Current Exhibition
Abra and Cadabra
05.03 – 22.03.2026
Curator : Banu Seyhan – Abra and Cadabra reminds us that reality is not a fixed ground, but a field constantly constructed and just as swiftly undone. Abra summons, makes visible, and brings to the stage. Cadabra erases, disperses, and withdraws. Reality is no longer something merely lived; it is edited, curated, filtered, and rewritten. Digital media, public space, and […]
Upcoming Exhibitions
Ayşe Kırca : Hype
09.04 – 03.05.2026
In an era where social media dominates communication, we are faced with the reality that global hype guides our actions, routines, thought processes, and even our emotions. Whatever the hype is, this unconditional adaptation dulls our sense of responsibility, lulling us into a state of complacency, while also granting us the freedom to set our minds aside and join the […]
Halit Can Uzun : Photo London
13.05 – 17.05.2026
Ambidexter features ten photographs by Halit Can Uzun (b. 1992, Turkey), created between 2020 and 2025 in Turkey, the Aegean, Europe, and the US. There are moments we all recognize but seldom name. A newspaper left on a hedge after someone’s morning coffee. Hands resting on knees over open water. A figure illuminated by airplane windows, caught between departure and […]
Alexa von Arnim : Photo Basel
16.06 – 21.06.2026
Photo basel is Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art. Photo basel brings together galleries from around the world in a unique, authentic setting. For its collectors, visitors or buyers – photo basel is an active platform which fosters the dialog between all actors of the photography community and beyond.
Past Exhibitions
Gaspar Martinez : S.O.S. — Save Our Souls
12.02 – 15.02.2026
S.O.S. — Save Our Souls They are trapped, but they keep moving. To places where things overlap. Time stretches and folds. People drift without fully arriving. Feels like Istanbul at night: streets layered over other streets, bars open late, animals watching from corners, bodies passing between alertness and sleep. Sleepwalkers cross it constantly — a waiter, a nun, a couple. […]
Simla İçeli : Please Hold
05.02 – 01.03.2026
Please Hold explores suspended agency and the emotional weight of waiting—whether in bureaucratic systems, border control, or media-induced crisis fatigue. Set in a limbo where action and agency are deferred but tension builds, the series uses figurative paintings to reflect how individuals are held in unresolved states, stuck in a forced pause with no real power yet under the illusion […]
A.R.C.’s Year Show 3
08.01 – 24.01.2026
A Residence of Creation, is a collaboration between the Taşkonaklar Hotel in Cappadocia and the Istanbul-based art gallery; Ambidexter. Having started its life in August 2022, it aims to give the creative souls a space to research, be inspired, cultivate their practice and to create in the otherworldly landscape of Cappadocia; boasting a rich cultural and historical heritage. From its […]
Ece Özel : Self Titled
20.11 – 20.12.2025
Ece Özel’s first solo exhibition, ‘Self-titled / Kendi Adıyla’, depicts a personal story of transformation. The paintings, composed of intense atmospheric fragments where the normative boundaries of time and space dissolve, narrate a story by combining traces of a personal history with the sociological and cultural transformation that Istanbul experienced in the 2000s. Özel studied at Avni Akyol Fine Arts […]
Murat Burhanoğlu : Menart Fair Paris
25.10 – 27.10.2025
Né à Istanbul en 1987 et basé à Amsterdam, Murat Burhanoğlu explore le lien intuitif entre l’être humain et la nature à travers des paysages monochromes bleus et des figures d’oiseaux. Ses compositions évoquent à la fois la quiétude et le mouvement, où le bleu devient le symbole de la profondeur et de la continuité. La sélection de 12 œuvres […]
Kaan Walsh : Butlak Mutlan
17.10 – 09.11.2025
Unlike traditional photojournalism, these images do not aim to report. Shot with long exposures and intentional motion blur, the photographs resist stillness. This work exists in the space between witnessing, creating and feeling. Each frame is a fragment of political reality in the streets filtered through my presence raw, restless, and honest. It is my way of not just documenting […]
Ayşe Kırca : For the Sake of Beauty
16.09 – 30.09.2025
The impact of social media today means that being “beautiful” is never enough, leading people to become addicted to aesthetics, including Hollywood and the rest of the world’s obsession with “Ozempic,” “Mounjaro” weight loss injections, the new technological machines emerging daily in the beauty industry, or the use of photo applications like Facetune when these prove insufficient. We are moving […]
Oğulcan Sürmeli : Between Fire and Gunpowder
12.09 – 05.10.2025
Between Fire and Gunpowder focuses on a threshold where the explosion has not yet occurred but tension is intensifying. This threshold encompasses not only political clashes but also the silent fires within the individual, society, and the system; the invisible structural constraints; and the great silences we mask with aesthetics. The works in the exhibition question both internal and external […]
Rosalie Aleksandra Anter : Ghost of Presence
26.06 – 13.07.2025
Curator : Alara Güntav – Rosalie’s work hears the silent memory of the everyday. “La Tigresse’s Armchair” depicts not just an object of seating, but a life integrated with it, the power of a woman and the emotional burden of a family carried from generation to generation. The pastels and fluid forms the artist uses work like a map: indefinite, […]
Selin Uyar : Tattoos poked into my brain and Rabarba
13.06 – 13.07.2025
Tattoos poked into my brain — each one a memory I never asked for. Etched in rabarba, the background noise of things I lived but never processed. Late-night thoughts flicker like bootleg subtitles, never in sync, always slipping out of sense. (Half-remembered, half-invented — memory stutters.) Drunk texts never sent drift in digital purgatory — ghost confessions, hesitated to be […]
Forest, Intertwined
23.05 – 22.06.2025
AYN Earth Studio is proud to present Relational Forest, a group exhibition in collaboration with the artists of Ambidexter Art Gallery. Featuring works by Ayda Demirci, Mark Hale, Murat Burhanoğlu, Selin Uyar, Selver Yıldırım, Özge Çokgezen, and Vincent Krüger, the exhibition invites us into a shared terrain where imagination, nature, and human presence intertwine. This collection of works reflects a […]
Selver Yıldırım : Hyperfake
16.05 – 14.06.2025
HYPERFAKE: THE REALITY OF THE UNREAL In the capitalist age, art is not merely a form of production—it is a regime of ambiguity. It is not clarity, but blurriness that sells; for ambiguity holds the power to be consumed by every gaze. The more unresolved the image, the more freely it circulates. This is the most sophisticated way of turning […]
David Doğan Levi : Fluid Continuum
03.05 – 31.05.2025
Nothing is fixed—forms emerge and dissolve, textures shift, and meaning flows freely. Fluid Continuum is an exploration of movement, where structure and spontaneity exist in constant dialogue. Some elements appear stable, yet upon closer look, they unravel, transform, and realign, much like time, thought, and memory. This exhibition does not offer a single interpretation or a predefined path. Instead, it […]
Vincent Krüger : Birds Buggin’
10.04 – 03.05.2025
Encountering Vincent Krüger’s work is not just an engagement with his art but also with oneself. His practice invites a shifting perspective—drawing the viewer in or creating distance, oscillating between recognition and detachment. Krüger’s work merges figurative painting with diverse materials, unfolding as spatial installations. His motifs emerge from parallel explorations of a wide range of themes, allowing different narratives […]
Chorus of Body : Teasing the edge on a slippery slope
13.03 – 04.04.2025
A feeling emerges—an undeniable impulse beneath the skin. Move forward or hold back? In Teasing the edge on a slippery slope, Chorus of Body delves into the tension of decision-making, the postponement of desire, and the fluid boundaries of identity. The exhibition unfolds in two layers. The first chapter immerses the viewer in a cycle of bodies and movements intertwined, guided […]
Maral Taşkırıcı : Tender Loving Care
13.02 – 08.03.2025
Entitled “Tender Loving Care”, the exhibition delves into the boundaries of affection, care, and attachment, examining the fine line between nurturing and suffocating, between devotion and overindulgence. This exhibition explores the complexities of love and care that go beyond what is healthy, pushing the concept of tenderness to its extremes. In a world that often feels hurried, detached, and fractured, […]
Ambidextrous Group Show 5
16.01 – 08.02.2025
Ambidexter Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Ambidextrous Group Show 5, an exciting collective exhibition featuring works by a diverse group of artists from various disciplines. The exhibition will run from January 16 to February 8, 2025, with an opening reception on January 16 from 18:00 to 21:00 at the gallery’s space located at Lüleci Hendek 72, Beyoğlu, […]
Ayda Demirci : Two
28.11 – 28.12.2024
‘Two’ brings together Ayda Demirci’s paintings made in 2024. Consisting of oil paintings on canvas and paper, the exhibition takes its name from the artist’s habit of working in pairs. This binary bond between the paintings is sometimes formed by grouping the same dimensions, sometimes by starting at the same time, sometimes by similarity or contrast. While viewing these abstract […]
Alexa von Arnim : Souvenir
01.11 – 23.11.2024
Bringing together a mix of still lives that appreciate the weird details, fashion-inspired joie de vivre and spontaneous snapshots, Alexa wants us to stop and smell the flower that is the moment. As a counterbalance to our fast-paced social media driven life, she chooses the medium of analogue photography to celebrate details you usually might forget when you’re only passing […]
Zeynep Aslanoba : Sounds Like a You Problem
05.09 – 29.09.2024
An Exploration of Isolation and the Human Experience In a world that increasingly celebrates individual growth and self-realization, we often lose sight of the bonds that connect us. In her latest exhibition, Zeynep Aslanoba delves into the complex interplay between loneliness, the struggle for individuality, escapism and the search for a savior. Through a series of evocative sculptures, stop-motion animations, […]
Mark Hale : Merry Weather Painter
16.05 – 14.06.2024
Merry Weather Painter is a salute to an endless summer, inspired by pastoral summer vacations spent by the Aegean Sea. The exhibition depicts a peaceful solitude, presenting ordinary moments from a carefree perspective. The vibrant and bright colors in the paintings, create an atmosphere far away from the crowd and chaos. Instead of painting in an academic fashion, the artist […]
A.R.C. Year Show II
01.05 – 15.05.2024
A Residence of Creation, is a collaboration between the Taşkonaklar Hotel in Cappadocia and the Istanbul-based art gallery; Ambidexter. Having started its life in August 2022, it aims to give the creative souls a space to research, be inspired, cultivate their practice and to create in the otherworldly landscape of Cappadocia; boasting a rich cultural and historical heritage. From its […]
Andreas Sell : Guideline to eat a slice of toast within eight bites – In the forest
04.04 – 05.05.2024
Andreas Sell’s installations mostly present moments from his life. They are a kind of diary that shows a strategic method within the conventions of our capitalist society, which are simultaneously subjected to critical analysis. A question that has been discussed since the 1960s runs like a thread through his works: Where does the private sphere merge into the public sphere? […]
Sedat Ayhan : Roommate
10.02 – 02.03.2024
Sedat Ayhan’s frst solo exhibition, Roommate, presents the phantasmagoria of ordinary reality through surrealist methodology and a grotesque humor. Inspired by history and combining the tradition of multi-fgure painting with the basic components of abstraction, the artist aims to create new perceptual problems about the visible by challenging the possibilities of fgurative form. Compositions shaped by instinctive gestures and unplanned […]
Selver Yıldırım – Oğulcan Kuş : Fantasia 23
11.01 – 04.02.2024
The first exhibition of 2024 at Ambidexter, ‘Fantasia 23’ is a duo show by artists Selver Yıldırım and Oğulcan Kuş, offering a visit to the physically distant yet colorful worlds of both artists. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptural paintings and collaborative works by both artists.
Zach Hodges : Warm beer
07.12 – 30.12.2023
Warm beer presents new paintings in oil from the artist Zach Hodges. Each of the paintings that we see in the exhibition began as a photograph, taken on a slightly out-of-date digital camera. The photographs depict scenes from the artist’s daily surroundings in İstanbul, often during the commute to and from his studio. In some cases, Zach prints the photos […]
Hilmi Can Özdemir : Paradoxia Series
02.11 – 02.12.2023
The word paradox is derived from the Latin word paradoxum. Paradoxum, comes from the Greek word paradoxos. This word is a combination of the words para -against- and doxa -belief-. Hence, paradox, from the origins of the word, has the meaning of counter-belief or opposing view. Paradoxes relate to statements or concepts that appear to be logically contradictory. Such statements […]
Özge Çokgezen : Synthetic Identity
14.09 – 22.10.2023
The frst solo show by Özge Çokgezen presents a selection of the artist’s oeuvre between 2019-2023. With this exhibition, the artist refects on their experiences in different corners of the world in the last three years. Çokgezen began their artistic education with the study of fne arts in high school. They continued with design and then arts management at university. […]
DOGS, DOGS, DOGS
01.07 – 30.07.2023
Zeynep Aslanoba, Lina İ. Arditty, Berkay Beker, Talisa Bergsen, Chorus of Body, Mark Hale, Zach Hodges, Fırat İtmeç, İlkem Karakaş, Vincent Krüger, David D. Levi, Gaspar Martinez, Merve Morkoç, Florian Nguyen, Hilmi Can Özdemir, Tobias Schulenburg, Ahmet Rüstem & Hakan Sorar, Oğulcan Sürmeli, Maral Taşkırıcı, Mert Tugen, Ada Tuncer, Didem Ünlü, Selver Yıldırım
Oğulcan Sürmeli : P.O.V.
20.05 – 18.06.2023
Oğulcan Sürmeli’s first comprehensive solo gallery exhibition opens at Ambidexter on May 20, 2023. Born in Istanbul in 1995, the artist graduated from F.M.V., Faculty of Fine Art, in 2018. He worked in the workshops of Halil Akdeniz and Meriç Hızal. He also took part in domestic and international fairs and exhibitions. “P.O.V.:” can be seen as the artist’s adventure […]
A.R.C. Year Show
04.05 – 14.05.2023
Having started its life in August 2022 with the support of Ambidexter, A.R.C., A Residence of Creation, aims to give the opportunity to creative souls a space to research, cultivate their practice and create in an environment with a connection to the Anatolian landscape of Cappadocia. The exhibition is of the first four artists that A.R.C. has hosted together with […]
Murat Burhanoğlu : Order of the House
30.03 – 30.04.2023
at the exact moment of action, when a foot is positioned at full arm’s length, when a jaw sinks into the earth with that precise tilt at the edge of the water, when a calf stamps the ground with all its bulk, a zone of indistinguishability appears. a body in the present, and the constant action of ancestors, overlap in […]
Ayda Demirci : 35 paintings
04.03 – 26.03.2023
Ayda Demirci’s first solo exhibition “35 Paintings” can be visited at Ambidexter between March 4th and March 26th. The exhibition consists of oil paintings on paper and canvas, which the artist has created with in the last year.
Ambidextrous Group Show 4
28.01 – 12.02.2023
Ambidextrous Group Show, with the desire to become a tradition; hosts 23 artists in its fourth edition this year. With this exhibition, Ambidexter offers a preview of its future programs as well as its artist portfolio.
David Doğan Levi : Oasis of Illegible Reveries
08.12.2022 – 08.01.2023
Oasis of Illegible Reveries; holds the opportunities of falling into dreams. If the dream is the state of being beyond reality itself, a space also opens up for the dream to expand its own reality. Levi’s expressive records are far from planned actions, fictional purposes, and the hardened judgment of the legible, open a space of common creation to the […]
Gaspar Martinez : Nausea
13.10 – 13.11.2022
Joyful Disgust: Gaspar Martinez’s Nausea Essay by Paul D’Agostino* Gaspar Martinez has a painterly tendency to couple energetic, gestural mark-making, bold line work, vibrant palettes, sparely textured surfaces, and variably quirky compositional choices with a quietly humorous, subtly critical sense of curiosity. His subjects of playfully abstract representation have been fgures and things, places and rooms, objects real and imagined, […]
IST-BLN
25.09 – 09.10.2022
IST–BLN is an exhibition collaboration between the cities of Istanbul and Berlin. Artists from each city are invited to participate in a two-week Artists-in-Residence Program with a concluding group exhibition. The first residency took place in June 2022 in Berlin with 13 participants from Istanbul at HOTO-Home to Artists. From September 25 to October 9 2022, the second residency featuring […]
Gizem Akgönül : Mythic Immediacy
10.02 – 03.03.2022
Mythic Immediacy perceives myths as the oldest production layers of inhabited lands. Instead of destroying the other for its own image, it pays tribute to the spiraling existence. Istanbul’s history and memory is in front of us in a way that it is not possible to reach it in its entirety. Istanbul can be seen as a hybrid of the […]
Contradictory Impulses : Kalostropik
07.02 – 10.03.2020
The tropics receive light more direct than the rest of the world. These areas are home to a wide range of biologically rich ecosystems, from exotic animal species to rare flora. Kalostropic involves the recordings of the field that emerges from this phenomenon by refracting, reversing and circulating light at different temperatures. ‘Every electron and every atom of the Earth […]
Maral Taşkırıcı : Lost on Venus
10.01 – 31.01.2020
Maral Taşkırıcı’s (series of) work is a holistic response to what other people see as random configurations. To the artist, the ability to see things within things is a challenge to see the beyond. She thinks of her work as a continuous exploration of her individual psyche and her longing for a connection. It is a reflection of her struggle […]
Murat Burhanoğlu : Black Sun
02.09 – 22.09.2019
Murat Burhanoğlu presents us a flora and a fauna, an eerie playground for a struggle of instincts with and within civilization. A black sun of many desires shines on the doings of the entities that populate this world, starkly rendering their struggle of will, their biting, their hitting, their running, and their wandering through a primordial rawness. Archaic quotes and […]
Sinan Saül : Occasus
01.06 – 01.09.2019
Inspired by the colors of sunset Saül created the series called OCCASUS meaning both sunset and destruction in Latin language. Series consist of totemic characters drawn in black accompanying the colors of sunset i.e. pink, blue and yellow. The nocturnal nature of totems and the vivid colors of sunset create a dynamism between life and death, expressing the unrelenting power […]
Kerim Zapsu : 7,680,000,000
09.02 – 10.03.2019
Ambidexter Gallery proudly presents Kerim Zapsu’s first solo show in Istanbul. In 7,680,000,000 Zapsu created a series by breaking up both the symbols within the flag, and the symbolism of flags. The process lead to two different ways of interpreting the symbols and colors, initially Zapsu created abstract work, which is more painterly (not to mix with Wölfllin’s notion of […]
Defne Cemal & Öykü Topal : Capriole
12.01 – 02.02.2019
Ambidexter Gallery happily presents the first duo show of the year. The show consists of two artists both young and aspiring in their own manner. Cemal’s paintings are created with solid, and at times mute, colors covering a very thin surface on the plywood panels. Whereas Topal’s oeuvre, in the series of paintings and drawings she did for the show, […]
Sinan Saül : The Gamut of Darkness
08.11 – 31.12.2018
Ambidexter Gallery is delighted to present a solo show of paintings by Turkish artist Sinan Saül. This is the first solo exhibition of Saül’s work made between 2016 and 2018. For Saül, the eccentricity of his artworks wants to get the attention of people who don’t settle for mediocrity, offering countless images, titles, materials and techniques that refuse to obey […]
Ambidexterous Group Show
30.03 – 30.04.2018
Ada Tuncer Zeynep Severge Ayşegül Ağustoslu Francesco Albano Irmak Canevi Alp E. Öz Acca Christoph Westermeier Commissaire d’exposition Ulaş Parkan
Alexa von Arnim : Alexa
07.04.2017
Alexa von Arnim studied at Speos School of Photography in Paris. Currently she is working as a photographer on various exhibitions and music-projects. Additionally she is a Creative Consultant at Schierke Artists in Munich. As well as her photography she is passionate about her work as a musician in her epinomous band ALEXA. Alexa by Alexa von Arnim With over […]
