SALT is a Turkish contemporary art institution. It was started by Vasif Kortun and Garanti Bank in 2011, and has exhibition and workshop spaces in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.[1][2] It combines the previous activities of the Garanti Gallery, the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of the bank.[3] It is one of the six members of L'Internationale, a confederation of European art institutions; the other member institutions are the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, in Slovenia; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, in Spain; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona, also in Spain; the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen in Antwerp, in Belgium; and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.[4]
 Interior of SALT Galata | |
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| Established | 2011 |
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| Location | SALT Beyoğlu Istiklal Cd. No:136 Beyoğlu, Istanbul Turkey SALT Galata Bankalar Cd. No:11 Karaköy, Istanbul Turkey |
| Founder | Vasif Kortun, Garanti Bank |
| Website | saltonline |
Exhibition spaces
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SALT has three exhibition spaces, all owned by Garanti Bank: the former headquarters of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Galata, Istanbul;[1] a former apartment block, the Siniossoglou Apartments, in Beyoğlu, Istanbul;[3] and a former guest-house of the Ottoman Bank in Ulus, Ankara.[5]
Exhibitions and Projects
editIn 2012, the artist and curator Didem Özbek staged her project He was working on a project in order to open a watermelon exhibition at Salt Galata, drawing on Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s story Bir Karpuz Sergisi [A Watermelon Exhibition].[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Suzy Hansen (10 February 2012). The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble The New York Times. Accessed May 2016.
- ^ Art boom: Greater importance is being placed on arts and culture. In: The Report: Turkey 2012. Oxford: Oxford Business Group. Accessed May 2016.
- ^ a b [s.n.] (8 April 2011) Garanti Bank's SALT sets out to become Turkey's biggest cultural institute. Today's Zaman. Archived 20 October 2014.
- ^ Confederation – L'Internationale. L'Internationale. Accessed May 2016.
- ^ Erkan Aktug (4 April 2013). Ankara'nın da Salt'ı var (in Turkish). Radikal. Accessed April 2017.
- ^ "HE WAS WORKING ON A PROJECT IN ORDER TO OPEN A WATERMELON EXHIBITION | SALT". saltonline.org. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
External links
edit- Official website
Media related to SALT (institution) at Wikimedia Commons
