Past Events
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REFLEX OF PLUMBOB, April 2022
Solo Exhibition of Yasemin Kalaycı
Curator: Melis Bektaş
A Reflex for Life in the Face of Today's Livability and Future Possibilities
Yasemin Kalaycı's "Plumbob Reflex" exhibition, curated by Melis Bektaş, will be opened at NOKS Art Space as part of "Senkron Simultaneous Video Exhibitions" on April 15 - 30, 2022!
15th April- 30th April 2022
In this series of multi-channel video installations produced based on the concept of the self, we see the body in a virtual world, adopting the space it is in as an ordinary space and fulfilling its routine needs regardless of where it is. The body starts to do the daily chores starting in the morning and continues the life cycle in the rational world within the digital environment. The character, who is trying to experience repetitions that are not surprising even in an alternative world, has redefined its own truth and adapted itself to this new reality.
Where creating and maintaining reflexes is a condition necessary for the continuation of life, the Plumbob Reflex develops as it is connected with affective science, mood, and movement. This reflex is not a diagnosis nor a system. The Plumbob Reflex, which stresses the blurry line between the new and the old, creates a reflex of life in the face of nostalgia, the livability of today and the possibilities of the future, all at the same time. With a different representation of movement and mood in each video, you can follow the series of reflections that will be familiar to everyone, through our methods of finding and maintaining our normal state even in extraordinary situations
READING ROOM, November 2020
Reading Room / KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 Shortlist Books Exhibition as the first exhibition of 2020 after the pantemic had started. The Exhibition is being realised in collaboration with Kassel Photobook Festival, Istanbul Photobook Festival and Mas Printing House, İstanbul.
REFLEX, July 2019
Group Exhibition of Coşkun Aşar, Elçin Acun, Mert Çağıl Türkay, Merve Seçkin, Seçkin, Tercan, Sevinj Yusifova, Volkan Kızıltunç in Tel Aviv, ISRAEL in collaboration with Indie Photography Group Gallery
I'NOT NOSTALJIK, YOU ARE NOSTALGIC, November 2019
Duo Exhibition of Mathilde Denize and July Ancel organised in collaboration of PISTON in NOKS
METAPHYSICS OF SPACE
April 2019
Solo Exhibition of Erkan Öznur in NOKS
BOOK MARKET, FOTO WIEN
March 2019
Festival Participation of NOKS Books to Foto Wien
SNACK!, February 2019
Solo Exhibition of Mert Çağıl Türkay in NOKS
BASE TALKS! Artist Initiatives
December 2018
NOKS Founder Elvan Ekren's participation to BASE Talks
BLIND FIELD, November 2018
Group Exhibition of Beril Ece Güler, Nazli Khoskhabar, Emanuele Satolli, Hazal Kara, Natalia Ershova, Silva Bingaz ve Volkan Kızıltunç curated by Elvan Ekren in Artist Experience Project Area
EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHY, October 2018
Workshop by Natasha Christia in NOKS
WEBINAR, November 2020
Webinar / Sanat ile Başa Çıkma: Step İstanbul Kapsamında Halka Sanat Projesi, NOKS Art Space, Paper Street Co ve Incomplit bir Online Panel gerçekleştirdiler.
RUPTURE!
SAMİ BARUH, March 2021
NOKS Art Space, pandemi dolayısıyla açılışının ertelenmesinden tam 1 sene sonra, sanatçı ve elektronik müzik prodüktörü Sami Baruh’un video ve fotoğraf çalışmalarından oluşan ilk kişisel sergisi “KAYIŞ KOPTU!” ya ev sahipliği yapıyor.
Sami Baruh, kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılan aile mesleği olan teneke kutu imalatçılığını, yaklaşık yarım asırdır hiç değişmeyen çalışma biçimini, aynı yerde bir ömür geçiren işçileri ve imalathaneyi; fotoğraf, video ve ses gibi farklı disiplinleri kullanarak belgeliyor. Atölyede geçirdiği zaman içerisinde manuel makineleri, onları seri bir şekilde çalıştırmakla yükümlü işçileri sessiz bir gözlemci gibi kaydeden Baruh, sergi açılışı esnasında gerçekleştireceği ve endüstriyel gürültüyü yorumladığı canlı performansı ile izleyicileri gürültüye tanıklık etmeye davet ediyor.
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Group Exhibition of Ayça Telgeren, Çağrı Saray, Özlem Şimşek and Volkan Kızıltunç
Senkron “Eş Zamanlı Video Sergileri” kapsamında NOKS Art Space’te açılacak olan Geçiş / Transition sergisinde Ayça Telgeren, Çağrı Saray, Özlem Şimşek ve Volkan Kızıltunç’un video işleri 15-30 Nisan 2021 tarihleri arasında görülebilir.
Geçiş; zamanın, hareketin doğasının ve yaşamının kırılganlığının “öz”ünün ortaya çıktığı bulanık bir alandır. Hareketli görüntü ise durağan kareler ile ”mumyalanan” geçmişi, şimdiki zaman haline gelen sayısız “gelecek zaman kipine” taşıyarak varlığını devam ettirir. Geçmiş ile gelecek arasında kalan Geçiş/Transition anı, zamanın aynı anda hem yokluğunun hem de varlığının bir kaydıdır. Akhilleus kaplumbağayı yakalayıp geçtiğinde değişen şey, kaplumbağa, Akhilleus ve ikisi arasındaki mesafeyi kapsayan geçiş zamanının durumudur. Akhilleus ne zaman kaplumbağanın geçmiş olduğu bir noktaya varsa, önünde hâlâ aşması gereken bir mesafe kalmış olacaktır. Bu nedenle Zenon paradoksu ortaya çıkar, Akhilleus kaplumbağayı hiçbir zaman geçemez ve Geçiş / Transition anı, zamanın ne A ne de B olduğu o aşılamaz paradoksun ta kendisi olur.
Sergi gün ve saatleri: 15 Nisan -30 Nisan 2021 tarihleri arasında her çarşamba, perşembe ve cuma günleri saat 13:00-18:00 arasında açıktır.
READING ROOM 2
KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2022 SHORTLISTED BOOKS, December 2021
“Kassel Photobook Festivali tarafından bu sene 10.su verilecek olan KASSEL MAKET KİTAP ÖDÜLÜ için 32 farklı ülkeden gönderilen 226 kitap arasından finalist olarak seçilen 52 biricik kitabı keşfetmeniz için sizleri bekliyoruz. Çağdaş fotoğrafın bağımsız dolaşım biçimi olan FOTOĞRAF KİTABI alanında tanık olacağınız yeni hikaye biçimleri ve taze bakışlar ile, sizleri keşfedeceğiniz farklı bir sergiye davet ediyoruz. “Türkiye’de ikinci kez NOKS Art Space’te gerçekleştirilecek olan OKUMA ODASI 2 / READING ROOM 2, sergisinde Kassel Maket Kitap Ödülüne 32 farklı ülkeden gönderilen 226 kitap arasından jüri tarafından seçilen 52 tanesi görülebilir.
ONE AKARETLER, December 2021
Group Exhibition of Beste Erener, Elif Öner, Elvan Ekren, Evrim Kavcar, Fatma Çiftçi, İnsel İnal and Volkan Kızıltunç.
NOKS Art Space 5 sanatçı ve 1 sanatçı ikilisinin işleriyle ONE Akaretler: Bağımsız Sanatçılar için Açık Alan sergilerine katılıyor. Beste Erener, Elif Öner & Evrim Kavcar, Elvan Ekren, Fatma Çiftçi, İnsel İnal, ve Volkan Kızıltunç’un işlerinden oluşan sergi 20 Aralık 2021 ile 05 Ocak 2022 arasında “ ONE Akaretler” bünyesinde Sıra Evler’de izlenebilir.
ONE Akaretler: Bağımsız Sanatçılar için Açık Alan: Bağımsız olarak çalışan çağdaş sanatçılar için açık bir mekandır. Akaretler Sıra Evler’de gerçekleşecek olan etkinlik bağımsız sanatçıların multi disipliner üretimlerini, koleksiyonerler, küratörler, kültür ve sanat enstitüleri ve sanatseverler ile her sene belirli bir tema etrafında bir araya getirmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
Visiting Days and Hours:
ONE Akaretler: The Independent Artists Open Space Event can be seen between 09:00 - 21:00 hours between monday to friday and between 10:00 - 21:00 on saturdays and sundays.
Address:
Akaretler Row Houses, Nr: 37-39, Akaretler, Besiktas, Istanbul
TERRARIUM December 2021
Group Exhibition of Eyal Agivayev, Lihi Binyamin, Keren Zaltz, Youval Hai, Ilan Carmi, Eldad Menuchin, Tamar Nissim, Aya Nitzan, Naama Rona, Orit Bertini Shavit, Gilad Bar Shalev, Davi Barell, Ronit Porat
Curator: Keren Zaltz
Indie Photography Group Gallery had opened the exhibition “Reflex” in their space in Tel Aviv in 2019 organised by NOKS art Space, Istanbul. The exhibition had been consisting of photography and video works of 7 visual artists from Turkey. In consequence of their collaboration project between INDIE and NOKS, Indie is now participating to ONE Akaretler: The Independent Artists Open Space Exhibitions with the exhibition “Terrarium” with 13 photographers and video artists from Israel.
Indie Photography Group Gallery, Tel Aviv
Indie Photography Group Gallery (a registered Non-Profit Organization) was founded in 2010 by a group of visual artists to provide an artistic platform for young and established contemporary artists in the medium of Photography and Video Art. Indie aims to promote and broaden the discourse on Photography in Israel, without any dependency on financial and commercial issues that could affect the process of the artwork. Indie photography group gallery has 12 members that operates the gallery in south Tel-aviv. In 2019 the gallery established an award given once every two years to an artist working in the medium of photography.
Terrarium
Terrarium is a sealable glass container containing soil and plants, it produces a closed ecosystem that does not require human treatment or intervention. The terrarium regulates nature, embraces it in a closed capsule that is opened only for maintenance purposes. It is nourished by artificial light, and stands isolated on a shelf, far from nature.The photographs and videos in the exhibition show an attempt to produce processes of order, regimentation and meaning within nature. Humans try to decode nature, control their environment and subordinate it to their will, and nature in turn can revolt and react. The works, like the terrarium, do not allow direct contact and leave sculpted pieces that operate as a closed system for the observing person.
Visiting Days and Hours:
ONE Akaretler: The Independent Artists Open Space Event can be seen between 09:00 - 21:00 hours between monday to friday and between 10:00 - 21:00 on saturdays and sundays.
Address:
Akaretler Row Houses, Nr: 37-39, Akaretler, Besiktas, Istanbul
Teraryum exhibition has been realising in collaboration with NOKS ART Space, Istanbul and Indie Photography Group Gallery, Tel Aviv with the support of Art ISRAEL.
BEING THERE, December 2021
Solo Exhibition of Simon Wachsmuth
Being There – Presence and Reverberation
NOKS Art Space is proud to present conceptual artist Simon Wachsmuth, with his exhibition “Being There – Presence and Reverberation.”
22.12.2021 - 16.01.2022
„Every space and place sounds and resounds, every living body and being vibrates, and every kind of material, object and surface has acoustic properties“. *
The exhibition Being There presents the sounds from 4 different film works by Simon Wachsmuth. The films were shot in four countries, in Iran, Turkey, South Korea and India, between 2007 and 2016. Being There is a dematerialised exhibition as the existing visual component of the films is being withheld from the audience. By presenting only the soundtrack of image based works, the exhibition seeks to give the audience the opportunity to sense places and spaces by hearing.
Being There invites the audience to speculate on the general properties of something which is partly missing. Following the echo of the images the audience is invited to reflect upon the situational and relational aspects of sound and listening. To complete the thematic focus of the exhibition, another sound work will be shown that addresses the potential of the imagination in the process of creating and viewing images.
IRAN- Where we were then, where we are now?
TURKEY- Parabasis
SOUTH KOREA- As Matter Stands
INDIA- Master of the Nets
MAHALLA FESTIVAL NOKS ART SPACE PALIMSEST VIDEO ART SELECTION, September 2022
Elçin Acun, Mert Çağıl Türkay, Sami Baruh, Yasemin Kalaycı, Volkan Kızıltunç
Parallel to the 17th Istanbul Art Biennial, we are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Mahalla Festival taking place under the title Palimpsest in the former Greek Primary School in Kurtuluş, Istanbul
The title, Palimpsest, originally denotes a piece of writing material on which the original writing has been erased to make room for later writing. However, traces of the overwritten texts remain.
This paleographic phenomenon will inspire the artists of the Mahalla Festival 2022. They will be concerned with the use of resources in a comprehensive way: in terms of ecological, economic, political, social and communal memory culture.
The festival kicks-off at the former Kurtuluş Greek Elementary School with lively interactive activities. The exhibition in the historic building in Kurtuluş accompanies a series of events. The focus of the activities is the cooperation of the artists and their communication and togetherness with the residents of the quarter.
RESOURCE UTOPIA, November 2018
Group Exhibition of Altay Tuz, Beril Ece Güler, Burak Dikilitaş, Cansu Yıldıran, Egemen Tuncer, Müge Yıldız, Serhat Kır and Sevinj Yusifova curated by Andreas Rost, Michael Biedowicz and Volkan Kızıltunç in Elgiz Museum in collaboration with Goethe Institut Istanbul.
TRAVELOGUE SAMMLUNG, October 2018
Solo Exhibition of Lukas Birk in NOKS curated by Natasha Christia
A FUTURE OF TRAVEL / THE JOURNEY OF THE ARTWORK, July 2018
Group Exhibition of Ali Miharbi, Ali İbrahim Öcal, Ayça Telgeren, Berkay Tuncay, Borga Kantürk, Burçak Bingöl, Çağrı Saray, Eda Gecikmez, Elif Biradlı, eliföner, Fatma Çiftçi, Mehmet Ögüt, Özgür Demirci, Pınar Öğrenci, Sevil Tunaboylu, Suat Öğüt, Volkan Kızıltunç, Yasemin Nur, Yeni Anıt , Zeyno Pekünlü in NOKS in collaboration with Corridor Project Space with the support of SAHA Association, Consulate of the Kingdom of Netherlands Istanbul and Benice Art Shipping
A FUTURE OF TRAVEL
June 2018
Group Exhibition of Volkan Kızıltunç, Elvan Ekren, Çağrı Saray, Noor Nuyten, Annabel Howland, Suat Ögüt, Conny Kuilboer, Lenneke Van Der Goot, Yehudit Mizrahi Dar, Maarten Schuurman, Esther Brakenhoff, Marc van Dijk, Barbara Dubbeldam, Ovidiu Spaniol, Sander ter Steege, Vincka Struben, Steffen Vogelezang in Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS in collaboration with Corridor Project Space with the support of SAHA Association
DINNER at SALT BEYOGLU
April 2018
Corridor Project Space invited three local non-profit founders Noks Art Space, Tasarim Bakkali and Loading to organise a dinner at SALT.
RICH AND STRANGE, May 2018
Solo Exhibition of David Campany in NOKS
FUTURE SHOCK, November 2017
Group Exhibition of Coşkun Aşar, Çağrı Saray, Elçin Acun, Elvan Ekren,Tuna Uysal, Volkan Kızıltunç in Artist Utopia Project Area
RESOURCE UTOPIA, Long Term Photography and Video Project Workshop
November 2017
Workshop tutered by Andreas Rost, Michael Biedowicz and Volkan Kızıltunç in NOKS
