Arthere

Exhibition Title: “Unrolled”

“Unrolled” explores how time, space, and memory unfold and reshape our perceptions, connections, and experiences. Through scrolls, copper-wire installations, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition reflects on personal transformation and the interplay between universal elements and Turkish culture.

At the center of the exhibition are two large scrolls of transparent paper. “Unrolled Together”, created with my daughter, invites viewers to interact by unrolling sections to reveal layers of color and narrative, symbolizing shared experiences and evolving memories. “Unrolled”, the second scroll, offers a more solitary reflection on how our personal perceptions deepen over time.

Complementing the scrolls is “Do You Feel the Warmth”, an installation made from hand-braided copper wire, interwoven with photographs from Istanbul, Antalya, Pamukkale, and Cappadocia, alongside familiar objects such as plastic water bottles, cezves (Turkish coffee pots), and handmade Turkish lamps created with my daughter. Copper, a conductor of warmth and energy, symbolizes the connections between people, places, and memories, bridging the universal and the personal.

The exhibition also includes “Have We Met?”, a series of 77 street cat portraits. Revered in Turkish culture for their resilience, these cats serve as metaphors for adaptation, survival, and our evolving relationships with place and memory. They challenge viewers to consider if we have crossed paths before, offering a fresh perspective on connection.

“Unrolled” invites viewers to reflect on how distance and time shape the stories we carry, finding warmth and meaning in the process of unrolling and reconstructing our memories.

Oppertunity for artists from middle east.

Dear Artist,
As a part of Good Grief Studios in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) we are organising a
community global art exhibition that seeks to capture personal artistic responses to the
current circumstances in your country.
We are excited to invite you to submit an artwork to participate in this exhibition. We want
your voice to resonate across continents and be heard in our tiny city, connect and give a
visual representation from our friends on the other side of the planet.
Your artworks will be printed and displayed for sale in our gallery at Good Grief, with all
profits returned to you via PayPal or Wise. Each poster will be sold for $35AUD, with editions
limited to 15 copies.
We look forward to seeing how you express your voice through your art and connecting with
you through this global exchange.
If you are interested please send us a digital copy of your artwork in jpg (minimum 300dpi,
16.5 x 23.4 inches, 420 x 594 mm) and a brief description. The piece can be a new creation
or an existing work which will be presented in poster form.
If you’re interested please let me know by the 26th of August.
Submission Deadline: 13th September 2024.
I know it is a very quick turn around, please feel free to ask any questions at all, we would
love to have you on board!
Many thanks, Rosie
as part of Good Grief Artist Run Initiative

We wish to invite you to the opening of the gallery, “Mental Art Heals” by Lou Lim.

Lou Lim, a licensed mental health counsellor and registered expressive arts therapist,

Explore with Lou and the participants of his stress management and trauma groups how they navigate mental health, healing from the trauma of the earthquake in 2023, and manage day-to-day anxieties using expressive arts therapy.

The gallery here represents the work and insights participants had in understanding their day-to-day anxieties and held trauma about the earthquake in Feb, 2023 as well as insights Lou gained in his time as an expressive therapist in Istanbul over his 3 month residency culminating into this gallery. He hopes that viewers of this gallery will gain the ability to talk about their mental health in their communities and find their artistic voice in the process to work through their mental health needs in shared community.

Welcome our new artist in residence Emmanuel Moysan:

Aarp (electronic music / FR)
Is a history / geography teacher and a musician. His work focuses on sonic textures, space and pastiching a wide variety of musical genres. his residency in our space will be an occasion to immerse himself in a new environment with enough time to explore new sonic possibilities through Max/Msp and PureData.
artehreistanbul will offer him a good setting within its network of sound artists to expand his creativity and collaboration.

Welcome our new resident Jay Lee, Describing her practice she says :
My work is evolving towards integrating local materials and narratives into my installations, aiming to create pieces that resonate with the specific cultural and environmental context of their creation. This ongoing exploration seeks to deepen the dialogue between the self and the surrounding world, challenging the conventional boundaries of home and identity.
At Arthereistanbul, I will explore the multifaceted concept of home through the lens of cultural heritage, migration, and personal memory, incorporating traditional Turkish crafts and materials. I aim to create a visual and tactile exploration of belonging, examining how the spaces we inhabit and the narratives we carry shape our understanding of home. It will be more special as it will involve participation of my teenage daughter who's shaping her own identity and serendipitous encounters I will meet in Istanbul.

Open call for the 8th edition of the English Poetry Open Mic to be held on Sunday 30th June 2024 at 16:00. This is a special edition as our original host Yazig will be joining us and the event will be followed by a closing reception of our current exhibition "Whispers of the Urban Snails"
by Katharina Briksi

.... English bellow ...

TRAVMA BELİRTİLERİNİ AZALTMAK İÇİN DIŞAVURUMCU (EKSPRESİF) SANAT TERAPİSİ
Lou Lim, LMHC, REAT
•DIŞAVURUMCU (EKSPRESİF) SANAT TERAPİSİ
Görsel sanat, müzik, dans, yazma ve drama gibi yaratıcı metodların kullanılmasıyla mental sağlığı yönetmeye yardımcı olur. 8 veya 80 yaşında olun, herkes yaratıcılığı deneyimler ve bu yaratıcılık ruh sağlığınızı yönetmede yardımcı olabilir. Katılmak için bir sanatçı olmanıza gerek yoktur. Sadece yeni şeyler denemeye istekli olmanız yeterlidir..
•GRUP TERAPİSİ
Bir veya daha fazla terapistin küçük bir grup danışanı bir arada tedavi ettiği bir psikoterapi türü.
•TRAVMA
Çok stresli, korkutucu veya üzücü olaylar yaşadığımızda ve bunlarla başa çıkmak veya kontrol etmek zorunda kaldığımızda
meydana gelir. Bu, tek bir olay veya uzun bir süre boyunca devam eden bir olay olabilir. Hayatımızda çoğumuz, travmatik olarak değerlendirilebilecek bir olay yaşamaktayız.
•ÜCRETSİZ TERAPİ GRUBU
Bu yaz, Türkiye ve Suriye'deki depremlere odaklanarak travma belirtilerini yönetmeyi ve öğrenmeyi keşfetmek için lisanslı bir mental sağlık danışmanı ve ifade sanatları terapisti Lou'ya katılın. Katılımcıların eserlerinin bir sanat sergisiyle tamamlanmasıyla, Kadıköy'de ruh sağlığı hakkında diyalogu teşvik edeceğiz.
Bu kurs, yetişkinlerin travmanın ne olduğunu anlamalarına ve bunu işlemeleri için yollar geliştirmelerine yardımcı olmak için benzersiz bir yaklaşım sunmaktadır, aynı zamanda travma nedeniyle istenmeyen duygular/reaksiyonları yönetme becerileri geliştirir. Grup terapisi, danışanların üzerine anlaştığı sözlü tartışma, sanat yapma ve diğer yaklaşımları içerecektir. Kurs İngilizce olacaktır. Talep üzerine tercüman bulunmaktadır.
NE ZAMAN: Her Pazartesi, 18:00-20:00, yedi hafta boyunca (24/06, 01/07, 08/07, 15/07, 22/07, 29/07, 05/08) ArtHereIstanbul, Kadıköy'de
SERGİ: Ağustos 2024, ArtHereIstanbul
Katılımınız için [email protected] adresinden bizimle iletişime geçebilirsiniz. (Lou'nun hazırlıklarını yapmasına yardımcı olması amacıyla mailden anket yönlendirilecektir.)
QR KOD üzerinde daha fazla bilgi edinebilirsiniz.

EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
FOR ADDRESSING TRAUMA SYMPTOMS
Lou Lim, LMHC, REAT
•EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
the use of creative methods like visual art, music, dance, writing, and drama to help manage mental health. It doesn’t matter if you’re 8 years old or 80 years old, everyone experiences creativity and that creativity can help manage your mental health.
You don’t have to be an artist to participate. Just have a willingness to try new things.
•GROUP THERAPY
a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group.
•TRAUMA
when we experience very stressful or frightening events that are difficult to cope with or events that are out of our control. It could be one incident, or an ongoing event that happens over a long period of time. Most of us will experience an event in our lives that could be considered traumatic.
•FREE THERAPY GROUP
Join Lou, a licensed mental health counselor and expressive art therapist in exploring and learning how to manage trauma symptoms (with a focus on the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria in 02/2024) this summer. We will finish the sessions with an art show of the participants' work to encourage dialogue about mental health in Kadıköy.
This course in English offers a unique approach to helping adults understand what trauma is and ways to process it while developing skills to manage unwanted feelings/reactions due to trauma. Group therapy will include conversations, art-making, and other methods clients agree on in future sessions. Translator available on request.
WHEN: Mondays from 6-8pm for seven weeks (06/24, 07/01, 07/08, 07/15, 07/22, 07/29, 08/05) at ArtHereIstanbul, Kadıköy
EXHIBITION: August 2024, ArtHereIstanbul
Contact us at [email protected] to get the questionnaire to help Lou prepare for your participation - more info on the QR CODE

. . . . . english bellow

KAYGI BELİRTİLERİNİ AZALTMAK İÇİN DIŞAVURUMCU (EKSPRESİF) SANAT TERAPİSİ
Lou Lim, LMHC, REAT
•GRUP TERAPİSİ
Bir veya daha fazla terapistin küçük bir grup danışanı bir arada tedavi ettiği bir psikoterapi türü.
•DIŞAVURUMCU (EKSPRESİF) SANAT TERAPİSİ
Görsel sanat, müzik, dans, yazma ve drama gibi yaratıcı metodların kullanılmasıyla mental sağlığı yönetmeye yardımcı olur. 8 veya 80 yaşında olun, herkes yaratıcılığı deneyimler ve bu yaratıcılık ruh sağlığınızı yönetmede yardımcı olabilir. Katılmak için bir sanatçı olmanıza gerek yoktur. Sadece yeni şeyler denemeye istekli olmanız yeterlidir.
•KAYGI
Korku, endişe ve huzursuzluk hisleridir. Terleme, huzursuzluk ve gerginlik hissi yaratabilir ve hızlı bir kalp atışına neden olabilir. Bu, stresin normal bir tepkisi olabilir. Örneğin, iş yerinde zor bir problemle karşılaştığınızda, bir test almadan önce veya önemli bir karar vermeden önce endişe hissedebilirsiniz.
•ÜCRETSİZ TERAPİ GRUBUNA UĞRAYIN
Bu yaz, günlük streslerden kaynaklanan kaygı belirtilerini yönetmeyi ve öğrenmeyi keşfetmek için lisanslı bir mental sağlık danışmanı ve ifade sanatları terapisti olan Lou'ya katılın. Bu seri, katılımcıların çalışmalarının yer alacağı bir sanat sergisiyle tamamlanacak ve ruh sağlığı hakkında diyalogu teşvik edecektir.
Bu kurs, yetişkinlere kaygının ne olduğunu anlamalarına ve işlemelerine yardımcı olmak için benzersiz bir yaklaşım sunacak, aynı zamanda kaygı nedeniyle istenmeyen duygular/reaksiyonları yönetme becerilerini geliştirecektir. Grup oturumları, gelecekteki oturumlarda katılımcıların kabul ettiği sözlü tartışma, sanat yapma ve diğer yaklaşımları içerecektir. Kurs İngilizce olacaktır. Talep üzerine tercüman yönlendirilecektir.
NE ZAMAN: Çarşamba günleri, 18:00-20:00, yedi hafta boyunca (26/06, 03/07, 10/07, 17/07, 24/07, 31/07, 07/08)
NEREDE: [the] Dernek, Kağıthane
SERGİ: Ağustos 2024, [the] Dernek - Bize buradan QR Kod ile ulaşabilirsiniz ve Instagram'dan mesaj atabilirsiniz!

EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
FOR REDUCING ANXIETY SYMPTOMS
Lou Lim, LMHC, REAT
•ANXIETY
feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness. It might cause you to sweat, feel restless and tense, and have a rapid heartbeat. It can be a normal reaction to stress. For example, you might feel anxious when faced with a difficult problem at work, before taking a test, or before making an important decision.
•FREE DROP-IN THERAPY GROUP
Join Lou, a licensed mental health counselor and expressive art therapist, in exploring and learning how to manage anxiety symptoms caused by everyday stressors this summer. The series will finish in an art show of participants' work to encourage dialogue about mental health.
This course in English will offer a unique approach to helping adults understand what anxiety is and ways to process it while developing skills to manage unwanted feelings/reactions due to anxiety. Group sessions will include conversation, art-making, and other methods participants agree on in future sessions. Translator available upon request.
WHEN: Wednesdays from 6-8pm for seven weeks (06/26, 07/03, 07/10, 07/17, 07/24, 07/31, 08/07)
WHERE: [the] Dernek, Kağıthane EXHIBITION: August 2024, [the] Dernek
Contact us at QR Code here and message us on Instagram!
•GROUP THERAPY
a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group.
•EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY
the use of creative methods like visual art, music, dance, writing, and drama to help manage mental health. It doesn’t matter if you’re 8 years old or 80 years old, everyone experiences creativity and that creativity can help manage your mental health.
You don’t have to be an artist to participate. Just have a willingness to try new things.

Whispers of the Urban Snails

An exhibition by Katharina Briksi at Arthereistanbul

June 27, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Opening hours: 12:00 - 20:00

Closing reception: June 30th, 6:00 PM
featuring snacks and drinks

I rush to the ferry terminal in Karaköy to catch the boat. The streets are busy and noisy. Nevertheless, at my next step, I notice a crackling sound and feel something break beneath my weight. I am startled - did I just crush a snail?
This sensation immediately brings back childhood memories: running through the rain-soaked lawn and streets, accidentally stepping on a snail due to childish recklessness and poor coordination, the sound of the snail shell shattering. But here, amidst the crowd, I glance under my shoe and see that I have merely stepped on a piece of cat food, or maybe a chocolate biscuit? I feel caught off guard and am surprised to realize that even in this gigantic city, my upbringing catches up with me.



Katharina Briksi is currently exploring the sounds and moods of Istanbul. At times, noises from the urban space evoke memories of other places. Situations and moods in Istanbul can be compared to those in rural areas, such as the artists hometown, a village in Austria. Katharina seeks to mimic this phenomenon by creating installations and objects that imitate such a soundscape. These "Sound Souvenirs" are an attempt to approach or capture a mood and make it reproducible. Visitors are invited to participate in this attempt.



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Katharina Briksi tarafından Arthereistanbul’da düzenlenen bir sergi



27 Haziran 2024 - 30 Haziran 2024

Açık Saatler: 12:00 - 20:00

Kapanış resepsiyonu: 30 Haziran, 18:00
Atıştırmalıklar ve içecekler sunulacaktır.



Vapur iskelesine yetişmek için Karaköy’e doğru koşuyorum. Sokaklar kalabalık ve bir o kadar da gürültülü. Yine de, bir sonraki adımda, bir çatırtı duyuyorum ve ayaklarımın altında bir şeyin kırıldığını hissediyorum. Şaşırıyorum, acaba bir salyangozu mu ezdim? Bu duygu bana hemen çocukluğumu hatırlatıyor: yağmurlu çimenler ve sokakların arasında koşuştururken, çocuksu dikkatsizlik ve dengemi kaybetmemden dolayı bir salyangozu ezme, salyangoz kabuğunun kırılma sesi. Ama burada, kalabalığın arasında, ayakkabımın altına bakıyorum ve sadece bir kedi maması parçası veya bir çikolatalı bisküviye basmışım. Hazırlıksız yakalandığımı hissediyorum ve bu devasa şehirde bile, yetişme tarzımın beni bulduğunu fark etmek beni şaşırtıyor.

Katharina Briski şu anda İstanbul’un seslerini ve ruh halini keşfetmekte. Bazen, şehrin içinden gelen gürültüler başka yerlerin anılarını canlandırır. İstanbul’daki durumlar ve ruh halleri, sanatçının doğup büyüdüğü yerdeki, Avusturya’daki bir köydeki kırsal alanların durumlarıyla karşılaştırılabilir. Katharina, bu fenomeni taklit etmeye çalışarak böyle bir ses manzarasını taklit eden enstalasyonlar ve nesneler oluşturur. Bu “Ses Hatıraları”, bir ruh haline yaklaşmayı ve onu çoğaltmayı amaçlar. Ziyaretçiler bu denemeye katılmaya davetlidir.

Current collective-in-residence, Waard Ward, will be hosting a floral arranging workshop on Saturday June the 8th @ 1300-1500 - for Arabic-speaking refugees.

Floral arrangements will be photographed by Waard Ward collaborator Darren Rigo and become part of an exhibition at arthere.

Thank you to our outreach partners, Syria Students Union and our funders, Canada Council for the Arts.

Welcome our collective is residence Waard Ward, Waard Ward is a contemporary arts collective based in Toronto, Canada. We create floral arrangements, build community gardens, support mutual aid networks, and invite newcomers to train as florists and imagine social-entrepreneurial futures.

Waard Ward is collectively led by Syrian florist Abd Al-Mounim, community organizers/Syrian newcomers Hanen Nanaa and Shoruk Alsakni, educator Laura Ritacca, curator/educator Patricia Ritacca, and artist Petrina Ng. We collaborate in floristry, decolonial research, and newcomer support.

Waard Ward's name proposes the idea of a diasporic flower district; "waard" is a romanization of the Arabic word for flower.

Contact: waardwardcollective [at] gmail [dot] com

This resiecny is supported by Canada Council for the Arts

Open call for the 7th edition of the English Poetry Open Mic to be held on Sunday 26th May 2024 at 17:00. Contact: [email protected] if you would like to share your work.

Lou Lim (LMHC, REAT) is a licensed mental health counselor and registered expressive arts therapist wanting to provide free mental health therapy to individuals impacted by the earthquakes in February 2023. He has worked as an expressive arts therapist since 2006 utilizing art, music, dance/movement, creative writing, acting, and performance of all ages to manage and improve their mental health.

Lou wishes to help individuals process the trauma of the recent earthquakes in southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Themes to be explored in the group will include understanding feelings of life before the 2023 earthquakes, how the earthquakes that impacted self/others/community, the role of cultural/spiritual identity in processing trauma, and coping skills to help move forward from the trauma. Ways we will explore these topics will include the use of art therapy, music therapy, dance/movement therapy, poetry therapy, drama therapy, and journaling to work towards creating a body of work consisting of individual contributions into individual processing and group processing of the recent earthquakes.

Ways people can work with Lou are either through
1) in-person group therapy consisting of 6-8 people attending group therapy sessions for 7 weeks or
2) in-person, one-on-one therapy exploring these same themes for 7 weeks. Participants in either setting will navigate these topics using expressive arts therapy and create a body of work that represents their experience followed by an art reception celebrating the installation of the work created.

Supplies for the sessions will be provided by Lou Lim and ArtHereIstanbul and participants are welcome to bring in their own supplies, as interested. To participate in the group or individual therapy, applicants will need to fill out a short application which will be available from May 1st-May 31st with groups starting the week of June 17th, will conclude the week of July 29th, and have an opening art reception the week of August 5th. Artwork created will be returned the week of August 19th.

Questions for screening:

First and Last Name
Age
Gender/Pronouns
Language(s) Spoken (**sessions will be facilitated in English, interpreters can be acquired with notice upon request)
How were you impacted by the earthquakes in Turkey?
If interested in group therapy, choose which time(s) work well for you from the following:
-Monday 6-8pm
-Tuesday 6-8pm
-Wednesday 6-8pm
-Thursday 6-8pm
-Friday 6-8pm
If interested in individual therapy (1 hr/wk increments), choose which time-frame(s) work well for you from the following:
-Monday between 9am-12pm
-Monday between 12-3pm
-Tuesday between 9am-12pm
-Tuesday between 12-3pm
-Wednesday between 9am-12pm
-Wednesday between 12-3pm
-Thursday between 9am-12pm
-Thursday between 12-3pm
-Friday between 9am-12pm
-Friday between 12-3pm
Which location would you prefer: A) an office near Kanyon Mall near Levent Station, B) ArtHereIstanbul in Kadikoy

Please send all above requested info to [email protected] to reserve your spot

Open call for the 6th edition of the English Poetry Open Mic to be held on Sunday 28th April 2024 at 17:00. Contact: [email protected] if you would like to share your work.

about Urban Acoustic Speculations

Akustik Şehir Spekülasyonları | Mimarizm Bireysel işler, kolektif ses çıkarma ve tek bir yerleştirme arasında konumlanan 'Akustik Şehir Spekülasyonları'...

Urban Acoustic Speculations . . . Tr-aşağı kaydırma. . . .
Join us for the first Sound installation of SOU.L project,this Saturday the 30th at 17:00.

Exhibtion will be from 30/03 until 07/04/2024

Five artists working a method for perceptual sound mapping and reproduction within the urban context of arthereistanbul during an intensive residency in March 2024, culminating in this exhibition.
Artists: Beste Öztürk, Merve Ünsal, Neval Tarım, Yekateryna Grygorenko, Zeynep Yılmaz.

Each artist created their own perceptual sound collage based on their experience on a triangular Kadıköy pedestrian island. Material, representation, and methods were determined by each artist, while the duration and compositional rules were set by the group as a whole. The artists value the possibility of experiencing these works together simultaneously. The installation at Arthere is situated somewhere between individual experiences, a collective sounding, and a single installation.

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Akustik Şehir Spekülasyonları
Sanatçılar: Beste Öztürk, Merve Ünsal, Neval Tarım, Yekateryna Grygorenko, Zeynep Yılmaz
30.03–07.04.2024

Arthere İstanbul’da 2024 Mart’ında gerçekleştirilen yoğun misafirlik programı sonucunda beş sanatçı, kentte algısal ses haritalaması ve yeniden üretim için kolektif olarak geliştirdikleri yöntemle bu süreci bir sergiye dönüştürdü.

Her sanatçı, Kadıköy’de üçgen bir yaya adasındaki tecrübesine dayanarak kendi algısal ses kolajını oluşturdu. Malzeme, temsil ve araçlar sanatçı tarafından belirlenirken, süre ve kompozisyon kuralları grup tarafından belirlendi. Grup, bu sesleri aynı anda birlikte deneyimleme ve dinleyebilme olanağına önem verdi. Arthere’daki sergi, bireysel işler, kolektif ses çıkarma ve tek bir yerleştirme arasında konumlanıyor.

ABOUT:
SOU.L / map the city is a short-term residency including mentored workshops which deals with sound as an instrument for contemporary art installation, This project explore the “Futures of Listening”.

This first phase of the Sou.L workshop will culminate in a public presentation of the participants’ projects in Aberdeen University /UK and arthereistanbul / Turkey on the 30th March at 17:00.

Open Mic. Poetry reading event.