Margaret R. Thompson’s first solo exhibition in Türkiye, “Temenos: The Inland Sea,” opens on April 17 at Zeyrek Çinili Hamam.
Curated by Anlam de Coster and conceived specifically for the hammam’s Byzantine cistern, the exhibition draws on the notion of “temenos” to explore inwardness, containment, and transformation. Bringing together paintings, textiles, sound, and scent, it reimagines the cistern as an inland sea.
The exhibition is open to visitors free of charge until 30 August 2026, every day except Monday, between 10:00 and 18:00.
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Margaret R. Thompson’ın Türkiye’deki ilk kişisel sergisi “Temenos: İç Deniz”, 17 Nisan’da Zeyrek Çinili Hamam’da açılıyor.
Anlam de Coster küratörlüğünde hamamın Bizans sarnıcı için özel olarak tasarlanan sergi, “temenos” kavramından yola çıkarak içe dönüş, korunma ve dönüşüm fikrini ele alıyor. Resim, tekstil, ses ve koku çalışmalarını bir araya getiren sergi, sarnıcı bir “iç deniz” olarak yeniden düşünmeye davet ediyor.
Sergi, 30 Ağustos 2026’ya kadar, pazartesi hariç her gün 10.00–18.00 saatleri arasında ücretsiz olarak ziyaret edilebilir.
#ZeyrekÇiniliHamam #MargaretRThompson #Temenos
Healing Ruins, the most personal and ambitious endeavor I've ever worked on, to which I've dedicated my whole heart and soul, is opening on September 30 at @zeyrekcinilihamam
Thank you @kozagureli for inviting me to embark on this homeric journey. Thank you to all the artists who trusted me. Their generosity and determination take us to the stars.
Thanks also to the unsung heroes who made this project possible and worthwhile. More detailed thanks to come.
I’m so so grateful and so emotional.
Did you know that Lee Miller’s son knew almost nothing about his mother’s career, and only discovered more than 60,000 photographs and negatives in the attic after her death? Shocked by what he uncovered, he went on to create the Lee Miller Archives @leemillerarchives to honor and preserve her legacy. It’s a sad yet strangely universal story: that of a trailblazing woman who, after living such an audacious life, almost erased herself from history within her own lifetime.
I have long been fascinated by this period, by Lee Miller, and by the extraordinary constellation of artists and writers around her, so I was ecstatic to see the triumphant exhibition dedicated to her at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris @museedartmodernedeparis after missing it at Tate Britain. I’m so happy to see her finally receiving the recognition she deserves as a groundbreaking artist and war reporter, rather than being reduced to the role of Man Ray’s muse or remembered merely as a brilliant cook and the wife of Roland Penrose.
It also feels impossible not to reflect on the psychological violence of witnessing history at its darkest: genocide, human cruelty, but also resilience, and the devastating realization that these cycles continue to repeat themselves.
Ever since I listened to @maryoverthere live, I can’t stop thinking about harps and have been constantly running into harps in art & manuscripts so thought I’d do a small recap. Which harpist are you?
I first fell in love with Venice here, at @palazzofortuny_venezia thanks to the inimitable exhibitions by @axelvervoordt that have affected me profoundly. It’s still heaven on earth, an ode to everything we have lost.
Did you know that the books saved from Constantinople after the conquest were brought to Venice, forming the foundations of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice? @greekreporter shared this story and it’s exactly where @fondazionebvlgari is hosting two site-specific installations in dialogue with the library’s heritage: Fragments of Fire Worship by @monia.benhamouda.studio and Momentary Monument @lara_favaretto 🪄
After seeing their exhibitions, you must get lost in the immense and magnificent collections of Museo Correr and the Archaeological Museum, that are usually surprisingly empty.
“Biblioteca Marciana is a work of Jacopo Sansovino and was built and decorated to become home to the Greek and Latin manuscripts that were donated in 1468 to the Republic of Venice by Cardinal Bessarion. Some of these important manuscripts are Breviario Grimani of 5th century and the map of the world of Fra Mauro, in addition to the first editions of Aldo Manuzio. The lobby on the first floor has an impressive ceiling, Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) painting and called “La Sapienza” (“knowledge”), on the ceiling of the hall you can admire twenty-one portraits, works by seven artists selected by Tiziano and Sansovino, three of the best known are from Paolo Veronese and on the walls are portraits of philosophers, works by Tintoretto and Veronese.”
Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Mimar Sinan’ın en kıymetli eserlerinden biri olarak yalnızca bir hamam değil; şehrin hafızasını taşıyan 500 yaşında bir kültürel miras.
Zamanın Ruhu’nun yeni bölümünde, Anlam de Coster ile bu eşsiz yapının katmanları arasında dolaşıyoruz. Bizans sarnıçlarından kayıp çinilere, hamamın karanlık dehlizlerinden “Temenos: İç Deniz” sergisine uzanan çok derin bir sohbet oldu bu.
Şehrin ortasında unutulmuş bir hafızanın nasıl yeniden ayağa kaldırıldığını, sanatın bir mekanı nasıl iyileştirebildiğini ve neden bugün hâlâ estetiğe, kültürel mirasa ve ortak hafızaya tutunmaya ihtiyaç duyduğumuzu konuştuk.
Podcast’in tamamı ve röportajın yazılı hali bio’daki linkte. ✨
@anlamdecoster@bihterayyildiz
#İşBirliği
My Biennale crush was “Con te, con tutto”, the Italian pavilion by @chiara.camoni curated by @ccanziani 🏛️🥹
Everything I’m striving for was there: “Con te con tutto is a statement as intimate as it is universal, and fully captures the essential spirit, the return to the origins, to a point zero of humanity.”
You might want to visit the “Etruschi e Veneti” exhibition at Palazzo Ducale @ducalevenezia before (or after) the Biennale, and watch Alice Rohrwacher’s Chimera so that it all comes full circle.
I was so emotional that I couldn’t take proper pictures, so the first ten images are the official shots.
Thank you @thisisarcade for the heads up 🪄
@contecontutto@mic_italia@creativita_contemporanea #padiglioneitalia2026 #chiaracamoni
A mini-selection from the mega-biennale
and a side-note;
Obviously it’s not at all obligatory but I’m always startled that very few artists connect their research to Venice itself while the city presents such a fertile ground (for me). One of the marvellous exceptions was @nolanisabel who represents Ireland with ‘Dreamshook’, the first two images in this mix carousel. I hope you can read the full text online, it really resonated with me:
“Nolan focuses on the figure of Aldo Manuzio (c.1450–1515), an innovative, influential printer and publisher based in Venice. As the century turned, Manuzio, widely known as Aldus Manutius, transformed the culture of reading in small and large ways: introducing the semi-colon and italics; and more significantly producing numerous, portable enchiridion (pocket-sized books), beautifully designed with wide margins and modern typography. In his promotion of key writings by influential contemporary humanists and numerous Greek and Roman classical works – newly, conscientiously edited and never before published in Europe – he hoped to champion the idea of human perfectibility and foster a more ‘civilised’ world.“ #georginajackson @dhg_dublin
Nolan says: “Even if there is much to be appreciated about it, it can be tricky to love a European heritage. It’s a place that wielded privilege as a weapon and progressively built wealth and culture through extraction and subjugation; a lesson quickly learnt growing up in Ireland. But there is much within the cultural history of post-medieval Europe, albeit produced and shaped almost exclusively by and for a wealthy, white, Christian patriarchal society, that I still love and learn from. There’s a Goya aquatint called The sleep of reason produces monsters. While reading into the history of humanism which birthed generous ideas and a remarkable legacy I recalled this work, mindful that the dreams and desires of reason also produced horrors.” @irelandatvenice
