Nergiz Yeşil stayed in Gate 27 İstanbul throughout August and started the initial research for her project titled 'Artist Nutrition'. Taking bowels as a second brain, she attempted to reveal the effect of eating habits on our emotional, cognitive and behavioral processes. Her artistic practice aims to reduce consumption to a minimum and to carry out a production process that considers recycling, upcycling and environmental values. One of her most striking pastime at the residency was the vegetable papers she produced using products from the Gate 27 Garden.

In September Gülçin Aksoy will be our guest at Gate 27 Ayvalık. Focusing on humankind's transformation of nature and the images created by this, Gülçin investigates a world where we cannot escape and eventually become a part of the construction. During her time at Gate 27, she plans on connecting with the environment as a performative action.

Throughout September and October, Chris Sollars will undertake his residency at Gate 27 Istanbul. Chris will investigate the Bosphorus' physical and metaphorical properties as a place of separation and a space of intersection for generating interdisciplinary works. He hopes to explore Istanbul through walking the streets of a variety of neighborhoods and the Bosphorus shore collecting found objects, documenting, and conversing with the artists of Istanbul to create a series of works that he will then refine in the studio.

past ⁣• present ⁣• istanbul exhibition opens at Sakıp Sabancı Museum between 3 September - 28 November 2021!⁣

Past Present Istanbul is an exhibition realized in response to the call of Murat Germen, artist and academic at the Sabancı University, with the collective effort of 22 artists whose paths crossed within the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program at the Sabancı University, either recently or long ago. The graduate artists, who became prominent figures in the art world and who have reflected on Istanbul, were invited to identify the current situation of the city.

The exhibition will include Ahu Akgün, Aslı Narin, Begüm Yamanlar, Beril Ece Güler, Burak Dikilitaş, Canan Erbil, Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, Deniz Ezgi Sürek, Didem Erbaş, Ege Kanar, Eren Sulamacı, Eser Epözdemir, Korhan Karaoysal, Justice in Space Association, Murat Germen, Neslihan Koyuncu Bali, Nora Byrne, Onur Özen, Örsan Karakuş, Serkan Taycan, Sıla Ünlü İntepe, Sinan Tuncay and Zeynep Kaynar.