We’ve done our best to compile events we’re aware of. If you think we’ve forgotten one or want to see your event featured, please send an e-mail (with English press info) to events@yabangee.com.
Yabangee’s Weekend Picks:
Friday: Kid Francescoli & Camp Claude @ Babylon Bomonti – Put on in collaboration with Institut Français Turquie, these French artists guarantee a night of energetic fun.
Saturday: Kalben, Mabel Matiz and Göksel @ Zorlu PSM – Three massively successful names in Turkey’s music scene perform on one stage. An excellent way to get acquainted with some local talent.
Saturday: Oscar and the Wolf @ Volkswagen Arena – The Belgian electropop outfit have a MASSIVE following in Turkey and it’s pretty clear they love performing here. Check out our quick Q&A with their frontman Max Colombie.
Saturday: Tupperware Dinner @ Circuit Istanbul – Our monthly potluck-style meal celebrates good food, great company, and reusable containers. Whether you prepare your favorite dish or pick something up on the way, be sure to bring it in your tupperware! Event is free and open to everyone.
Sunday: Find Your Beat! by Chikirina @ W – 9 fantastic workshops, all in one place, and FREE for you to enjoy! Chikirina has teamed up with W Istanbul with a goal of inspiring healthy changes in 2017. We’ve curated a diverse set of sessions that will break the stereotypes of your traditional workout. Join us for a workshop, grab a juice, shop from our wellness market and then close off the day with a cocktail on W, and music provided by their in house DJ.
Friday:
Lara Di Lara @ Salon IKSV – “She was introduced to music by her musician family members such as Ender Sakpınar and İlhan Erşahin. Started her musical career with the electronic-indie project 123, with whom she released three albums. On the side, she has been performing solo as Lara Di Lara since 2014. She will be visiting Salon with the first concert of her second studio album ‘Hazineler İçindesin’…”
Oldies But Rudies / King Seroman & Boss DJ @ Nayah
Psychedelic Unity – Insane Creatures @ Peyote – “At the opening party of 2017, our guest artist is INSANE CREATURES from UK. Her style is an epic form of darkpsy which is a blend of fullon twilight forest. Do not miss her 1:30 hour live set that will mostly consist of unreleased tracks.”
Russian Food Night @ Komşu Kafe Collective
Glüh-Mate Strikes Back! @ Mitte – “Once again Meet us at Mitte for a cozy and chilled Friday afternoon and enjoy some Glüh-Mate with winter specials, enjoy good music and meet Mitte people!”
Opening: “Observed Truths” @ Mixer – “Reality can be interpreted as the process of transforming imperceptible concepts into perceptible ones. While performing a review on the relativity and necessity of the concept of reality, the exhibition questions the concept of Reality shaped with regard to the references the elements of perception create within themselves.In line with this reference, it is the indiscipline itself, where ways of perception are perpetually diversified and adapted on, that is Absolute.”
Opening: “After the 20th” @ Mixer – “‘After the 20th’ exhibits the state in which an Absolute loses its essence through disintegration; the representability of the initial state through what it-is- not by manifesting its states of transformation that reference the initial entity through.”
Saturday:
Bedük “The Comeback” @ Babylon Bomonti – “Bedük goes back to his fast electro days with this gig that he exclusively produced for Babylon, with a format called ‘The Comeback’. Bedük will be hinting at the direction his music will take in his upcoming album ‘Flashback’ to be released in the coming months. With five albums in English and the latest two albums in Turkish, Bedük is a memorable name for many.”
Jakuzi @ Salon IKSV – “Founded by Kutay Soyocak and Taner Yücel. They dropped the music video of ‘Koca Bir Saçmalık’ on a spring night, causing a major earthquake in the music sector. It was a love at first sight when their synthesizers took us to the 80’s and back. Kutay’s vocals were blinking an eye at John Maus and Ian Curtis on the one hand, and iconic voices of Arabesque and light Turkish pop, Müslüm Gürses and Özdemir Erdoğan on the other.”
Opening “On Botany” @ BLOK Art Space – “The exhibition brings together ten artists who emphasize on the relationship between botanic and art, where the artists approach botanical science from an archival and narrative perspective, and display their studies on plants in different disciplines and geographies.”
Ending: “Creations / Creatures of the Mind” @ Bozlu Art Project – “In his exhibition, the artist who calls the audiences to reconsider and imagine through their daily lives focuses the people who will wake up their sleeps of mind and will recreate themselves in a marginalized, alienated society.”
Adana Twins & All Niight @ indigo
Opening: Anatomy of Things @ Pg Art Gallery – “Yonca Karakaş focuses on improvement of the human mind and dogmatic ideas at her first solo exhibition titled ‘Anatomy of Things’. The show that she re-defines the perception of ‘reality’ will be on view between January 21 – February 25, 2017 at Pg Art Gallery. Karakaş builds a new universe by the objects she uses, the spaces and characters she creates.”
Children’s Workshops @ Akbank Sanat
Sunday:
Tom Waits Tribute Night by JazzMatiz @ Babylon Bomonti – The American singer-songwriter and actors receives some of the respect he most assuredly deserves…
Movie Night: The Room (at Böcek) – “Asian Side Improv is hosting a viewing of The Room this Sunday at Böcek. The Room is one of the best worst movies ever made. It’s unintentionally hilarious, awkward and mystifying. It must be seen to be believed!”
Greek Dances Workshop @ Arsenlüpen – “In this workshop, we will try to get a taste of the variety and beauty of the Greek traditional dances through some of the most common dances of Greece. The workshop is an introductory one, so everyone, of every level is welcome to join!”
Multi-Day Events:
Ongoing:
“An Astronomical Determination of the Distance Between Two Cities” @ Zilberman Gallery – “In a two-part project, Amin looks at the historical paradigms of technology and urban development in relation to contemporary migratory paths. By employing cartographic research and landscape surveillance, Amin critiques the predatory view of landscape and the exoticization of women’s bodies in relation to geography. The project proposes a visual allegory focusing on architectural fragments and sexual desires to challenge colonial histories.”
“Writing Remains” @ Zilberman Gallery – “Beler’s deep engagement with literature is manifest in her project exhibition, Writing Remains, in that the artist’s process includes thinking about the multitude of meanings in artistic practice, inspired by asemic writing. It is well established that taking notes by hand on a text while reading improves memory retention. Beler, who always uses this method while working, has been producing asemic writing, discovering the difficulty of writing credible ‘fake’ writing. The work included in the exhibition, ‘sentence’, is the first result of this effort to push the boundaries of credibility.”
“When Did We Stop Playing?” @ Anna Laudel Contemporary – “Through framing the question ‘When did we stop playing?’, the exhibition aims to explore the great, universal game of life in our shared, contemporary existence.”
“Cold Front from the Balkans” @ Pera Museum – “The exhibition focuses on different generations of artists and art groups from the Balkan region. The exhibition avoids the usual unflattering political connotations the region’s name inevitably brings up but instead focuses on a natural phenomenon — the wind.”
“Wanderer on the Sea of Light” @ Pera Museum – “French artist Félix Ziem is one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined.”
“EU 48/6/N” @ Elgiz Museum – “Rahmi Aksungur is a highly influential sculptor and academician whose body of work has made a significant contribution to contemporary sculpture in Turkey.”
Looking for more events happening in Istanbul? Keep up with our What’s On section.
