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Alya Hatta
A Soft Place To Land 7 - 30 Nov 2024 London Alya Hatta’s practice reflects her nomadic childhood between Malaysia, the UK, the Indonesian archipelago, Saudi Arabia and Dubai. Her work begins by delving into her vast personal archive which includes everyday phone photos, evocative pictures and music videos found through casual Internet surfing, the British Museum’s online archives and the... Read more -
Susan Hefuna
LISTEN TO: The sound of Earth, Sun, Water and Air 3 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 London For her latest solo exhibition at Pi Artworks, Susan Hefuna will present her most recent body of textile works, a series which reflects on the fragility of life, nature and humankind. Reminding viewers of the cycle of time, LISTEN TO: The Sound of Earth, Sun, Water and Air , blends... Read more -
Paint, Once More 2
2024 Fine Art Graduates of Mimar Sinan University 21 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 Istanbul In this upcoming show, Pi Artworks continues its dedicated collaboration with local art schools, which first began in the UK as a result of the gallery's involvement in the Goldsmiths University Curatorial programme. Since then, they have become a long-term fixture in Istanbul too. These collaborations are invaluable, and enable... Read more -
Mixtape
Artists handpicked by Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Jyll Bradley, Selma Parlour, Golden Family and the Pi Artworks London Team 14 - 28 Sep 2024 London Bringing new meaning to our celebrated Friends and Family exhibition series, Mixtape goes one step further in strengthening the community of the Contemporary Art Scene. Centred around the notion of an artistic family - with Pi Artworks at its core - the works in this exhibition have been proposed by... Read more -
Jeremy Hutchison
Dead White Man: Effigies 25 Apr - 8 Jun 2024 London Pi Artworks is delighted to announce a solo exhibition by UK artist Jeremy Hutchison. Consisting of video, sculpture and live performance, this show presents a new chapter in Hutchison’s expansive work, Dead White Man . This ongoing body of work deals with the global trade in secondhand clothes. Every year,... Read more -
Nezaket Ekici
Dimensions of Discovery 4 Apr - 29 Jun 2024 Istanbul Nezaket Ekici (b.1970) is a performance-based artist who lives and works in Germany. For her third solo exhibition with Pi Artworks, Dimensions of Discovery, Ekici will perform in the gallery for three consecutive days, with each day dedicated to a different live performance. A video documenting her seminal Pars Pro... Read more -
Xiaoze Xie
Lost Tales and Recovered Histories 14 Mar - 17 Apr 2024 London Lost Tales and Recovered Histories brings together two bodies of Xie’s work: recent paintings from The Library Series, and a new sculpture series titled Amber of History . Through installation, sculpture, painting, and ink drawing, Xie explores the interrelatedness of books, libraries, and historical events, interrogating the vulnerability and deterioration... Read more -
Osman Dinç
Sous l’arc-en-ciel de l’œil 3 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 Osman Dinc’s (b.1948 ) practice sits at the crossroads between Minimalism and Arte Povera. A Turkish artist based in Paris, Dinc’s predominantly steel, glass and wooden sculptures intuitively evolve between time, space, humanity and cosmic contemplation, their abstraction allowing for them to remain untethered to any singular era or ideology.... Read more -
Beyond Form
Kemal Seyhan | Selma Parlour | Albano Hernández 4 - 13 Jan 2024 London Pi Artworks London is thrilled to present Beyond Form , a group pop-up exhibition featuring the work of Albano Hernandez, Selma Parlour and Kemal Seyhan, curated by Harper Doyle. All three painters emphasise process and the facets of their canvases, drawing our attention to meticulous application of pigments and the... Read more -
Özer Toraman
Garden of the Mind 2 Dec 2023 - 26 Jan 2024 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is thrilled to present Ozer Toraman’s solo exhibition Garden of the Mind, from 2 December - 27 January 2023. Özer Toraman’s latest exhibition, Garden of the Mind, invites viewers into a world where imagined landscapes blend with reality. Inspired by photographs taken in different countries around... Read more -
The Queens of Aquitaine
Emily Mannion | Emily Moore | Emily Platzer I Becky Tucker 9 - 25 Nov 2023 London Pi Artworks is thrilled to present The Queens of Aquitaine, a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the recipients of the 2023 GIRLPOWER Residency. Read more -
Albano Hernández
Chop! Chop! Chop! 5 Oct - 4 Nov 2023 Albano Hernandez's first solo exhibition at Pi Artworks London. Read more -
Mehmet Ali Uysal
23 Sep - 17 Nov 2023 Istanbul Pi Artworks is delighted to present Life is so Beautiful!, a solo exhibition by Mehmet Ali Uysal, showcasing mixed media sculptures that explore the fragility and imperfection of life. Uysal’s diverse selection of materials, such as polyester, glass, car tiles and rocks, both complement and contradict the concept. Uysal’s installations... Read more -
Jyll Bradley
Within a Budding Grove 20 - 30 Sep 2023 London Within a Budding Grove takes its title from the second volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which follows the protagonist’s adolescence and his increasing sense of self-awareness. As a teenager, Jyll Bradley spent a lot of time sitting in her family’s greenhouse in rural Kent observing the play... Read more -
Tête À Tête
David Olatoye and Cherry Aribisala 25 May - 10 Jun 2023 A pairing of two emerging Nigerian contemporary painters, Cherry Aribisala and David Olatoye, based in the UK and Nigeria respectively. Co curated by Jade Turanli and Kayode Adegbola. Read more -
Serdar acar
Serdar Acar's first solo exhibition at Pi Artworks 15 Apr - 20 May 2023 Istanbul “The title of the exhibition is influenced and borrowed from William Shakespeare’s infamous play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, in keeping with this, the show embraces concepts that are similar to the main themes of the play.” More explicitly, Acar explores themes embodied by the play’s title and his work wanders... Read more -
Matt Golden | Golden Family
Harbours 6 - 29 Apr 2023 London Golden Family are Matt Golden (b.1974 Salisbury, England) and Natsue Ikeda (b.1976, Hiroshima, Japan). They live and work between London and rural Northamptonshire. This is their second solo exhibition at Pi Artworks. Read more -
Aviv Benn
And The Sky Cast an Eye on This Marvellous Meat | Curated by Tamara Admoni 9 - 25 Mar 2023 London Aviv Benn is a London-based artist. She completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018, and her BFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem in 2013. Benn exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions and art fairs in the US, Europe and Tel-Aviv, such as Raw Art Gallery (Tel-Aviv), Art Von Frei (Berlin), Devening Projects (Chicago), Pi Artworks (London), Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Future Fair (New-York) and more. She participated in artist residencies including Affect in Berlin (2014), Pilotenkueche, Spinnerei, Leipzig (2015) and the Vermont Studio Center (2019). She received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2021, Rabinovich Foundation Grant in 2015 and 2019 and the Graduate Dean Professional Development Award from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and 2018. Read more -
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori
Chased By Unicorns 4 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Istanbul Alluding to unicorns – or start-ups that have become synonymous with disruptive software, hyper-fast growth, and an income stream very often derived from tracking and monetising data - this exhibition grows from Antinori’s interest in language, the dynamics of power, and the way market values and ideologies permeate and shape... Read more -
Friends and Family: Part II
5 - 28 Jan 2023 London Pi Artworks London is thrilled to present a newly commissioned exhibition of emerging female artists. Featuring a range of young and emerging artists, and expanding across a variety of mediums, we have brought together seven creatives to reflect on the notion of belonging. From the intimate and nostalgic,... Read more -
Nancy Atakan
scent of time 10 Dec 2022 - 31 Jan 2023 Istanbul Scent of Time revolves around the construction of time in individual consciousness, an amalgam of our perception, memory and imagination defying the irrevocable passage of time by the arbitrary numbers on a clock while forming a unity of all experiences for the self. This unique construction, born out of... Read more -
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori
Chased by Unicorns 10 - 30 Nov 2022 London Consisting of entirely new works that range from sculpture to silkscreen prints and video, Antinori explores the notion of value systems in present society. He looks to the tensions between personal gains and corporate profit, desire and surveillance, privacy and the involuntary contribution of our personal information to an unremunerated,... Read more -
Selma Parlour
Yonder Cloud 6 - 28 Oct 2022 London Pi Artworks London is delighted to present Yonder Cloud, award-winning painter Selma Parlour's third solo exhibition at the gallery from the 6th-28th October.
Having created a unique visual vocabulary comprising framing, surface, flatness, transparency, trompe l'oeil illusion, repetition and of course, colour, Selma Parlour is known for her meticulous oil paintings that appear as though drawn, dyed, or printed.
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Gülay Semercioglu
more than a memory 14 Sep - 26 Nov 2022 Istanbul Semercioglu (1968) creates fields of kinetic impact, altering lines of coloured, silver and copper wire through exposure to light - a signature material and method that she has employed for more than 30 years. Blending the complexity of her craftsmanship with her artistry, she toes the line between... Read more -
Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere
curated by Mustafa Hulusi 1 - 17 Sep 2022 London One artist is steeped in Sufi cosmology, while others mix geology with anthropology to findthe spiritual - along with socio-political critiques. The title andidea forthis group exhibition originates from the book ‘Technic & Magic : The Reconstruction of Reality’ by Italian philosopher Federico Campagna (Bloomsbury Publishing 2018). In our global... Read more -
Vuslat
Silence Curated by Chus Martínez 26 May - 11 Jun 2022 London Vuslat’s forthcoming solo exhibition, 'Silence', presents a substantial and arresting collection of never-before-seen sculptures—some monumental in scale—offering a survey of the enigmatic forms that fuels her practice. Organic forms derived from nature and the emergence of objects that mirror states of the mind, her works are uniquely committed to the... Read more -
Matt Ager: FEELS2NICE
Curated by Francesca Gavin 10 - 21 May 2022 London Matt Ager makes sculptures from domestic materials and found objects. He is particularly interested in fluidly composing works that address mimicry, design, and architecture. Agers’s belief that objects and textures carry particular identities is continuously explored and made visible through his practice. His primary focus is ‘making’ as... Read more -
Paint, Once More
7 May - 30 Jun 2022 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul realises the first gallery-university collaboration with Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. The gallery will host the group exhibition titled “Paint, Once More” by the 2020 and 2021 graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts’ Painting Department between May 7 and June 30, 2022. The young artists participating... Read more -
Friends and Family
Alya Hatta, Emma Prempeh, Olha Pryymak, Noemi S. Conan, Ozer Toraman and Caroline Wong. 15 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 London Pi Artworks is delighted to present Friends and Family, a group show of six young and emerging, London based artists: Alya Hatta, Emma Prempeh, Olha Pryymak, Noemi S. Conan, Ozer Toraman and Caroline Wong. The work produced by these artists draw attention to the importance of belonging. Memories of particular... Read more -
Kemal Seyhan
FUTUREGARDEN 26 Feb - 23 Apr 2022 Istanbul Conceived as a site-specific intervention around the notion of the double, or the potential for the non-singular to appear in painting, and effect complex sculptural and architectural transformations in the experience of everyday time. In FUTUREGARDEN, Seyhan is presenting his signature black and gray paintings, based on earlier... Read more -
An Ode to Orlando
Curated by Marcelle Joseph 4 - 26 Feb 2022 London Pi Artworks proudly presents An Ode to Orlando, an expansive group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph, featuring a cross-generational and international group of artists alongside the inaugural collection of furniture designs by Ada Interiors. The exhibition reimagines the gallery space as the private home of a fictional art collector set... Read more -
TREES DIE STAND: Plants and humans Curated by Freda Uziyel
Aviv Benn, Yifat Bezalel, Jyll Bradley, Dorothy Cross, Osman Dinc, Susan Hefuna, Mustafa Hulusi, Gary Hume, Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Goshka Macuga, Simon Moretti, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Schütte, Daniel Silver, Paloma Varga Weisz, Sam Taylor (Wood) Johns 25 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 London Three years ago, while opening the front doors of the house, I found my old prunus tree laying down on the soil of the front garden. As the tree was full of buds, just before it’s early spring flowering, I could not understand what happened. But at the same moment... Read more -
The invisible enemy should not exist
( Section 1, Room C, Northwest Palace of Nimrud) 28 Oct - 25 Dec 2021 Istanbul Michael Rakowitz’s “The invisible enemy should not exist” is an ongoing series that he began in 2007. The goal: to recreate the missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq, more than 7,000 in total—a cultural pillaging that occurred in the early 2000’s during the Iraq War... Read more -
Susan Hefuna
Landscapes 12 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 London LANDSCAPES is a completely new group of works created in 2021. The works will be shown publicly for the first time in London from 12 October to 13 November 2021. The opening of the exhibition LANDSCAPES coincides with London’s Frieze Week. After Susan Hefuna’s well known signature cityscape and buildings... Read more -
Özer Toraman
Meanwhile The World Goes On 21 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Ozer Toraman's first solo show with the gallery. Ozer Toraman's favourite poem Wild Geese by Mary Oliver is the initial inspiration for this show. The exhibition titled as "Meanwhile The World Goes On" and inspired by nature, transformation and hope. Read more -
Ana Čvorović
Archipelago 9 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Ballon Rouge and Pi Artworks present ‘Archipelago,’ a solo exhibition of Ana Čvorović’s (b. Sarajevo 1981) work from September 9 - October 23 at Ballon Rouge, Brussels. Visit the exhibition at Ballon Rouge Read more -
Osman Dinç
Theorem 2 3 - 30 Sep 2021 Istanbul Seen by many in the art world as being somewhere at the crossroads of Arte Povera and Miminalism, Dinc describes his general approach to his artistic practice and creative process as: 'Sculpture is a three-dimensional examination of real space. This is why it brings with it so many figural issues... Read more -
Osman Dinc | Maude Maris | Selma Parlour | Kemal Seyhan
Intersections 1 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 London Pi Artworks London is delighted to present Intersections, a group exhibition comprising work by Osman Dinc (b.1948, Turkey), Maude Maris (b.1980, France), Selma Parlour (b.1976, United Kingdom) and Kemal Seyhan (b. 1960, Turkey) running from 1 September to 2 October 2021. Read more -
Guy Haddon Grant
Mind's Eye 13 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 London Enter Guy Haddon Grant’s studio with us. His monochromatic sculptures and drawings occupy a space between abstraction and figuration. His sculptures ascend with casual spontaneity and disruptive force; his drawings, ephemeral in nature, grapple with the tension between density and lightness. Caught in between the traditional and contemporary worlds, Haddon... Read more -
Serdar Acar | Yılmaz Bulut
Pink Hills and The Mule 30 Jun - 10 Sep 2021 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul brings together two emerging artists based in Istanbul sharing a studio in Cihangir for the past five years. Serdar Acar (b. 1992, Istanbul) and Yilmaz Bulut (b. 1990, Tunceli)’s duo exhibition is titled Pink Hills and The Mule. Serdar Acar’s recent subjects that has been... Read more -
Maude Maris
BLUE MILK 27 May - 26 Jun 2021 Istanbul BLUE MILK is the artists third solo show with Pi Artworks. Exhibition brings together the newly commissioned oil paintings in which she focuses on the animal figures as well as ideas around zoology and microbiology. Maude Maris follows the same process as her previous works in the current exhibition; Maris... Read more -
Kemal Seyhan
Kemal Seyhan 13 May - 30 Jun 2021 London Kemal Seyhan’s paintings in the last two decades are narrated with a narrow language, comprising four words:horizontal - vertical - colour - intensification. While he pieces the words of this narrow vocabulary together, the artist restricts himself with a series of rules: Starting with black, applying vertical and... Read more -
Kemal Seyhan
1 Apr - 10 May 2021 Istanbul New series focuses on meditative colours inspired by nature and compositions created by repetition. A painterly stratum is created on each canvas by kilograms of paint applied via thousands of spatula touches. Kemal Seyhan, b.1960, Kayseri, lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Istanbul, Turkey. Major exhibitions include; Untitled -... Read more -
Maude Maris
Vertebrate 9 Mar - 30 Apr 2021 Istanbul, London Vertebrate celebrates the artist's instantly recognisable technique, which will see the artist spilling into her characteristic pastelesque brushstrokes, but further exploring, far more vigorously, the particular tensions and relationships of form and colour, leaving them raw and non-binary. We will see the artist tirelessly abstract from archival images,... Read more -
İz Öztat
Watercolour on Paper 11 Feb - 26 Mar 2021 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is presenting Iz Oztat's second solo exhibition Watercolour on Paper. Oztat's previous solo exhibition at the gallery titled Suspended, which received critical acclaim internationally, took place in 2019, during the 16th Istanbul Biennial. The exhibition brings together a selection from the watercolour series In the Rivers North... Read more -
Mustafa Hulusi
Cyprus Realism （As part of the London Collective on Vortic Platform） 15 - 31 Dec 2020 December 15 - December 31 2020 Mustafa Hulusi mines his hybrid identity - he was born in London to Turkish-Cypriot parents - to create evocative paintings, installations, films, and photographs. By combining diverse artistic styles and both Middle Eastern and Western art historical references, with a nod to pop... Read more -
Jade van der Mark
We're All Human 12 - 15 Dec 2020 London Amsterdam-born van der Mark, now based in London, uses cities and crowds as a source of inspiration, sketching in the heart of the capital and documenting the vibrancy of urban life. Her large-scale portraits of cities’ inhabitants highlight issues of overpopulation, isolation, greed and oppression. Playful but profound, her paintings... Read more -
Selma Parlour
Selma Parlour 12 Nov 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 Istanbul Selma Parlour is known for her meticulously rendered oil paintings that appear as though they're drawn or printed.Her self-styled coda to historic abstract painting and minimalism reassesses in/extrinsic conventions from a contemporary perspective.This is the London-based award-winning artist’s first solo exhibition at Pi Artworks Istanbul and includes examples of her... Read more -
Fiona Banner, Barry Flanagan, Toby Tobias Kidd, John Latham, Cally Spooner, Anne Tallentire
EXTROSPECTION curated by David Thorp 1 Oct - 5 Dec 2020 London In 1969 in an article ‘Situational Aesthetics’ published in the British magazine Studio International, artist Victor Burgin proposed that the concepts of artistic object and artistic form should be disassociated from fabricated things and redefined in terms of the ‘structures of psychological experience’[1] He argued that the ‘new’... Read more -
Nancy Atakan
London Collective on Vortic Collect, Remembering the Future 30 Jul - 26 Sep 2020 Using lace, cloth cut outs, thread drawings, photographs, and antique textiles from her personal collection, in a new series of needlework pieces Atakan continues with and expands upon the topics of the relationship between word and image, storytelling, female experiences, globalization and gentrification. Atakan used her... Read more -
Susan Hefuna
Thought 26 Jun - 18 Jul 2020 London Susan Hefuna's first ever extended reality solo exhibition 'Thought', presents a selection of the artist's internationally acknowledged drawings and a textile work, specially curated for Vortic Collect. 'Thought' will remain on view until Saturday 18 July 2020 - download the Vortic Collect app via the App Store to... Read more -
İpek Duben
Angels and Clowns 12 Mar - 31 Oct 2020 Istanbul “I watch with tears and smiles the condition of humanity in the post-truth, post-fact, post-faith era. I am part of it and yet taking it in from a distance. I continue living with my old habits and stand wondering what I can do about it. My thoughts lead me to... Read more -
Nancy Atakan and Kalliopi Lemos
It still is as it always was 20 Feb - 15 Jul 2020 London In ‘Necklace of Time’, Lemos and Atakan enter an eternal, poetic world where they engage in a ritual-like performance. Wearing heavy golden necklaces adorned with colorful jewels referencing Ottoman designs and reminiscent of Byzantine armour, the artists engage in the task of removing the jewels and replacing them... Read more -
Selma Parlour
Activities for the Abyss 21 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 London Selma Parlour is a prolific award-winning artist known for her oil paintings that look as though they are drawn, dyed, or printed. With over 30 unseen artworks from the last 2 years, Activities for the Abyss showcases the artist’s soft films of luminescent colour, her delicately-rendered pencil-like oil-made lines... Read more -
Turan Aksoy
Dissymmetrical 14 Nov 2019 - 8 Feb 2020 Istanbul Turan Aksoy’s new solo exhibition Dissymmetrical draws on the emotions of languidness, curiosity, and lingering that the artist believes he has unquestionably developed in recent years, albeit gradually. The exhibition offers the audience a selection of Aksoy’s works which render these sensibilities into images of an 'isolated, desolate and devoid... Read more -
Jamie North
Inflection 11 - 17 Nov 2019 London The shifted column, Forward Projection (2019), teeters on an eroded axis, having slipped its vertical trajectory. The surrounding terraria sit in material contrast, their glassy surfaces indicating numerous past impacts. Together, they present as forms on the edge of a conflicted past and a perilous future. The title, Inflection refers... Read more -
Ana Čvorović
Borders Unfold 28 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 London 'The tone may seem to have changed from abject to upbeat, but that is deceptive. Ana Cvorovic still works consistently in a subtle and sideways manner on the cataclysmic effect of forced movement. As always her work runs alongside the plight of displaced people. At a recent residency... Read more -
İz Öztat
Suspended 6 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 Istanbul Iz Oztat's practice engages with diverse forms and media defined by her research on the return of the supressed past, tracing what has been lost, and negotiating official narratives through the possibilities of fiction. Collective processes are also central to her practice. The artist has been working in collaboration with... Read more -
Osman Dinc
Ankara-Istanbul 3 - 30 Sep 2019 Istanbul Living and working in Paris since 1977, Osman Dinc keeps a privileged and warm place in his heart for Ankara for several personal reasons; as a young artist, the artist graduated from Gazi University Painting Department, a Bauhaus-influenced school at its establishment and offering multiple workshops on diverse material and... Read more -
Nejat Satı
Wild Flowers 10 Jul - 10 Aug 2019 Istanbul After having adopted black for a few years for social and aesthetic reasons (Light in the Dark, 2017), Nejat Satı returns to color in full force with this exhibition. The paintings represent the artist’s recent observations of appearance, characteristics and nature of colors, taking his inspiration directly from wildflowers. These... Read more -
Alyazia Bint Nahyan
I met a traveller from an antique land 25 Jun - 7 Jul 2019 London Alyazia Bint Nahyan connects - things and people. And the title ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’, which she has chosen for the exhibition subtly reflects these connections. Its significance comes from the fact that it is the first line of the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley,... Read more -
Gulay Semercioglu
Desire to Survive 29 May - 29 Jun 2019 Istanbul Gulay Semercioglu's works have been acquired by major national and international institutionsand collections, including İstanbul Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. Semercioglu is known for her colorful metal wire works. It takes her weeks, sometimes months, to create these abstract and minimalist works.... Read more -
Susan Hefuna
TEXTILES 23 May - 22 Jun 2019 London TEXTILES is Susan Hefuna's seventh solo exhibition with Pi Artworks. Bringing together a curated selection of textile and costume works, TEXTILES showcases new works such as Stand Up (2019) alongside costumes and masks previously used for performances in Dubai, UAE (2008); Mapping Vienna, at the Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria... Read more -
Mustafa Hulusi
Cyprus Realism 12 Apr - 17 May 2019 London Pi Artworks London presents Cyprus Realism, its first solo exhibition by the British-Cypriot-Turkish artist Mustafa Hulusi. The show opens Thursday 11th April and runs until Saturday 11th May 2019. Encompassing his persistent enquiry into the topic of ethics and aesthetics, the exhibition will feature new paintings created specifically for the exhibition, alongside a multi-channel video work and a large-scale ceramic tile installation. Read more -
Mehmet Ali Uysal
Don't Abandon Me 23 Mar - 11 May 2019 Istanbul Uysal believes that the mind shapes our perception of events, so that our recollection of occurrences are biased, and that this perception shifts with time. According to this thought, the reality experienced in a home creates and adds to the consciousness of the physical space, which in turn intrinsically records all occurrences taking place within its four walls. By means of the works, which are exclusively created for Don't Abandon Me, Uysal wishes to transcribe and share with the viewer some of the memories that would have otherwise vanished from his mind. Read more -
Ian Breakwell, Ruth Ewan, Dave Hanger, Franziska Lantz, Kate Owens, Mark Titchner, Amikam Toren, Markus Vater, Laura Yui
Living is A Problem 15 - 30 Mar 2019 London Private View: Thursday 14 March 2019, 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm Pi Artworks London is proud to present Living is a Problem, a group exhibition featuring artists Ian Breakwell, Ruth Ewan, Dave Hanger, Franziska Lantz, Kate Owens, Mark Titchner, Amikam Toren, Markus Vater and Laura Yuile. Living is a Problem... Read more -
Yusa Yalcintas
yuka 5 Jan - 9 Mar 2019 Istanbul Elements of esotericism, iconography, as well as the interlaced relationship between ritual and recreation are ideas that evoke Yalcintas's first solo exhibition, Causa Sui, that took place in 2016 at Pi Artworks Istanbul. In Yuka, Yalcintas builds upon these concepts, this time focusing upon the aspect of 'daily practices'. The theatrical narrative brought to life by the artist's composition, constituted of elements placed together for a particular purpose, blends with the exhibition space's architectural background, generating an atmosphere of mystical quality. Read more -
Golden Family
A Pony / A Bridge / Mountain / Rain 30 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 London Pi Artworks London is proud to present A Pony / A Bridge / Mountain / Rain, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Golden Family (Natsue and Matt Golden). In 2008, Matt co-founded The Russian Club in Dalston; in varying degrees an exhibition space; fashion-photography studio; music and film-screening... Read more -
Ahmet Civelek
Number 3 : Grit 24 Nov - 29 Dec 2018 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Number 3: Grit, a solo exhibition by Turkish-American multimedia artist, Ahmet Civelek. Centering around a concept usually quite foreign to creative artists -destruction- in these new bodies of work Civelek employs a humble, readymade, and quite contradictory material: commercially manufactured sandpaper. Civelek's highly process-based practice inhabits the symbolic and poetic spaces in between drawing, sculpture, and installation. This solo exhibition is the artist's third, and his first with Pi Artworks. Read more -
Maude Maris
Who Wants to Look at Somebody's Face? 29 Sep - 9 Nov 2018 London Pi Artworks London is proud to present, Who Wants to Look at Somebody’s Face?, the first UK solo presentation of French artist, Maude Maris. Following on from two successful presentations in 2018 Recast, solo show at Espace à vendre, Nice and Double jeu, at FRAC Auvergne Collection, Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie d’Aurillac as well as the Anatolian Studies (solo), Embac Chateauroux, France (2017); Who Wants to Look at Somebody’s Face?, celebrates the role of photography in sculpture and painting, with reference to some of the greats of modern sculpture and how they used photography as an archive. The exhibition will feature 12 new paintings of playful compositions, titles of which relate to extracts from texts written by both Barbara Hepworth and Emily Dickinson. Read more -
Fatma Bucak
A World of Ten Thousand Things 26 Sep - 10 Nov 2018 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is proud to present, the first solo exhibition A World of Ten Thousand Things by Fatma Bucak for Pi Artworks Istanbul curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu between the dates 26 September – 10 November 2018. The exhibition will feature site-specific installations including videos and a sculptural work. Read more -
Kemal Seyhan
Untitled - Poetics of Inner Space 11 May - 31 Jul 2018 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Kemal Seyhan's solo exhibition Untitled / Poetics of Inner Space between 12 May - 30 June 2018 at our space in Karaköy. In addition to the artist's paintings, new sculptures will be exhibited for the first time, being produced with materials Seyhan never used before. Read more -
Fahrettin Orenli
Money without Nationality 10 May - 9 Jun 2018 London This Spring, Turkish-Dutch artist, Fahrettin Orenli's presents a solo exhibition, Money without Nationality, opening at Pi Artworks London. Money without Nationality is a series of works across drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry, examining the psychological and physical aspects of cities as living organic structures, perceiving them as control towers for the distribution of mass information. A version of the presentation in London at Pi Artworks was shown in Seoul, at Art Sonje Centre, in late 2017, but this is the first time these artworks will have been seen in Europe. Read more -
Volkan Aslan
Shoot Me! Don't Turn Me Over! 7 Mar - 5 May 2018 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Volkan Aslan's solo exhibition Shoot Me! Don't Turn Me Over! curated by Merve Elveren between 7 April - 5 May 2018 at our new space in Karaköy. Read more -
Ipek Duben
in via incognita 1 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 London Pi Artworks London are pleased to present a new exhibition of work by New York and Istanbul based artist Ipek Duben. Duben has worked for over 30 years as a multi-media artist, focussing on documentary images which address individual subjectivities. in via incognita brings together sculptural art books and wall pieces based on documentary material that looks head on at one of the issues that is most pressing in our lives today – and has been for centuries – global migration. It will be Duben’s first major show of works in London since the early 1980s. Read more -
Osman Dinc
Beewax is the Elbow Grease of Bees 10 Feb - 28 Mar 2018 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Osman Dinc’s solo exhibition Beewax is the Elbow Grease of Bees between 10 February - 28 March 2018 at our new space in Karakoy. Dinc’s changes in his practice throughtout the years are visible in this show, presenting works made with many different materials such as steel, aluminum, stone. In this exhibition, the artist’s sculptures remind what human labor is, in a poetic and subtle sequence of elements. Read more -
Selma Parlour
Upright Animal 5 Jan - 10 Feb 2018 London Pi Artworks London is pleased to present Upright Animal, the inaugural exhibition of London-based painter Selma Parlour at Pi Artworks, where she joins our roster of international artists. All of the works are new and never before exhibited. The show is curated by Sacha Craddock who participated in the gallery’s latest curatorial season with the exhibition Strike Site. Read more -
Nejat Sati
Light in the Dark 16 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Nejat Sati's solo exhibition Light in the Dark from 16 December 2017 – 27 January 2018 at our new space in Karakoy. After presenting the Cracks exhibition at Pi Artworks London in 2016, Satı's three new series demonstrate the power of light through experimental approaches on canvas. Read more -
Huo RF
Stories in Reverse 28 Oct - 8 Dec 2017 Istanbul Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present Huo Rf’s second solo exhibition, Stories in Reverse curated by Nicole O’Rourke between 28 October – 25 November 2017 at our new space in Karakoy. Read more -
Fatma Bucak
Sticks and Stones 29 Sep - 21 Nov 2017 London Pi Artworks London is pleased to present Fatma Bucak’s first solo exhibition in the UK,Sticks and Stones, curated by Nat Muller. A fortnightly in-gallery performance will accompany the work Black Ink (2016-ongoing). “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me,” hums the old nursery rhyme. Today, in an ever-polarising climate of assault on the press and free speech, words are increasingly used to break those who utter them. In Sticks and Stones Fatma Bucak addresses two of the most pertinent struggles of our times: for freedom of expression and freedom of movement. Through her photographs, videos and installations she shows how these two liberties are inextricably intertwined. Read more
