Feb 18, 2026 - Mar 22, 2026

Family

• Su Alara Acerol • Deniz Defne Acerol • Gaye Su Akyol • Muzaffer Akyol • Sevgi Akyüz Yaman • Hakan Cingöz • Dilan Demirbağ • Saygun Dura • Murat Germen • Berkin Günsay • Ayşegül İzer • Zeki Faik İzer • Gönül Nuhoğlu • Mehmet Öğüt • Sezai Özdemir • Zeynep Özdemir • Elena Papadimitriou • Pemra Pilevneli • Belmin Pilevneli • Yavuz Pilevneli • Yonca Saraçoğlu • Mediha Saraçoğlu • Meliha Sözeri • Eda Tekcan • Süleyman Saim Tekcan • Ayşe Yaltırım

This is an FAMILY exhibition.

But it is a family with no single definition.

We approach family as a space of transmission, formation, and continuity.

Here, memory is the point of departure—

what leaves a mark, what does not fade, what is carried from one generation to the next.

Production is never “ready-made.”

Family isn’t, either.

Saygun Dura’s images that render collective movement visible remind us that the individual exists not alone, but within a network.

They open up a space where finding direction together becomes possible.

Then we move to generations:

Eda Tekcan & Süleyman Saim Tekcan
Ayşegül İzer & Zeki Faik İzer
Zeynep Özdemir & Sezai Özdemir
Gaye Su Akyol & Muzaffer Akyol
Ayşe Yaltırım & Murat Germen
Belmin, Pemra & Yavuz Pilevneli
Yonca Saraçoğlu & Meliha Saraçoğlu
Deniz Defne Acerol & Su Alara Acerol

These togethernesses do not present a lineage.

They make a mode of transmission visible.

Their languages of production do not resemble one another.

Yet they pass through the same cultural climate.

Transmission here is not imitation; it is transformation.

Artists who are not connected by blood, yet who share the same circulation of ideas, are also part of this network:

Berkin Günsay
Mehmet Öğüt
Gönül Nuhoğlu
Hakan Cingöz
Dilan Demirbağ
Sevgi Yaman
Meliha Sözeri
Elena Papadimitriou

In the art world, there are family trees, too—

not biological, but intellectual.

The language of artists who do not remain indifferent to what is happening in the world and in our near and far surroundings; who bear witness through their means of expression; who do not turn their heads away—also becomes part of this exhibition.

History is not written by the powerful, but by the just.

This exhibition takes a deliberate position against the historical invisibility of women’s production during the period that includes March 8, International Working Women’s Day.

Not through slogans, but through the practice of selection and of bringing works side by side.

First and foremost, we thank all of our artists who strengthen our voice by standing with us, Kültür A.Ş. for opening up this space, and their invaluable team.

And our greatest thanks go to you.

Because art is completed with its viewer.

A bond grows stronger when it finds a response.

We have always believed that we are beautiful “together.”

Is it possible to stay together?