Your unexpected encounter, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s first solo exhibition in Türkiye, reflects the artist’s deep interest in light, colour, perception, movement, geometry, and the environment—the main areas of his experimentation and research. Curated by Öykü Özsoy Sağnak, Nilay Dursun, and Ümit Mesci from the museum’s curatorial team, the comprehensive exhibition features nearly 40 works, including new productions. The selected works also reveal the network of relationships the artist creates between the research topics of his multidisciplinary practice.

The exhibition title underlines Eliasson’s belief that his works are only complete when viewers engage with them. The artist invites visitors to participate in the dynamic process of discovery—an act he considers to be a main component of his works—and encourages them to interpret life and the world they live in from a new perspective. Not only does this exhibition bring to Istanbul key components of Eliasson’s research on form, material, color, and other elements over the course of his thirty-year career, it also debuts new works inspired by the Bosphorus.

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