The countdown to New York’s 5th Avenue Museum Mile Festival has begun. This festival, which will extend from the museums onto the streets on the evening of June 18, invites all art lovers to celebrate its 46th anniversary.

The third “Upcycle Istanbul Art and Design Festival”, organized by the sustainable social impact platform Upcycle Istanbul, will take place at Müze Gazhane from June 5 to 9, 2024.

The 6th Mardin Biennial, curated by Ali Akay, will be hosted from May 10th to June 10th, 2024. Titled “Further Away”, the biennial asks questions about how we can go beyond today’s artistic, political, and sociological issues that we face.

We explore art-themed books that nurture children’s imagination, uncover their creativity and develop their emotional intelligence.

The new film “Neandreia,” produced by Ömer Atay and Serra Ciliv and directed by Reha Erdem, stands out as Türkiye's first ecologically sustainable film production.

The exhibition Upfalling Ones, where Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt invite the audience into a world where societal power symbols are fragmented and reimagined, awaits art enthusiasts at Dirimart Dolapdere until April 28th.

The historical building’s transformation into the İşbank Museum of Painting Sculpture, which opened its doors on the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, was realized through the design by TEĞET Architectural Office.

In London, Serpentine opens to visit the artist Refik Anadol’s exhibition titled as “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive” on February 16. In his first major solo exhibition in the UK, Anadol puts on display his most mighty artificial intelligence art project to date.

We have compiled the prominent museums and art galleries in Turkey that moved their exhibitions to digital media.

One of the most visited museums in the world, Tate Modern’s collection meets the art lovers through the exhibition “The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art” at Artİstanbul Feshane until May 19th.

Labirinto della Masone, a prominent museum in Italy, is currently hosting “Words and Images,” an exhibition dedicated to Orhan Pamuk, the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, showcasing his unpublished graphic works.

The exhibition “In the Realm of Three Inland Seas” at Salt Beyoğlu showcases a retrospective of Handan Börüteçene’s works, which have been intricately connected with nature, history, and archaeology for over forty years.

With its new exhibition, the Bundeskunsthalle revives the spirit of postmodernism from the ‘60s to the ‘90s, showcasing striking examples from design, architecture, fashion, cinema, and literature.

The exhibition “Istanbul as Far as the Eye Can See: Views Across Five Centuries” at Meşher invites visitors to gaze across Istanbul’s skyline from one end to the other, presenting a 500-year visual chronicle of the Ottoman capital city. The Curators Ebru Esra Satıcı and Şeyda Çetin explain the exhibition’s mood through the theme of “dualities”.

Exploring dichotomies such as light and darkness, death and life, past and present, the “A New Story – Photographs From and Around Göbeklitepe” exhibition is put under the microscope in Hitit Mod’s Art Exploration of the Month section.

A new exhibition opened on May 24th at Salt Galata, one of our favorite spots in Istanbul, be it for its library, restaurant, and bookstore, or sometimes just to sit in its historic building and take in the view.

“In this mood of ambiguity, Balık Kavağa Çıkınca (When Pigs Fly) traces the temporal expressions embedded in language and renders them visible by bringing them together.” (Cansu Cürgen, Avşar Gürpınar)

Let’s explore Yelta Köm’s exhibition “her şey tanıdık, her şey yabancı” (all familiar, all foreign) at Versus Art Project. The artist describes the exhibition’s mood as follows: “The mood of this exhibition is a bit perplexing. It’s as if certain situations that we don’t typically notice converge on an ordinary afternoon and suddenly awaken us to a familiar yet alien dream...”

From Gucci’s 2019 “Men’s Tailoring Campaign”. (By courtesy of Gucci and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).