NEW EXHIBITION | ANAMED’s research project on Phanariot materialities in the Ottoman Empire sees light on 11 March
NEW EXHIBITION | ANAMED’s research project on Phanariot materialities in the Ottoman Empire sees light on 11 March with the exhibition All Phanar Is Here: Household, Neighborhood, Court, and the City.
Curated by Namık Günay Erkal, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, and Haris Theodorelis-Rigas, the exhibition aims to reassemble the fragments of the Phanariots' once-shared rich cultural heritage spreading across the Golden Horn, Wallachia-Moldavia, and the shores of the Bosphorus. Supported by Koç Holding and Vehbi Koç Foundation, and enriched by TED University Department of Architecture and Koç University KARMA XR Lab, the exhibition retraces the Phanariots' footsteps via unexpected routes, rare books, and 3-D immersive reconstructions.
The exhibition brings the audience original paintings and books from the Ömer M. Koç Collection, the IMM Atatürk Library, DAI, the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Orientalist Painting Collection, İAE, Sismanoglio Megaro, and the Koç University Suna Kıraç Library. Through documents, photographs, and drawings compiled from numerous national and international institutions and collections, the 18th-century lives of the Phanariots are made visible to the audience.
Opening its doors on 11 March 2026, the exhibition All Phanar Is Here: Household, Neighborhood, Court, and the City can be visited free of charge at ANAMED, every day except Mondays, between 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM.