K2, becoming stronger with national and international collaborations, creates platforms where art is produced, discussed and presented.
Starting in 2025, the Institut Français de Turquie and the Goethe-Institut Türkei are launching, in collaboration with their local and Mediterranean partners, the artist residency program Deniz Villaları: Ecological Crossings. This initiative aims to support artistic creation in connection with......
MATCH is a transnational arts project that connects artists to community gardens as a response to the climate crisis in 5 Mediterranean Cities: Athens, Nicosia, Marseille, Barcelona and Izmir. The Mediterranean is a climate hotspot.......
The Izmir Mediterranean Biennial (IMB), organized in collaboration with Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and K2 Contemporary Art Center, took place between September 11, 2023, and March 11, 2024. As part of the IMB Artist-in-Residence Program, participants......
Within the scope of the project titled ‘Artistic Freedom and Children’s and Youth’s Pers pective in the Arts in Turkey –ACT ’ (Artistic Freedom and Children’s and Youth’s Perspective in the Arts in Turkey –......
Why do we look at family photographs? What role does family memory play in the formation of individual identity? What do individual stories from the past mean today? What is the relationship between personal memory......
BOUNDARY CROSSING Collaboration with HKU (University of the Arts/Utrecht) / GLEJ (Production House/ Ljubljana) / KHAS Theatre Department (İstanbul) This pilot project: Boundary Crossing, in the context of interdisciplinary art practices, is aimed at students......
As Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and K2 Contemporary Art Center, we are announcing our open call to artists for the Izmir Mediterranean Biennial, which will be held between October 1 and December 5, 2022. Curated by......
Diapsalmata, supported by ArtsMap community’s first Micro-Support Programme on the theme of ‘One with Nature’, is an international contemporary dance performance born from the collaboration of two independent contemporary dancers based in Izmir and Amsterdam.......
Within the scope of The Walk project, Little Amal, a 3.5-metre-tall puppet representing a 9-year-old Syrian refugee girl, came together with children from Turkey and Syria at K2 Urla Breathing Space on Thursday, 5 August......
The project ‘A Stronger Civil Society in the Protection of Cultural Heritage’ submitted to the European Union by Our City Izmir Association, with K2 Contemporary Art Association as project partner, was accepted. The project, which......
The project, which took place between 8 July and 2 August 2020 and was led by Begüm Tatari, aimed to provide artists working in Izmir, especially in the field of visual arts, with the methods......
Portİzmir and Çanakkale Biennial are united in the search for a model that will make the art memory they have created for their cities visible; open their accumulated knowledge in the field of contemporary art......
In her exhibition ‘Put Something On!’, Günseli Baki combines the images she produces by dismembering her body with their forms and counterparts in nature in order to break the alienation created on her own body......
While we look for the source of our dissatisfaction with life in many different points; this state of dissatisfaction that affects our daily lives is based on something very fundamental, the disruptions in the relationship......
The project titled ‘Networking between CSOs and Public Institutions through the “Artist-in-Residence” Programme’ was supported by the ‘Partnerships and Networks Grant Scheme for Strengthening Cooperation between the Public Sector and CSOs’ funded by the European......
‘Although the term Sayfiye/ ‘cottage’ is defined as ‘a rural area close to the city’, for most of us it means a yearly break from the fast rhythm of modern urban life. These places, which......
Artlens Visual Culture and Photography Workshop, which continues its work in the field of art and photography in Izmir, is preparing to meet its audience with the exhibition to be opened with the documentary photography......
My path(s) with the wolves crossed at their first stopover in TRIP, which they have been on for a while. While observing the wolves’ experiences in TRIP/ witnessing their changes day by day in Ahmet......
Artlens Visual Culture and Photography Workshop, which continues its work in the field of art and photography in Izmir, is preparing to meet its audience with the exhibition to be opened in the summer of......
Beksultan Oğuz’s exhibition, constructed through ceramics, painting, video and installation, focuses on individual and social fears. Rather than a psychological, physiological, cognitive feeling or emotional experience of fear, the artist explores the effects of the......
Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Visual Communication Design...
Within the scope of Space Dance Tokyo / Izmir 2018-2020 project, PI Art Butoh, who curated II. SPACE DANCE IZMIR Butoh days on 9-22 March; Japanese avant-garde Butoh performance artist and Space Dance project director......
In his first solo exhibition, photojournalist and documentary photographer Mert Çakır focuses on the homes of displaced people in the Middle East geography marked by poverty, war and political instability. Comprising images taken in Turkey,......
‘Azerbaijani Stories’ consists of 10 stories encountered on a journey from the capital on the Caspian coast to Naftalan on the Armenian border. Each story about Azerbaijan consists of a portrait and complementary photographs. These......
The point where our systematised life, which exists all over the world, has reached consists of ‘memory losses’. This is an indication of the effects of technology. Every action that is put into practice is......
K2 Contemporary Art Center and Izmir Architecture Center 01-31 OCTOBER 2018 In October, Swedish Architecture is visiting Izmir with three exhibitions. Openings Monday, October 1, 19:00 The Smart City, which focuses on Smart Cities, and......
‘Echoes’ is an exhibition consisting of the installation of two video works that are shaped by a similar question. Is it possible to bring people together in the most fundamental state of existence, in an......
How far does one narrow one’s own space within interlocking structures surrounded by regions and borders? What fills a vast void? Making sense of colors and forms, awakening the image, activating the consciousness or unconsciously......
Artlens Visual Culture and Photography Workshop, which continues to work under the name of art and photography in Izmir, is preparing to meet its audience with the exhibition to be opened with the “Art Project”......
Metropol II reflects the mega-sized city of Istanbul, the result of the CNG painters’ meeting and inspiration with the visiting exhibitors while they were in Venice in 2015 for professional work. In 2012, CNG organized......
Adela Jušić was born in 1982 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she still lives and creates. After graduating from the Department of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo in 2007,......
We are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the novel “The Stranger”. A group of artists from Izmir are together for French writer Albert Camus. Artists from different disciplines came together in a joint exhibition for......
“Wooden Stories” is a cultural project produced by NomadMind (Izmir, Turkey) and Baserriko Arte Sarea (Helette, France) in partnership with France-Turkey, with the support of Tandem Turkey Program. The year-long project, which started in August......
Nilay İşlek’s wall installations, large and small, are a collection of works that focus on the main foundations of “RGB” and continue to make sense of colors. The artist’s works are about the variability of......
In its simplest form, memory is recollections of the recent and distant past based on narratives. It is an act of reminding connected to and/or related to the place. Although memory is seen as a......
From March 18 to March 31, 2016, the K2 Contemporary Art Center will present for the first time in Turkey the exhibition Reflections and Movements. This exhibition proposes a meditation on the notions of being......
More than an exhibition, Deprivation is the final stage of a dialog process that emerged through interdisciplinary participation. Artists with distinct and unique perspectives, sometimes based on their personal feelings of deprivation, sometimes based on......
The Black Pink Counter Art Collective, who see the act of laughter as a victory against power and transform their lives into performance as an example of carnivalesque activism that organizes laughter, In the exhibition......
Ovacık’s wooden toys designed with the motto “Toys are Bahane, the main thing is to play” can be seen in the exhibition. The toys to be exhibited are designed based on the history of Turkey;......
Maddalena Forcella, a Mexican textile designer, is known for her use of natural dyes in her work. Plants, shells, flowers and insects help the artist, who adopts experimental dyeing methods, to create unrestricted color trails.......
“My Life in English Measures” transforms the adventure of a book into an exhibition that the viewer can also experience. This exhibition at K2 Contemporary Art Center is an extension of the artist’s (Ceren Bulut)......
“ Pervasız” presents the dialog between two artists from different disciplines (dance and music) through sound and movement. Performed for the first time in February 2014 at K2 Contemporary Art Gallery, the performance meets the......
The boxes in the exhibition “Small Worlds” can be described as boxes in which small interior spaces or installations can be seen through the door hole above them. These boxes draw attention to the relationships......
In collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Izmir and K2 Contemporary Art Center, Brussels-based German artist Stefan Bohnenberger will organize a Small Worlds Workshop at K2 Gallery. The workshop will take place on April 14-30......
Cities whose past is constantly erased, buildings that are demolished and new ones built, stones that are removed and discarded as they age, walls that crumble and break… What hits you in the face in......
Man is reconstructing “time” in which the contexts of “being” are discussed. Until now, the expression of thought, calculations with the developing media, repetition in movement and the overlapping of information decomposition have been achieved.......