Seminar Seminar Series on Architecture 2000-2008, New York-Doha: Museum of Islamic Arts Qatar

Demirtaş received her master’s degree from the Department of Architecture at MIT,

Concert Nicole Zuraitis

Composer, pianist, arranger, and bandleader Nicole Zuraitis will take the stage at Zorlu PSM Turkcell Platinum on October 10 as part of the 36th Akbank Jazz Festival.

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Cenk Esen

With his unique style that blends contemporary jazz with soul, electronic, and experimental music, Cenk Esen will take the stage at Pera 77 on October 6 as part of the 36th Akbank Jazz Festival's Jazz Club Night events.

Concert Jazz Clubs Night: Rişe Özkan A Tribute to Sheila Jordan

Rişe Özkan will commemorate one of the greatest masters of jazz vocals, Sheila Jordan, who passed away in 2025, with songs, memories, and excerpts from her life during this special performance at Asa Khai on September 29.

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.

Learning Program Material: Leftovers

9 June 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."

Conversation Jazz Listening Club: The 60s: Jazz Out of Bounds

4 June 2026 - For the 16th session of the Jazz Listening Club we are thrilled to welcome Ahmet Ali Arslan—a musician known for his storytelling, velvet vocals, and deep instrumental landscapes.

Seminar Against the Black Box: Context, Actor, and Practice in Communication Technologies

17 May 2026 - In this talk, we will develop a social-constructivist critique of communication technology by focusing on the triad of context, actor, and practice while examining the place of communication technologies in social change.

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.

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 Technological Art: Creation Processes in the Dialectic of Human and Technology

15 March 2026 - In this talk, we will attempt to question and examine the creation processes in the dialectic of human and technology, looking through the perspective of homo technologicus and focusing on Selçuk Artut's artworks.