Category / Exhibitions
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The Portal of God is Non-Existence – Group Show
OJ happily presents ‘The Portal of God is Non-Existence’ featuring Bora Akıncıtürk, Iain Ball, Olga Fedorova, Pınar Marul, Edward Shenk, Sinem Yıldırım with an accompanying text by Iain Ball. We will be opening our doors on February 14 at 6 PM at the new OJ art space in Galata, Istanbul and it can be seen…
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Watermelonshow by Nazım Ünal Yılmaz
OJ is happy to present Nazim Unal Yilmaz’s solo exhibition ‘Watermelon Show’ “If you are a drawing room artist, for drawing rooms, for youth groups, for convents, for Ambassadors, for movie houses, how do you report to work?… dressed, you can bet!… in some handsome getup!… naturally! In popular attire!.. you have to!… but if…
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ANAGRAM by Leyla Gediz
OJ is happy to present Leylâ Gediz’s solo exhibition ANAGRAM. Organized with the support of The Pill Contemporary Art, Gediz will share with viewers her video work titled ‘Parabéns’, which was first screened at AKINCI (Amsterdam). ‘Parabéns’ revolves around ‘Unutama Beni [I Hope You Cannot Forget Me]’ (1974), one of the most cherished songs of…
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Unkown by Pınar Marul
OJ presents Pınar Marul’s first solo show ‘Bilinmeyen/Unknown’ – an obscure frame of reality. The Cyberpunk exhibition builds a surreal setting that brings along its possibilities, where the sci-fi works create a moment in contemporary art. Here lies a fiction, taking place in the cracks of pure physics without a specific time or linear narrative. As the…
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Oil Soaked Flannel by Paul Barsch
OJ Presents ‘Oil Soaked Flannel’ – a solo show by Paul Barsch We have a chair. A director’s chair. A lightweight chair that folds side-to-side with a scissors action. The chair for film-making. Blue screen effects. Medial constructions of reality.We have a blue pigment. Ultramarine. Lapis lazuli. Yves Klein used it to create his International Klein Blue monochrome paintings. They…
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Your Account Has Been Suspended by Pierre Clement
Pierre Clement’s first solo show in Istanbul; ‘Your Account Has Been Suspended’ focuses on human extinction and post-apocalyptic scenarios. The exhibition includes site-specific installations of the artist, produced in Istanbul. ‘Sometimes it is interesting to think that the objects that populate the space of our home environment undoubtedly extend beyond their mere physical presence. We…
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Lovely Fucking Greys by Mert Diner
OJ presents Mert Diner’s new painting show Lovely Fucking Greys. comes from the walls eye level reality tools for the suckers to cover every fucking thing BUT they just cover till the meaning disappeared and don’t care about the rest so you can still see there is something under those greys a small part of…
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EMZIRMEK by Maurizio Vicerè
OJ Presents Maurizio Vicere‘s first solo show in Istanbul; ‘EMZIRMEK’ (almost nothing that really matters) curated by Fiona Vilmer. 20th. October – 1st November 2017 Emzirmek : 1. Breastfeed. 2. Nurse 3. Suckle. The thud of techno music escapes from a remote place. The muted sound suggests a party just out of reach. The past has…
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Paradise on Mars – Group Show
OJ happily presents “Paradise On Mars“, a group show curated by Erdem Cetrez that brings together a selection of new and recent works by various International and Istanbul-based artists including Adam Stamp, Andrew Birk, Berk Cakmakci, Bora Akinciturk, Burkut Kum, Emma Stern, Huey Crowley, Lara Joy Evans, Michele Gabriele, Monia Ben Hamouda, Nicole Colombo, Pinar Marul and Vitaly Bezpalov; opening its doors on the 15th of September in Asmalimescid. Structured as a…
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small is ok too by Mert Diner
”small is ok too”, consists of non-displayed small paintings by Mert Diner produced between 2012-2017. The exhibition held in the artist’s studio near Galata Tower. It aims to create a subjective dialogue between the studio as a display space and the works exhibited, which searches the relations and connections of works emerging at different times from different…
