Founded in 1984 in Ankara, Galeri Nev programmed the final months of 2024 with events celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Having started its exhibition program at its venue in Horasan Street, with a solo show of Abidin Dino, Galeri Nev completes a full circle and proudly presents a new show of Dino in Ankara. After hosting more than 300 exhibitions at home, the Abidin Dino exhibition opening in mid-November will be borrowing its title from the text the artist wrote back in 1984 for the inauguration: “I am Remembering This Incident”.
Following the same path toward remembering and forgetting, Galeri Nev also hosts “The Beginning of Memory”, putting once again words to things remembered and others forgotten, but this time through stories about birds. This exhibition that is hosted at Ark Kültür, refers to so many ephemeral exhibitions the Gallery has realized in İstanbul since 2012, parallel to its program at the capital. The exhibition takes its inspiration from a creation myth that believes in a time when only water and birds existed in the world and through the works displayed, looks out for a terrain on which the birds can land, a tree on which they can nest. To the works commissioned specifically for the exhibition, Galeri Nev adds treasures from its archives and the estates of the deceased artists and the gallery thus represents the oeuvre of 40 artists. The building of Ark Kültür, which itself celebrates its fifteenth birthday, reminds us of the first venue of Galeri Nev, on Horasan Street. Its mission of being a “home” for artists and art institutions based outside of Istanbul, completely corresponds with Galeri Nev’s flying presence in this city.
The first one of Galeri Nev’s ruby anniversary exhibitions “The Beginning of Memory” opens on November 5 at Ark Kültür and will run until November 30, with a finissage event, “Once in a Forty”. The following exhibition, “I am Remembering This Incident” opens on November 15 at Kırlangıç Street and will be on view until December 7.
