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SALT BEYOĞLU
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| CULTURAL CENTRE
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then funicular to Tünel)
Its three floors of exhibition space, bookshop, walk-in cinema and
cafe make SALT Beyoğlu nearly as impressive as its Galata-based sibling. Occupying a
former apartment building dating from the 1850s, it shows the work of both high-profile
and emerging international and local artists.
GALERIST
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| GALLERY
funicular to Tünel)
The most fashionable of the city's commercial galleries and the only one
with a strong international profile, Galerist is owned by architect Melkan Gürsel Taban-
lıoğlu and serious (ie megamoneyed) art collector Taha Tatlıcı. It shows Turkish artists
working in a variety of media. The gallery's second space is located in the rapidly gentri-
fying suburb of Hasköy on the Golden Horn.
ARTER
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| GALLERY
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nicular to Tünel)
Funded by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, this four-floor contemporary-arts
space has been neck-and-neck with the Garanti Bank's SALT cultural centres in the race
for the accolade of most exciting new arts venue in the city. In our view, the result is a tie.
Come here to see shows by Turkish and international artists of the calibre of Mona
Hatoum.
GALERI NEV
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| GALLERY
Karaköy, then funicular to Tünel)
One of the city's oldest and most impressive commercial
galleries, Nev counts many of the country's best-known modernists among its stable of
artists.
ÇİÇEK PASAJI
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| HISTORIC BUILDING
(Flower Passage; İstiklal Caddesi; Kabataş, then funicular to Taksim)
Back when promenading
down the Grand Rue de Pera (now İstiklal Caddesi) was the height of fashion, the Cité de
Pera building was İstanbul's most glamorous address. Built in 1876 and decorated in Se-
