“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings: Conversation with Aslı Çavuşoğlu: Everything Interesting Takes Place in the Dark

“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 Aslı Çavuşoğlu: Everything Interesting Takes Place in the Dark

Led by contemporary artist Aslı Çavuşoğlu, whose work explores the relationships between history, memory, language, and representation, the program focuses on the concept of public space, taking as its point of departure her work “ANNEX,” featured in Istanbul Modern’s collection exhibition “Beneath the Same Blue.”

Approaching public space as a multilayered site of encounter where different histories, memories, social relations, and individual experiences intersect, Çavuşoğlu shares examples from different periods of her practice during the seminar. Through these works, she discusses her research into forms of narrative, historiography, and processes of representation.

Date: October 1, 2026

Time: 13.00–14.30

Venue: Istanbul Modern Event Room 1

Duration: 90 mins

The event is free of charge

The program is held in Turkish.