Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Starting from the question “What do you think artis?”, this four-day teacher training delves into questions like “Why dochildren create art?”, “What is talent and is it necessary?”, and “Can everyonebe an artist?”. This creative discussion environment is designed for teachersand teacher candidates.

Seminar Art Collecting in Türkiye with Its Historicity and Problematics

2 June 2026 - Examining the cultural evolution of collecting from the 15th-century Ottoman Empire to the present, the seminar analyzes the ecosystem—spanning from the palace to the Republic, auction practices to digital transformation, and contemporary issues.

Seminar State of the Art in Digital Technologies: New Wave AI, Promises, and Problems

23 May 2026 - What does the "New Wave Artificial Intelligence" promise us for the future, and what problems does it inherently contain? In this presentation, we will try to address how we should strike a balance between these two poles.

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Starting from the question “What do you think artis?”, this four-day teacher training delves into questions like “Why dochildren create art?”, “What is talent and is it necessary?”, and “Can everyonebe an artist?”. This creative discussion environment is designed for teachersand teacher candidates.

Concert Melisa Durukan Quartet

Melisa The Durukan Quartet will take the stage at Bova on May 5, 2026, at 19:30 as part of the Akbank Sanat Music Series. The group aims to present an elegant and profound sound world at this concert.

Seminar Trends & Evolution of the Art Market and Its Position in the World Today

5 May 2026 - This seminar offers a unique opportunity to grasp the complexities of the international art world and its markets and provides on overview of its actors and how they interact.

Exhibition Akbank 44th Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition

Akbank 44th Contemporary Artists Prize Exhibition will be held at Elgiz Museum between 14 May – 31 July 2026. The works of 23 artists selected as a result of the evaluations of the jury members, will be on display for art enthusiasts to enjoy.

Conversation “Mom, Am I an Artist?” Guest: Tansu Biçer

29 April 2026 - Sometimes you watch a film, read a book, or stumble upon a song—and something stirs inside you. It feels as though something has begun. Maybe it’s the first time you ask yourself: “Could I be an artist too?” This talk series follows the traces of exactly those moments.

Akbank 44th Contemporary Artists Prize Contest Results

Seminar Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

18 April 2026 - The future of work, one of the prominent topics in the ongoing debate surrounding artificial intelligence, must be considered precisely in this context of social contradictions, relationships, hierarchies, and power relations.

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.

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Starting from the question “What do you think artis?”, this four-day teacher training delves into questions like “Why dochildren create art?”, “What is talent and is it necessary?”, and “Can everyonebe an artist?”. This creative discussion environment is designed for teachersand teacher candidates.