İMALAT-HANE | Art Space

Upcoming Exhibition

The Rogue Wave

September 5 — December 5, 2026

İMALAT-HANE is pleased to host “The Rogue Wave”, a solo exhibition by Fatma Belkıs, on view from September 5 to December 5, 2026. Taking its title from rogue waves—rare, unpredictable and often devastating oceanic surface waves—the exhibition proposes friendship, humour and solidarity as practices for navigating emotional emergencies.

Revisiting Harun Farocki: Labor, War, and Capital

Past Exhibition @İMÇ

12 — 23 May 2026

Revisiting Harun Farocki: Labor, War, and Capital

Revisiting Harun Farocki: Labor, War, and Capital, is a retrospective program by the 7th Istanbul Experimental Film Festival at SALT Beyoğlu and İMALAT-HANE İ.M.Ç Project Space. Organized in collaboration with Antje Ehmann, the program traces Farocki (...)

Past Exhibition @İMÇ

5 — 7 May 2026

A Moment in the Afternoon

A Moment in the Afternoon* draws its inspiration from William Beckford’s 1786 Gothic novel Vathek. In the novel, Caliph Vathek expands the palace he inherits by constructing new wings, each devoted to a different sensual pleasure. Taking this structu (...)

Past Exhibition @İMÇ

2 — 30 April 2026

Üç Usta, Bin Kepenek

Üç Usta, Bin Kepenek opens at 5533 and İMALAT-HANE Project Space, following its first iteration in Paris, bringing together Théophile Peris and the Erkuş brothers’ workshop, alongside videos by Ellis Kaan Özen. (...)

Relevant is different points on the circle

Past Exhibition

14 March — 5 July 2026

Relevant is different points on the circle

İMALAT-HANE opens the first exhibition of its 2026 programs on 14 March 2026. Titled Relevant is different points on the circle the exhibition is curated by Aslı Seven. (...)

Past Exhibition @İMÇ

4 December 2025 — 10 January 2026

Moni’25

Since 2005, Moni Salim Özgilik has been living and working between Los Angeles and Kaş. In the summer of 2025, he extended his path to include İstanbul Manifaturacılar Çarşısı (İMÇ). Building on his long-standing practice in Kabapıynar Village in Kaş (...)

Past Events

04.07.2026

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Companion Plants and Patchy Collaboration

As the ecological crisis continues to deepen, questioning modern modes of thought and action that position humans as separate from and superior to nature has become one of our foremost ethical and political responsibilities. In this seminar, I aim to (...)

27.06.2026

Saturday, 15.00

Seminar:

Film Animals: The Possibility of Seeing Otherwise, Telling Different Stories, and Imagining Another Place After the Legal Amendments

This seminar takes place in contemporary Turkey, where recent amendments to the Animal Protection Law have left free-roaming dogs even more vulnerable to violence, while mainstream media representations continue to be dominated by the image of the de (...)

20.06.2026

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Forests and Pressures: The Case of the Kazdağları (Mount Ida)

The ways in which forests are used have undergone significant transformations throughout history. Once valued as commons, sites of subsistence production, and multifunctional ecosystems, forests have increasingly been reduced to resource areas for th (...)

12.06.2026

Friday, 18.00

Seminar:

The Carnival of Turkish Painting: Fikret Muallâ

This seminar will discuss the life and art of Fikret Muallâ in light of new findings presented in art historian Ahmet Kerim Bekcan’s master’s thesis, Fikret Muallâ: Metropolitan and Cosmopolitan Encounters. (...)

06.06.2026

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Landscape Fragments

Landscape Fragments approaches landscape not as a fixed backdrop, but as an archive where traces accumulate, disperse, and are continually reassembled. Memory and witnessing are understood not merely as human processes, but as a relational field exte (...)

16.05.2026

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar:

Thinking in Another Language

Until recently, the humanities and social sciences largely positioned plants at the margins of life, society, and thought, marking them through the absence implied in the notion of “vegetative life.” Yet recent interdisciplinary research and theorist (...)

25.04.2026

Saturday, 14.00

Workshop:

Tetra Pak: Printmaking Workshop

Focusing on the concepts of repetition and transformation through printmaking techniques, this workshop reimagines the surface potential of everyday consumer objects. During the workshop, Tetra Pak packages will be transformed into printing plates, a (...)

02.05.2026

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar & Workshop:

Film Visual Design and Art Direction Workshop

Serdar Yılmaz, who has worked for many years as an art director and production designer in documentaries and films, will lead a workshop for aspiring filmmakers—those who want to shoot a film (even if it’s just an idea or a single sentence), those cu (...)

17.01.2026

Saturday, 16.00

Talk:

The Painter’s Table

Gülnihal Yıldız’s invitation brings together The Painter’s Table, a series of open-ended conversations with different painters. Rather than placing a concept onto painting, these gatherings aim to open up a space for thinking with painting. (...)

08.11.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Contemporary Sociological Theories: Culture and Space

In this seminar, we will discuss how contemporary sociologists such as Lefebvre, Castells, and Bourdieu conceptualize and analyze the formation of everyday life and art within space and time in urban contexts. (...)

04.10.2025

Saturday, 14.00

Adult Workshop:

Color Portraits

“Color Portraits” is a workshop that focuses on exploring how much a color can be freed from its social codes, common definitions, and standards of taste, and how it can differ from one individual to another. Participants will determine a (...)

30.08.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Workshop:

The Great Word Factory

In this workshop, children will discover the power and importance of words. Starting from the imaginative idea of “Imagine a country where words are bought with money, where a huge factory has to work in order for people to speak…”, children will bec (...)

08.03.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Workshop:

Model Workshop: The Corners of My Home

In Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, the concept of the “lived corner” is described as a refuge that provides stillness—a sanctuary where children, in their journey toward becoming their own selves, react to the corners of their existence. A c (...)

14.06.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Form and Meaning in Saul Bass’s Visual Narrative

The talk titled “Form and Meaning in Saul Bass’s Visual Narrative”, to be delivered jointly by multidisciplinary artist and academic Dr. Lecturer Berna Kılıçoğlu and Lecturer Dr. Seda Çilingir, focuses on the iconic film posters and title sequences o (...)

31.05.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Magical Encounters in Everyday Life

Spinoza’s Ethics has had an unexpected and catalytic impact on 20th-century debates. His ontology and ethical understanding—particularly on themes such as interpersonal relationships and collective existence—have become important references for conte (...)

03.05.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Contemporary Art, Institutions and Patronage

This seminar aims to analyze the Turkish contemporary art scene from a sociological perspective, focusing on the structural dynamics and power relations that shape artistic production. Within the framework of post-Pierre Bourdieu sociological approac (...)

26.04.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Curating the Past

How does history fill our memory? We will explore this question through three unfinished works: Giulio Camillo’s Theatre of Memory, Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, and Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. These works, each inspiring the next, allow the (...)

15.03.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

The Emotional Cost of Capitalism

In this session, the ontological and cultural structure of emotions will be presented, highlighting their vital roles in individual and social life, while also examining the emotional and psychological costs of the capitalist system’s functioni (...)

08.03.2025

Saturday, 18.00

Film Screening:

Digital Ghosts

This selection presents four compelling films that question how reality and perception are shaped in the digital age. Each production delves into the effects of media and technology on individuals, pushing beyond the boundaries of classical cinematic (...)

22.02.2025

Saturday, 12.00

Seminar:

Poetic Action

Poetic action is the presence of art not detached from life, but right within it. A performance that suddenly appears on the street, an ironic phrase carved on walls, a body inviting people to engage, a work completed by participants… Art shoul (...)

18.01.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Where Does the Realm of Art Begin and End

Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of Art According to Pierre Bourdieu, we cannot understand what makes an artwork or its creator unique by examining them in isolation. Using the concept of the field, Bourdieu approaches the artistic universe as a sem (...)

11.01.2025

Saturday, 15.00

Seminar:

Layers and Transparency: Traces of Coexistence in the Search for Utopia

This seminar provides an opportunity to rethink the concepts of utopia, multilayeredness, and togetherness, which inspire the Spatial J/U/S/T Art and Design Collective. By integrating these ideas with experiences from the JUST Bot*anica Workshop, the (...)

04.01.2025

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Themes of Creation in Deleuze: Image and Concept

This seminar will examine Gilles Deleuze’s text What is the Act of Creation? from the perspective of image and concept creation. In this text, Deleuze primarily discusses the creation of ideas across different fields such as cinema, painting, a (...)

21.12.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Workshop:

Ant Tower

Shall we build colorful and fun towers for ants to climb? The aim of this workshop is to encourage children to think critically about an ordinary object by asking, “How can I repurpose this?” and to look beyond its daily use. It seeks to enhance thei (...)

14.12.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Scent as a Sense and a Product

The sense of smell is almost never discussed, and it is even referred to as our silent sense. In this seminar, we will attempt to address this deficiency, at least partially. We will first examine the working principles of the sense of smell and then (...)

30.11.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Knowing it will end: A conversation on art and friendship

In this conversation between Fatma Belkıs and Sevgi Ortaç, the two artists will pose questions to each other about their practices. Drawing on their works that explore history and legacy, friendship and childhood, they will delve into the absent, the (...)

23.11.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Anomie, Exception, Cannibalism

Bülent Diken teaches Social and Cultural Theory at Lancaster University and Kadir Has University. His main research areas include social theory, cultural theory, political philosophy, cinema, and urbanization. (...)

16.11.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Scent in Art: Aesthetic and Philosophical Perspectives and Contemporary Art Examples

Scent has historically been regarded as a distinct domain from visual and auditory art forms; however, it has emerged as a substantial element of contemporary art in recent years. This seminar will predominantly address the role of scent in aesthetic (...)

09.11.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Neoliberal Power, Subjectivity, and Freedom

Neoliberalism, which permeates all aspects of life in its economic, social, and political dimensions, undoubtedly intervenes not only in macro-structures but also at the level of individual subjectivities as a normative system and a regulatory ration (...)

26.10.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Workshop:

Life in a Box

The purpose of the workshop to be held with Bilge Merve Çakmakçı on Saturday, October 26, 2024, at 13:00 at İMALAT-HANE is to help children see that an object, which they believe has only one function, can serve different purposes when viewed from ab (...)

19.10.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Post-Truth Condition and Normalization

In this talk, the condition referred to as “post-truth” and translated into Turkish as “hakikat-sonrası” will be addressed, and references related to the topic will be discussed. The discussion will span various fields, from a (...)

12.10.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

On Julia Kristeva

Nilgün Tutal’s book titled Julia Kristeva: Confronting the Unfathomable, was published by Beyoğlu Publishing at the end of 2023, and Tutal will base her talk on the writings from this book. (...)

05.10.2024

Saturday, 14.00

Seminar:

Adorno: Nature, Art, and Politics

Under the shadow of two world wars and concentration camps, the central question of Adorno’s (1903–1969) philosophy of art is: What is the place of art amidst the ruins of these disasters where civilization has turned into barbarism and Enlight (...)

28.09.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Comparison of Freud and Lacan

In this lecture, we will examine Lacan’s principle of “return to Freud,” where Lacan (1901-1981) reinterpreted Freud’s teachings, claiming that Freud’s works, born in the 19th century (1856-1939) and deceased during World War (...)

14.09.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Workshop:

Henri Matisse’s Aquariums

The aim of this workshop is to inspire children to create their own creative aquarium compositions by drawing from the colorful and dynamic collage art of Henri Matisse. The workshop introduces Matisse’s unique style, helping children develop their s (...)

07.09.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Patronage or Collecting?

From Ennigaldi-Nanna to Pericles, from Gaius Clinius Maecenas to the Medici, from Pierre Crozat to Paul Durand-Ruel, from Ambroise Vollard to Peggy Guggenheim, and extending to contemporary times, the history of “patronage” and “col (...)

20.04.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Video/Philosophy

How are video graphics recordings, from GIFs embedded within a bacterium to surgical operations, drones, and surveillance cameras, engaging in video philosophy in contemporary times? How can video art pieces be interpreted as philosophical texts? (...)

23.03.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

“Out of Sight” Exhibition Talk

The artist Mert Diner, who collaboratively navigates the exhibition process and its preparation with İMALAT-HANE director Bora Gürarda, will discuss their inquiries regarding the exhibition and Diner’s practice throughout the process. The conve (...)

16.03.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Discovering Spaces

The “Discovering Spaces” seminar invites a dialogue on the intertwining of architectural practice with artistic research and thought, encompassing a broad spectrum of interfaces, including scenography, exhibition design, stage design, and insta (...)

02.03.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Technology, Art, Justice

The seminar explores the relationship between technique and politics within contemporary art practices: “As a sensory organ, the ‘technical body’ touches matter with gestures. The hand thinks within matter, thus transforming and bei (...)

03.02.2024

Saturday, 13.00

Seminar:

Art and Cybernetics

At the seminar, in a world where systems are seen as intense elements, the production of the system itself as an art object, the facilitation of techniques and methods of image production, the transformation of manipulating images into folk art, and (...)

14.01.2024

Sunday, 14.00

Workshop:

Is the Pot My Interlocutor?

“Kitchen With No Reception” hosts this week, curious about everything, responsive to everything, and knowledgeable crazy kids. The children will directly communicate with the artist’s work this week, experimenting with creating nat (...)

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 @İMÇ:

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 (...)

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