“We curate conversations, not only objects.”
We believe art should feel close, tactile, and participatory. Our programming favors process over polish, exchange over spectacle, and local memory over trend cycles. Each exhibition is a conversation between disciplines: visual arts, sound, literature, and performance.
Curatorial Collective
Studio Collection 2026
An editorial-style template for collectives, galleries, and independent ateliers. Build an expressive site with modular sections and tactile typography.
A mosaic presentation for mixed media pieces, installations, and text-based experiments.
Still Light / 01
Acrylic on canvas, 2026
Silent Corridor
Mixed media, 2025
Echo Mapping
Sound installation, 2026
Ash Bloom
Pigment print, 2024
Room For Memory
Spatial intervention, 2026
Folded Horizon
Textile sculpture, 2025
A short chronology of turning points that shaped our current program.
2018
We opened a tiny shared workspace for painters, writers, and sound artists.
2020
Residency projects began to involve local oral histories and archives.
2023
We launched hybrid programs combining installations, readings, and live sets.
2026
Our web presence became modular, editable, and reusable for other collectives.
Introduce people behind the season and their working methods.
Resident Artist
Textile sculpture and memory objects
I work with fragments that carry traces of domestic rituals.
Sound Artist
Field recordings and sonic cartography
Listening is a way of redrawing the city.
Guest Curator
Cross-disciplinary exhibition dramaturgy
A show is a sequence of encounters, not an endpoint.
Writer in Residence
Poetics, archives, and performance text
Language can be installed in a room like light.
We invite artists, writers, and researchers working with memory, sound, and spatial storytelling.
Application deadline
31 May 2026
8-week studio access
Production micro-grant
Mentorship + editorial support
Public presentation slot
Drop in for exhibitions, readings, and open studio days. Small groups are welcome.
Balat Art Passage Mürselpaşa Street No:12 Istanbul
Thu - Sun 12:00 - 20:00 Closed on Mondays
General admission is free. Donations support artist residencies.