Seminar Fair Cultural Cooperation

27 March 2025 - This seminar will explore how dialogue and collaboration between civil society organizations working in the cultural and artistic fields and municipalities across Turkey can be fostered through joint projects.

Conversation Seperation

5 March 2025 - In this talk, we will combine the creative power of art with the deep analyzes of psychology and track the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that carry the traces of the past to the future through the theme of "seperation".

Online Event Jewish Trace in Pera and Galata - Mois Gabay

Short Film Operation Jane Walk

Operation Jane Walk is based on the dystopian multiplayer shooter Tom Clancy’s: The Division (Ubisoft Entertainment 2016).

Concert Jazz at the Tea Time (Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah)

İlham Gencer, who is considered as one of the key figures of Turkish jazz music, will take the stage with his piano at the tea time event that will be hold in Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah.

Conversation Between Life and Death: Transience

3 June 2026 - According to Freud, the fact that something is bound to change does not decrease its value; on the contrary, it adds a unique "rarity value" to it. At the root of human resistance to accepting this rational truth lies the soul's difficult mourning mechanism. In this event, we will discuss transience by tracing this exact tension.

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.

Workshop JAmZZ Masterclass Programı

As part of the 36th Akbank Jazz Festival, the JAmZZ Masterclass Program aims to platform emerging talents and support young musicians. The program will take place on May 16-17 at Bahçeşehir University Pera Stage.

Conversation On the Borderline of Submission and Freedom: Love

6 May 2026 - In this talk, we examine the fragility of modern relationships through Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of Liquid Love. Is committing to someone a form of submission or the end of freedom?

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.

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.