‘’Behind the Booth’’ What kind of story are you constructing at Art Show this year?
Avant D’art collaborates once again with Art Show: Galeriler Buluşması 2026.
Bringing together galleries and various actors of the art world in Istanbul, this gathering unfolds through solo and duo presentations, creating more focused, clearer, and stronger narratives.
Placing solidarity over competition and dialogue over hierarchy, this structure invites us to rethink the fair not merely as a display space, but as a ground for physical encounter and the production of context.
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Bu yıl Artshow’da nasıl bir hikâye kuruyorsunuz?
Avant D’art, Art Show: Galeriler Buluşması 2026 ile yeniden iş birliği yapıyor.
İstanbul’da galerileri ve sanat dünyasının farklı aktörlerini bir araya getiren bu buluşmada; solo ve duo sunumlarla daha odaklı, daha net ve daha güçlü anlatılar kuruluyor.
Rekabet yerine dayanışmayı, hiyerarşi yerine diyaloğu merkeze alan bu yapı; yalnızca bir sergileme alanı değil, fiziksel karşılaşma ve bağlam üretme zemini olarak yeniden düşünmeye davet ediyor.
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at Öktem Aykut booth B9, with Mesut Öztürk, at Art Show's 2nd edition.
With Lara Özdoğan and Tankut Aykut.
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Öktem Aykut, Art Show: Galeriler Buluşması’na Bora Başkan’ın ve Mesut Öztürk’ün eserleri ile yer alıyor. Galeri, B9 numaralı stantta Pazar gününe kadar ziyaret edilebilir.
Öktem Aykut is participating in Art Show with works by Bora Başkan and Mesut Öztürk. Gallery can be visited at booth B9 until Sunday.
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Welcome back to the Creative Minds Project with a very special guest, the one and only Bora Başkan. Bora is an Istanbul-based multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited in Istanbul, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Los Angeles. Bora and I first met in Berlin when he had just moved there, and at the time, we both related deeply to the experience of being outsiders in a new city. Over the years, our paths almost crossed in tangential ways, which is perhaps surprising given that we were born and bred on the same streets, shaped by similar neighbourhoods, rhythms and histories of Istanbul.
Bora is one of the most promising contemporary Turkish artists whose intellectual depth is matched by an understated generosity for his craft. Trained as a graphic designer and now working primarily in drawing and painting, he explores the fluid boundaries between the organic and the mechanical, the political and the phenomenological, and the formation and dissolution of form. His practice is thoughtful, uncompromising and philosophically grounded, and it is truly an honour to have this rare sketchbook in our archive.
For the Creative Minds Project, Bora created a notebook that is as raw and instinctual as it is reflective. I am excited to share the pages he contributed, along with our conversation about art, migration, abstraction, and the visible and invisible systems that shape us. I hope you enjoy this glimpse into Bora’s reflective inner world and his careful, iterative process as much as I did.
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