Conceived by SAHA as a research, interaction, and production program for visual artists, curators, and writers, SAHA Studio hosts artists Mehmet Ali Boran, İrem Günaydın, Gizem Karakaş, Merve Kılıçer and İrem Tok who were invited from Istanbul, Mardin, and Rotterdam respectively to participate in the program’s November 2023 – June 2024 term. The artists who have been working on new works in an array of mediums since November at the new spaces of SAHA Studio located in the 5th Block of Istanbul Manufacturers Center (İMÇ) in Unkapanı, are to present their on-going projects at the midterm gathering organized on Saturday, 2 March 2023.
SAHA Studio, launched in Summer 2019, contributes to the participants' collective learning and development by peer-to-peer meetings, presentations, gatherings organized at its premises, as well as research trips, visits to exhibitions, collections, and artist studios. Also hosting foreign guest curators and writers invited by SAHA for different periods of time, SAHA Studio facilitates their interaction with the Istanbul art scene and artists.
In addition to local and foreign curators, writers, and researchers, each term five artists from different cities across Türkiye are invited to SAHA Studio by a three-member Selection Committee. The committee of 2023-2024 consists of curator Çelenk Bafra, who also served as the SAHA director between 2018 and 2024, curator Kevser Güler, and artist Ali Kazma, who invited the sixth and seventh term artists from among 38 nominations received from the eight independent initiatives supported by SAHA Sustainability Fund and the 2021 participants of the program.
SAHA Studio | Midterm Gathering
Saturday, 2 March
11 am – 7 pm: General visits
2 pm – 3 pm: Tour with the artists
SAHA Studio
İMÇ 5th Block No.5560 A-B
Hacı Kadın Mah. Atatürk Blv. No.66
Fatih / İstanbul
