Art & Culture
Art is part of everyday life at Tersane Istanbul.
Discover an evolving cultural programme that extends across public spaces, hotels, architecture and everyday life through artworks, exhibitions, artist-led projects and the Artist in Residence programme.
Art at Tersane Istanbul
At Tersane Istanbul, art is not confined to a single space; it extends into public areas, architecture and everyday life. Discover works by different artists, temporary installations and site-specific projects across the destination.
Public Art
Juana
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa’s monumental seven-meter-tall sculpture Juana (2025) meets viewers along the waterfront of Tersane Istanbul on the shores of the Golden Horn. Cast in iron, the work marks Plensa’s first public art installation in Istanbul.
Public Art
The State of Desire
Arcangelo Sassolino
Jaume Plensa’s monumental seven-meter-tall sculpture Juana (2025) meets viewers along the waterfront of Tersane Istanbul on the shores of the Golden Horn. Cast in iron, the work marks Plensa’s first public art installation in Istanbul.
Public Art
Tersane Istanbul, Contemporary Istanbul’un Ev Sahibi
Contemporary Istanbul, Türkiye’s international contemporary art fair, has been bringing together artists, galleries, collectors, cultural institutions, and art enthusiasts along the shores of the Golden Horn at Tersane Istanbul since 2021. Each edition extends contemporary art beyond traditional fairgrounds, fostering new dialogues with Tersane Istanbul’s historic architecture, open grounds, and waterfront promenade.
Rixos Tersane Istanbul Art Collection
Spread throughout Rixos Tersane Istanbul, the art collection brings contemporary art into the everyday experience of the hotel. Discover the works, the artists behind them and where they are located across the property.
Rixos Tersane Istanbul Art Collection
Die Bestie und der Souverän
Azade Köker
Azade Köker presents nature not as an uninterrupted whole but through layers, fragments and interventions. “Die Bestie und der Souverän” makes the power relationship between humans and the natural world visible on the surface.
Rixos Tersane Istanbul Art Collection
BB’s Art History Map
Bedri Baykam
Bedri Baykam's “BB’s Art History Map” proposes art history not as a one way chronology but as a broad network of encounters between cultures, periods and competing narratives.
Rixos Tersane Istanbul Art Collection
Cruise
Burçak Bingöl
Burçak Bingöl brings the craft memory of ceramics into contact with one of modern life's most familiar industrial images. “Cruise” reimagines a truck front through ornament, memory and transformation.
Aliée Istanbul Art Collection
Woven throughout Aliée İstanbul, the art collection brings contemporary art into dialogue with architecture, design and hospitality. Discover works by artists from Türkiye and around the world across the hotel’s different spaces.
Aliée Istanbul Art Collection
İçe Dönüş II
Belkıs Balpınar
BELKIS BALPINAR: INTROSPECTION II Belkıs Balpınar’s “Introspection II” brings traditional kilim weaving into dialogue with void, volume and cosmic scale. Areas that remain unwoven become as active in the composition as the threads themselves.
Aliée Istanbul Art Collection
Fernando Chair
Julian Mayor
Julian Mayor’s “Fernando Chair” brings digital design and hand fabrication together in mirror polished stainless steel. The chair deliberately unsettles the boundary between functional furniture and autonomous sculpture.
Aliée Istanbul Art Collection
It’s Better Not to Know
Flavio Cerqueira
Flavio Cerqueira’s “It’s Better Not to Know” uses a young figure with closed eyes to frame not knowing as both self protection and social blindness. The permanence of bronze freezes a fleeting act of avoidance.
Artist in Residence Programme
Aliée İstanbul’s Artist in Residence Programme offers artists space for research, production and new encounters in Istanbul. Developed in dialogue with the destination, each residency creates new connections between artistic practice, history, architecture and place.
Artist in Residence Programme
Immersive Integral Universal Splash I-VIII
Jorinde Voigt
Jorinde Voigt’s eight part “Immersive Integral Universal Splash I-VIII” turns looking from an act of decoding an image into an experience of entering perception itself. Line, colour, gold and notation make the movement of thought visible.
Artist in Residence Programme
Mantra
Mantra
In his site-specific mural created for Aliée, French artist Mantra scales up the butterflies of Istanbul and Türkiye to the proportions of the architecture. Inviting viewers to take a closer look at nature, the work transforms the hotel’s façade into a contemporary observation space celebrating biodiversity.
Artist in Residence Programme
Tornado
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Pascale Marthine Tayou’s “Tornado” transforms rainbow coloured corrugated metal sheets into a storm frozen across the ceiling. A material associated with temporary structures carries the tension between exuberance and approaching change.