İMALAT-HANE | Art Space

Current Exhibition

10: Abstractions, Intimations, Ruminations

2 September — 2 December 2023

The group exhibition “10: Abstractions, Intimations, Ruminations” curated by Duygu Demir, takes place at İMALAT-HANE from September 2 to December 2, 2023. Presenting a selection of works produced in the last decade, the exhibition features works by Ahmet Doğu İpek, biriken, Burak Kabadayı, Cevdet Erek, Deniz Aktaş, Hakan Topal, Hale Tenger, Hasan Özgür Top, Huo Rf, İnci Furni, and the duo Özlem Günyol – Mustafa Kunt.

Past Exhibition

12 October — 16 November 2023

Acousma

IMALAT-HANE is delighted to announce Doğa Ünyaylar‘s first solo exhibition in Turkey, “Acousma”. You can visit the show at İMALAT-HANE’s new venue located in Istanbul’s Manifaturacılar Çarşısı (İMÇ) from October 12th to (...)

Past Exhibition

3 June — 29 July 2023

POP-UP

The exhibition border_less EDITIONS POP-UP is hosted by İMALAT-HANE, 3 June–29 July 2023. The EDITIONS series for which border_less invites artists to produce works will be on view at İMALAT-HANE in Bursa; the exhibition featuring 20 works will be on (...)

Past Exhibition

7 January — 29 April 2023

Beyond Home

İMALAT-HANE hosts İnci Eviner for the second exhibition of the season. The exhibition “Beyond Home”, on view between January 7 and April 29, brings together works from different periods in the artist’s career. (...)

Looking for the graviton in uneven plates

Past Exhibition

10 September — 10 December 2022

Looking for the graviton in uneven plates

Most of the works in Guido Casaretto’s “Looking for graviton in uneven plates” are on view in Turkey for the first time. The artist, who often employs the acts of repeating and copying in his works, makes it possible to bring together the astronomic (...)

Past Exhibition

10 September — 10 December 2022

No Entry

The exhibition “No Entry,” comprised of new productions by Can Küçük and Cem Örgen, forms a threshold within the network of production that İMALAT-HANE witnesses through its location. The “No Entry” sign that sharpens the focus, legible by all, (...)

Past Exhibition

14 May — 14 August 2022

Time to Time

Ali Kazma’s exploration of time, the rhythms that form within time, and the videos that emerge from these rhythms are featured in the artist’s solo exhibition “Time to Time”, which will open on Saturday, May 14 at 5pm at İMALAT-HANE. The artist (...)

Past Exhibition

8 January — 9 April 2022

Open Space 3

Open Space is a humble proposal for life. It is a call for the people of our era who have resorted to sheltering behind walls in order to be protected from the world’s terror and who keep away from the world, in order to crack open the doors that the (...)

Past Events

25.11.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Can We Expect Something From Tomorrow?

This conversation will focus on whether we can move beyond the problems we are currently facing. Issues in the arts, international politics, and societal will be addressed. (...)

10.11.2023

Friday, 13.00

Seminar:

Sound Walk and Exhibition Talk

You are invited to the sound walk event taking place simultaneously with artist Doğa Ünyaylar’s “Acousma” exhibition at İMÇ and the exhibition talk they will have with Oğuz Karayemiş. (...)

28.10.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Modern Sanatta Üç Avangart, Üç Dönüm Noktası: Manet, Picasso ve Duchamp

Konuşma/sunumda modern sanatın oluşum süreci üç sanatçının şahsında ve üç yapıtla anlatılacak; Manet ve “Kırda Piknik”; Picasso ve “Avignonlu Kızlar” ve Duchamp “Fountain” (Çeşme). Baudelaire’in “flaneur” tiplemesinin Ma (...)

07.10.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Özgür Doğaçlamanın Fenomenolojisi

Özgür doğaçlama müziğin performans sırasında yaratılmasıdır. Derek Bailey, AMM grubu gibi bu müziğin ilk pratisyenleri, geleneksel anlamda, melodi armoni ve ritim olmadan doğaçlarlar. Sesler arasında hiyerarşi olmadığı gibi, çalgıcılar arasında da hi (...)

30.09.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Game and Reality

Can we understand playing a game as an action within reality rather than an escape or departure from reality? In this presentation, we will explore the concepts of “game” and “reality” while seeking answers to this question. O (...)

23.09.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Kültürün Evrimi

Kültür; geçmişten günümüze insanoğlunun inşa ettiği topluma, sınıfa, tabakaya hizmet eden bir kavram olmasının ötesinde bir kavrayış, etkileşim ve toplumları şekillendiren bir var oluş unsurudur. (...)

16.09.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Scent and Beyond

The sense of smell is one of the five fundamental senses we communicate with the outside world. Unlike other purposes, reasons such as the lack of its own language and inability to touch or see have led to its neglect, lack of importance, and lack of (...)

09.09.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Art in the Time of Ghostly Robots

In this conversation, the human-machine relationships with their effects on humanist philosophies will be covered to address the widening gaps between aesthetic theories and new technologies. Thus, in the contexts of “humanism,” “trans-humanism,” and (...)

17-18.06.2023

Saturday-Sunday

Workshop:

The Word and The Eye

In this workshop, the intricate relationship between photographic images, which are considered indexical to reality, and the words in which thoughts are embodied, will be investigated. After the historical process of this relationship is discussed th (...)

04.06.2023

Sunday, 13.00

Seminar:

What Could Photographs Say?

Photography has completely transformed the imaginations of the past and reality within the visual cultural history of humanity in a time of fewer than 200 years. In this seminar, photography (hence other optics-based disciplines) will be examined in (...)

20.05.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Text / Textile / Techne

The English word “text” comes from the Latin textus, which means weaving, texture, knitting, fabric, and a line or straight line. Línon in Greek, λίνον, meaning linen thread, string, drawing, line, order, genealogy, course, direction, correspon (...)

13.05.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Medium/Material and Form in Art

The average art history book understands art only as a history of people and their ideas. In this conception, the artist is someone who applies ideas created out of thin air in cloudy skies to a set of materials that have no activity. But what happe (...)

06.05.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Taşra: Eski Tadı Kalmadı

Hep duyduğumuz bir çıkıştır: “Bu çağda taşra mı kaldı?” Bu çıkış-sorusunu ciddiye aldığımızda dışarı’nın hikâyesinde bir değişiklik oluyor mu?Taşra’nın olmadığı bir dünya yaşamı mümkün mü? Taşra’nın dışarı’sına attıklarımız nasıl olur da merkez’den ç (...)

07.05.2023

Sunday, 13.00

Workshop:

Hayalimdeki Robot

Dilara Mataracı ile 7-10 yaş aralığındaki çocuklara yönelik yapılacak olan bu atölyede; karton, kâğıt ve plastik gibi geri dönüştürülmüş malzemeler birleştirilerek tasarlanan üç boyutlu robotlara dönüştürülecek. Yaratıcılığın tüm sınırlarını zorlanar (...)

29.04.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

The Consolations of Art: Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy

In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche proposes a philosophical theory of the golden age and the withering away of Greek tragedy and a kind of metaphysics of art that analyzes the underlying dynamics of an artwork. In this seminar, we wil (...)

25.03, 01.04, 08.04, 15.04.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

What is Modern and Postmodern Art?

Why are the concepts of Modernism, Modernness or Modernity different from each other and what is the place and definition of Modern Art in the face of all these different appearances? In the face of such a structure, Postmodernism shows itself in the (...)

18.03.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

What is the Act of Viewing?

Could art exist without viewers? Is viewing a passive act? If not, how is the viewer active in art? In this seminar, we are going to consider such questions while also thinking about the constituent elements of the theory of viewing by analyzing vari (...)

11.03.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

How Does a Film Create Meaning?

When do we inhabit the interior of a film and when are we outside of it? How do we comprehend whether a formal element serves a specific purpose or not? Or when something is repeated? In this seminar, we are going to attempt an analysis of the constr (...)

14.01.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar - Week 1:

Contemporary Art Talks #1

Türkçede karşılıklarının ötesinde anlamlar yüklediğimiz ve kolaylıkla birbirinin yerine kullandığımız modern-modernite-modernleşme, aslında modern sanatı anlamak için anlamamız gereken kavramlar. Dört haftalık modern sanat seminerlerine bu kavramları (...)

21.01.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar - Week 2:

Contemporary Art Talks #2

“Modern sanat” kanonu oluşurken modernizmi ortaya çıkartan koşulları, isimleri ve amaçlarını tartışacağız. Flaneur, dandy ve modern sanatçı mitini, bu miti oluşturan ortamı ve sanatı konuşacağız. Empresyonizm’den Post-Empresyonizm’e ve Ekspresyonizm’ (...)

04.02.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar - Week 3:

Contemporary Art Talks #3

20. yüzyıl realitesinin ve hem onu belirleyen hem de ondan belirlenen modern sanatı inceleyeceğiz. Modernist estetiğin avantgarde’a nasıl dönüştüğü, avangardın tanımı, anlamı üzerinde duracağız. Çağın hızına, değişimin karakterine ve 20. yüzyıl sanat (...)

18.02.2023

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar - Week 4:

Contemporary Art Talks #4

Seminer dizisinin bu son haftasında modernitenin ilerleme fenomenini, 1. Dünya Savaşı’nı, 20. yüzyılı belirleyen fikirleri ve gerçeklik ile absürt arasında sanatın yeni karakterini, Dada ve Sürrealizm’i ele alacağız. 2. Dünya Savaşı ve sanatın merkez (...)

28.05.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 1:

The Image in the Cave

Why did humans feel the need to produce visual images? Accompanied by James David Lewis’s book “The Mind in the Cave,” we will discuss the images drawn on the dark surfaces of caves 40.000 years ago and the relations among those who produ (...)

04.06.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 2:

The Unreliable Image

The issue of the unreliability of the image as a representation has occupied the minds of thinkers since Plato. The thoughts of Plato, Aristotle, and Platinos on the image and the traces of these ideas in modern times will be discussed in the context (...)

11.06.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 3:

Image Regimes

Images have their order, and each historical period differs from others not only by the images produced but also by how those images relate to each other. We will discuss the visual regimes in which images were established in the Renaissance, Baroque (...)

18.06.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 4:

The Violence of the Image

The image has always exerted violence on bodies and minds as a formative force. But this violence has become a bombardment of images today, and we are trying to survive despite the images. Images do not unite anymore; our world of meaning is becoming (...)

19.02.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 1:

What is Philosophy?

This week we will consider the conditions that accompany each (re)birth of philosophy. Among these conditions are necessary conditions such as “taking distance from the already established with common sense and reason” and “love for (...)

05.03.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 2:

Philosophical Geography

This week, we’re going to cover the geographies of philosophy. In particular, we will discuss the various forms of wisdom we encounter under the name of “eastern philosophies” and the relations of religious faiths with philosophy. W (...)

19.03.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 3:

What is Concept?

This week we will take a closer look at the notion of “concept,” which is philosophy’s specific tool and product. We will distinguish concepts from scientific functions and artistic influences that are part of knowledge production. (...)

02.04.2022

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar - Week 4:

Procedures of Philosophy

This week, we will further develop the concept of the problem and formulate philosophical reading and writing procedures within the framework of the practice of problematizing. How could a philosopher’s texts be interpreted in a way so that we (...)