Group Painting Exhibition
August 11 - 30, 2014
Başak Türker
Betül Şedele
Mehtap Can
Özge Uz
Saadet Fatinoğlu
Serenay Baydere
ADİGEY, Circassian Artists Exhibition
May 20 - 31, 2014
Abdullah Bersirov
Ramazan Huajev
Nurbiy Lovpaçe
Feliks Petuvaş
Kat Teuçej
Sultan Umarov
Industry Photos Exhebition, 1966-2014
April 07 - 19, 2014
Ersin Alok
Ersin Alok was born in 1937 and graduated from the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Literature and also from Commerce and Journalism at the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences. He founded the Institute of Photography of Mimar Sinan University. He started his artistic endeavors with painting and launched his professional efforts as photographer in 1967. Alok made substantial contribution to Industrial Photography studies. He is also known for his innovations in Archaeological and Architectural photography. He was the first to take a rough copy of a 360°photograph in Türkiye in 1986. He took deep-sea dives in various parts of the world and took photographs. He is the first Turkish photographer to take a dive in the Red Sea. He won the First Prize at the 5th Paris Biennial as part of the "Absurd" theme. He then won first prizes in Rome, Brussels, Sofia, Warsaw and Barkley, USA. In 1989, the World Photography Organisation entitled Alok to represent Asia in Helsinki and he held the Panoramic Triangle exhibition under the theme of NATURE joined by three other friends. He created a Sound Archive based on his works on sound records. He also founded Türkiye's first DIABANK in 1967 with an archive of nearly five million diafilms. He has published 24 books until now. Alok is also engaged in documentary films. He has over 10.000 photographs of Kayaüstü in Eastern Anatolia which he discovered himself. He has undertaken prehistoric and anthropological research everywhere across the world except for New Zealand and the South Pole. He has also done research in Hindu and Buddhist temples on the Himalayas on "Sharing Life and Sexual Behaviors". He carried out in-depth studies of events and phenomena that influence art and organized tens of conferences across the world. Alok brings an artistic dimension to every detail he captures through his lens. He has more than eleven million visuals and diafilms in his archive.
Neriman Şairoğlu, Painting Exhebition
March 18 - April 05, 2014
Neriman Şairoğlu
Neriman Şairoğlu was born in Istanbul. In 1993, she graduated from the Painting Department of the Ataturk Faculty of Education of Marmara University with the "Dean's Achievement Award". She obtained her master's degree in Painting at the same university in 1996.
Neriman Şairoğlu is noted for her abstract works she creates with the patchwork technique. Her works are marked with the different textures, search towards different form and ways of expression and the desire to capture the third dimension, all enabled with the use of the patchwork technique. She reflects the thrills and the tensions of her inner world onto the canvas with vivid colors, high contrasts and sharp transitions and aims at incorporating the viewer in a similar adventure.
Şairoğlu has held exhibitions in various locations with hundreds of her students, participated in numerous expositions and festivals and made a debut with her first personal exhibition where she showcased many years of her hard work.
Polat Canpolat, Mask Exhibition
March 03 - 15, 2014
Polat Canpolat
In 2005, Polat Canpolat obtained his degree in Art Major, Stage Design in the Performing Arts Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University.
His designs, puppets and masks were included in the exhibitions of the department until his graduation. He worked as design assistant at the Ankara State Theater in 2003.
He designed stage setting, costumes and accessories in İzmir Children's Theater between 2004 and 2009 and at Bornova Municipality City Theater between 2006 and 2010.
He has been art coordinator and "Mask Making Course" trainer at the Theatron Art Center since 2011. His works on the art of masks were included in group exhibitions.