Exhibitions
Collect Gallery produces projects that bring together artists, works and ideas that meet the definition of “contemporary” through curatorial selections and practices at its venue in Juma buildings in Karaköy.
Projects
Collect Gallery supports contemporary art beyond the borders without being tied to a specific place and aims to establish new connections.
Artists
Coming soon
Limnos Land ART
Since 2022, our Turkish gallery has been a vibrant hub for contemporary art, showcasing a diverse range of international artists and artworks. As part of the “To Collect Contemporary Art” platform, Collect Gallery is moving to Limnos Island, Greece, to launch a new annual project called “Limnos Land Art.” Each year different artists will be invited to breathe new life into the landscape in front of Keros Blue Hotel.
For the first edition, we’ve selected Kalina Dimitrova’s Site-specific installation, “Tumbleweed”
Exhibitions
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Past shows
FIRE (WASTAGE)
Exhibition by Albena Baeva
Curated by Fırat ARAPOĞLU
06.04- 06.05.2024
Wild Flowers
WILD FLOWERS Boris Kolev B.a.i.l.a 09.03 – 03.04.2024 Boris Kolev B.a.i.l.a typically focuses on the depiction of figures, but he takes particular pleasure in painting…
Love and Intimacy: A Reverence
Elenka Nazarova
14.10 – 01.11.2023
The latest exhibition by Bulgarian artist Elenka Nazarova plays with the idea that intimacy, the…
Transience
Brandon Hendrick
Curator: Mina Öztürk
19.05 – 09.09.2023
The exhibition “Тransience” is based on photographs taken from train travelling through Scotland, Greece and Bulgaria, which is the focus of Brandon Hendrick’s more recent works.
Phantoms 3
PHANTOMS 3 Kalina Dimitrova 15.06 – 15.07.2023 The works in this exhibition are a continuation of Kalina Dimitrova’s preoccupations with what she calls “phantom images”…
Until the last drop
UNTIL THE LAST DROP Sound installation by Antoni Rayzhekov 11.05 – 10.06.2023 We owe our existence to water. Without it there will be no life,…
POST-INDUSTRIAL BUTCHERY
POST-INDUSTRIAL BUTCHERY Valentina Sciarra 18.03 – 22.04 The act of eating is placed between tradition and innovation. It is tradition as it is made up…
Quell is other people
QUELL IS OTHER PEOPLE is shaped around the fluid nature of the reduplication of ‘Einsamste Einsamkeit’ (Loneliest Loneliness) which Nietzsche uses for the development of his idea of Eternal Recurrence. The word Einsamkeit (loneliness) can be translated as both loneliness and solitude. Although these words seem to be interchangeable, the nuance between them creates a big difference in meaning. QUELL IS OTHER PEOPLE is built upon this difference in meaning. It presents an experimental approach to the concept of loneliness through Akşit’s interdisciplinary practice….