Çukurcuma Gallery

Rooted in architectural practice, the gallery brings together exhibitions, art projects, and new encounters within Istanbul’s cultural landscape.

Track Exhibitions

01 Jan - 01 Feb 2025

Mahmut Celayir traces geography, memory and nature through an atmospheric body of painting.

31 May - 30 June 2024

Kim Yong Moon’s glassworks turn natural cycles into forms of balance, support and quiet luminosity.

14 Sep - 15 Oct 2022

Coşar Kulaksız turns the Aegean into a precise, uneasy surface—coordinates, light and distance held in quiet tension.

Çukurcuma, Istanbul

Group Exhibition

28 July - 28 Aug 2022

Curated by Fahrettin Aykut, this group show brings material, symbol and portrait into spatial tension.

Çukurcuma, Istanbul

Project: Sound Installation

17 August, 2021

Fahrettin Aykut and Umut Çağlar shape sound as a spatial material within the gallery.

Çukurcuma, Istanbul

Timeless, Group exhibition

31 May, 2021

Timeless gathers works around perception, inner time and the unstable act of reading images.

10 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

Berna Narmanlı Arpacı traces selfhood through colour, rhythm and the quiet architectures we build inside.

18 Nov - 22 Nov 2020

FAAR’s Step Istanbul presentation brings together a cross-section of contemporary practices and media.

17 Nov - 05 Dec 2020

Furkan Akhan and Kadir Çelik approach identity as something unstable, performed and never singular.

10 Jan - 10 Feb 2020

Aylin Önel and Güneş Savaş connect ecology, memory and waste through an expanded material language.

Çukurcuma, Istanbul

ESPULSA by Şükran Moral

11 Sep - 03 Oct 2019

Şükran Moral’s Espulsa draws thirty years of work into a fierce account of body, taboo and biography.