Seminar History of Exhibitions

5 December 2024 - This seminar will present various exhibition models and reveal the history of the public exhibition until today.

Exhibition The Room With Forty Doors: The 40th Anniversary Of The Contemporary Artists Exhibitions

Contemporary Artists exhibitions is a room with forty doors. Within that room the labyrinths of memory are enclosed. And each door opens on to an adventure and a mystery. In a labyrinth, getting lost is as much a virtue as finding one’s way.

Seminar A space for art; Designing for Exhibitions - Ayşegül Çinici Yazıcı

Each exhibition has a spatial setup and a storytelling in this sense. This story is essentially based on the message that the curator wants to convey to his audience. The other rperson who should absorb the content of this message as much as the curator of the exhibition is, the designer who will create for the visual identity of the exhibition.

Seminar Sources of curating: grand exhibitions and evolution

Curatorship has been rapidly evolving since the 2000s and the origin of the word possesses two meanings: a custodian and the act of curing. The understanding saying that curatorship has replaced the artist lately is a phenomenon debated extensively. But is the curator also an agent of cure?

Seminar Galleries and Exhibitions in the Istanbul Art Scene

The presentation will offer not only a chronological but also a critical study of the substantial changes.

Seminar The Culture & Ideology of Art - II

11 December 2025 - In this speech, some comments will be made on the connection between societies with different cultures and art, and we will also talk about the relations they have with each other and ideological transformations.

Seminar The Culture & Ideology of Art - I

27 November 2025 - In this speech, some comments will be made on the connection between societies with different cultures and art, and we will also talk about the relations they have with each other and ideological transformations.

Seminar Curator’s Role

24 November 2025 - In this seminar, Prof. Dr. Marcus discusses the function of the curator in today’s realm of visual art.

Seminar Art Readings in the Light of Semiotics

20 November 2025 - We will focus on the adventure of art history; The changing descriptions of art, theorists and art historians using different methods in art history constitute the main axis of our seminar.

Seminar A Story of Modern and Contemporary Art - II

17 November 2025 - The sociological changes in the 19th century, especially in continental Europe, and their reflection on art will be studied with examples from Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.

Seminar A Story of Modern and Contemporary Art - I

6 November 2025 - The sociological changes in the 19th century, especially in continental Europe, and their reflection on art will be studied with examples from Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.

Learning Program Material: Mushroom

August 25 - 28, 2025 / 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."