Gülsün Karamustafa | Resim Sergisi | Painting Exhibition | 🟦 17.09.2026
PAINTING EXHIBITION18.09 — 28.10.2026
Opening reception: Thurday, 17 September 2026, 6-8 pm.
Resim Sergisi I GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA | 17 September – 28 October 2026 | BüroSarigedik
“I am a painter. Whenever I found myself in trouble, I took refuge in painting. There came a time that I wished to break my boundaries, I pushed myself beyond the surface of the canvas and did not shy away from making full use of the freedoms offered by contemporary art to express myself; yet, on the other hand, I never gave up painting. It provided me my fundamental freedom. I realize that I have always set out on my artistic journey thinking like a painter.”
— Gülsün Karamustafa
BüroSarıgedik opens Painting Exhibition, a new solo exhibition by Gülsün Karamustafa, on the evening of Thursday, 17 September. The exhibition connects the artist’s painting practice first made visible in her 1978 solo show at Taksim Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul to the present day. Karamustafa once again comes before her audience with paintings alone.
Interweaving personal and historical narratives, Karamustafa has, across a practice spanning more than half a century, addressed questions of migration and displacement, gender, identity, and cultural memory through the lens of modern Türkiye’s experience of nation-building and modernization; she describes herself as a “chronographer” of this history. From the late 1980s onward, she developed a pioneering practice that opened out into installation, video, and textile. Painting, however, remained the intellectual backbone of this body of work never relinquished. The exhibition brings together the artist’s acrylic paintings on canvas, her drawings, and mixed-media works on paper.
Karamustafa was the artist of the Pavilion of Türkiye at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and is the recipient of the Roswitha Haftmann Prize (2021) and the Prince Claus Award (2014). Her works are held in the permanent collections of Tate Modern, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Centre Pompidou, mumok, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among many other leading institutions.
Painting Exhibition is on view at BüroSarıgedik, Istanbul from 18 September to 28 October 2026.
Opening hours: Weekdays, 11.00–18.00.
📍 BüroSarıgedik, Meclis-i Mebusan 31/2, Fındıklı, Beyoğlu
