'THE VOLCANO LOVER'
CURATOR | ANLAM DE COSTER
GALERIST, ISTANBUL
UNTIL APRIL 26, 2025

Galerist is proud to present the exhibition The Volcano Lover, curated by Anlam de Coster. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s novel ‘The Volcano Lover: A Romance’, the exhibition constructs an allegorical volcano, inviting artists to explore its rich symbolic dimensions. The exhibition, which will be on view until April 26, brings together works by Melike Abasıyanık Kurtiç, Beatrice Arraes, Dalya Baruh, Lysandre Begijn, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Alex Červený, Sophie Dries, Pietro Fabris, Azzurra Galatolo, Dimitris Gketsis, Cecilia Granara, Başak Günak, Mariana Hahn, Jen Hitchings, Ahmet Doğu İpek, Merve İşeri, Marie Jacotey, Onur Kılıç, Stanislao Lepri, Yıldız Moran, Lara Ögel, Zoë Paul, Anousha Payne, Moritz Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Camila Rocha, Thiago Rocha Pitta, Friedrich Rehberg, Johanna Seidel, Yusuf Sevinçli, Pari Sofianou, Giorgio Sommer, Ayla Tavares, Ayça Telgeren, Margaret R. Thompson, Gina Tibbott, Elif Uras, Burcu Yağcıoğlu, and Robert Wilson.

With the support of | Consulate General of Brasil in Istanbul, Instuto Guimães Rosa, Tiziana Terenzi, and the Marmara Group.

CURATOR'S TOUR
APRIL 19, SATURDAY, 14:30

We invite you to a journey through the ongoing exhibition at Galerist, accompanied by its curator Anlam de Coster; stepping through the threshold of the underworld and exploring the layers of the unconscious. Set to take place on April 19, Saturday, at 14:30, the tour will be in Turkish.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

NURİ KUZUCAN
'ALL FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTING'
GALERIST, ISTANBUL
MAY 7 - JUNE 21, 2025

Galerist is pleased to present All Fragments of a Painting, Nuri Kuzucan’s second exhibition at the gallery, opening on May 7, Wednesday. This exhibition invites viewers into a visual and conceptual dialogue with the space, where Kuzucan constructs an experiential environment that highlights the presence and memory of the nineteenth-century building in which the gallery resides, without imposing a guiding narrative.

NEWS FROM GALERIST ARTISTS

YEŞİM AKDENİZ
'SILENT STRANGERS'
SOY CAPITÁN, BERLIN
UNTIL APRIL 25, 2025

Yeşim Akdeniz's solo exhibition titled Silent Strangers will be on view at Soy Capitán in Berlin, until April 25, 2025. Yeşim Akdeniz’s practice is infused with symbolic narratives that reflect cultural production, negotiation, and appropriation while exploring the movement of forms, materials, and labor, examining the intersections between craft and industrial production. Central to her work is a distinct visual language of symbolism, through which she weaves personal and cultural references, offering layered interpretations of history, identity, and collective memory.

SEMİHA BERKSOY
'SINGING IN FULL COLOR'
HAMBURGER BAHNHOF, BERLIN
UNTIL MAY 11, 2025

Semiha Berksoy's comprehensive retrospective exhibition titled Singing in Full Color will be on view at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin until May 11, 2025. Co-curated by the directors of the museum Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, with the assistant curators Emily Finkelstein and Agnes Rameder, the exhibition will be accompanied by an edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalogue series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano. A celebrated artist and prima donna who left her exceptional mark on Türkiye's cultural and artistic history, Semiha Berksoy's comprehensive exhibition will be on display at Istanbul Modern in 2026.

ELİF URAS
'ANYWHERE BUT HERE'
CANDICE MADEY, NEW YORK
UNTIL APRIL 19, 2025

Elif Uras’s work titled Dryads is currently on view at Candice Madey in New York until April 19, 2025, as part of the group exhibition titled Anywhere But Here. The exhibition explores representations of both our interior and exterior environments, embracing landscape as a metaphor for a psychological or emotional space; it addresses how the landscape genre offers a form of escape and a necessary retreat, particularly in times of disorder and uncertainty, and espouses the ways in which quiet reflection can strengthen belief systems, embolden ideals, and generate new possibilities for world-building.

HERA BÜYÜKTAŞCIYAN
'WOMEN, TOGETHER'
EMST, ATHENS

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan's sculptural installation titled Nothing Further Beyond, is on view at EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, as part of their collection exhibition WOMEN, Together. Curated by Katerina Gregos and Eleni Koukou, the exhibition is the first rehang of the museum’s collection in its permanent home, since the initial presentation in 2019. The under-representation of women and the urgency regarding gender equality – one of the main shared concerns underlying all ‘waves’ of feminism over the years – is central to the exhibition.

NİL YALTER
'ART AS AGENCY'
IMMA, DUBLIN
UNTIL FEBRUARY 6, 2028

Nil Yalter's installation titled Exile is a Hard Job, is on view at IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, as part of their three-year collection exhibition Art as Agency until February 6, 2028. Through thematic, chronological, geographical, and media-based approaches, the exhibition examines how artworks connect across time and contexts, fostering new interpretations and relevance. Works from the 1960s to the 1980s evoke the foundational story of the Irish art world. While acknowledging the context of the modernist, predominantly male dominance of that era, the exhibition also spotlights the material innovation and socially engaged practices of others who persisted despite the relatively conservative status quo.

SEMİHA BERKSOY
'A VANISHED WHOLENESS'
MODERN ART, PARIS
ENDED ON APRIL 12, 2025

Semiha Berksoy’s work titled Crying (Self-portrait), has been part of as part of the group exhibition titled A Vanished Wholeness at Modern Art in Paris, which ended on April 12, 2025. The exhibition, curated by Simon Grant, showcased the work of artists united by their exploration of the human body not as a solid whole, but as restless, fragile, and volatile. Many examples throughout A Vanished Wholeness reflected on heightened states of being.

RECENT FAIR

YEŞİM AKDENİZ
ART ROTTERDAM
BOOTH K14
NEW ART SECTION
MARCH 27 - 30, 2025

Galerist presented a selection of recent works by Yeşim Akdeniz as part of the New Art Section of Art Rotterdam fair, curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, which took place between March 27 and 30.

BIENNIAL PARTICIPATION

HERA BÜYÜKTAŞCIYAN
BUKHARA BIENNIAL
SEPTEMBER 5 - NOVEMBER 20, 2025
TAIPEI BIENNIAL
NOVEMBER 1, 2025 - MARCH 29, 2026

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan will participate in two upcoming biennales this autumn.

The 1st edition of the Bukhara Biennial is inspired by a widely known Uzbek legend. Recipes for Broken Hearts takes the form of an expanded feast to explore the healing power of art and culture through communal participation and will look at time as a key ingredient in art, cooking and healing. Bukhara’s rich history as an important intellectual and economic centre for production on the Silk Roads and as a hub for cultural exchange between Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the twentieth century, will be manifested through an interdisciplinary experience with a strong focus on craft and cultures of togetherness. Curated by Artistic Director Diana Campbell with Wael Al Awar as Creative Director of Architecture.

The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial, titled Whispers on the Horizon, brings together 54 artists from 35 cities worldwide. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition features 33 newly commissioned works and site-specific installations that engage deeply with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum's unique architecture and context. The 2025 Taipei Biennial amplifies the voices of young and mid-career artists, with nearly half of the participants born after 1984.

ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMME

LARA ÖGEL
DELFINA FOUNDATION, LONDON
MAY 12 - JUNE 26, 2025

Lara Ögel will be joining Delfina Foundation’s Spring 2025 season as artist-in-residence. During the 6-week programme in May-June, realised with SAHA’s support, Lara Ögel will conduct research on collective healing and resilience in ambiguous times, parallel to the fragility of the body and the home.