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Artrack: contemporary art consultancy, Istanbul and New York

Artist Residency ProgrammeEmelda Sun Club, Antalya · 8–16 June 2026

A new art dialogue between Istanbul and New York.

We center on the artist’s production practices and conceptual research, bringing together different geographies, narratives, and disciplines.

Through exhibitions, residencies, publications, workshops, and international collaborations, we are establishing a sustainable art ecosystem.

Artist Residency Programme

Artrack’s first project brought six artists working across painting, sculpture, ceramics and installation to Emelda Sun Club in Antalya for nine days of collective production. The works met their first audience at a special evening at Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Marmara Sea, and entered the hotel’s collection.

  • Emir Tekkalmaz working on a dark canvas of dancers at the residency studio.

    Emir Tekkalmaz

  • Erman Gürcüm painting the anatomical heart beside the sea at the residency studio.

    Erman Gürcüm

  • Fırat Koç drawing the outline of a portrait on a grey-green canvas.

    Fırat Koç

  • Nida Erdoğan painting the nest, her palette of oil colours beside the easel.

    Nida Erdoğan

  • Su Başkan shaping a large clay form on a banding wheel.

    Su Başkan

  • Yağız Seis painting the roses of his canvas at the residency.

    Yağız Seis

In the studio at Emelda Sun Club, Antalya, June 2026.
Dates
8–16 June 2026
Studio
Emelda Sun Club, Kemer, Antalya
In collaboration with
Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Marmara Sea
Artists
Emir Tekkalmaz, Erman Gürcüm, Fırat Koç, Nida Erdoğan, Su Başkan, Yağız Seis
Launch
Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Marmara Sea, September 2026
Collection
Works acquired for the Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Marmara Sea Collection
Project team
Esra Barlın, founder and art consultant · Hicran Aksöz, project coordinator

Artists

Six artists and the works they made during the residency, now in the Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul Marmara Sea Collection.

  • A greyscale painting of ballet dancers in motion, their figures blurred and repeated across the canvas.

    Emir Tekkalmaz

    b. 1997, Eskişehir

    2026

    Mixed media on canvas

    100 × 120 cm

    Biography

    Painting, lithography, fresco, sgraffito, stained glass, engraving

    Trained at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in the studios of Prof. Nedret Sekban and Dr. Ahmet Umur Deniz, where he began his master’s studies in 2023. Alongside painting he works in lithography, fresco, sgraffito, secco, stained glass and engraving.

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  • An anatomical human heart painted in deep crimson and violet against a flat pink ground.

    Erman Gürcüm

    b. 1992, İzmir

    2026

    Oil on canvas

    100 × 120 cm

    Biography

    Painting

    Studied painting at Doğuş University’s Faculty of Art and Design and completed a master’s in Plastic Arts at Yeditepe University. His compositions return to the vanitas tradition, setting beauty against its opposite to question the transience of life and the desire to possess.

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  • A painting of two dark-haired women against an olive and sand ground, photographed on its stand at the launch evening.

    Fırat Koç

    Residency artist

    Installation view, launch evening, 2026

    Biography

    Painting

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  • A bird’s nest of dry golden straw painted in close detail on a pale ground.

    Nida Erdoğan

    b. 1999, Istanbul

    2026

    Oil on canvas

    100 × 120 cm

    Biography

    Painting, ceramics, sculpture, installation

    Completed her BA in Painting at Namık Kemal University and continues her master’s at Yıldız Technical University’s Institute of Art and Design. Her practice researches memory, the uncanny, transformation and states of being.

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  • A pale, hand-built stoneware sculpture with soft biomorphic curves and an open void at its centre.

    Su Başkan

    b. 1988, Ankara

    Mesafeler, 2026Distances

    Hand-built stoneware, 1200 °C

    50 × 50 × 30 cm

    Biography

    Ceramics, sculpture

    After years in corporate management in Istanbul, she moved to Bodrum to live and work closer to nature and founded her own studio there. She develops biomorphic, organic forms that explore the relationship between time, memory, movement, nature and the human.

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  • Red roses bursting from a blue patterned vase above two figures in black and white who leap across a turquoise ground.

    Yağız Seis

    b. 1997, Istanbul

    Beni güllerimden tanıyacaklar, 2026They Will Know Me by My Roses

    Acrylic on canvas

    100 × 120 cm

    Biography

    Painting, sculpture

    Graduated from the painting department of Istanbul Mimar Sinan Fine Arts High School in 2015 and from Marmara University’s sculpture programme in 2020. He works in painting and sculpture from his studio in Istanbul.

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About

ARTRACK establishes an intercultural bridge between Istanbul and New York, centering on artists’ production practices and conceptual research. By developing innovative projects that bring together artistic narratives and disciplines from different geographies, it creates a new ground for dialogue and collaboration within the field of contemporary art.

Artrack was founded by Esra Barlın, art consultant, and works between Istanbul and New York through exhibitions, residencies, publications, workshops and international collaborations.

To be a leading platform recognized for its artist-centered approach and international projects, creating a sustainable art ecosystem along the Istanbul–New York axis.

Objectives

  • Exhibitions, residencies, production

    To realize original exhibition, residency, and production models that deeply support artists’ creative processes.

  • Collaboration across geographies

    To establish interdisciplinary collaborations both domestically and internationally, bringing together artistic production from different geographies.

  • Publications, panels, workshops

    To organize publications, panels, and workshops that encourage the circulation of artistic production and critical discourse.

  • An open platform

    To build a participatory and transparent platform culture that involves the art audience in the production process.

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