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Camhane Art Gallery has inaugurated its new Beyoglu space with "Acik 21 Alan," an exhibition uniting 21 artists that signals the Istanbul gallery's ambitions as a production-driven platform.
Curated by Yasemin Aslan Bakiri and Serap Gumusoglu, the exhibition focuses on Camhane's long-standing relationship with glass as an artistic material, while also showing how its practice has gradually moved into different disciplines.
The exhibition reflects Camhane's production culture, which has developed over the years around glass and later expanded into a broader contemporary art framework.
Rather than presenting glass only as a physical material, the gallery's approach also takes up its conceptual qualities, including fragility, transparency and durability.
By bringing these ideas into a current exhibition format, "Acik 21 Alan" looks at the relationship between craft and contemporary art through both finished works and the production processes behind them.
The exhibition features works by Ayfer Kalsin, Battal Etlik, Ceyda Candas, Eda Sahan, Ekrem Kula, Elif Aydogdu Agatekin, Esra Carus, Korkut Sonmez, Lerzan Ozer, Maryam Salahi, Melike Kilic, Merve Zeybek, Meycem Ezengin, Mustafa Agatekin, Parisa Nami, Reyhan Uludag, Selin Kohen, Sertap Yegin, Seydi Murat Koc, Vasilisa Chugunova and Yigit Yazici.
According to the gallery, Camhane has reduced the boundaries between workshop and exhibition spaces over time, creating an interdisciplinary setting where the act of making remains visible.
"Acik 21 Alan" can be visited free of charge until July 10. Visits are open on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.
The gallery says its structure brings together different materials and forms of expression, offering a space where art can be viewed not only through completed works, but also through the processes that shape them.
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