Currents: 15 Years of Tarabya Cultural Academy
November 5 – 22, 2026
Opening: 5 November Thursday, 19:00
Performance by Jasmin İhraç: 18:30
Artists: Anahita Razmi, Isabella Gerstner, Jasmin İhraç, Julia von Leliwa, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Sarah Szczesny, Sven Johne, Theo Eshetu
Tarabya Cultural Academy opened in October 2011, and since September 2012 it has hosted more than 220 artists from a wide range of disciplines at its residency on the Bosphorus. The Academy’s 15th anniversary programme, Water Finds Its Way, brings more than 15 alumni back together with long-standing partner institutions from October to December 2026.
Taking place at Depo as part of the programme, the exhibition Currents brings together video works by alumni of the Academy from different generations and artistic disciplines. Focusing on movement, perception and transformation, the works trace a path that extends from within the body out into urban and rural spaces.
The exhibition Currents is supported by Stiftung Mercator and the German Consulate General Istanbul.
Sarah Szczesny, Eye Writing Blue © Sarah Szczesny
Currents: 15 Years of Tarabya Cultural Academy
November 5 – 22, 2026
Sarah Szczesny, Eye Writing Blue © Sarah Szczesny
Opening: 5 November Thursday, 19:00
Performance by Jasmin İhraç: 18:30
Artists: Anahita Razmi, Isabella Gerstner, Jasmin İhraç, Julia von Leliwa, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Sarah Szczesny, Sven Johne, Theo Eshetu
Tarabya Cultural Academy opened in October 2011, and since September 2012 it has hosted more than 220 artists from a wide range of disciplines at its residency on the Bosphorus. The Academy’s 15th anniversary programme, Water Finds Its Way, brings more than 15 alumni back together with long-standing partner institutions from October to December 2026.
Taking place at Depo as part of the programme, the exhibition Currents brings together video works by alumni of the Academy from different generations and artistic disciplines. Focusing on movement, perception and transformation, the works trace a path that extends from within the body out into urban and rural spaces.
The exhibition Currents is supported by Stiftung Mercator and the German Consulate General Istanbul.
