Akdeniz’s second solo exhibition at Dirimart after a three year break Those Opposing and Those Sympathizing is taking place between 12th of March and 1st of April 2014. Each of the 100 pieces on display depict 100 teapots, from which male heads facing away reach out from distinct teapots.... Read more

Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch 13 February - 8 March 2014 Nitsch continues to uphold a modern art ritual whose religious ceremony-like actions mostly known as Origien Mysterien Theater which is developed by him during his student years. Nitsch blesses the body in the context of blood, nakedness and violence while also introducing a critical approach to modernist body policies. He... Read more

Yüksel Arslan

Yüksel Arslan 3 January - 1 February 2014 Living and working in Paris since 1962, Arslan uses easily available, natural dyes like roots, dirt, egg yolk, honey, and urea instead of regular paint. “Arture,” the combination of the words “art” and the French suffix “-ure” that is nearly completely associated with the artist himself nowadays, represents a medium,... Read more

Paul Morrison

Black Light 28 November - 28 December 2013 Morrison’s “distorted landscapes” offer the viewer the experience of a unique landscape, especially with their zoomed-in floral patterns and contrasting colours, while stripping the image of its “narrative” and “descriptive” qualities. Influenced from Pop Art, specifically from Roy Lichtenstein’s oeuvre, Morrison’s works take the viewer to a journey between academic... Read more

Karin Kneffel

Karin Kneffel 24 October - 23 November 2013 "In my eyes, a painting is finished when I have nothing more to add; when I look at it and disco ver nothing that rubs me the wrong way; when I have come closer to my mental image and am surprised nonetheless." Karin Kneffel This exhibition in Dirimart, is the... Read more

Necmi Zekâ

keep blending - keep seperating 22 October - 16 November 2013 - Read more

Fabian Marcaccio

Some USA Stories 12 September - 12 October 2013 Some USA Stories marks the first solo exhibition of the artist in Turkey. It will be simultaneously held with the Istanbul Biennial at Dirimart’s main exhibition venue at Nişantaşı. Some USA Stories displays selected works from the artist’s same-titled series, which was exhibited in 2012 at the Kunstmuseum Krefeld. The... Read more

Bjørn Melhus

Liberty Park - In God We Trust 10 September - 12 October 2013 Liberty Park – In God We Trust is an 8-channel video installation tailored to the venue that deals with the rapid transformation of the urban texture of peripheral global cities like Istanbul. The work was conceptualized and named before Istanbul’s breakneck urban intervention and their social effects came into effect,... Read more

Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat 10 May - 15 June 2013 Neshat’s “Mourners” from her “The Book of Kings” series, which is inspired by the epic Shahnameh by Ferdowsi (940-1020), are based on portraits of individuals residing in the slums of Cairo, where the promise of freedom and democracy following the uprising against the Hosni Mubarak regime failed to materialize. Inscribed... Read more

Peter Zimmermann

Chrome 4 April - 6 May 2013 Dirimart is to host Peter Zimmermann’s solo-exhibition Chrome between April 4 and May 6, 2013. Peter Zimmermann’s works re-interpret the notion of traditional painting by using digital manipulation to abstract the original photos they are based on, and in turn, revealing the aesthetics of illusion. Peter Zimmermann has been painting... Read more

Özcan Kaplan

In Any Case 28 February - 30 March 2013 Özcan Kaplan gives the central place in his art to the actual process of painting and he does not define any limit for the subject of the exhibition. The artist emphasises that painting is, besides being the reference for everything, is the life itself as it has become the most... Read more

Halil Vurucuoğlu

İrin / Discharge 30 January - 25 February 2013 Halil Vurucuoglu is criticizing the apparent language of the media, which is far away from democratizing the human thought. The artist emphasizes that he watched a tragic event on the news and then he became disturbed both from tendency of the visual media to use sensational and worthless news, and... Read more

Bahar Oganer

Dreamland 27 December 2012 - 26 January 2013 In Dreamland , Oganer depicts the young woman figure with her back facing the viewer used in her auto portraits symbolizing herself in a new spatial dimension. The open and closed urban spaces in her previous works, are converted into suburban outdoors and nature. The figure of herself painted outside... Read more

Neda İsmail Atar

Industrial Form 18 October - 17 November 2012 Industrial Form series reflects the technological side of our lives, which according to Atar symbolizes the contemporary world. The artist emphasizes the fact that mass-produced objects that are planned and brought to use, reach their consumers worldwide and this abundance is an object bombardment that surrounds men. Read more

Ersan Deveci

Child's Play 6 September - 6 October 2012 - Read more

Katharina Grosse

Can You Spell Mixing? 22 June - 3 September 2012 . Read more

Wim Wenders

Pictures from The Surface of the Earth 17 May - 16 June 2012 Wim Wender’s series “Pictures from The Surface of the Earth” that transmit the mythic affects of the memory of the space. Artist has recorded impressive scenes of land- and cityscapes with his old-fashioned camera. His keen eye captures scenes that expand to eternity, deserts, mountains and abandoned terrains that emit... Read more

Franz Ackermann

Transit: Again/Always/Forever 7 April - 13 May 2012 Dirimart presents “Transit: Again/Always/Forever” by Franz Ackermann. Franz Ackermann mesmerizes the viewers by transforming our perception of reality. Employing a radiantly colored landscape of shapes, Ackermann investigates the themes of cultural commodification, globalism and urban generation. “Transit: Again/ Always/Forever” can be viewed from April 7th to May 13th. Franz Ackermann’s... Read more

Christoph Steinmeyer

Trooping the Colour 9 February - 11 March 2012 Taking 19th century film, fashion photography, renaissance and the male figures used by the Baroque masters as reference and interpreting their realities at times, Christoph Steinmeyer astounds the viewers with figures bearing the traces of the Romantic tradition that extends from the 19th century to the present. Steinmeyer, breaking down... Read more

Ebru Uygun

In Time and Rhythm 6 January - 7 February 2012 Ebru Uygun deconstructs the traditional artistic practice with her works. The piece of art that is constantly demolished and rebuilt by the artist as part of the process, is open to different readings by the spectator. Both the subject and the object is transformed and developed constantly by leaving traces.... Read more

Axel Hütte

Emerald Woods 25 November - 27 December 2011 - Read more

Garibaldi

Group Exhibition 14 September 2011 - 10 May 2012 Screenings: September 14 – October 22, 2011 Sarah Morris, Chicago (2011) November 25 – December 27, 2011 Bill Viola, The Fall Into Paradise (2005) January 5 – 27, 2012 Julian Rosefeldt, Asylum (2001/2002) February 2 – March 5, 2012 Isaac Julien, The Leopard (2007) March 15 – April 8, 2012... Read more

Sarah Morris

Two Erasing Principles 14 September - 22 October 2011 Sarah Morris’ well-deserved ubiqituous fame is based on the geometric abstractions of both her paintings and films, playing with architecture, design and the psychology of urban environments. Parallel to her paintings, Morris’ films also trace urban, social and bureaucratic topologies. In both media, she explores the psychology of the contemporary... Read more

Yeşim Akdeniz

The Tell-Tale Heart 24 May - 10 August 2011 In the exhibition titled The Tell-Tale Heart , Yeşim Akdeniz exhibited new, predominantly large-format paintings marked by a pictorial language and a repertoire of symbolic images. Read more

Peter Kogler

UNTITLED 2 April - 10 May 2011 Kogler's reference to space and architecture is integral to his work, also in the way it is perceived because it means that the viewer is set into a specific context with the space where the work is shown. And when the work is an installation or the room itself is... Read more

Ekrem Yalçındağ

Impressions From The Streets 15 February - 23 March 2011 The name of the exhibition emphasizes the artist’s interest in Impressionism. Rhythm and the liveliness of the colours by Robert Delaunay and the effective perception of the colour sequence by George Seurat have been the major sources of the art of Yalcindag. The exhibition is composed of seven works with... Read more

Sabine Boehl

Rendering Infinity 12 January - 12 February 2011 More than anything else, Sabine Boehl’s latest works were created in light of the overwhelming impression Istanbul has made on her. We can almost talk of an inspirational burst triggered by the energetic megapolis. The works are marvelously concentrated and penetratingly intense. They describe the restless endeavor to capture the... Read more

Thomas Bayrle

La Camera degli Sposi (After Mantegna) 25 November - 31 December 2010 Bayrle explains his works for the exhibition “Camera degli Sposi – (after Mantegna)”; I am returning after forty years with Sex and Rock n’ Roll… Sixteen works were printed in the 1970′s with the name “Feuer im Weizen/Fire in the Wheat” in Maerz Verlag, now they are back with big... Read more

Suzan Batu

Medals 27 October - 22 November 2010 - Read more

Necmi Zeka

Three Masked Tales 4 - 24 October 2010 In the exhibition where three serial artworks done in 2010 are exhibited, Necmi Zeka emphasizes the relationship between visual and verbal elements, as he did for his past exhibitions. The series entitled as “Sir? ”, “Stars and Stars ”, “The Whole and The Parts Against Each Other ” contain artworks... Read more

Doğan Doğan

Personas 9 June - 11 July 2010 - Read more

O Zhang

Horizon 29 April - 30 May 2010 In her exhibition titled Horizon , O Zhang reminds us that the girls who are born and raised in rural China constitute one of the weaker portions within society, while asserting the belief that these girls will play major roles in the future of the country. Even though the crouching... Read more

Peter Zimmermann

Next of Kin 26 March - 25 April 2010 Dirimart presents to art enthusiasts the recent works of Peter Zimmermann, who has aroused worldwide interest with the canvases and sculptures he created using epoxy resin. Using book covers as his source in his works since the 1980s, Zimmermann has made use of posters, wall papers, printed materials and boxes... Read more

Halil Vurucuoğlu

From Dusk till Dawn 21 January - 21 February 2010 - Read more

Bahar Oganer

Kristal 10 December 2009 - 10 January 2010 - Read more

Hermann Nitsch

Das Orgien Mysterien Theater 6 November - 5 April 2009 My theater is visual theater, and learning by seeing is a particularly important concern of my work. Throughout the history of the theater, the visible, that which can be grasped with the eye, has never been as important as it is in O.M. Theater. When I realised that language alone... Read more

Ghada Amer

Failing Sharazad 8 September - 25 October 2009 Ghada Amer, stating "every woman should love her body and use it as a tool for seduction", questions the fundamental notions of Western and Eastern cultures, dealing from a feminist viewpoint with woman as her theme under titles such as love, sex, and passion. The works by Ghada Amer who... Read more

Ramazan Bayrakoğlu

1km 13 May - 20 June 2009 - Read more

Ebru Uygun

TIME FOR A DREAM 10 March - 12 April 2009 Uygun’s work, which is seen in the current exhibition Time for a Dream , is created violently. Uygun now paints onto the linen of unstretched canvas, placed either on the floor or the wall of her studio. The location for the canvas depends on the desired effect: the vertical positioning... Read more

Group Exhibition

Plastic Tree Vol. III 15 January - 28 February 2009 Plastic Tree Vol. III group exhibition brings together under the curatorship of Ekrem Yalçındağ works created at various times by eight contemporary artists. Canvases and photographs by Sabine Boehl, Doğan Doğan, Hayal İncedoğan, Sandra Mann, Bahar Oganer, Barış Sarıbaş, Sabire Susuz and Halil Vurucuoğlu may be seen at the exhibition... Read more

Ali Emir Tapan

Discreet Intimacy 3 December 2008 - 10 January 2009 - Read more

Suzan Batu

Çukulata-Fıstık Flavors 6 - 29 November 2008 Batu's interpretations of elements of decoration are optically multi-dimensional, dynamic and colorful and combine symbols from the cultures of the East and the West. Nothing that the geometric and calligraphic forms and shapes she uses to reflect the world in which we live in, Batu says that she strives to... Read more

Necmi Zeka

Rhymes and Weeks 10 October - 1 November 2008 The exhibition Rhymes and Weeks includes two series of works created by Necmi Zekâ during the last two years. Both series equivalently explore visual and verbal possibilities while dealing with the central problematic of forming and working of images. The Rhymes series attempts to transform the image-reality dichotomy to yet... Read more

Barış Sarıbaş

Run(a)way 11 September - 4 October 2008 - Read more

Thomas Bayrle

-- 22 April - 31 May 2008 - Read more

Halil Vurucuoğlu

Bamboo 5 March - 5 April 2008 - Read more

Coco Kühn ve Ebru Uygun

Group Exhibition 15 December 2007 - 19 January 2008 The joint exhibition of Coco Kühn of Berlin and Ebru Uygun of Istanbul presented to viewers two young artists who had started from different inquiries and arrived at similar visual results. Having managed to establish their own interpretations at a fairly early age, Kühn and Uygun actually bear certain characteristics... Read more

Edwin Schafer

Translucency / Transition 6 November - 8 December 2007 - Read more

Noyan Turunç

- 15 June - 5 July 2007 -- Read more

Avni Koyun

Metropol 22 May - 13 June 2007 - Read more

Ali Atmaca

---- 2 - 20 May 2007 - Read more

Ekrem Yalçındağ

Ornament.Pattern 7 April - 30 March 2007 Ekrem Yalçındağ, who works in Frankfurt and Istanbul, has been true to his understanding of abstract composition, which emphasizes the intense impact of color in his paintings, since the beginning of the 1990s. Concentrating on the motive arising from the Ancient Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman arts in his early large-scale... Read more

Group Exhibition

ERRÓ 10 March - 5 April 2007 Painting is the laboratory of the possible: a place where one can experiment, make old out of new. I paint because painting is private form of Utopia, the pleasure to contradict, the happiness to be alone against everybody, the joy to provoke. Read more

Pat Andrêa

Around The 'Praise The Folly' 25 January - 22 February 2007 Pat Andrea says that 'art is a sublimation of existential anguish' and that ''the line is one of the greatest inventions of humanity, being able to say everything in a line is wonderful." Read more

Jens Jensen

Jens Jensen 22 December 2006 - 14 January 2007 - Read more

Mark Brusse

- 18 November - 8 December 2006 The impact of Eastern philosophy in Mark Brusse is undeniable. Overall, Zen Buddhism helped the artist acquire new value judgements on life-art as whole and express the accumulation he had while the general principles of the teaching, suach as harmony, respect, simplicity and tranquility formed the essence of his works.... Read more

Alp Tamer Ulukılıç

The Rabbit Tamer 10 - 23 June 2006 This exhibition is about rabbits and humans, besides including nondidactic hints about the vital similarities between these two species. Read more

Suzan Batu

Suzan Batu 23 May - 9 June 2006 Suzan Batu's works that are influenced by graphics, humor, and pop-art, could also be considered as an indicator that reflects the experiences of personal limits. The artist jauntily gathers all the things she collected along the way. Read more

Jan Voss

Jan Voss 22 March - 13 April 2006 "First, the details appear in Jan Voss' works. Small lines, color stains, transparent transitions... They are those flowing out of the very depths of the artist. Then they suddenly start running; as if they want to find their place on the surface at once, they stop flowing and hurt themselves... Read more

Sevgi Karay

Fractals 4 - 19 March 2006 Fractals are not products of geometry of human made stagnant buildings, roads, machines, but of the geometry of the living and of the flowing nature, as well as of the mind that tries to grasp this edifice, this totality. The self-similar structure of a fractal, its characteristic of enclosing the... Read more

Antonio Segui

Antonio Segui 3 December 2005 - 7 January 2006 Segui's works hold two great powers: the power of eccentric images and humor set forth by the artist persuasion. Read more

Komet

Gizli resimler ‘ŞEY’ler ve allak bullak durumlarla ilgili bir sergi 22 September - 15 October 2005 - Read more

Mark Brusse

Mark Brusse 7 - 30 May 2005 Mark Brusse, kırılma noktasında duran sanatçılardan. Avrupa’nın çoksesli yaratım anlayışıyla oluşturduğu birikimi alıp dünyaya taşıyanlardan. Onun yapıtlarına baktığımızda bir gezginin güncesini bulursunuz. İlk bakışta onun yapıtları her sanatçıda olduğu gibi kişiseldir, ama size yürüdüğü yollara dair ipuçları verir. Bu uzun koşuda kendimizi durduracağımız an bu. Mark Brusse’un yapıtları bize bir... Read more

Nurullah Berk

Retrospektif Sergi 9 April - 4 May 2005 - Read more

Pat Andréa

Painting Exhibition 18 December 2004 - 18 January 2005 - Read more

Utku Varlık

-- 6 - 30 November 2004 - Read more

Gonca Sezer

Eyewitness 3 - 24 May 2003 - Read more

Pictures from the Family

Pictures from the Family 1 May - 20 June 2003 Exhibition Dates: 1.05.2003–20.06.2003 The rare works from the shared studio of artist couple Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and Eren Eyüboğlu were brought together by Dirimart in an exhibition titled Pictures from the Family at the gallery’s Dirim No. 5 exhibition space, Kemercountry, Istanbul, in May 2003. Read more

İnci Ertuğ

Sand inside me 18 January - 5 February 2003 - Read more

Necmi Zekâ

Surprise Witness 17 October - 10 November 2002 Suprise Witness As a response to the what-are-you-talking-about-look, we have to ask back: Exactly what kind of homework did they give you? Some students forget their homework, so, we should perhaps be asking: Did they give you any homework?.. It is as if we were deceived, we do not know... Read more

Mehmet Güleryüz

“Painting Exhibition” 22 September - 25 October 2002 - Read more

A. Halim Kulaksız

Shell: Abstractions 11 May - 4 June 2002 - Read more

Sabri Berkel

All Time, Sabri Berkel 9 April - 5 May 2002 - Read more

Yüksel Arslan

Le Capital 7 March - 5 April 2002 Dirimart brought together selected works by Yüksel Arslan's famed Capital series in its second exhibition after its opening as an art gallery. Read more