İstanbul Modern Announces New Collection Display Featuring Recent Works and Re-encounters

İstanbul Modern has announced a new collection exhibition opening on 8 September at the museum. The presentation, described by the museum as bringing “new encounters” with works from its collection, will be shown on the museum’s first floor.

The announcement highlights four works by artists represented in the collection: Tracey Emin’s ‘Ruhunu Tutmak’, Hans Op de Beeck’s ‘Uyuyan Kız’, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin’s ‘TREMOR, RUMOUR, HOOVER’, and Julian Opie’s ‘Payetli Elbiseyle Dans Eden Ann’. The museum framed the display as an opportunity to see these works in a renewed context within its collection galleries.

İstanbul Modern, based in Istanbul, is one of Türkiye’s major contemporary art institutions and regularly uses its social media channels to share updates on exhibitions and collection presentations. In this case, the museum’s announcement focused on the artworks themselves rather than offering further curatorial detail, with the post emphasizing the combination of artists and the date of public access.

Tracey Emin, Hans Op de Beeck, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin and Julian Opie each come from distinct artistic contexts, and the works named in the announcement reflect that range. Emin is represented by ‘Ruhunu Tutmak’, Op de Beeck by ‘Uyuyan Kız’, Alptekin by ‘TREMOR, RUMOUR, HOOVER’, and Opie by ‘Payetli Elbiseyle Dans Eden Ann’. The museum did not provide additional information in the post about installation format, interpretive programming or whether the works are newly acquired or newly reinstalled.

The display is scheduled to open to visitors on 8 September. İstanbul Modern’s post specified only that the exhibition will be on the museum’s first floor, where it will present these works from the collection as new encounters for audiences.