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  • group exhibition

    Tapestry: Woven Tales

    April 11, 2019 – May 24, 2019
    Anna Laudel, Galata, Istanbul
  • Group Exhibition

    The New Human Agenda

    April 13, 2019 – May 25, 2019
    Akbank Sanat Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Talk

    Notes from the Underworld

    A talk by Janet Bowers
    May 25, 2019 Saturday, 2–4pm
    The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
  • Connoisseur

    Bruno Barbey: My Morocco

    March 14, 2019 – May 25, 2019
    Leica Gallery, Bomonti and Feriköy, Istanbul
  • Lecture

    Writing the Ottoman Mystery Novel

    Storytelling with Jenny White
    May 28, 2019 19.00
    Lecture at the Swedish Research Institute, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Lecture

    Landscapes of Reform

    Ottoman Palace Gardens of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century with Dr Deniz Turker
    May 30, 2019 6:30pm
  • Concert

    New Sounds

    Rudan's Coffee Break
    May 31, 2019 20.00
    The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • solo exhibition

    Innocence

    Pınar Tınç
    April 27, 2019 – May 31, 2019
    Arthouse Istanbul, Arnavutköy
  • solo exhibition

    Guest Room

    Ömür Tokgöz
    May 2, 2019 – June 1, 2019
    ECNP Galeri, Nişantaşı, Istanbul
  • group exhibition

    Printed ‘19

    Multiple Choice
    April 11, 2019 – June 1, 2019
    Mixer, Karaköy, Istanbul
  • Festival

    Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival Rome 2019

    Arts & Culture Festival
    June 1, 2019 – June 2, 2019
    Rome
  • Exhibition

    Traces

    10 Years at Plato Sanat
    May 9, 2019 – June 3, 2019
    Fener and Balat, Istanbul
  • solo exhibition

    Mi̇hri̇

    A Migrant Painter Of Modern Times
    March 7, 2019 – June 9, 2019
    SALT Galata, Galata, Istanbul
  • Exhibition

    Nomads Tent Road Show

    Tribal arts and more...
    June 1, 2019 – June 12, 2019 Every day from 11am to 4pm.
    The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
  • Guided Tour

    Islamic Art in London

    Art Historical London event
    May 25, 2019 – June 12, 2019 Saturday, May 25, 11am to 12.30; Wednesday, June 12, 11am to 12.30
    Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • group exhibition

    In Between Pilgrim

    April 25, 2019 – June 14, 2019
    Orjin Maslak, Maslak, Istanbul
  • Solo Exhibition

    A Rough Wind Was Circling the Square

    Serkan Yüksel
    May 9, 2019 – June 15, 2019
    x-ist, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Connoisseur

    The Extraordinary Machines of Jazari

    Exhibition
    February 15, 2019 – June 15, 2019
    UNIQ Istanbul
  • Solo Exhibition

    Seesaw

    Sinan Demirtaş
    May 7, 2019 – June 15, 2019
    Bozlu Art Project Şişli, Şişli
  • Book Launch

    Pierre Loti’s Collection of Oriental Arms and Armour

    Book Launch
    June 24, 2019 18.00–20.00
    London
  • Symposium

    Fifth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium

    Byzantine Anatolia: Spaces and Communities
    June 24, 2019 – June 26, 2019
    ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, İstiklâl Caddesi, Istanbul
  • Film Screening

    Screening of Mustang

    Films on the Green
    June 28, 2019 8.30pm
    New York
  • Group Exhibition

    Fragments of a Hologram Rose

    May 24, 2019 – June 29, 2019
    Sanatorium, Karaköy, Istanbul
  • solo exhibition

    Desire to Survive

    Gülay Semercioğlu
    May 29, 2019 – June 29, 2019
    Pi Artworks Istanbul, Karaköy, Istanbul
  • Connoisseur, Performance

    The 47th Istanbul Music Festival

    Darkness of Being, Lightness of Being
    June 11, 2019 – June 30, 2019
    ISTANBUL
  • Solo Exhibition

    Culebra

    May 25, 2019 – June 30, 2019 Tuesday–Saturday 10:00–19:00; Sunday 12:00–19:00
    Dirimart Dolapdere, Dolapdere
  • Connoisseur

    HALI London 2019

    June 24, 2019 – June 30, 2019
    United Kingdom
  • Call for applications

    Contemporary Levant

    2019 Prize for Best Article
  • Group Exhibition

    I’m An Eye, A Mechanical Eye

    May 14, 2019 – July 5, 2019
    Zilberman Gallery and Project Space, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Solo Exhibition

    Living Inside a Tale And There Only

    May 14, 2019 – July 5, 2019
    Zilberman Gallery and Project Space, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Solo Exhibition

    (applause)

    Bora Akıncıtürk
    May 22, 2019 – July 6, 2019
    Pilevneli, Dolapdere
  • group exhibition

    The Event of a Thread

    Global Narratives in Textiles
    February 22, 2019 – July 7, 2019
    Istanbul Modern Temporary Space, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Textiles Tour

    HALI Tour 2019

    Great British Collections
    June 30, 2019 – July 7, 2019
    United Kingdom
  • Workshop

    Intuitive Drawing

    Day workshop with Elly Deutschmann
    July 7, 2019 Sunday 10am to 4pm
    The Cornucopia Room, United Kingdom
  • Lecture

    The Silk Roads: Arts, History and Exploration

    A Royal Asiatic Society Summer School
    July 8, 2019 – July 11, 2019
    Royal Asiatic Society, London
  • group exhibition

    Shared Sacred Spaces

    April 20, 2019 – July 14, 2019
    DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul
  • Conference

    ASTENE Conference 2019

    The Thirteenth Biennial Conference July 12–15
    United Kingdom
  • Exhibition

    Oriental Visions

    From Dreams into Light
    March 7, 2019 – July 21, 2019
  • Lecture

    31st Levantine Heritage Foundation dinner gathering

    with guest speakers Gareth Winrow and Prof Gerald MacLean
    July 24, 2019 Wednesday from 6pm
    London
  • Solo Exhibition

    Interrupted Halfway Through

    April 24, 2019 – July 27, 2019
    Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Berlin
  • group exhibition

    Out of Ink

    Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art
    April 11, 2019 – July 28, 2019
    The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Exhibition

    Power of Pattern:

    Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection
    February 3, 2019 – July 28, 2019
    USA
  • Exhibition

    The Treasures and the Tradition of ‘Lale’ in the Ottoman Empire

    March 20, 2019 – July 28, 2019
    Japan
  • Group Exhibition

    Mixer Sessions IV

    June 14, 2019 – August 4, 2019 Opening is 14 June, 18.30–20.30
    Mixer, Karaköy, Istanbul
  • Group Exhibition

    Replica of the Original

    May 22, 2019 – August 18, 2019
    SALT Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul
  • Solo Exhibition

    From a Friend’s Drawer

    Cihat Burak
    April 9, 2019 – August 31, 2019
    Bozlu Art Project Şişli, Şişli
  • contemporary art fair

    Contemporary Istanbul 2019

    September 12, 2019 – September 15, 2019
    Nişantaşı, Istanbul
  • Connoisseur

    Looking From In-Between

    A profile of Meşrutiyet Street
    March 21, 2019 – September 21, 2019
    Istanbul Research Institute, Tepebaşı, Istanbul
  • Auction

    Bonhams, Autumn 2019

    19th Century European, Victorian & British Impressionist Art
    September 26, 2019
    Bonhams New Bond Street, London
  • Exhibition

    Harmony and Colour in Manuscripts:

    Illuminated Books, Documents and Beautiful Writing
    April 25, 2019 – September 27, 2019
    Sadberk Hanım Museum
  • Connoisseur

    Ara Güler: Aphrodisias

    March 28, 2019 – September 30, 2019
    Ara Güler Museum, Bomonti and Feriköy, Istanbul
  • Pavilion of Turkey at the Venice Biennale

    We, Elsewhere

    The Pavilion of Turkey hosts İnci Eviner at La Biennale di Venezia this year
    May 11, 2019 – November 24, 2019
  • Performance

    17th New York Turkish Film Festival

    December 12, 2019 – December 15, 2019
    New York
  • Exhibition

    The Effendis of 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap

    March 30, 2019 – December 31, 2019 Open Mondays to Saturdays, 9:00–16:00
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