Istanbul gains Olivo Barbieri’s first solo exhibition in Türkiye on September 19, 2026, a show that includes a newly commissioned series reframing nine ancient Turkish cities. Curated by Dr. Fırat Arapoğlu, Olivo Barbieri: Time Space Geometry assembles works from five major series spanning more than four decades, tracing the photographer’s shifts from archaeological sites and modern urban scenes to waterfalls, the Alps, and Capri.
The exhibition studies how scale, viewpoint, and optical intervention alter what viewers take as a place, memory, or fact. Barbieri’s new photographs, presented for the first time in the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, render familiar landscapes both recognizable and unfamiliar, prompting questions about how locations are seen, remembered, and reconstructed through the camera’s interventions.
Running in parallel, Haunted, curated by Dr. Kumru Eren, gathers works from Borusan Contemporary’s collection that address how computation changes what we call an image. The show brings together works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Memo Akten, teamLab, Quayola, Zimoun, DRIFT, Marco Brambilla, and Daniel Canogar, and includes works on paper by Kemal Önsoy. Rather than treating new technologies as neutral tools, Haunted considers artificial intelligence, algorithms, and data systems as active forces shaping the images through which reality is produced, perceived, and remembered.
Presented together at Borusan Contemporary, the two exhibitions stage a conversation between traditional photographic practices and digital image cultures, asking visitors to reassess where photographic truth ends and constructed, computational reality begins. Both shows open on September 19, 2026. For more information, visit borusancontemporary.com.
