Common Ground

2025–2026

Common Ground

Artists
Antonio Cosentino Devrim Karakuş Eda Polat Ercan Sert Ferhat Yüksekbağ Hale Işık Hayri Ağaoğlu Helin Kurt Mehmet Anik Nesrin Sağlam Sema Maşkılı Şeyma Barut Zeynep Özdemir
Date December 1, 2025 – January 10, 2026

A comprehensive selection bringing together painters from different generations in the timeless meeting space of art.

The Wall Art Gallery's exhibition titled "Common Ground" presents a comprehensive selection that brings together painters from different generations, reminding us that art is a timeless meeting place.

The selection creates a rich common ground where different stylistic approaches converge. The exhibition provides a significant opportunity to observe the works of painters from different generations together, allowing for a concrete tracking of intergenerational ways of seeing and perceiving.

Artistic production forms the fundamental basis for perceiving the world and engaging with it, filtered through personal experiences and transferred into artistic practice. The viewer can directly observe how historical and ideological understandings shape the thought structures of painters as they construct their approaches, and how these structures influence their ways of seeing and perceiving.

These circumstances, which are influential in the emergence of artistic understandings, make visible both how artists are affected by them and the contrasts and proximities between their approaches when different generations are viewed together. The exhibition, encourages reflection on the sources that nourish each painter's artistic construction process, while bringing together similar or divergent artistic approaches that emerge across different generations.

The exhibition also offers a "common ground" to the viewer. Works from different periods, perspectives, and intensities are reinterpreted through the viewer's own experiences.

“Common Ground” is not merely an exhibition that brings together the works of 13 painters; it creates a broad space where different times, sensibilities, and forms of production intersect. This space, makes visible the dynamic continuity of art across generations and its persistence amidst change .

The exhibition invites the viewer to a common gathering to witness how vibrant and dynamic a dialogue space the painting tradition offers.