“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings: Conversation with Evren Erol: Thoughts That Shape Existence

“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings

Istanbul Modern opens its doors free of charge on museum days called “Your Thursday” with the sponsorship of Paribu. Every Thursday, between 10.00 and 14.00, the museum welcomes all its visitors residing in Türkiye with free admission. Visitors can explore all the exhibitions at Istanbul Modern and participate in artist workshops, events, and film screenings held once a month.

“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings include workshop sessions and discussions where artists share their creative processes and artistic experiences with participants. Through these activities, Istanbul Modern invites visitors to discover the museum, artworks, and artistic production processes, while allowing them to enrich their experience by creating together with artists.

Conversation with Evren Erol: Thoughts That Shape Existence

Sculptor Evren Erol examines the core conceptual processes and methods of production that shape his artistic practice in this talk. Focusing on the relationship between the individual and their surroundings, he discusses how he constructs the interaction between body, space, and material, drawing on examples from his work.

For Erol, the body is not merely a physical presence but a dynamic structure in which memory, resistance, and transformation unfold simultaneously. With each new work, the artist reexamines this evolving structure. His engagement with material—its behavior, the experience of working with it, and the artist’s inner processes—transforms sculpture into a tangible outcome of the interaction between the material’s physical properties and human experience. When sculptures encounter viewers in different spaces, they become sites of encounter that contain endless perceptual and mental possibilities. This talk explores Erol’s artistic production through its conceptual framework, material choices, research into body–space relations, and his approach to the viewer’s experience.

Date: January 15, 2026

Time: 13.00–14.30

Venue: Istanbul Modern Event Room 2

Duration: 90 mins

The event is free of charge

The program is held in Turkish.