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SALT Beyoğlu, situated on the pedestrian street İstiklal Caddesi, is a six story building constructed between 1850 and 1860. Redesign of the building for contemporary use has been completed by Mimarlar Tasarım, the office of architect Han Tümertekin, winner of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. SALT Beyoğlu hosts 1130 square meters of exhibition space on three levels. Its entry space, the Forum acts as an interface between the institution and the street, welcoming the İstiklal Caddesi passers-by, sharing daily program information and providing a transition into the institution’s exhibitions, Walk-in Cinema, café and shop.

SALT Beyoğlu's main inaugural exhibition "I am not a studio artist" features a selection of works from artist, thinker, writer, and curator Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, who passed away in 2007. In the exhibition the visitors can get acquainted with the themes Alptekin explored as well as experience the variety of media he employed, ranging from his early collages to his highly complicated “heterotopia” installations, from his etymologically playful neon works to the poignant videos he showed at the Turkish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007. The show also includes newly commissioned works by five artists who respond to Alptekin’s themes and issues. Can Altay, Gülsün Karamustafa, Gabriel Lester, Camila Rocha and Nedko Solakov, were all key figures in the artist’s life.

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Photos from the inaugural event at SALT Beyoğlu, and visit to the reconstruction site of SALT Galata.

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