Image: İstanbul Modern, Istanbul
İstanbul Modern is drawing attention to Mehmet Güleryüz’s 'Motard' series with a weekend presentation on July 25-26. The museum’s announcement frames the works around the motorcycle as an ironic symbol of power, speed and display, and says Güleryüz uses dynamic color to create a strong sense of movement.
The Turkish-language notice places the series within a broader reading of social change, referring to the socio-economic transformations of the period and to humanity, though the source text is truncated before that thought is completed. Even in that brief description, the emphasis is on how Güleryüz turns a familiar machine into a charged visual sign rather than a straightforward subject.
Mehmet Güleryüz is one of the significant figures in contemporary Turkish art, and İstanbul Modern’s spotlight on the 'Motard' series brings renewed visibility to a body of work centered on motion, energy and urban imagery. The source material does not specify the exact works included in the presentation, nor does it provide installation details, but it clearly identifies the series as the focus of the weekend program.
According to the event information supplied with the announcement, the presentation is scheduled for the weekend of July 25-26, 2026, at İstanbul Modern in Istanbul, Turkey. No additional programming details, opening remarks or related events are listed in the source material.
The museum’s social media post gives the most direct statement of the curatorial emphasis: in the 'Motard' series, the motorcycle becomes a pointed emblem of force and spectacle, while the artist’s color choices intensify the sensation of movement. The notice does not include a longer curatorial text or artist quotation, so the available information remains limited to this concise framing.
For now, the announcement marks a short-term public focus on the series at İstanbul Modern across the two-day weekend listing, July 25-26.
