Following the travels of Jules Verne’s stubborn tobacco merchant Kéraban around the coast of the Black Sea, the Istanbul based artist Hüseyin B. Alptekin intended to gather artists, curators, musicians, architects, historians and scientists to board a boat leaving from İstanbul, following the route of Kéraban and anchoring back in İstanbul again after making a full circle around the Black Sea, stopping at ports of Varna, Constanta, Odessa,…

Democratic Luxury / Demokratik Lüks Thomas Büsch Rampa Istanbul presents the first posthumous gallery show of Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin on September 2 on the occasion of the 14th Istanbul Biennial. The exhibition brings together over 45 works produced during the two decades on either side of the new millennium, including a selection of studies, drawings and notes from the Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin archive. In 2007, he represented Turkey in the 52nd…

Related Events Kyiv chicken cutlet by Takeshi Ito Thomas Büsch Very nice sculpture park-they made this for against buildup shopping mall. Church, craft street, Ukrainian food:) Kyiv chicken cutlet should be wet by batter.   [widgetkit id=11562] Photos by Takeshi Ito on his trip to the Ukraine Takeshi Ito has been studying in Prague since then he is a travelling artist, Istanbul, Chisinau, Kyiv. He continues to pursue his theme of “passing…