Founded in 1976, ‘Maçka Sanat Galerisi’ was one of the iconic venues in the history of art in Turkey. After hosting many avant-garde exhibitions and celebrating its fortiethyear, the gallery was closed in 2016. Three years later, Maçka Sanat Galerisire-opensits doors, albeit briefly, with the exhibition “The Whole Planet was Inside” organized by ‘Galeri Nev’. The exhibition, which is listed as one of the parallel events of the 16th Istanbul Biennial, will be open from September11th to October 19th. Curated by Deniz Artun, the exhibition “The Whole Planet Was Inside” is inspired by the ecological focus of the Biennial and explores how we can exist in other worlds, if/when one day this world becomes completely uninhabitable. In the exhibition, a different universe is being created with living creatures who are completely stripped of their own skin and are prepared to leave their familiar bodies behind in order to take on or to rather become other bodies. In the universe of the exhibition human beings are planets and planets are human beings. The works are there to remind us that all the worlds that we build and destroy are within: ‘inside’. In the centre of the exhibition there is a triptych by Candeğer Furtun, one of reknown artists of the Maçka Sanat Galerisi. Furtun is surronded by several artists from Galeri Nev, each from a different generation. In this way, the works, the artists and especially the two galleries reveal the particular and common aspects of their mutual histories and salute each other.
The Whole Planet was Inside
2019
Maçka Sanat Galerisi
Anıl Saldıran / Candeğer Furtun / Eda Gecikmez / Erol Akyavaş / Mehtap Baydu / Necla Rüzgar / Nejad Devrim / Nermin Kura / Sefer Memişoğlu / Selim Cebeci / Semiha Berksoy / Yüksel Arslan / Zeren Göktan
Exhibitions
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The Oracle’s Horizons 09.05.2024 - 08.06.2024 -
Candeğer Furtun, Christie Brown 03.04.2024 - 04.05.2024 -
I am the rock that’s holding back the tide 24.02.2024 - 23.03.2024 -
Un Soleil Perdu Dans l’Orage 21.10.2023 - 25.11.2023 -
Mehtaba Bürünmüş Gece 08.10.2022 - 05.11.2022 -
Another Round 14.09.2022 - 08.10.2022 -
O! 19.03.2022 - 19.04.2022 -
Der wald war noch nackt! 22.01.2022 - 26.02.2022 -
Mogambo 29.09.2021 - 30.10.2021 -
My Name Was Written On Every Page 16.05.2021 - 27.06.2021 -
Deep Blue 23.03.2021 - 25.03.2021 -
Touched and Thrilled 17.12.2020 - 09.01.2021 -
Encyclopedia of Non-existent Knowledge 04.11.2020 - 05.12.2020 -
Broken Open 17.09.2020 - 17.10.2020 -
Inherent Visions 06.05.2020 - 15.05.2020 -
Age of Gold 21.12.2019 - 18.01.2020 -
A King in Exile 01.05.2019 - 05.05.2019 -
The Distance Between Me and Everything Else 17.04.2019 - 20.04.2019 -
Le grand mérite de Néjad c’est d’être Néjad 12.12.2018 - 12.02.2019 -
Landscape in a Capsule 07.11.2018 - 08.12.2018 -
Creature With Multiple Hearts 05.09.2018 - 30.09.2018 -
Monomyth 25.05.2018 - 09.06.2018 -
Still Life with a Curtain 10.05.2018 - 23.06.2018 -
The Distance Between Me and Everything Else 28.11.2017 - 30.01.2018 -
Angels’ Share 14.09.2017 - 25.10.2017 -
Speak No Evil 09.12.2016 - 15.01.2017 -
The Overcoming Silence 22.09.2016 - 27.10.2016 -
NevNadir 04.05.2016 - 11.06.2016 -
AKYAVASPHOTOGRAPHY 04.12.2015 - 16.01.2016 -
Cocoon 02.10.2015 - 31.10.2015 -
Papierrepublik 04.09.2015 - 06.09.2015 -
Amusement Park 08.05.2015 - 13.06.2015 -
Notes From Home 20.02.2015 - 28.03.2015 -
Wuthering Streets 09.01.2015 - 14.02.2015 -
Fauna 26.09.2014 - 28.09.2014 -
Dystopian 1984 11.04.2014 - 12.04.2014 -
Fauna 24.01.2014 - 01.03.2014 -
Le Temps Naissant 08.11.2013 - 07.12.2013 -
Kafa Kağıdı 10.05.2013 - 05.08.2013 -
Ser 12.04.2013 - 04.05.2013 -
AKYAVAŞEROTIQUE 06.04.2012 - 28.04.2012 -
Art of Defence 29.04.2011 - 28.05.2011
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