The ArtıKÜME Art Support Program aims to create space for the production processes of artists from different disciplines and to evaluate their works within a broader intellectual and aesthetic framework. In this respect, the ArtıKÜME 2026 selection is not merely an exhibition, but a meeting point where the relationship, thought, and search between the future and the present become visible.
With this support, the approval of Nurdun Unus's project in the Curation field, along with Şeref Yeter, provides opportunities for a total of 6 artists to open exhibitions in different disciplines. Unus, who continues his work on the concepts of spatial perception, interpersonal communication, and displacement through shared ideas and actions, brings his artistic research area to a curatorial platform in this work. The project is shaped by the question of how the same themes can be multiplied by different artists through various disciplines and narrative forms. In this respect, it is not merely an exhibition arrangement; it is considered a multi-layered process of thinking and collaborative production woven around space, memory, and encounters.
The selection, created in this context, includes artists affected by the February 6th earthquakes and continuing their productions in the earthquake zone: Şeref Yeter, Eren Kara, Yusuf Can Sadık, Hatice Atamış, Kader Kurtgöz, and Pınar Polat. The artist selection was determined based on productions that establish a connection with the theme at visual, conceptual, and narrative levels. Furthermore, priority was given to the works of independent artists affected by the earthquake, aiming both to support these productions and to make them more visible within the culture and arts ecosystem.
In this respect, Echoes in the Void: A Paradox of Proximity is significant not only as an exhibition focused on results, but also as a project that develops around solidarity, visibility, spatial memory, and ways of thinking together.
Şeref Yeter, by being included in this selection, opens a door to the future with New Media and Digital System tools in his ongoing art practice. His five works included in the selection utilize different modeling and artificial intelligence tools based on the Artivive program, offering a different touch to the perception of reality through digital display only. Yeter, who transforms the critical language of blurring the line between reality and virtuality into pictorial expression, suggests that true pleasure and emotion reside not in the virtual world, but in the real, physical environment. You can visit the exhibition until June 17th.
Curator;
Nurdan UNUS
nurdanunus443@gmail.com
Exhibition Venue Information
Karaköy Palas – Karaköy/Istanbul
April 25 – June 17, 2026
ArtıKÜME Art Foundation