Georg Baselitz’s works from the last decade to be exhibited at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum between 13 September 2024-2 February 2025

Georg Baselitz in Istanbul this September

Dive into the world of Republican intellectual Melek Celâl at the SSM until 23 June



Exhibition on Melek Celâl at the SSM extended untill 23 June

A Forgotten Woman of the Republic: Melek Celâl in All Her Aspects at SSM between December 26, 2023 - April 28, 2024


A Forgotten Woman of the Republic: The Many Ways of Melek Celâl, is now open

The plants and flowers that make up The Living Pyramid will continue their life cycles in new settings.



The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes, on view in the SSM Garden until October 30

Prof. Siegfried Zielinski will be speaking in the "Variant. Documenting New Media Art" program on May 31. 



Variantology and Travelling in a Time Machine

A Different Glance at Osman Hamdi Bey’s Paintings at the Sabanci University Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Conservation and scientific research on six paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey which are part of the Sakıp Sabancı Museum’s Painting Collection have been completed. The ‘Osman Hamdi Bey Beyond Vision’ exhibition relating the process carried on as part of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s global  ’Art Conservation Project’  opens at the Atlı Köşk  on June 5.


Exhibition: Osman Hamdi Bey Beyond Vision

The exhibition “An Orientalist in Mardin: Marius Bauer” has opened at the Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum Dilek Sabancı Art Gallery. 

An Orientalist in Mardin: Marius Bauer

The Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) will host works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin starting from June 13, 2006. The exhibition titled “The Master Sculptor Rodin in Istanbul” comprises 203 artworks selected from the collection of the Rodin Museum in Paris. The exhibition features the artist’s bronze, plaster and marble sculptures, archival photographs, many drawings as well as some pieces from his collection of antique-style statues. 

Exhibition: The Master Sculptor Rodin in Istanbul

GENGHIS KHAN AND HIS HEIRS: THE GREAT MONGOL EMPIRE



Exhibition: Genghis Khan and His Heirs

IN PRAISE OF GOD:  ANATOLIAN RUGS IN TRANSYLVANIAN CHURCHES, 1500-1750

Exhibition: In Praise of God - Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches

A tribute to the 10th International Istanbul Biennial from SSM:

Blind Date Istanbul


Exhibition: Blind Date

The World of Abidin Dino” opened at SSM.



Exhibition: The World of Abidin Dino

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) will be exhibiting a choice of Ottoman Calligraphy from its collection at Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid,  from December 11th 2007 through March 2nd 2008. The exhibition, called Lines in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, is realised under sponsorship of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Sabanci Holding. By means of the exhibition, 96 pieces of art belonging to calligraphers who lived between the end of the 15th and beginning of the 20th century will be presented to the European audience.   

“Lines in Gold” from the SSM Calligraphy Collection exhibited in Madrid.

Exhibition: Masterpieces from the Islamic Art Collection  of the Louvre Museum 

Outstanding pieces of Dalí and Surrealism are in Istanbul at SSM sponsored by Akbank.

Exhibition: Outstanding pieces of Dalí and Surrealism are in Istanbul 

“LISBON Memories of Another City” is welcoming Istanbulites at Sakıp Sabancı Museum.



Exhibition: Lisbon Memories of Another City

“Joseph Beuys and His Students” at Sakıp Sabancı Museum...



Exhibition: Joseph Beuys and His Students

Sakıp Sabancı Museum’s ‘The Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection’ opens at the renovated Atlı Köşk




The Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection opens at the renovated Atlı Köşk

“Rembrandt and His Contemporaries - The Golden Age of Dutch Art” exhibition opened to visitors at SSM.


Exhibition: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries 

1000-day Art Movement “CoBrA” at the SSM!

Exhibition: Cobra – 1000 Days of Free Art

The highly anticipated exhibition, “Monet’s Garden”, is open to visitors.

Exhibition: Monet’s Garden

The contemporary art work honouring Sakıp Sabancı is now at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum

New Exhibition: Sakıp Sabancı by Kutluğ Ataman

“Distant Neighbours, Close Memories: 600 Years of Turkish-Polish Relations” at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum


New Exhibition: Distant Neighbours, Close Memories

Conference: Joan Miró In The Eyes of His Grandson Joan Punyet Miró

‘Women, Birds and Stars’ of the great twentieth century artist Joan Miró is at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum sponsored by Sabancı Holding

New Exhibition: Joan Miró. Women, Birds and  Stars

“The Sky Event” at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum
 



The Sky Event

KUTLUĞ ATAMAN’S VIDEO INSTALLATION “THE PORTRAIT OF SAKIP SABANCI” TO BE EXHIBITED AT THE  56th INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA


The Portrait of Sakıp Sabancı at the 56th Venice Bienalle

Sabancı University’s graduate artists meet at Sakıp Sabancı Museum!

New Exhibition: Reunion

4,3,2,1, ZERO. COUNTDOWN TO THE FUTURE BEGINS.

“The ZERO Movement” is at the S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum with its most groundbreaking artworks…


New Exhibition: Countdown to the Future

THE PORTRAIT OF SAKIP SABANCI BY KUTLUĞ ATAMAN TO BE DISPLAYED AT ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS SUMMER EXHIBITION

The Portrait of Sakıp Sabancı To Be Displayed at Royal Academy of Arts

New exhibition at the  Sakıp Sabancı Museum: ‘MACK. Just Light and Colour’ opens on February 18


New Exhibition: Heinz Mack. Just Light and Colour

MACK. Just Light and Colour” Artist Talk: Heinz Mack and Beral Madra


Artist Talk: Heinz Mack

Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum hosts the “Ai Weiwei in Mardin” exhibition



Ai Weiwei in Mardin

Ai Weiwei Comes to Istanbul for His Exhibition at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum

The “Ai Weiwei on Porcelain” exhibition opens at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum with the support of Akbank


New Exhibition: Ai Weiwei on Porcelain

Sabancı University's Sakıp Sabancı Museum continues to cast light on the history of modern Turkish art.

The ‘Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis’ exhibition at Sakıp Sabancı Museum presents Selim Turan's work, which was shaped by diverse experiences. 


New Exhibition: Selim Turan. Thesis- Antithesis- Synthesis

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum’s ‘Adult Education Programs’ continue with courses on Byzantine history. The event, entitled ‘Glamour of Byzantium’, will be held in English.    

Adult Education: Glamour of Byzantium

The Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, on the 15th anniversary of its founding, is hosting one of the leading representatives of the 1914 Generation, Feyhaman Duran with the exhibition “Feyhaman Duran. Between Two Worlds” 

The Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum is hosting the exhibition of Feyhaman Duran, widely regarded as the founder of portraiture within Turkish art history, showcasing over 1,000 works by the artist and his personal belongings, with the support of Sabancı Holding and in cooperation with Istanbul University.


New Exhibition: Feyhaman Duran. Between Two Worlds

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum hosts the most comprehensive exhibition in Turkey sponsored by Sabancı Holding featuring Russian Avant-garde which shaped the art world in the 20th century.

New Exhibition: Russian Avant-garde. Dreaming the Future through Art and Design

The Living Pyramid, a site-specific work by Agnes Denes, began its life cycle in the garden of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) on 13 September, 2022, where it will continue to be on view throughout the spring and summer.

The Living Pyramid’ by Agnes Denes Will Complete Its Cycle of Four Seasons at SSM

 Sakıp Sabancı Museum’s digitalSSM's "Variant. Documenting New Media Art" Project continues.

How Can Net Art and Artworks be Conserved?

The exhibition titled “Walls and Beyond,” in which the decoration of walls, a practice as ancient as the history of humankind, meets the oldest form of woven art; brings together over one hundred and ten tapestries from different collections.

New Exhibition Walls and Beyond now on view at the Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum

Run by digitalSSM Archives and Research Space within the scope of the research project titled "VARIANT. Documenting New Media Art," the conference series continue with the online program where Amsterdam University Faculty Member Annet Dekker and Rhizome’s Digital Preservation Program Director Dragan Espenschied take part as speakers. 

Can Documentation Replace the Artwork?

digitalSSM, a tool created by the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, provides “open access” to the museum's collections and archives for academics, researchers, and students from all over the world.

digitalSSM Provides Open Access to The SSM Collections and Archives

In association with Sabancı University and Reading University, The Sakıp Sabancı Museum hosted the seventh international ISType conference, held between November 5-7 this year. The conference program held at the Seed in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum gathered many academicians who are experts in their fields.

ISType Mukaddeme Conference was held at Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Sakip Sabanci Museum’s Digitalssm Begins A New Research Project Titled "Variant. Documenting New Media Art" 




Variant. Documenting New Media Art

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum is now hosting Hussein Chalayan’s new solo exhibition, ‘Souffleur.’ Using new media to focus on the body and modern anthropology, the exhibition consists of three series and a video installation and opened to the public on Friday, 16 September 2022. 

Hussein Chalayan's New Exhibition ‘Souffleur’ is now on view at SSM

This fall, the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) will host ‘The Living Pyramid,’ a site-specific work by Agnes Denes, a prominent ecofeminist artist. The work will be displayed in the SSM garden between September 13, 2022 - January 29, 2023, with the main sponsorship of Sabancı Holding, and all communications sponsorship by Çimsa.

The Living Pyramid by Agnes Denes Begins Its Life Cycle in the SSM Garden

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) and Akbank Sanat host the first exhibition in Turkey of the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramović and the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) she has founded.

Marina Abramović   + MAI (Marina Abramović Institute) At Sakıp Sabancı Museum and Akbank Sanat Sponsored by Akbank

David Hockney is now on view at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Hosted by Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, under the sponsorship of Sabancı Holding, “The Prince’s Extraordinary World: Abdülmecid Efendi” exhibition, which offers a comprehensive perspective on Abdülmecid Efendi, the last heir and the last caliph of the Ottoman Empire, and the first and only caliph elected by the Turkish Grand National Assembly; has been extended until Sunday, 3 July due to the great interest it has attracted. 

The Prince’s Extraordinary World: Abdülmecid Efendi” Exhibition is Extended

Works by David Hockney, considered one of the most influential and creative artists of our time, will be coming to Turkey for the first time as part of the exhibition titled The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020.

Upcoming Exhibition: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020

In conjunction with the exhibition “The Prince's Extraordinary World: Abdülmecid Efendi,” which is still ongoing at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) with the support of Sabancı Holding, the exhibition “Prince Abdülmecid Efendi and the Art of Calligraphy” is now open to visitors in the galleries of the SSM's Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection.

“Prince Abdülmecid Efendi and the Art of Calligraphy” Exhibition is Now Open to Visitors

The Technological Arts Preservation project, enacted through the collaboration of Sabancı University and Sakıp Sabancı Museum digitalSSM Archive and Research Space, hosts the talk “Preserving Immersive Media.” The event will feature Jeffrey Shaw, a prominent name in new media arts and digital arts conservators from Tate Modern and ZKM.

Preserving Immersive Media

Today with the future being re-written all over again, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) is launching online the exhibition ZERO. Countdown To The Future. The exhibition had originally been realized September 2 of 2015- January 10 of 2016, in joint effort with Akbank Sanat, attracting a wide attention at its time.

 Countdown to the Future Exhibition Now Online

The “Technological Arts Preservation” project enacted through the collaboration between Sabancı University and digitalSSM Archive and Research Space, is hosting a talk with Christiane Paul, Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

digitalSSM: How Will Internet Shape The Future of Art?

New exhibition by Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) titled From the Reformation to the Republic: Master Artists, Artist Students will welcome visitors on June 1.

From the Reformation to the Republic: Master Artists, Artist Students

Professor Cemal Kafadar of Harvard University Department of History will deliver an online speech as part of the exhibition Şeyh Hamdullah on the 500th Anniversary of His Death. The event will take place on Friday, January 29, Istanbul 6.30 p.m. and New York 10.30 a.m. local time

Seyh Hamdullah, the Founder of the Ottoman School of Calligraphy

The conference series realized as part of the project 'Technological Arts Preservation'—enacted through the collaboration of Sabancı University and digitalSSM Archive and Research Space—continue with the conference titled ‘The Non-Local Museum’. The conference on the future of museums, will feature Prof. Peter Weibel.

digitalSSM Webinar: The non-local museum

Sakıp Sabancı Musem’s New Exhibition “The Prince’s Extraordinary World: Abdülmecid Efendi” is Open to Visitors. 

The  Prince Abdülmecid Efendi, who had a lasting effect on the Ottoman art world, is on view at SSM with a selection of artworks, most of which are together on view for the first time.


New Exhibition:  Prince’s Extraordinary World. Abdülmecid Efendi 

SSM PRESENTS THE UNDISCOVERED ASPECTS OF AVNİ LİFİJ WITH THE SUPPORT OF SABANCI HOLDİNG

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