CURATOR
Makbule Merve Uca
Sadberk Hanım Museum

Ars Apodemica constructs its narrative around journeys to Ottoman territories across a broad time span, from the late fifteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century, approaching these travels through the motivations behind them. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Koç Group, the exhibition, composed of a selection of works from the Sadberk Hanım Museum and the Ömer Koç Collections, centers on travelogues that consider travel not merely as a change of place, but as a deliberate practice of selection and recording. Beyond these travelogues, paintings reflecting the world of the period and objects related to the Ottoman geography also appear in the exhibition as integral parts of this visual and intellectual process of production.