Description
From 2010 to 2018, at its building on Istiklal Street, Istanbul’s main pedestrian artery for culture and arts, Arter presented 35 solo and group exhibitions to date with accompanying publications, talks, performances and workshops; and provided support for the production of 183 artworks in the framework of its programme. At its new building designed by Grimshaw Architects, London, Arter presents exhibitions from but not limited to its collection as well as performances and events across disciplines, expanding the range of its programmes.
Arter's new building has 18,000 square meters of indoor area and houses, in addition to exhibition galleries, a terrace, performance halls, learning areas, a library, a conservation laboratory, an arts bookstore, and a café.
Since 2007, Arter has been collecting and caring for contemporary works of art, engaging in their creative interpretation through exhibitions as well as encouraging and funding the production of new ones. The Arter Collection values and welcomes novel ideas, discourses, and tendencies in contemporary art, embracing all formats that might be considered unconventional. The Collection, while conceived on an international basis, is particularly engaged in the artistic and cultural production in Turkey and the neighbouring wider geography, with the intention of exploring convergences as well as disparities between the forms, statements and contents produced in Turkey and elsewhere. Bringing together various contemporary expressions, positions and practices, the Arter Collection consists of works from the 1960s onwards, produced in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, installation, sound, light and performance. Incorporating a plurality of themes, concepts and gestures, the Collection offers an inspiring source for the practice of exhibition making and contributes to the programme. Alongside the exhibitions drawn exclusively or primarily from the Collection, Arter also presents curated non-collection solo and group exhibitions in order to re-contextualise and give visibility to works both from within and outside the Collection.
