Exhibition Akbank 39. Günümüz Sanatçıları Ödülü Sergisi

Konut sorununu teknik bir mesele olarak ele almış yüzyıl ortası rasyonalizmine hararetle karşı çıkan Avusturyalı ressamın, tıpkı resim ve heykel sanatlarındaki gibi, diploma koşulu aramaksızın, herkesin kendi evini de özgürce inşaa edebilmesini savunuşu, bugünün dünyasında sıra dışı gözükmeyebilir.

Exhibition Intentions

In the first ‘Curating Contemporary Art’ Seminar Program that was realized between 2019 November and 2020 June, the finishing projects consisted of twenty projects gathered around the main theme ‘Intentions’. 

Concert Cenk Erdoğan “OttoJazz” Ensemble

Having met with the listeners in the previous editions of Akbank Jazz Festival, Cenk Erdoğan will take stage at the festival with a special project this year.

Dance NEFES - IU State Conservatory Ballet Department 10th Grade Students

After a long time, we wanted to breathe together with dance. As a result of the support, effort and sensitivity of Istanbul University State Conservatory Ballet Major 10th Grade students and their families, who continue their work with great devotion under the pandemic conditions.

Exhibition A Space Hidden to Itself

German Artist Ben Willikens’ almost miraculously mysterious yet concrete spaces emerge from an emptiness and they each create an emptiness in an of themselves.

Concert Yunus Belgin Quartet

Born in Ludwigsburg and raised in Munich, Yunus Belgin began studying drums at the age of 9 with Dim Schlichter and was exposed to Big Band drumming at the school under the leadership of trumpeter Jim Polivka

Concert Ferit Odman Quintet

Ferit Odman, one of the pioneers of jazz drumming in Turkey, will be playing quintet arrangements from his four-star reviewed albums by Downbeat Magazine, Autumn In New York and Nommo.

Concert Ece Göksu Quartet

Ece Göksu has completed her piano and vocal studies with leading names in Turkey and the USA. She performed in jazz clubs, concert halls, and festivals in Turkey as well as in Europe, the UAE, and the USA. She recorded jingles for TV and radio commercials.

Concert Standards & İpek Dinç

You are invited to a special night at Contemporary Istanbul as part of the 31st Akbank Jazz Festival. İpek Dinç, who has been working with Turkey's leading jazz musicians and performing at festivals abroad since 2009, joins Standards, the band that marries jazz standards with various genres of world music.

Dance Special Project : “There is always dance in the jazz state of the city”

31th Akbank Jazz Festival brings together contemporary dance and jazz with the motto " There is always dance in the jazz state of the city ".

Seminar Beuys and the Present Jochen Proehl

Jochen Proehl was born in Lübeck in 1958. He spent his childhood and youth in Istanbul. He studied fine arts at the Hdk Berlin (today UDK). Since then he has opened numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions.

Seminar Beuys and its Editions Klaus Staeck

His first collaboration with Joseph Beuys was in 1968. In 1973, he became the Chairman of the " Freie Hochschule für Kreativität und interdisziplinäre Forschung (Free University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research), which he founded with Joseph Beuys.