“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings: Conversation with Ahmet Rüstem Ekici and Hakan Sorar: Digital Scalpel: The Anatomy of the Surface

“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 Ahmet Rüstem Ekici and Hakan Sorar: Digital Scalpel: The Anatomy of the Surface

In this conversation, artists Ahmet Rüstem Ekici and Hakan Sorar delve into their interdisciplinary practices. Shaped by their backgrounds in interior architecture and engineering, the duo traces the notion of “surface,” which they place at the core of their work. In this journey that ranges from archaeological strata to digital textures, from the human body to the architectural shell, Ekici and Sorar examine how new media tools enable them to both reconstruct and deconstruct narratives of the past.

The duo’s presentation focuses particularly on their Rest in Pieces series, which explores processes of digitally reassembling memories of what has been fragmented. Ekici and Sorar invite participants into the “kitchen” of their creative practice, where they build bridges between the texture of an archaeological object and the fluidity of pixels. This artist talk promises a profound journey into how technology transforms historical and bodily narratives.

Date: October 16, 2025

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.