“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings: Conversation with Sidar Alışık, Mehmet Çimen, and Ferhat Salman: Spatial Self, Traces, Memory, and the City

“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 Sidar Alışık, Mehmet Çimen, and Ferhat Salman: Spatial Self, Traces, Memory, and the City

Focusing on the relationship between the city and the individual, this seminar is led by artists Sidar Alışık, Mehmet Çimen, and Ferhat Salman, who are based in Mardin. Through their artistic practices, the artists address personal and collective memory, the relationship between memory and space, and its transformation. Beyond the physically visible, the discussion also considers city images that expand in layers through sounds, stories, memories, and traces, while exploring the concept of the spatial self.

Date: September 11, 2025

Time: 13.00–14.30

Venue: Istanbul Modern Auditorium

Duration: 90 mins

The event is free of charge.

The program is held in Turkish.