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Upcoming Exhibition / Gelecek Sergi
15 - 18 May, 2025
15 - 18 Mayis, 2025
Annette Louise Solakoglu
Photo London 2025
At Photo London 2025, Sule Gazioglu Gallery presents New York-based artist Annette Louise Solakoglu's Ode to Istanbul, a cinematic study of a city shaped by contrast. Capturing Istanbul's layered history and modern pulse in masterful black-and-white, Solakoglu transforms fleeting urban moments into poetic, timeless narratives.
Her series Botanica, premiering at the event, explores themes of impermanence and transformation, capturing both the vitality and ethereal fragility of organic forms.
The exhibition presents two distinct series by Annette Louise Solakoglu—Ode to Istanbul and Botanica. Ode anchors the exhibition with compelling black-and-white scenes of the city, while select Botanica works introduce color and organic forms, creating a bold, dynamic juxtaposition.
Ode to Istanbul is a visual exploration of one of the world's most complex metropolises. Solakoglu's background as a filmmaker brings a distinctive narrative sensibility, urging us to imagine stories beyond the still frames, leading us on mental journeys of personal and collective memories.
Istanbul's deep and vibrant history manifests itself in the present. The series navigates the human and architectural fabric of the city, as Solakoglu's lens intimately captures individuals negotiating its dichotomies in their daily lives—caught between antiquity and modernity, opposing ideologies, and diverse cultures.
Inspired by Turkish literary masters Orhan Veli and Nazim Hikmet, Solakoglu translates their poetic voices into visual form, allowing silence and space to take on meaning. Her intuitive yet precise approach to composition and timing results in a striking aesthetic of tranquility and spaciousness, establishing her as a distinctive voice in contemporary urban photography.
This collection invites viewers to explore their own relationship with urban space and memory, suggesting that cities, like the photographs themselves, are repositories of both personal and collective histories.
Solakoglu's Botanica series reimagines the photogram tradition through scanography, creating a dialogue between nature's ephemerality and digital preservation. Capturing both the vitality and ethereal fragility of organic forms, these works explore themes of impermanence and transformation.
The creative process is tactile choreography: rather than “capturing” light as in traditional photography, Solakoglu orchestrates each specimen's physical relationship to the scanning plane, producing a spectral interplay of color, translucency, and layered depth. Drawing from Dutch Golden Age sensibilities, each composition—both timeless and distinctly contemporary—unfolds as a compelling drama of sculptural forms while revealing the extraordinary architecture of each botanical subject.
In an era of digital impermanence, Botanica acts as both elegy and archive, preserving nature’s transience in luminous imprints.
Exhibition Archives / Sergi Arsivi
Monica Fritz
Out of Place
"Never indulging in the celebration of the “typical” qualities and features of a place, Monica Fritz prefers to wander out of place. In her gaze, the ordinary becomes mysterious, the exotic appears familiar, silences evoke harmony. A commonplace scene, one that could be anywhere, suddenly proclaims itself to belong to that instant where and when the photographer, through light and shade, has captured its essence..
A rhythmic succession of wonders: frame after frame, objects and humans cross paths by coincidence, to discover that they were made for each other. But this is a secret, or the impossible answer to the enigma that binds together Sicily and India, Sana’a and Istanbul, New York, Milan, or other fragments of space and time interrogated by the photographer’s soul."
Professor Paolo Girardelli, Bosphorus University, Art history
"Bulunduğu yerlerin “tipik” özelliklerini ve kendine has yönlerini yüceltmekten daima imtina ediyor Monica Fritz, bunu yapmaktansa alışılmış dışında yerlerde gezinmeyi yeğliyor. Onun bakışında sıradan şeyler gizemli hale geliyor, egzotik dünyalar tanıdık bir çehreye bürünüyor. Sessizlikler ise ahengi çağrıştırıyor. Herhangi bir yeri andırabilecek mekânlar, fotoğrafçının ışıkla ve gölgeyle özlerini yakaladığı anda ve ölçüde aidiyetlerini ilan ediyorlar.
Ritimli bir büyülenişler geçidi bu: her fotoğraf karesinde, yolları tesadüfen kesişen nesneler ve insanlar sanki birbirleri için yaratıldıklarını keşfediyorlar. Fakat bu bir sır, ya da Sicilya’yı ve Hindistan’ı, Sana ve İstanbul’u, New York’u, Milano’yu ve fotoğrafçının ruhuyla sorguladığı daha nice zaman ve mekân adasını birbirlerine bağlayan bir gizemin asla bulunamayacak cevabı".
Profesör Paolo Girardelli, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Sanat Tarihi
Exhibition Archives / Sergi Arsivi
Annette Louise Solakoglu
The Ancient Grounds of Ani
Kadim Topraklar: Ani
“The ruined city near the Armenian border is one of the few places in Turkey where the site is completely untouched, giving the visitor an experience an 18th-century traveller might have known. Fortifiied with walls and a citadel with a palace of the Bagratid kings, it was known as the “city of a thousand and one churches” when it was at its height under the Armenian king Gagik I (990–1020). An earthquake brought it low in 1319.
In July 2016, Ani was added to the Unesco World Heritage List, as a “medieval city [which] combines residential, religious, and military structures, characteristic of a medieval urbanism built up over the centuries by Christian and then Muslim dynasties.”
“Now the monuments of Ani are again receiving the attention of archaeologists, architectural historians and conservator.”
Cornucopia Magazine
Sergi Takvimi
2021 Eylül ayında yine Emirgan’da yer alan ikinci mağazalarını faaliyete geçirerek bir sanat galerisi olarak da hizmet vermeye başlayan Şule Gazioğlu Art & Design, yeni proje ve sergilerle sanatseverlerle buluşuyor.
New York’ta yer alan “Sotheby’s Institute of Art’ta Tasarım ve Dekoratif Sanatlar eğitimi alan Şule Gazioğlu ve Koç Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü mezunu olan Kerem Bilgin tarafından 2020 yılında “Şule Gazioğlu Interiors” adı altında Emirgan’da kuruldu. Tarihten ilham alan, köklü, elektik ve sıcak mekanlar tasarlamayı kendine amaç edinen Gazioğlu ve Bilgin, üç nesildir antika ve sanatsal değer sahibi eserlerin ticaretini yapan uzman bir ailenin genç kuşak temsilcileri.
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