Andréas Lang’s pictures, now compiled in a new book, convey “what the Turkish state wants people to remember and what it wants them to forget.”

The Artİstanbul Feshane venue was briefly forced to shut its doors after conservative groups decried artworks containing nudity and imagery seen as critical of the state.

In Berlin, where many artists settled after the protests that shook Turkey a decade ago, an exhibition grapples with the political repression and exile that followed.

Known for persecuting artists and cultural figures, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government is being accused of “artwashing” ahead of critical elections.

Four exhibitions planned prior to the devastating earthquakes grapple with presciently timely themes of loss, healing and transformation.

Artists and cultural organizations have been contributing to the post-disaster relief efforts despite their own needs for support.

The Turkish Culture Ministry has demanded its funding back on an award-winning independent film after a smear campaign by conservative media.

While The 90s Onstage looks back to a dynamic moment in Turkey's performance art scene, Ata Doğruel's "Light Source" reflects on the present.

A former journalist, Sim Chi Yin came to question the primacy of archival sources after realizing the deliberate decisions behind what gets included or excluded.

“Politics, war and oppression are a part of my life,” Fatoş İrwen explained of her current solo show, Exceptional Times.

For two weeks last fall, performance artist Alisa Oleva walked with 33 different women in Istanbul; sometimes for 30 minutes, sometimes for three hours, but always from 1500 miles away.

Ten Turkish artists follow daguerreotypist Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet’s 180-year-old journey through the Eastern Mediterranean.

Imprisoned since 2017, Osman Kavala was found not guilty of attempting to overthrow the government, but re-detained on new charges before he could even taste freedom.

For years, artist Serkan Taycan has documented a nearly 40-mile route through the outskirts of Istanbul, which traverses rarely seen landscapes. He facilitates walks through the area, now at risk due to a proposed shipping canal.

A nationalist message from the head of the country’s biggest contemporary art fair stands in stark contrast to limits of expression on other segments of the Turkish art world.

A small group of fine artists are bringing renewed attention to the practice of weaving by incorporating it into their artworks.

The house will become a research space and library in country where performance art remains underdeveloped, and many artists fear persecution.