"Curated by Christine Tohmé under the title "The Three-Legged Cat," the biennial is envisioned as a three-year process unfolding between 2025 and 2027. The second phase, scheduled for 2026, will focus on establishing an academy and collaborating with local initiatives through a series of public programs. The third and final chapter in 2027 will bring together the accumulated encounters through exhibitions and workshops."
"Christine Tohmé, based in Beirut, Lebanon, is known for her work at the intersection of cultural production, arts education, and community-building. For this edition of Istanbul Biennial, her curatorial framework reflects on self-preservation and futurity while acknowledging the global climate of violence. In her words, "Artmaking is engaged as a counterpoint to erasure, in summoning what has been buried, in generating surplus from loss, and in projecting possible worlds, it becomes a form of testimony and an index of persistence.""
The 18th Istanbul Biennial opens its first phase to visitors and runs until November 23, 2025. Curated by Christine Tohmé as "The Three-Legged Cat," the biennial unfolds as a three-year process from 2025 to 2027 with phases that include an academy, public programs, and culminating exhibitions and workshops. The curatorial framework emphasizes self-preservation, futurity, and artmaking as testimony and persistence in the face of global violence. The program spans eight venues across Beyoğlu and Karaköy, forming a walkable route that integrates artworks with existing architecture while using minimal interventions to respond to the city’s precarious built environment.
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