Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “Five Cities” - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

16 June 2026 - In this gathering, together with Burçak Bingöl, we turn our focus particularly to Istanbul, taking Tanpınar’s Five Cities as our point of departure.

Seminar Stylessness and Dissolution of the Monograph

22 April 2026 - In this talk, the artist will examine the phenomenon of stylistic formation that became dominant with modernism. Drawing on examples from both his own work and from contemporary artists who produce without manners, the talk will focus on the anxiety produced by change and the dissolution of style.

Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - Haruki Murakami

21 April 2026 - In this gathering, we will meet with writer Melisa Kesmez and, drawing on Murakami’s personal essay book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" we will discuss how bodily movement transforms mental production.

Learning Program Material: Fermentation

April 14-16, 2026 / The learning program, which will examine the relationship and contradictions between contemporary art and ecology through the production practices of different artists each month, aims to introduce young artists to contemporary works and diverse perspectives through the concept of "material."

Seminar Dead Can Dance: Afterlife of Art

13 April 2026 - This presentation reflects on fifteen years of Protocinema exhibitions, alongside a proposal in-progress titled Dead Can Dance: Afterlife of Art which considers the everyday practice of mutual exchange and sustaining one another, and the ways that the living and the dead coexist.

Seminar Trusting the Process

26 March 2026 - Since 2023, independent curator and writer Fatoş Üstek has served as the curator of Frieze Sculpture. In this discussion, she will be joined by Burçak Bingöl, an artist whose work will feature in the 2025 edition.

Seminar Co-Action Device

23 February 2026 - Co-Action Device is a long-term project that seeks pedagogical and artistic responses to the loss and destruction caused by political tensions and social ruptures. It understands art, education, and practices of thinking together as a shared transformative field.

Conversation Book That Spark Thinking on Production: “Yellowface” - R. F. Kuang

20 January 2026 - In this talk, we will explore the dynamics of being an author in today’s literary world through R. F. Kuang’s novel Yellowface and we will discuss how social media–driven competitiveness shapes a writer’s creative process and how these pressures can gradually pull an author into a more shadowed inner landscape.

Panel Where Do You Draw the Line: Suggestions for Transformation

13 December 2025 - How can women of all ages and backgrounds — whether experienced or new to the field, from different professions or communities — who have contributed to cinema or wish to work and continue working in the industry, see, recognize, learn from, and create with one another?

Conversation Where Do Sound/Foley Stand on the Line?

22 November 2025 - In this talk, featuring Zeynep Çelen and Bukle Naz Acar as speakers, we will discuss the creative processes of sound in cinema and the working conditions in this field, inspired by their own professional journeys.

Children Workshop Wild Child Orchestra (Ages 6-9)

The spirit of jazz improvisation meets children at its wildest! This workshop introduces the joy of collective creation and exhibits that mistakes are a vital part of creativity.

Children Workshop Wild Child Orchestra (Ages 9-12)

The spirit of jazz improvisation meets children at its wildest! This workshop introduces the joy of collective creation and exhibits that mistakes are a vital part of creativity.