The arts diary

All events

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  Art, Talks and tours

  15th ICOC – Istanbul

  June 6, 2024 – January 9, 2024

  ISTANBUL

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  Jazz

  Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio

  April 25, 2024 20.00

  Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Maçka, Istanbul

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  Jazz

  Free House: Ali Perret, İmer Demirer, Meriç Demirkol, Raci Pişmişoğlu & Şenol Küçükyıldırım

  April 25, 2024 21.30 (doors open 21.00)

  Bova Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Auction

  Christie’s Islamic and Indian Art Spring 2024

  Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets

  April 25, 2024

  Christie’s King Street, London

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  choral music

  Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

  April 26, 2024 20.00

  Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy, Istanbul

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  Jazz

  Şenova Ülker Quintet

  April 26, 2024 21.30 (doors open 21.00)

  Bova Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Exhibition

  Occupied City

  Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918–1923

  January 10, 2023 – April 27, 2024

  Istanbul Research Institute

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  Solo exhibition

  Ayça Telgeren: Broken Horizon

  March 7, 2024 – April 27, 2024

  Galerist, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Jazz

  Ece Göksu, İmer Demirer & Eylül Biçer

  ‘Live in Assos’ album launch

  April 27, 2024 21.30 (doors open 21.00)

  Bova Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  CHAMBER MUSIC

  A Dream of Love Foretold in the Coffee Grounds

  Coffee Concerts Series

  April 28, 2024 11.00

  Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy, Istanbul

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  Exhibition

  Melek Celâl: A Forgotten Woman of the Republic

  The Many Ways of Melek Celâl

  December 26, 2023 – April 28, 2024

  Sakıp Sabancı Museum, ISTANBUL

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  CHAMBER MUSIC

  Borusun Quartet: German Romanticism in Chamber Music

  April 29, 2024 20.00

  Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy, Istanbul

  The inimitable Borusan Quartet perform Schumann and Mendelssohn

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  Jazz

  ‘Three’ – Çağrı Sertel, Alp Ersönmez & Volkan Öktem

  Garanti BBVA International Jazz Day Concert

  April 30, 2024

  Bova Jazz Club, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Jazz

  Yazz Ahmed

  Garanti BBVA International Jazz Day Concert

  April 30, 2024

  Zorlu Performing Arts Centre (PSM), Levent, Istanbul

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  Contemporary art

  Candeğer Furtun & Christie Brown

  April 3, 2024 – May 4, 2024

  Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara

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  Opera

  Don Giovanni

  March 14, 2024 – May 9, 2024

  Atatürk Cultural Centre (Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, or AKM), Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Art

  Out of Place: Photographs by Monica Fritz

  April 19, 2024 – May 18, 2024

  Şule Gazioğlu Art and Design Gallery, Emirgan, Istanbul

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  Art

  Diyarbakırlı Tahsin Bey: Painter of the Turkish Seas

  April 24, 2024 – May 18, 2024

  Galeri Selvin, Beşiktaş, Istanbul

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  Talks and tours

  Greater Anatolia Rug and Textile Study Tour, May 23 – June 5, 2024

  May 23, 2024 – May 23, 2024

  HALI offers their first tour in Turkey in partnership with The Black Tent Project. Timed to take place over the fortnight before the ICOC XV conference in Istanbul.

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  Piano recital

  Hungarian-Turkish Year of Culture: Gábor Farkas

  May 26, 2024 20.30

  Naval Museum, Beşiktaş, Istanbul

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  Exhibition

  Istanbul as Far as the Eye Can See

  Views across Five Centuries

  September 20, 2023 – May 26, 2024

  Meşher, ISTANBUL

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  Art, Contemporary art

  Floating Islands

  July 8, 2023 – May 31, 2024

  Istanbul Modern, Tophane, Istanbul

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  Adorable and Precious

  Children's Costumes in the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection

  November 24, 2023 – June 30, 2024

  SHM: The Sadberk Hanım Museum

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  Group exhibition

  Under Two Suns

  August 24, 2023 – July 28, 2024

  Odunpazarı Modern Museum

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  Art

  On the spot: Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul

  A History

  October 26, 2023 – August 18, 2024

  The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Piano Recital

  Hungarian-Turkish Year of Culture: Róza Radnóti

  September 26, 2024 20.30

  Naval Museum, Beşiktaş, Istanbul

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  PHOTOGRAPHY

  Ozan Sağdıç: The Photographer’s Testimony

  March 14, 2024 – October 20, 2024

  Istanbul Modern, Tophane, Istanbul

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  exhibition

  Şakir Gökçebağ: As it Seems

  Arter

  April 5, 2024 – November 10, 2024 11am - 7pm
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  Art, Contemporary art

  Turkey Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia

  Gülsün Karamustafa

  April 20, 2024 – November 24, 2024

  Venice

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  Seminar Announcement

  Travellers in Ottoman Lands

  Seminar Announcement

  April 9, 2025 – April 12, 2025

  ISTANBUL