15 Years at Salt:
Exhibition Posters

Presented on the ground floor of Salt Beyoğlu, this installation brings together an extensive collection of posters produced for Salt’s exhibitions over the past 15 years.

The posters of exhibitions held at Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata constitute an archive that traces the institution’s programming alongside evolving trends in graphic design and the diverse approaches of designers. Shaping the visual identity of the exhibitions, they also offer insight into the production and communication practices of their time.

The contributions of the designers who created these posters form an important part of the visual record of the institution’s exhibition history. With gratitude to all the designers.

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2011–2012
Project Projects (today Wkshps)
•  Modern Essays
•  “I am not a studio artist”
•  Foto Galatasaray
•  Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753–1914
•  The Making Of Beyoğlu
•  Becoming Istanbul
•  İstanbul Eindhoven-SALTVanAbbe
•  It was a time of conversation
•  Surrounded by the Uninhabitable
•  Translated By
•  Hassan Khan
•  The Performance of Modernity: ATATÜRK KÜLTÜR MERKEZİ, 1946-1977

2013–2017 
Daniska (Pemra Ataç Açıktan, Burcu Tokatli, Mutena Sezgin, Erkul Yazgan, Ümit Kınoğlu, Larissa Araz, Çağan Karaağaç, Aksel Ceylan, Mehmet Akçakoca, Önder Dündar, Kemalcan Başaran, Gökçe Işıl Şen, Umut Geldiay, Gizem Şengüler, Seda Yıldız)
•  1+8
•  Modern Turkey’s Discovery of the Ottoman Heritage: The Ali Saim Ülgen Archive
• “Scared of Murals”
• Trespassing Modernities
• 太平天國/Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters
• subREAL
• One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
• A Promised Exhibition
• Crowds and Power
• Rabih Mroué
• Disobedience Archive (The Park)
• You don’t go slumming
• GLOBAL TOOLS 1973-1975: Towards an Ecology of Design
• Dismantling the Archive: Representation, Identity, Memory in an Ottoman Family
• Into the Country
• From England with Love, İsmail Saray
• SUMMER HOMES: Claiming the Coast
• Rainbow in the Dark
• Akram Zaatari
• Dinamo Mesken
• End of Dreams
• A Century of Centuries
• They
• Esra Ersen – Antonio Cosentino
• Every inclusion is an exclusion of other possibilities
• Lost Shadows
• How did we get here
• Apricots from Damascus — Ali Emre Doğramacı
• Painter Sabiha Rüştü Bozcalı
• Outside the sentence there was a city
• Empty Fields
• Migrating Spaces
• One and the Many
• Emre Hüner – Joanna Rajkowska
• Who Throws Whom Overboard?
• Zeyno Pekünlü
• The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition
• Archive Dreaming
• Mouth to Mouth
• Commissioners’ Exhibition — Ali Emre Doğramacı

2018
• Thursday Cinema — Resul Geniş
• Virtual Archive — Özgür Şahin
• Urban Inter­media: City, Archive, Narrative — Harvard Mellon
• Bureau of Unspeci­fied Services — Erkan Armutçu
• Conti­nuity Error — Vahit Tuna
• The Universe Flickers — Eren Su Kibele Yarman
• Yılmaz Zenger — Özgür Şahin
• Idealist School, Productive Studio — Christopher Çolak

2019
• Prisoners of Correct History — Studio Pul
• Mihri: A Migrant Painter of Modern Times — Daniska
• Replica of the Original — Erman Yılmaz
• Forward, March! — Smool Studio
• Our Blissful Souvenirs — Daniska

2020
• bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away. Istanbul — Smool Studio
• And Therefore A Philistine — 9-16 
• Between Empires, Beyond Borders — Gökçe Genç

2021
• The Sequential — Cem Dinlenmiş
• CLIMAVORE: Seasons Made to Drift — Eren Su Kibele Yarman
• The Skin, Body, and I — Gökçe Genç

2022
• Into the Unknown — Ecem Ergin
• The 90s Onstage — Alametifarika

2023
• No Further Records — Cem Dinlenmiş
• In the Realm of Three Inland Seas — Onur Yazıcıgil
• Architectural Education in Turkey — Timuçin Ünan

2024
• Notes on Air — 2050+
• Designer’s Note — Fol
• Let Us Go Back to the Beginning — Emirhan Altuner
• Translated into Socialism — Emirhan Altuner

2025
• Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program — Özge Güven
• The Lives of Animals — PATTU
• Anatolian Plant Legacy — Emirhan Altuner
• Dark World — Emirhan Altuner
• We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s — Wiseslang
• Is this our last chance? — Informal Projects

2026
• Epipe — Okay Karadayılar
• Subsoil — Okay Karadayılar
• Trash — Emirhan Altuner
• Breaking Through a Dam — Amir Jamshidi
• 80 Years of Tomorrows — PATTU
• Across the Seas: Özer Kabaş and His Times — Fol

Designed by Project Projects (now Wkshps), the Kraliçe typeface served as Salt’s identity system from 2011 to 2022. New designers were regularly invited to reinterpret the typeface: Åbäke, Alpkan Kırayoğlu, Cem Eskinazi, Channel Studio, Dries Wiewauters, ECAL/Anna Bitzer, İpek Erdöl, Khajag Apelian, Ömer Faruk Güven, Sarp Sözdinler, Sulki & Min, Sueh Li Tan, and Thirst.