Exhibitions
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Earth and Structure
‘Earth and Structure’ brings together a diverse range of Kocakaya’s works which explore the intersection of natural and environmental resources and architectural elements and materials in an interdisciplinary manner.
Drawing inspiration from Fuzuli's eponymous poem, the exhibition delves into the theme of mutual relationships and affection through a collection of works that employ various techniques, including drawings, sketching, and engraving.
Searched for Something from Myself
Through a variety of media, including photographs, documents, and found objects, Ekin Keser undertakes a reconstruction of his own existence, reinterpreting his experiences through the memories and records of others.
Focusing on the intersection of works by two artists who are inspired by different disciplines, the exhibition takes different perspectives into urban and natural sceneries and offers a union that encompasses both.
The Lesser Evil is an examination of seeing. It’s an effort to understand which eye sees what we see. It is a sign of how the stories others tell us have made us grow accustomed to a certain type of memorization. It is a period analysis of the act of cutting down speed and of old perspectives, in this new age where even our taste is condemned to the perspective of others.
The exhibition For Book Lovers is inspired by the book Reading Art: Art for Book Lovers by David Trigg. The book gathers works from various means of production throughout the history of art that include books. The exhibition focuses on the contemporary paintings from the recent period that includes books and presents a selection to the audience at Mixer’s project room.
The idea of new materialism constitutes the second theoretical layer of the conceptual framework, and the exhibition, including the works of 10 artists, offers an inter-work reading in terms of the relationality between objects and various techniques, methods of display, materiality, and artists.
The exhibition focuses on how the boundaries of mind and worlds of meaning are formed and how emotions and behaviors are shaped, by way of our interaction with the outside world.
212 PHOROGRAPHY ISTANBUL: REMIX by MIXER
Mixer, will present a selection of its Lens series, which it has been continuing for the last three years, as well as a selection of photography works that have appeared in different exhibitions in the gallery, at Akaretler no:15, between October 6 and 16.
The exhibition examines the “things” transformed by the sense of mourning that arises and keeps changing in wake of people, emotions, venues, and objects that have left a mark on the artist’s life and shares her healing process with the audience.
Being a seasoned cinematographer, the photographs of Emre Erkmen reflect his professional sensibility at its best. In the exhibition, the images of the rural and urban spaces and lives in these distant places are juxtaposed and arranged through a cinematographic sequence that debuts its journey with the urban scenes followed by the images of rural life. Finally, these two spaces of differences confront each other within the mazes that exhibit these two worlds facing each other.
Choosing to follow her own intuition to guide herself beyond the limits of her academic training as an artist, Şentürk’s paintings are filled with lines, shapes and colors that reflect her intuitive introspection. Through the exhibition the viewers are invited to navigate themselves in this private voyage and its mystical scenes.
This year, Mixer hosts the seventh Printed exhibition, held since 2015, with the exhibition iziziz that focuses on the history and current status of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Engraving Studio, between April 15 - May 28, 2022. As an extension of our experience in the series Art Lab, Mixer Editions, and Printed, Mixer Print Studio will open on the ground floor of Juma Building will be open for visitors in synchronization with the exhibition iziziz.
SENKRON I Synchronized Video Exhibitions: YOLO
SENKRON ‘Synchronized Video Exhibitions’ meets the audience in coordination with Mixer, Bilsart, and Versus Art Project between April 15 and 30, 2022. Gathering art institutions, artists, curators, and art professionals from different cities in Turkey with a focus on video art, SENKRON is a comprehensive event that celebrates video art through exhibitions/events/speeches and screenings. Upon Mixer’s invitation, Ozan Atalan and Ekmel Ertan’s exhibition YOLO meets the audience as a new video creation shaped by both of their ideas and creative processes.
Change of Plans curated by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, brings together the works of 12 young artists. The photography exhibition addressing the changing and transforming social psychological state and the aftermath of this state on the younger generation in the post-pandemic world, is opening on 5th of March 2022 in Mixer.
Gökçe İrten’s exhibition Self Layers focuses on the individual’s multilayered relationship between their self-identity, their location, and everything around them.
The exhibition aims to lay ground for a critical dialogue on the new forms of relationalities in the areas where the boundaries of dualistic categories such as human/non-human animal, human/machine, conscious/unconscious, public/private and art/market are intertwined and fluidized.
Rugül Serbest seeks ways to re-experience herself, her body, and her inner world by impersonating "someone else" through her paintings.
One Step Closer to My Ultimate Self
One Step Closer to My Ultimate Self exhibition features works by Seçil Büyükkan based on various unique printmaking techniques. The relationship between eastern philosophy and nature, which the artist has focused on for a long time, deepens with the theme of sacred trees in this exhibition.
Mixer: Now @İstanbul Gallery Week
Mixer is happy to be a part of Istanbul Gallery Week. With a series of events that will add excitement to the Istanbul culture- art agenda, IGW is meeting with the audience for the first time this year between 11-20 November. The Mixer: NOW can be visited between November 5-20!
The Empire of Distorted Knowledge
“The Empire of Distorted Knowledge” is a mirror for the viewer to question their own reality through Bora Âşık's drawings. It evokes the feeling of opening the pages of our own stories based on the stories written by the artist.
“The Wreck of Time” brings together the peinture works that make up a large part of Gurur Birsin’s artistic practice, as well as his drawings and an engraving work. In addition to the technical details of the artist's works in the exhibition, abandoned spaces, perceived as pessimistic at first glance, stand out.
The fifth edition of Mixer Sessions exhibition series, through which Mixer seeks to open up space for and support young artists at the beginning of their careers, is preparing to meet the audience between 15 June and 4 August.
Sekron I LENS’21: Personal Narratives in Video Art
After the LENS exhibition series that focused on photography in 2019, this year, Mixer is taking video as a production tool from a wider perspective. With the power of cooperation between art institutions, Mixer is gathering Bilsart, Monitör, and Loading with parallel bull sessions and online variety shows organized in İstanbul, İzmir, Diyarbakır.
Marvelous Correspondences, Subtle Resemblances (2021)
While presenting the works of Alp İşmen and Yüksel Dal in parallel with each other, “Marvelous correspondences, subtle resemblances” also offers a solo exhibition experience that gives the audience the opportunity to understand the practice of each artist. “Marvelous correspondences, subtle resemblances” curated by Nergis Abıyeva with the participation of Alp İşmen and Yüksel Dal, can be visited at Mixer between 16 February and 3 April.
Tidal Waves (2021)
The exhibition brings together installations that are composed of phrases that spill first onto paper, and then into the exhibition space from the mind of the individual experiencing the tidal waves. The exhibition presents forms that are for the most part transformed into words and sentences with concrete letters, reflecting the artist’s torn position between their individual comfort zone and a state of uncertainty. Tidal Waves can be viewed in Mixer’s project room between February 16 - April 3, 2021.
Ancient as Desire (2020-2021)
Mixer is hosting ‘Ancient as Desire’ exhibition by Hilal Polat between December 22th 2020 and February 6th 2021 in which she transforms an experimental venue narrating out of her own fictional mythology. The exhibition presents a mixed structure of the artist’s practice and experience in various fields combined with her imagination interpreted in her own intellectual matters.
We created Mixer Editions with the goal of surpassing art’s limited reach to certain locations and people. Mixer Editions aims to present the works of a wide range of artists from Turkey and beyond, created in limited editions, in an accessible format. Since 2013, through various selections of editions and Printed exhibitions, the limited edition works of numerous artists have been brought to the audience.
Printed’20 is the 6th volume of Mixer’s annual exhibition series, will open on 7th November 2020. Previous chapters in this series of exhibitions laid a foundation to introduce the audience to the variety of possibilities that editioned, multiple works offer such as, etchings, lithography, linoleum prints, silkscreens, photography and sculpture. Trusting in the power of collaborating with independent curators, Mixer invited Kerimcan Güleryüz, the founding partner of x-ist and owner and director of The Empire Project for the curation of this year’s edition. Printed’20 desires to provide a more in depth look into the practice of artists who are expressing themselves through this alternative method of artistic production.
Force Quit (2020)
Mixer is hosting the fourth solo exhibition of the artist Ozan Atalan, "Force Quit", which offers speculative experiences through multimedia installations between 12 September - 31 October 2020. The exhibition criticizes the human centric approach and the world's divisive-dualist interpretation, which legitimizes the idea of destruction of mankind and nonhuman beings, including nature and space.
Sebeb-i Ziyaret (2020)
Mixer project room will be hosting Ahu Akgun’s solo exhibition “Sebeb-i Ziyaret’’ starting from September 12 until October 31, 2020.The exhibition reflects the artist herself, the relationships she has, her studio and her life; while inviting the audience to rethink the idea of “distances” in their own lives.
Art on Screen (2020)
Mixer brings together a video selection of six artists from Turkey and six artists from different parts of the world invited by them. The computer-generated works meeting with the audience through screens, witness this period of contact through online networks and lack of interaction with the outside world. It enters into our homes through the screen and offers the possibility of creating new manners of thinking.
PRINTED Re-visited (2020)
A look at the history and development of the art of print through Printed Exhibition Series
Mixer’s path to the art of print and editions started in 2014 with Mixer Editions and continues with its long-running project Printed exhibition series, the first of which took place in 2015. Theoretical and practical workshops on different techniques accompany this activity series, which is organized in collaboration with many institutions, curators and print studios. This is a selection of printed works from the Printed exhibitions since 2015, and an archive for digital catalogs and interviews of previous exhibitions.
Mixer is pleased to announce the solo exhibition titled “Night Rehearsal” by Doğu Özgün. The artist's first solo exhibition at the Mixer, Night Rehearsal, can be seen in the main exhibition space of the gallery between 27 February and 11 April 2020. The name of the exhibition "Night Rehearsal" is inspired from the idea that the desires and deviations that are lurked during the day come in sight at the pitch darkness of the night; and this refers to the design of a new dream, a plot or an organized plan only in the dark and reveal what daytime puts out of sight. The night rehearsal of a game to be staged is the escape plan of the person who survives the costume he wears during the day.
Külkedisi ve Beş Hececiler (2020)
Mixer is pleased to announce the group exhibition titled ‘’Külkedisi ve Beş Hececiler’’, which includes artworks of Ali Elmacı, Kerem Ağralı, Manolya Çelikler and Sesil Beatris Kalaycıyan. The exhibition can be seen between 27 February–11 April. With ‘’Külkedisi ve Beş Hececiler” Mixer invites the audience to experience “as if” power of arts and also to discover the link between the reality and what is seen.
Us Actually (2020)
Mixer is hosting the very unique exhibition “Us Actually” between January 18th - February 22nd with the artworks of Ayça Telgeren, Ahu Akgün, Börte İpek, Bengisu Bayrak, Furkan Öztekin, Mediha Didem Türemen, Meltem Şahin, Meltem Sırtıkara, Okan Kaya, Volkan Aslan, Yasemin Özcan. The exhibition “Us Actually”, which will take place from January 18th to February 22nd, shares sincerely the love, the state of being a partner, the ability to stay together or leave when necessary. With reference to unforgettable films, loves and times, it becomes a sincere, volatile and romantic exhibition that will remain in memory for a long time.
Lumin I Living Installation & Artifact I Faces (2019-2020)
In December, Mixer is hosting the artists of DECOL community who create works in concurrence of digital art, nature and science, in the project room. With two separate openings, first, Ahmet Said Kaplan’s interactive digital experience “Lumin, Living Instalment”, will be followed by Hakan Gunduz’s “Artifact” exhibition. Both projects will be experienced with the participation of the audience will question ‘can artificial intelligence create an aesthetic expression by understanding emotions?’
Blended (2019-2020)
Mixer is hosting the group exhibiton ''Blended'', which includes collage artworks of Balkan Karışman, CANAN, Deniz Ezgi Sürek, Eda Emirdağ, Gökçe İrten, Gözde Ulusoy, Haydar Akdağ, Isabelle Heske, özge Enginöz, Sibel Kocakaya and Tutku Bulutbeyaz at the main exhibition area between December 6th 2019 - January 10th 2020. The ''Blended'' exhibiton invites you to see the answers to these questions with the collage artworks of the artists who produce with plenty of different materials. In the exhibition, the artworks we qualify as collages appear to us in many ways of thinking and forms such as paper, ceramic, video and fabric.
Set out to bring works from various disciplines to the audience in 2012, Mixer is now preparing to present “Lens”, an exhibition series which focuses solely on photography. Starting this year with its inaugural exhibition curated by Sena Çakırkaya, the series will, in the coming years, follow the tracks of photography in Turkey and around the world by shifting its focus on different themes and techniques.
This Is Not Us, This Is What Remained From Us (2019)
Mixer will host Ali Şentürk’s 4th individual exhibition ‘This Is Not Us, This Is What Remained From Us’ between 5 September – 12 October 2019. There are two distinct worlds that consist of objects and constant essences according to Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’.The soul belongs to essence world while the body belongs to objective world. Şentürk focuses on the body and the object’s meronymy in ‘This Is Not Us, This Is What Remained From Us’. Therefore, Şentürk aims to create a whole that is composed of re-aggregated elements like the ones which are broken and lost their originality.
Seeing (2019)
Mixer will host Nazlı Demirel’s first solo exhibition in the project room between September 5th and October 12th, 2019. Nazlı Erdemirel focuses on photography and she develops a response to the limited structure of the two-dimensional manner of this medium. Erdemirel concentrates on the continuity of the image with video by going beyond the limits of photography and aims to create a new visual style and an additional layer using different materials.
Mixer Sessions IV (2019)
Mixer, founded back in the November of 2012 with the aim of providing opportunities and space for young artists in the beginning of their careers, is continuing its open call series held each year since 2016 following this mission! The selected works, of the fourth edition of “Mixer Sessions” exhibition series will be exhibited between 14th of June and 4th of August.
Printed’19: Multiple Choice (2019)
Printed exhibition that hosts original print works produced with original printing techniques since 2014, will exhibit its new selection curated by Marcus Graf this year. Under the sub-title Multiple Choice, it exhibits pieces ranging from silk-print to photography, from experimental edition-techniques to three-dimensional multiples. Bringing together artists from various generations and disciplines, the show aims at revealing the importance, power and beauty of editions, and invites the spectator to dive into the world of prints and multiples.
Mixer is hosting the group exhibition “Walking Distance” with participation of artists: Ahmet Duru, Doğu Özgün, Emre Baykal, Ozan Atalan, Umut Toros between March 1st and April 6th, 2019. The exhibition focuses on the concept of walking, which started as the first spark of civilization and caused the first man spread all around the world.
Four Seasons in May (2019)
Mixer, hosts “Four Seasons in May”, the first solo exhibition of Furkan Öztekin between March 1st and April 6th, 2019. In his works, Furkan Öztekin focuses on events that are important in LGBTI+ resistance history such as Ülker Street, Eryaman and Meis Houses.
Green Mold (2019)
Mixer hosts the exhibition ‘Green Mold’ that presents works from ten artists between January 18- February 23. In this exhibition where the audience becomes an investigator, the artists’ works appear as a found object that came from past to present day.
Spotless (2019)
Mixer is hosting the exhibition ‘Spotless’ between January 18 - February 23 which brings the works of three artists together. Ayşe Yıldırım, Egemen Tuncer and Pınar Yılmaz are creating different forms of thinking on how the built environment that we constructed affects our behavior.
Güzeşte (2018)
In Gorchakov Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, it is said that the unspoken feelings are doomed to be forgotten. In order not to leave the past behind, we try to keep those feelings live and for this reason, a few memories of the past always remain with us. We continue our lives listening to the inner voices telling us who we are and where we come from. We try to keep this connection alive through objects, sometimes even a tombstone can be an object to trace back.
Infinitely Small Infinitely Large (2018)
Dal is spontaneously transfering primitive or modern figures, people, gods, witches, wizards, kings and slaves from his mind onto papers. He is taking his start with a single line and then follows where this line takes him randomly during his working process. The busy mind is emptied onto the blank paper. Patterns of Dal produced in isolation of time and chaos are becoming timeless and placeless.
Over And Over (2018)
Artists produce their works by collecting, contemplating and interpreting the images they see from the time that they were born. Occasionally, they create various compositions by augmenting images - either to reinforce the meanings of the subjects they work on, or to conceal its meaning. The ‘Over and Over’ exhibition seeks to lead us to the meditative sorcery and rhythm of repetitive images whilst questioning artists' probes.
More Than Two (2018)
Celebrating its 10th anniversary in September this year, Jealous Print Studio & Gallery has been an institution that has introduced artists in the UK to original printing techniques while supporting them during the production process. Jealous started out with a purpose similar to that of Mixer, and with this partnership, it has enabled its artists to be introduced to a Turkish audience. Jealous Print Studio & Gallery has also been one of the most prominent partners of the Printed exhibition series of Mixer since 2015.
Last Call (2018)
Alican Leblebici’s solo exhibition which will be held at Mixer between September the 14th and October the 20th is based on body, border and security politics; is looking for ways to confront the fears of the past, present and the future. This exhibition, which focuses on gradual transformation of personal fears shaped by the ruling powers into mass ones, presents a perspective about the representation and confrontation of the fears.
Proximity (2018)
Mixer brings together three photographers who focus on the nature and the mind and how the two work in collaboration between September 14th and October 20th. There is a direct correlation between nature and mind. While trying to perceive the nature, our minds unwittingly analyze this event with the help of different links. Unlike the generally known reasoning process, this amazing ability of analysis in our brain is related to the "pattern perception".
Mixer Sessions III (2018)
Since the day it was established, Mixer aims to make art accessible to everyone, while creating an open platform for young artists to show their works. In accordance with this mission, the exhibition series Mixer Sessions, where a group of artists is selected within the applications under an open call to senior, masters and doctoral students of the Faculties of Fine Arts, present its third edition between June 8 and August 4, 2018.
Eda Soylu - Remnants From My Grandmother's House (2018)
"Remnants From my Grandmother's House" is a way for Eda Soylu to comprehend the empty void left behind the departed, through a house, objects and shadows. As the artist fuses the relics from her grandmother's house with those within her memory, she poetically searches for the way to commemorate the departed through her belongings.
Starting off with the notion of making art accessible, since 2014 Mixer is hosting the "PRINTED" exhibition series featuring original print works produced with different printing techniques. This year, the selection consists of a range extending from the 1900s to our day, including different printing techniques such as lithography, serigraphy and etching, artist books and photobooks created in the Photography Application and Research Center (FUAM) workshops.
Tesbihte Hata Olmaz (2018)
Metaphors are one of the oldest and most common tools for irony in communication. Its usage can create an artistic rhetoric as well as a sarcasm in daily life. The Turkish idiom “Tesbihte hata olmaz” is used to keep the context of the speech in a safe space. The exhibition “Tesbihte Hata Olmaz” aims to take a look at the new meanings gained by metaphors, at the spots where written language coincides with visuality.
Myths (2018)
Mediha Didem Türemen’s second solo exhibition, “Myths” will be on display at the historical Adahan Istanbul cistern, between 3 and 23 April 2018. With a focus on depicting an imaginary timeframe which could not be captured by photography, the artist’s new series presents an interpretation of nature, forced into metamorphosis. With her “Myths” series, the artist presents a production utilizing cinematography, photography and engraving, to convey the legends experienced by people who witness surreal moments due to changing climate conditions and unpredictable natural phenomena.
The Animal Side (2018)
Inspired by the eponymous book of Nazli Karabiyikoglu, the exhibition focuses on the possibilities regarding nature and animals, away from humanity and civilization. These works propose a new perspective leaning towards the wild and nature to break away from anthropocentric view, considering non-human in the face of humanity and non-civilized in the face of civilisation.
Mixer is attending the leading contemporary art fair in Asia, Art Stage Singapore, held between 25 - 28 January 2018 featuring Berkay Bugdan, Sibel Kocakaya and Alican Leblebici. Mixer who has met the audience with Bugdan’s solo show at Art Stage for the last two years, brings together three artists under the theme “Beauty: Is it all about perspective?” this year.
Are you Awake? (2018)
Taking herself in various places as the figure of her photographs, she superimposes the scenes to create abstract places. Interested in impermanence of the body and space together with the sense of not belonging to a place, Kaya points the questions to the viewer that she asked herself through her pursuit: I am the one with the clothes, but who am I? I am myself. The mirror.
Guest: Unexpected (2017)
The “guest”s of the exhibition are expressing their own artistic perception through a new language. The works selected on Özlem Ünsal's proposal reflect a unique attitude that emphasizes the their own style. Exhibition’s “guest”s in this scope are fashion designer and V&A Jameel Price Judge Dice Kayek, musician Hakan Özoğuz, actor Mert Fırat, fashion and commercial photographer Tamer Yılmaz.
Neighborhood (2017)
Gökçe Irten’s first solo exhibition ‘’Neighborhood’’ focuses on urban transformation and its reflections on households. The change in the understanding of urbanization over the last few years brought different ways of life with it. The transformation of conventional residential areas to the skyscrapers detracted people from socializing as ending the neighborhood culture. Squeezing neighborhoods into single buildings created isolated lives by decreasing the trust and sincerity.
Upside Down (2017)
Ahmet Sari, in his works, focusing on found objects which are used by anthropologists to understand the perceptions and life cycle of masses while creating a systematic definition. The artist criticizes the West for its unethical convention to the objects in which they are interpreted to create a model of society while wrecking its original demographic structure. According to the artist, the undergoing ambiguity of orientalism and the political realities are also consequences of this.
Sense of Movement (2017)
"Sense of Movement" is a group exhibition by Kürsat Bayhan, Çagdas Erdogan, Furkan Temir and Murat Saka between October 27th and December 9th, 2017 featuring the artists' photographic works in last two years. While the exhibition highlights the last year's agenda both of Turkey and the world, it accentuates the crossing areas of photography and journalism.
o+oma+a (2017)
The exhibition takes its name after the Automata Theory, which examines the mathematical interaction of man and machines, covers the story of a fictive machine. It leaves the audience, who cannot see but feel its existence by intuition, with the discovery process of the appearance and the functioning of this machine that is directly connected with the production process of the artists.
Mixer Sessions II: Blackbox (2017)
With the second edition of Session, Mixer aimed to encourage students to study in departments such as Art Management, Cultural Management, Art History, and give them an opportunity to advance through the education they have received. The selected project for Sessions II is Karakutu / Blackbox, which was curated by Burcu Bilir, the senior student at Yildiz Technical University Arts Management Department.
Printed '17: The Multiplier Effect (2017)
The 2017 selection, which brings together works from modern as well as contemporary masters, has been put together by Eda Kehale Argün. Kehale herself studied Printmaking at Northwestern University’s Art Department. In Printed ‘17 “The Multiplier Effect”, Mixer focuses on making noteworthy artists accessible to a wider audience. By including works spanning 30 years and a wide range of media in the selection, Kehale aspires to share with the audience the ‘multiplier effect’ of editioned artworks in different dimensions of art.
Inclusion / Comprehension (2017)
Doruk and Akinci, two artists who share the same atelier during the creation of the Kapsama/Kavrama exhibition, experience each other’s process of production and witness each other’s metas which progress independently from each other even though they focus on different subjects. Reflections of this process which have mentioned show itself clearly between the dialogues that artworks have built with each other.
The Racing Driver and His Double (2017)
Eren Ileri’s ‘’The Racing Driver and His Double’’, a series of his black and white photography, are presented at Mixer Open Space. Artist questions the nature between the human and the technology as well as the relationship beyond "the natural". Ileri documents brief but candescent ‘’moments’’ which are correlating to pictures of utopia/dystopia, in specific to the Formula 1 Grand Prix motor racing.
Remains (2017)
People start to witness, observe and experience the time and space that they live in as soon as they are born. Our minds record objects, emotions and characters in these spaces as a moment and create memories by collecting from these moments. Time and spatial relations, which constitute among recorded memories, are about the experiential routine of the human mind. A person’s position of self in society is effective in shaping these memories.
Observed Truths (2017)
Reality can be interpreted as the process of transforming imperceptible concepts into perceptible ones. While performing a review on the relativity and necessity of the concept of reality, the exhibition questions the concept of Reality shaped with regard to the references the elements of perception create within themselves. In line with this reference, it is the indiscipline itself, where ways of perception are perpetually diversified and adapted on, that is Absolute.
After the 20th (2017)
The project, which was initiated by the registration of the biological coal production process carried out in one of the villages of Istanbul's Northern Forests, witnesses the stages of transformation from raw material to product around a single tree. The artist, while setting his analogy through the story of a particular tree traces the Represented.
Negative Pleasure (2017)
Meltem Sahin, who handles the works of philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty with their naïve drawings with pastel colors. Focusing on hearing, sight and touch, creating a unique field of experience and learning.
Reclamation (2016)
Reclamation consists of works on steel that we are familiar with from Berkay Bugdanoglu’s previous shows, as well as introducing first interactive-sculpture works by the artist. For his third solo show at Mixer, whilst remaining loyal to his own technique, Bugdanoglu takes his practice a step further by transforming and integrating the materials that he uses to broaden the contextual frame of the exhibition.
Grid (2016)
Mixer’s new exhibition "Grid " brings together a group of emerging artists who divide their working plane into equal parts, form relations between those parts and treat rules and boundaries of the society and the individual as grids. While being a template consisted of equally sized units, such as squares or rectangles, grid helps us to find our way on maps, while establishes new relations between identical parts of a whole, creating new paths. Although its units are equal to each other, grid embraces the diversity of the structure or the surface it is laid on.
Last Exit (2016)
Kürsat Bayhan has started the project which named “Last Exit” about three years ago. He wanted to capture the changes in the city he lives in as well as the topographic changes in the rural areas surrounding it. During the weekend trips to the construction sites and path of the highways and connecting roads, Bayhan took the time to speak with those living in the area. To illustrate this, the artist came up with a three-point metaphor involving rural life, the landscape and portraits.
Mixer Sessions I (2016)
Since the day it was established, Mixer aims to make art reachable to everyone, while creating platforms for young artists to show their works. For the first time this year, Mixer has initiated the exhibition series Sessions, where a group of artists is selected from various applications under an Open Call, to be exhibited in the summer period.
Printed '16 (2016)
For the annual exhibition series Printed that was initiated in 2015 with the objective to make art more accessible, this year’s show will be featuring important names. While preserving the uniqueness of the artworks by pressing different sizes and limited numbers, limited edition artworks can also reach a wider audience. Printed'16 exhibition will meet with art lovers until July 2, 2016 at Mixer.
On Paper (2016)
‘On Paper’ exhibition is inviting artists from various backgrounds on a wide scope to create a dialogue ‘on paper’. The exhibition seeks to reveal the role of paper and its place within the scope of art and creation. The exhibition reminds us that paper, is a material that has accompanied the process of creation since ages.
Masturbation (2016)
“Dear audience; the pieces you’ll see in this exhibition are a fiction of the creator’s issue of building a world on his own. It’s a feeling of reproduction and existing. Each artist attends this exhibition with their own fiction and creation process, trying to make sure that this process is known and sensed, without any imposition, struggling to contour that state of existence in this world.” Mustafa Horasan
Image Still (2016)
“Image Still” seeks to search the concept of the image today, and how artists interpret the evolution of the image. Nowadays where the boundaries between these definitions are becoming ever-more transparent, the exhibition traces the journey of the image as a medium. Deriving from the ‘moment’, the image is static yet in motion, as it is situated in time in eternity …
Nonlinear Future (2016)
The exhibition investigates through spatial references the scenarios of the future lingering between utopia and distopia. The works that will be presented includes satellite footages that is taken from search engines, fictitious landscapes, vitrines of food peddlers and angels who sacrifice their immortalities. Ayşe Gül Süter, Bedia Ekiz, Buşra Tunç, Çağrı Saray, Sümer Sayın and Viron Erol Vert's most recent works will be on view until 10 January 2016 at Mixer.
(Re)present Exhibist: 2 Years (2015)
Mixer is a place that fuels creativity, dialogue and critical thinking, making it the perfect venue for this exhibition. exhibist and Mixer share the same objectives of supporting emerging contemporary artists from Turkey by opening up the Istanbul art scene to the world and encouraging critical writing in Turkey as well as responding to the local scene’s youthful, inventive dynamism.
Borders and Boundaries (2015)
The built spaces act as a dominant power and put pressure on individuals to prevent them to freely express themselves. Physical and political barriers as such, carry a significant role in every aspect of the individual’s life, from language to lifestyles in physical and social spaces. The conceptual frame of “Borders and Boundaries” builds itself around these political, structural and social obstacles defining the individual’s identity.
Printed'15 (2015)
Mixer, an art platform that brings a fresh view to the idea of contemporary art space, will be hosting Printed’15 between April 29th and June 14th, an event showcasing limited edition prints, photographs and multiples of both local and international artists.
Line (2015)
Line is one of the most important inventions of the history of civilization. It is the main constituent of written communication and artistic expression.
Line, which can be seen as an action on a platform, is shaped with the relationship a draftsman builds with the surface. Its boundaries are therefore determined and it eventually evolves into a form. In this context, power of the line turns into a visual memory within historical process, depending on both the cultural environment and the person who draws it.
Close to Self (2015)
We want our photographs to carry happy marks from particular moments. Looking back at a photograph, we remember as we combine our memories with the feeling that the photo gives us. We don’t stand alone in those happy moments; we want someone or something next to us to appear in that photo. Then, why there is a need for someone or something –it could be a simple thing as well as a monument or an organic structure–? Is it because they contribute to our construction of identity, or because they visually set off our character? Or with all of these, is it because they also ally with our emotions?
Video works to be exhibited in “Possibilities and Choices” group selection will build a dynamic set up within the Open Space that forms the basis for Mixer. Video works included in this selection, will also reflect Mixer Open Space’s flexible character through a display that does not have a particular conceptual arrangement.
Non-Place (2014)
The group exhibition entitled as non-place, curated by Mehmet Kahraman, is about non-places such as airports, amusement parks and shopping centers of our era, which are detached from their contexts, resemble one another and can be found anywhere. The non-places which influence the way mobile subjects of the contemporary world experience places, bring people together and let them socialize while giving individuals an existential contradiction space by creating a sense of loneliness.
Chaoskampf (2014)
Bugdan’s recent works are shaped with a pictorial setting focusing on the Chaos and the ones standing against it. Reflecting on new perspectives and produced by renewed techniques, these art works reveal the artist’s experimental seeking. As it becomes possible to see the clash of chaos and order on the surface in his paintings through intertwining tones of color, his drawings and prints contain more of figurative impressions about this opposition.
The Built Environment - Lower East Side in Istanbul (2014)
Mixer is delighted to present The Built Environment, Lower East Side in Istanbul, the first show of the new season. This group-exhibition features nine international artists, none of whom have previously shown in Istanbul. These artists work in photo-based practices, painting, collage, printed matter, sculpture, video, and some are producing site-specific works, directly engaging with the built environment of Istanbul. The artworks in The Built Environment, Lower East Side in Istanbul will be displayed in Mixer’s exhibition space in Tophane between 19 September – 02 November, combine references to constructed space with a focus on urban topography, specifically a sense of how the order and structure of our environment can produce a sense of disorientation, confrontation, or sometimes anxiety.
Non-existing Images (2014)
Non-existing Images builds its theoretical framework on the multi-layered relationship between the image and the viewer. Each form we encounter on various media –usually on two-dimensional surfaces– eventually becomes first a continuum and then a completion in the minds of the viewers, with regards to their own existential incompletion. In line with the idea that the image is incomplete on its own and can only be complete in the mind of the viewer, artworks face countless different interpretations and transform into a myriad of unique reflections.
Erör (2014)
Cins’s works seem as a visual diary inspired by encounters of daily objects with his subconscious. The title of the exhibition is a play on the word ‘error’, combining the roughness of ‘terror’ and the ‘error’s he encounters during his new artistic practice. The pastel tones the artist uses, puts the revolting objects depicted out of their context and invites the viewer to read these drawings in a different way.
A Matter Of Timing (2014)
Meltem’s work visualizes the unavoidable effect of mass media devices on human life, centering around the concepts of communication, relationships and detachment while dealing with co-existing or counter-positioned concepts like time-space and engagement-apathy.
Homo Evolution (2014)
As a form of being, Homo Sapiens continues to evolve within an ongoing process, triggered by the cultural and technological developments of modern times. These layers, created instantly by various evolution processes, are turning into surreal and fantastic canvases with the help of the artist’s creative reflex and imagination.
Not Quite As Thought (2014)
The post-modern age creates some existential problems such as the objectification of the body, identity problems, social pre-acceptances, and individuality in common life. These problems put forward the duality of body/consciousness, and also naturalise the process of individuals positioning themselves within the outside world.
New Perceptions: Body and Boundaries (2014)
In the works of Kocakaya, the identity changing in the axis of uncertainty of the space is visualized as the position of seeking its own existence. The ambiguity in faces, in a sense, gives a clue to the distributional relationship established between the viewer and the artist. The solo exhibition of Kocakaya including image, photograph and video works focuses on the expression of mental action and physical reaction of human to circumstances she is in. The artist uses her own body as a model in her works while produces a new faceless body dispelling her facial expressions.
Record (2013)
The multi-disciplinary exhibition Kayıt/Record focused on developing perspectives surrounding the effects on individual and social memory in contemporary art. The artists looked at the theme of records and recording, and now even more so where the lines between fiction and reality are becoming ever more blurred, and with our memories warped, Kayıt/Record group exhibition aimed at manipulating this through the viewpoint of the audience.
Hotel Italia (2013)
The need to inject the nourishment that only art and culture can provide to a hotel once branded under the admirable title of Italia, is an unambiguous resolve by the involved artists and curator(s) alike – by interpreting this and focusing on the cultural heart of a nation that is currently choking under civil negligence and the loss of political centrality, Hotel Italia offered not only its viewers the opportunity of discovering the many works hanging on its labyrinth of ‘hotel room walls’, but also this experience on the whitewashed walls of an art space, expropriated from their original place of origin, creating an air of disorientation among this ‘hotels’ unusual temporary guests.
Grigori (2013)
In a passive society made up of homogenous, cloned individuals, a society where even the slightest hint of pandemonium fails to make any difference. A society now so deeply rooted, it takes more than a few individuals to break the mould, and as a result of this lack in individual force, any glitches that one attempts to gather are meaningless; a single person’s efforts are guaranteed to fail, as one belongs merely in an existential sense.