As part of our 497th Art Meeting, we are visiting pianist Burçin Büke.

Burçin Büke was born in Izmir in 1966. He took his first piano lessons from his father, who was a pianist. He started working with Ali Ersümer from the age of six and gave his first concert when he was only 10 years old. In 1977, when he was 11 years old, he passed the "Wonderful Child" exam. As a result of this exam, Prof. Piano with Mithat Fenmen, Prof. He started theory and composition studies with İlhan Baran.

He represented Turkey at the Sofia Music Festival in 1979. In 1982, he completed the 11-year high school of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in 5.5 years. Then, with the state scholarship he won, he continued his education at the Music Academy in Hannover, Germany. Between 1984 and 1989, he participated in the Hannover New Music Festivals as a soloist and chamber musician. In 1992, he successfully completed the soloist exam of the Hanover Academy of Music.

Prof. in London. Benjamin Kaplan and Prof. in Italy. Special with Marvulli

496.As part of our Art Meeting, we are visiting the workshop of artist Huri Kiriş.

Huri Kiriş was born in Istanbul in 1980. He completed the Painting Department of Istanbul Anatolian Fine Arts High School and the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts. He received his master's degree in painting and proficiency in art degrees from the same university. Currently, he is working as a lecturer at the Department of Painting of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

The artist has participated in various group exhibitions since 1995. These include the Changing Faces Group Painting Exhibition held at the State Fine Arts Gallery in 2005, the Young Deceptions Painting Exhibition held at the Pera Museum, and the Nuri Iyem Painting Competition Exhibition in 2008.

Huri Kiriş has presented her works to the audience in many national and international exhibitions. The Dialogues 1, held at Mana Contemporary, New York in 2017, Mixer in 2018, Animal Side, held in Istanbul, and Letters from Anatolia, opened at The Lightbox, Woking in the United Kingdom in 2019, are some of these exhibitions. In addition, he has won various awards such as the 2008 Nuri Iyem Painting Competition Achievement Award, the 2001 Ipek-Ahmet Merey Painting Competition Second Prize and the 2002 Ipek-Ahmet Merey Painting Competition Third Prize.

Kiriş's works take the viewer on a journey full of discovery in the present day, when truth has become a variable and individualizing concept. While Deconstructing the processes of seeing, understanding and knowing in depth, the artist aims to expand the boundaries of perception and establish new connections between different realities.

Reflecting the delicate balance between human, nature and culture Decently in his works, Rafter treats the act of seeing not only as a form of perception, but as an interrogative and transformative process. His paintings offer an alternative perspective against blind acceptance and passive beliefs, revealing layers of meaning beyond the visible.

The artist's recent works trace the traces of transience and transformation by addressing not only concrete spaces, but also the experience of existence with nature. The roles played by light, shadows and reflections create new areas of thinking about the ways of seeing in the artist's works with the possibilities of illusion and multi-layered expression. While Huri Kiriş explores the boundaries between perception and reality with her paintings, she invites the viewer to be a part of this process Dec.

*Our art meetings are free for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over the age of 12. For your guests, we ask that they be deposited as a donation to our association account before the trip. 

Tuesday, March 4th

12:00-13:00

Address: Pürtelaş Hasan Efendi Caddesi, Kumrulu Hill Street 10/3, Cihangir, Beyoğlu

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For our 495th art meeting, we visit Meşher, where approximately 300 books from the Ömer Koç Collection are on display. 

The exhibition, consisting of various rare artifacts from the Ömer Koç Collection, covers the period from the 15th century to the first quarter of the 20th century, when Istanbul was the Ottoman capital. A rich visual record of the city, the exhibition features more than 100 artifacts, including paintings of wide-angle views of Istanbul, engravings, rare books, albums, panoramic photographs, and objects from Istanbul's relics.

The producers of the works in the exhibition also show great diversity. From ship captains to travelers, from soldiers to ambassadors, from writers, painters and photographers to architects and urban planners, different techniques stand out in the works produced by Westerners, sometimes for political or military purposes, sometimes for aesthetic purposes. The images, which bear traces of the diplomatic relations, the transformations the city underwent, its multicultural structure and social life, are accompanied by excerpts from written sources. These excerpts create a dialog between the perspective of Western authors and artistic productions from 19th and early 20th century Ottoman/Turkish literature. The exhibition invites us to examine the diversity of the narrative and the diversity of the depictions, rather than to re-praise the city. We visit the collection with a guide. 

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*Our art meetings are free of charge for our members, 500 TL for guests and 250 TL for children over 12 years old. For your guests, we kindly ask you to make a donation to our association account before the trip. 

Tuesday, February 25

12:00-13:00

Address: Meşher, Tomtom Mahallesi, Istiklal Caddesi No: 211, Beyoglu

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In our 494th art meeting, we visit artist Çağla Ulusoy.

Çağla Ulusoy (b.1989, Istanbul) moved to New York to attend classes at the Student's League of New York. Here, she met the American artist Pat Lipsky, one of the world's leading artists in the field of color in painting, who mentored her for two years, and by having the opportunity to study and work alongside him, Ulusoy developed her own technique. In 2018, she completed her master's degree in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. The artist lives and works in Istanbul.

Having lived and studied in many countries, Ulusoy's paintings are a distinct blend of different cultures. The artist never ceases to cross borders and embrace the foreign elements, histories and traditions she encompasses. Çağla Ulusoy's painting practice intertwines a rich sense of color with a unique style that emphasizes the surface of the canvas. In her approach to painting, Ulusoy plays with the idea of layers of color accumulating on the surface of the canvas to create ambiguous spaces. In his abstract and complex compositions, the artist reinterprets and recreates real memories and images from the past that have affected his consciousness.

*Our art meetings are free of charge for our members, 500 TL for their guests and 250 TL for children over 12 years old. We kindly ask guests to make a donation to our association account before the trip. 

Tuesday, February 18

12:00-13:00

Address: Belkıs Dilligil Çıkmazı Keçecizade Fuat Paşa Mansion 8/1 D.2 Moda 

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In our 493rd art meeting, we will come together in a conversation titled “Loneliness in Anatolia” moderated by our association member sociologist Aslı Sağal within the scope of our ongoing exhibition Impressions from Anatolia at IBB Bakırköy Art.

Impressions from Anatolia is a project in which we host successful students studying at fine arts faculties in different cities of Anatolia in Istanbul, introduce them to the art environment and contribute to their development. Students have the opportunity to present the works they produce in this process to art lovers in an exhibition with the same name.

In this special meeting, we will discuss how the concept of loneliness is shaped in the works of young artists from various cities in Anatolia. By reflecting on the power of art to express loneliness, we will evaluate how loneliness is expressed through art in individual and social contexts from a historical and sociological perspective.

About Aslı Sağal

After graduating from Istanbul Erkek Lisesi, Aslı Sağal graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology and has been working on international curricula for 27 years. For the last 15 years, she has been teaching math and science on online platforms and developing various projects in the fields of art, education, cultural resilience and recovery.

Sağal, who took an active role in the field during the earthquakes in Sakarya, Van and Hatay, took part in the establishment and management of women and children's areas, and carried out preliminary training of teams directed to the region by organizations such as the Red Crescent. 

Address: IBB Bakırköy Sanat, Zuhuratbaba Mahallesi Özgürlük Square, Bakırköy

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We are visiting the studio of artist Nermin Er in our 492nd Art Meeting.

Nermin Er graduated from the Sculpture Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 1995. In addition to her professional career in animation, the artist has been holding regular solo exhibitions at Galeri Nev Istanbul since 2004. Her work titled “Tek Göz Oda” was exhibited at the opening of the Yanköşe platform that Kahve Dünyası launched in 2017. Her comprehensive exhibition “Siradaki Şarkı”, which includes works from the last 10 years of her production between January and April 2024, met with the audience at the Nilüfer Municipality Meteor / Balat Culture House. She also took part in the group exhibition titled “All Things Become Islands Before My Senses” organized by Perasma in Leros Island, Greece in the summer of 2024. The artist, who was invited by the NGBK / Depo Berlin Guest Artist Program in 2020 and spent 6 months at ZKU Berlin, has works in many institutional collections such as Mudo Collection, Polimeks, Evliyagil Museum, Ömer Koç Collection, Baksı Museum.

Nermin Er, who uses paper and ink as primary materials, searches for the boundaries and possibilities of the material in her works. Having worked in the animation world for many years, Er creates stories by combining the paper she uses with a minimal understanding with light and shadow in her works. In the cinematographic scenes constructed in silhouette form, elements such as people, cities, and nature in daily life are interpreted. Focusing on the concepts of pile/accumulation and visual and intellectual themes such as accumulation, dispersion, and collection, the artist creates micro spaces by adding-removing or stacking particles on surfaces. The artist's works from different series, in which she brings volume and dynamism together on the surface by creating dimensions, also create an integrative language of expression such as small sentences coming side by side. In addition to Er’s paper works, there are also animation works that can be described as a reflection of the process of studying the material. The artist lives and produces in Istanbul.

*Our art meetings are free for our members, 500 TL for guests, and 250 TL for children over the age of 12. We kindly ask that your guests make a donation to our association account before the trip.

Tuesday, February 4

12:00-13:00

Address: Muradiye Bayırı Sokak İsmet Apartmanı No:46/6 Teşvikiye