Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
Where in History are We? Craft. Ritual. Transformation.
Group Show at Hara İstanbul
19.04.2025 - 30.11.2025
Curator: Onur Hamilton Karaoğlu
Hara’s group show Where in History Are We? Craft. Ritual. Transformation. brings together jewellery designs, texts, and performances created by participants from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. Through these works, the exhibition explores the question: Where in history are we?
The exhibition brings together 17 artists who do not typically work with jewellery, each attempting to translate their own artistic methodology into a craft-based practice. It also explores the kinds of knowledge, symbols, and social and cultural meanings that jewellery can produce.
NARRATIVE POWER ALLIANCE: EXHIBITION
Barın Han, Istanbul
January 9 – February 16, 2025
Artists: Trans Memory Collective, Fatma Belkıs, Gregg Bordowitz, Nejbir Erkol, Kiki ggNash, Marina Papazyan, Zeyno Pekünlü, Belit Sağ, Jilet Sebahat, Üzüm Derin Solak, Serdar Soydan, Furkan Öztekin (with Ceyhan Fırat), Cansu Yıldıran
The Alliance of Narrative Power: Research Association for Democracy, Peace and Alternative Politics (DEMOS), Havle Women’s Association, Political Well-Being Platform, Positive Solidarity, KuirGaming, Social Policy, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPoD),
Van Star Women Association
Curators: Onur Karaoğlu & Alper Turan
Project Coordinator: Berfin Atlı (SPoD)
Initiated as a collective process by the Narrative Power Alliance—an assembly of diverse advocacy groups, platforms, and associations operating across Turkey—this exhibition arises from a shared mission: to understand, analyze, and seek new ways of contending with the rising anti-gender movements in the country.
Photo: Zeynep Fırat
Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
BLOSSOMS OF FAREWELL
Cansu Yıldıran's Solo Show at Hara İstanbul
07.09.2024 - 26.01.2025
Curators: Onur Hamilton Karaoğlu & Serkan Kaptan
Cansu Yıldıran’s debut solo exhibition takes its point of departure from The Dispossessed [Mülksüzler], a photographic series Yıldıran began in 2015 as a way of tracing her own family history. Centring on the women and natural landscape of the Black Sea region, including its rugged terrain, highlands, and villages, Blossoms of Farewell explores how survival can endure in a world where notions of identity and belonging are absent. The idea of “home” takes on a physical dimension in the exhibition space, seen through the lens of relationships, memories, and psychological perspectives.
Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
THERE IS A PLACE
Group Show at Hara İstanbul
07.10.2023 - 02.03.2024
Curators: Canan Bozbağ, Onur Hamilton Karaoğlu
There Is A Place, which took place at Hara between 7 October 2023 and 2 March 2024, brought together site-specific works by Sena Başöz, İnci Furni, Ekin Kano, İrem Nalça, and Cansu Yıldıran, each responding to the theme of safe space. The exhibition’s concept and design were shaped by Onur Hamilton Karaoğlu and Canan Bozbağ.