The arts diary

Cornucopia’s choice: the pick of cultural events in Istanbul and around the world

For My Friend / Arkadaşım için

Embroidered Letter and Document Wallets in the Sadberk Hanım Museum and Ömer M. Koç Collections

SHM: The Sadberk Hanım Museum, The Bosphorus, Istanbul September 10, 2022 – May 31, 2023
Hybrid panel

The Turkish Presidential Elections

What Happens Next?

British Institute at Ankara June 1, 2023 17:30 - 20:00 (London BST) 19:30 - 22:00 (Ankara UTC+3)
Solo exhibition

Notes from Overground III

Ahmet Elhan
May 3, 2023 – June 10, 2023
Exhibition

Hundred Years Ago Antakya, İskenderun, Musa Dağı
April 18, 2023 – June 10, 2023
Solo exhibition

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Serdar Acar

Pi Artworks Istanbul April 15, 2023 – June 10, 2023
Solo exhibition

Infatuation

Ömer Pekin

Versus Art Project May 11, 2023 – June 17, 2023
Performance

Istanbul Music Festival 2023
June 1, 2023 – June 17, 2023
Group exhibition

Staying in a Foreign Land

Gurbette Kalmak
March 18, 2023 – June 18, 2023

“If you do not like the work,
Go back home,” they say.
My work is hard,
My work is dirty,
My wage is low.
[Semra Ertan, My Name is Foreigner, 1981]
Solo exhibition

Goat on the Mountain, Moon in the Sky, Fish in the Water

rezzan gümgüm

DEPO April 27, 2023 – June 24, 2023
Exhibition

Broken Memories

Andréas Lang

DEPO April 18, 2023 – June 24, 2023

Exhibition

Anti-Art

The Absence of Definition
April 17, 2023 – June 30, 2023
Solo exhibition

Binary

Cem Sonel

Anna Laudel Düsseldorf April 22, 2023 – July 1, 2023
Conference

Jalal al-Din Rumi and his Legacy

Religion, Literature and Culture between Medieval Anatolia and the Persianate World, 13th-14th Centuries

British Institute at Ankara July 6, 2023 – July 7, 2023 07:15 - 13:45 (London BST) 09:15 - 15:45 (Ankara UTC+3)
Group exhibition

Prizma Expanded: Poetics of Perception

Akbank Sanat Beyoğlu May 11, 2023 – July 11, 2023
Exhibition

A Story of Self

Museum Gazhane April 4, 2023 – July 16, 2023
Online Program

Environmental Archaeology

ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations June 19, 2023 – July 19, 2023
exhibition

Grief and Pleasure

OMM
September 7, 2022 – July 30, 2023 9:30am - 6pm
Online seminar

Ancient Languages of Anatolia Summer Programme

ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations July 14, 2023 – August 11, 2023
Exhibition

I Am Still Alive

Cengiz Çekil

Arter February 9, 2023 – September 24, 2023
Exhibition

Occupied City

Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918–1923

Istanbul Research Institute January 10, 2023 – December 26, 2023