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This article is about SALT, a cultural institution in Istanbul. For the SALT treaty, see Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. For the mineral, see salt.
SALT
Interior of SALT Galata
Established2011
LocationSALT Beyoğlu
Istiklal Cd. No:136
Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Turkey
SALT Galata
Bankalar Cd. No:11
Karaköy, Istanbul
Turkey
FounderVasif Kortun, Garanti Bank
Websitesaltonline.org

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. 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. 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.

Exhibition spaces

The Imperial Ottoman Bank headquarters in 1896

SALT has three exhibition spaces, all owned by Garanti Bank: the former headquarters of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Galata, Istanbul; a former apartment block, the Siniossoglou Apartments, in Beyoğlu, Istanbul; and a former guest-house of the Ottoman Bank in Ulus, Ankara.

Exhibitions and Projects

In 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 .

References

  1. ^ Suzy Hansen (10 February 2012). The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble The New York Times. Accessed May 2016.
  2. Art boom: Greater importance is being placed on arts and culture. In: The Report: Turkey 2012. Oxford: Oxford Business Group. Accessed May 2016.
  3. ^ (8 April 2011) Garanti Bank's SALT sets out to become Turkey's biggest cultural institute. Today's Zaman. Archived 20 October 2014.
  4. Confederation – L'Internationale. L'Internationale. Accessed May 2016.
  5. Erkan Aktug (4 April 2013). Ankara'nın da Salt'ı var (in Turkish). Radikal. Accessed April 2017.
  6. "HE WAS WORKING ON A PROJECT IN ORDER TO OPEN A WATERMELON EXHIBITION | SALT". saltonline.org. Retrieved 11 November 2022.

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