Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art

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Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art is a private collection museum, founded by Sevda and Can Elgiz in 2001. Formerly, under the name of 'Proje4L-Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art', the space provided three years of useful exposure for the works of established and emerging artists, in order to encourage wide spread progressive developments throughout the Turkish contemporary art scene. The museum has subsequently changed its name and format in order to accommodate essential works from 'The Elgiz Collection'.
In January 2009 the Museum has moved to its new premises in Maslak and continues its activities with the same mission.

The dual objective of the 'Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art' is to facilitate the globalization of contemporary Turkish art, whilst familiarizing the viewing public with a wealth of important international art. By combining high quality work executed by established and emerging artists of Turkish origin with that of well regarded international artists the Museum ensures the effective promotion of Turkish contemporary culture. Through this eclectic, important collection, which illustrates over fifteen years of development in contemporary art, both domestically and abroad, the Museum demonstrates the significance and vitality of Turkish art, while offering people the golden opportunity to view major international art, rarely seen before in Turkey.

'Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art' organizes lectures and seminars in its conference space by inviting international collectors to share their enthusiasm and their experiences in collecting art.

Another feature of the Museum is the Project Room, ' Artvarium ' which is reserved for guest artists to undertake temporary exhibitions.

Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art is open from 10:00 - 17:00, Wednesday to Friday; from 10:00 - 16:00 on Saturday; and on Tuesday by appointment.

No Entrance Fee Required

represented artists

Doug Aitken      Alaettin AKSOY      Mustafa Ata      TOMUR ATAGÖK      Ertugrul Ates      Ali Atmaca      Habip Aydogdu      Balkan Naci Islimyeli      Kezban Arca BATIBEKI      Bedri BAYKAM      Tine Benz      Olivier Blanckart      Peter Bonde      Tülay Börtecene      Daniele Buetti      Fernando CANOVAS      Ergin Cavusoglu      Loris Cecchini      Adnan Coker      Stephen Dean      Burhan Dogancay      Tracey Emin      Jan Fabre      Friederike Feldmann      Eric Fischl      Günther Förg      Candeger FURTUN      Kendell Geers      Piero Gilardi      Gilbert & George      Fausto Gilberti      Robert Gligorov      Nan Goldin      Mehmet Güleryüz      Mehmet Gün      GÜN      Özlem Günyol      Selma GÜRBÜZ      Hasim Nur Gürel      Peter Halley      Seda Hepsev      Meriç HIZAL      Rebecca Horn

Ergin INAN      Yediler Iskender      Çerkes KARADAG      Gülsün Karamustafa      Yasemin Özcan KAYA      Azade Köker      Barbara Kruger      Mustafa KULA      Sol LeWitt      Won Ju Lim      Michael Lin      Roman LIPSKY      Fabian Marcaccio      Paul McCarthy      Jonathan Meese      Sarah Morris      Paul Morrison      KEMAL ÖNSOY      Ahmet Oran      Abdurrahman ÖZTOPRAK      Lea Asja Pagenkemper      Bruno Peinado      Neriman Polat      Lisa Ruyter      David Salle      Julian Schnabel      Cindy Sherman      Thomas Struth      Hiroshi Sugito      Güngör Taner      Hale Tenger      David Tremlett      Ömer Uluc      Alp Tamer Ulukilic      TIM WHITE - SOBIESKI      Johannes Wohnseifer      Anne Wölk      Yigit Yazici      Senol YOROZLU      M. Zahit-Büyükisliyen      Luca Zampetti