Evrim Kavcar
hop one two
Curated by: Yeşim Anadol Zengin
April 29 – June 27, 2026
Opening: Wednesday, April 29, 18:30
Evrim Kavcar’s solo exhibition, hop one two, will be open to visitors on the ground floor of Depo from 29 April to 27 June. It brings together the artist’s recent works, shaped by an extended and internalised research process. The title comes from a child’s rhythmic gesture of jumping while chanting “hop one two,” with a sheet tied around their neck like a cape and glasses mended countless times with tape. The tension between desire and circumstance forms the intellectual axis of the exhibition.
Spanning everyday encounters and scientific observations, this axis explores the relationships between a series of conceptual waypoints: dust collected from comets with the world’s lightest solid material, animals’ extraordinary abilities to leap and perform backflips, a manhole cover vanishing into the atmosphere, and the carefully drawn circles a ballet dancer traces in their notebooks. In hop one two, where lifting off and airing out respond to one another in a continuous exchange, Kavcar brings together works that emerge from a long-standing curiosity about the various burdens that weigh things down and the ways of coping with them. Sculptures, drawings, photographic prints, videos, sound works, and texts produced between 2023–2026 form the layered structure of the exhibition, while capes, mind maps, notebooks, and objects open up a space of circulation between documentation and imagination. The video essay developed during her SAHA Studio process, with its fragmented structure, places flight as a deliberate, embodied gesture at its centre, linking earlier and recent works and bringing the conceptual axis into sharper focus. Together with the possibilities of taking off, soaring or being blown up, the ebb and flow between desire and possibility, and between constraint and freedom, hold the works together.
The exhibition is conceived as an open space that invites participants from different age groups to imagine and produce together. They are presented with small creative challenges; the resulting works, which serve as gift-like gestures, exercise the imagination like a muscle, enabling new forms of creation and encounters as they navigate states of heaviness and constriction. Through these gestures, the opening of the exhibition becomes the beginning of an ongoing process, unfolding in time through a performance, evolving animation loops, and public events.
Evrim Kavcar is an interdisciplinary artist and academic based in Istanbul. She holds degrees from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Sculpture), the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, Fulbright scholarship), and completed her proficiency in art at MSGSU. Since 2024, she has been a faculty member and Head of Department in the Cartoon and Animation Department at M.S.F.A. University. Her solo exhibitions have taken place at venues including Galeri Zilberman, Galeria Wschodnia, Borusan Music House – INSERT Project Space, and PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space. Her works have been shown at ARTER, the 17th Istanbul Biennial, Sinopale, Eldem Art Space, PASAJ Independent Art Space, KASA Gallery, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, Barın Han, the 3rd Mardin Biennial, nGbK, Galerie Nord, and the 28th Istanbul Film Festival, among others. Since 2018, she has been working with Elif Öner as the duo “Sensitive Sounds,” focusing on the subjective, social, and cultural dimensions of sound.
evrim kavcar, “kafayı koru”, 2026, stoneware heykel, 33 x 11 x 18 cm, Photo: Mustafa Turgut
Evrim Kavcar
hop one two
Curated by: Yeşim Anadol Zengin
April 29 – June 27, 2026
evrim kavcar, “kafayı koru”, 2026, stoneware heykel, 33 x 11 x 18 cm, Photo: Mustafa Turgut
Opening: Wednesday, April 29, 18:30
Evrim Kavcar’s solo exhibition, hop one two, will be open to visitors on the ground floor of Depo from 29 April to 27 June. It brings together the artist’s recent works, shaped by an extended and internalised research process. The title comes from a child’s rhythmic gesture of jumping while chanting “hop one two,” with a sheet tied around their neck like a cape and glasses mended countless times with tape. The tension between desire and circumstance forms the intellectual axis of the exhibition.
Spanning everyday encounters and scientific observations, this axis explores the relationships between a series of conceptual waypoints: dust collected from comets with the world’s lightest solid material, animals’ extraordinary abilities to leap and perform backflips, a manhole cover vanishing into the atmosphere, and the carefully drawn circles a ballet dancer traces in their notebooks. In hop one two, where lifting off and airing out respond to one another in a continuous exchange, Kavcar brings together works that emerge from a long-standing curiosity about the various burdens that weigh things down and the ways of coping with them. Sculptures, drawings, photographic prints, videos, sound works, and texts produced between 2023–2026 form the layered structure of the exhibition, while capes, mind maps, notebooks, and objects open up a space of circulation between documentation and imagination. The video essay developed during her SAHA Studio process, with its fragmented structure, places flight as a deliberate, embodied gesture at its centre, linking earlier and recent works and bringing the conceptual axis into sharper focus. Together with the possibilities of taking off, soaring or being blown up, the ebb and flow between desire and possibility, and between constraint and freedom, hold the works together.
The exhibition is conceived as an open space that invites participants from different age groups to imagine and produce together. They are presented with small creative challenges; the resulting works, which serve as gift-like gestures, exercise the imagination like a muscle, enabling new forms of creation and encounters as they navigate states of heaviness and constriction. Through these gestures, the opening of the exhibition becomes the beginning of an ongoing process, unfolding in time through a performance, evolving animation loops, and public events.
Evrim Kavcar is an interdisciplinary artist and academic based in Istanbul. She holds degrees from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Sculpture), the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, Fulbright scholarship), and completed her proficiency in art at MSGSU. Since 2024, she has been a faculty member and Head of Department in the Cartoon and Animation Department at M.S.F.A. University. Her solo exhibitions have taken place at venues including Galeri Zilberman, Galeria Wschodnia, Borusan Music House – INSERT Project Space, and PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space. Her works have been shown at ARTER, the 17th Istanbul Biennial, Sinopale, Eldem Art Space, PASAJ Independent Art Space, KASA Gallery, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, Barın Han, the 3rd Mardin Biennial, nGbK, Galerie Nord, and the 28th Istanbul Film Festival, among others. Since 2018, she has been working with Elif Öner as the duo “Sensitive Sounds,” focusing on the subjective, social, and cultural dimensions of sound.
