Celebrating its 23rd year in 2025, Dirimart is more focused than ever on challenging and revitalising the existing gallery model in Istanbul. Founded in 2002 by Hazer Özil with the intent of exhibiting established and emerging artists both from Turkey and around the world in a context conducive to critical dialogue and cross-pollination, the pivotal concern of the gallery’s program is individual and regional differences while fostering cosmopolitanism and collaboration. Dirimart cultivates a program premised on conceptualism, political resistance and intellectual rigour. Located in three distinct locations; Dolapdere and Pera in Istanbul, and Mayfair in London, the gallery divides its program between established artists, such as Ayşe Erkmen, İnci Eviner, Canan Tolon, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Sarah Morris, Anselm Reyle, Jorinde Voigt, Tomokazu Matsuyama, and Karin Kneffel and emerging artists, such as Çiğdem Aky, Çağla Ulusoy, Berke Yazıcıoğlu, and Ebru Duruman. The gallery, through Dirimart and RES Publications (est. 2007), also continues its well-established series of catalogues, artist books and books on art theory.
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In Conversation with Çağla Ulusoy and Fi Churchman, ArtReview
4.30-5.30pm
Dirimart London, 23 Princes Street, W1B 2LY
part of Colour is the Place
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Istanbul
7 May - 14 Jun 2026
Meşrutiyet Caddesi No: 99, 34430, Istanbul
Tue-Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 12-7pm
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Sterling’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Istanbul - “involving food, the body, and stains, Sterling’s paintings appear playful and exaggerated … yet reveal underlying hierarchies, processes of objectification, [and] microaggressions”
London West End
forthcoming
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curated by Jessica Cerasi, works by “four painters for whom the canvas operates as a site of reflection … where colour is not decoration or description; it is a primary language, capable of saying what words can only attempt to approach”
London West End
forthcoming
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