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Leap Into the Future

Sena Başöz

Sena Başöz’ project “Leap into the Future” revolves around bodies of young and healthy athletes, incarnating the future of the newly founded Republic, clipped out of photographs from the Yapı Kredi Historical Archive “Selahattin Giz Collection

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When Pigs Fly, April 2023

Cansu Cürgen & Avşar Gürpınar

In the project “When Pigs Fly”, designed by Cansu Cürgen and Avşar Gürpınar for Yanköşe, the Ambiguous Standards of Time appear on LED signs, which we all become closely familiar with from daily life. Time may be measured, expressed, and fragmented, precisely with tools such as chronometers and alarm clocks or more coarsely with hourglasses and egg timers.

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“Serial Crafts”, 2021

Bilal Yılmaz

In Serial Craft, created for Yanköşe, Bilal Yılmaz points out to the disappearing of craftsmanship with a kinetic installation. The artist highlights the impact of production in Tophane-Kabataş area, during the industrialisation period of Turkey's Republican era.

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“I Shot the Last Rhino”, 2020

Ali Cabbar

In Ali Cabbar’s installation “I Shot the Last Rhino,” created for Yanköşe, the artist highlights the human destruction of wildlife through the idea of a trophy room in which hunters display the mounted heads of the animals they have killed.

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İsimsiz

Vahit Tuna

The starting point of the “Untitled” which is comprised of 440 pairs of women’s shoes, is the increasing number of women murders in Turkey...

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Pray for Rain

SO?

Yanköşe, the not-for-profit art platform realized in autumn 2017 by Kahve Dünyası, the largest coffee chain in Turkey, is happy to host from 21 November 2018 to 29 March 2019 “Pray for Rain” by SO? Architecture and Ideas, founded by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş....

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SEPARATELYTOGETHER

Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt

Yanköşe, the not-for-profit art platform realized by Kahve Dünyası, the largest coffee chain of Turkey, in autumn 2017, is happy to host “SEPARATELYTOGETHER - letters, numbers, punctuation and other signs” a work by Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt, from 29 March to 28 September 2018....

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A Boxy Room

Nermin Er

Yanköşe, the not-for-profit art platform realized by Kahve Dünyası, the leading coffee and chocolate producer of Turkey, will be opening with Nermin Er’s works titled ‘A Boxy Room’, to be shown between 21st September-16th March....

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No More Lies

With the mural titled “Origami Deer” he has designed for Yanköşe, No More Lies draws attention to the climate crisis and the increasing number of forest fires. In the 1970s, widespread air pollution required the imposition of curfews in big cities as a result of the use of coal, and in the 1980s, the so-called ozone hole exposed the entire world to the threat of the sun’s harmful rays, yet for a long time climate problems were not taken seriously.

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In United We Stand Divided

In United We Stand Divided, Tomokazu Matsuyama created an installation that depicts two intertwined figures, composing of historical decorative patterns that represent borders of East and West. The title of the work that comes from the American slogan of independence “United we stand divided we fall” representing unity and collaboration was torn of two words to underline that two centuries after the slogan was first used, we can only stay together when we appreciate our differences.

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