ABOUT

In order to provide a space for the display of video art, Bilsar had transformed of its headquarter space into a non-profit video art-focused art venue. The first floor of the Bilsart is dedicated to exhibitions for Bilsart Shop, an online sales platform that focuses on presenting art pieces produced using digital media and sharing them with a wide audience in a digital environment. Also Petra Roasting Co. is located in the entrance area of the building.

Since 2018, Bilsart has hosted 136 exhibitions featuring contemporary video artworks, along with works in different practices and video productions. The program changes every 15 days, and art talks accompany each exhibition.

Within this dynamic exhibition program, Bilsart hosts collectors’ selections, curatorial projects, collaborative exhibitions with art initiatives/galleries and parallel screenings with other contemporary art disciplines. Located in Istanbul’s contemporary art route Beyoğlu Şişhane, Bilsart opens each exhibition with an artist talk event and archives all art talks on Bilsart İstanbul Youtube channel.

Together with the SENKRON team, Bilsart has been the pioneer organizing ‘Synchronized Video Art Exhibitions’ which take place in 2021 and 2022 with the participation of many art institutions and organizations across Turkey.

Bilsart provides production support for the completion of the video project of 1 artist selected through the “Open Call for Video Artworks” program announced in 2020, 2022 and 2024. Bilsart invites artists working on video art to apply in line with the conditions of participation; In addition to providing production support to the video project determined as a result of the evaluation of the Selection Committee with this call, the completed project is exhibited at Bilsart. One edition of the work is included in Bilsar Collection.

Bilsart is closed on every January 1, religious and national holidays.

TEAM

Selman Bilal – Bilsar Chairman & CEO

Ceren Taşkent Acarol – Bilsar Creative Director

Gizem Öğüt – Bilsar Art Project Manager

Emir Akhasanoğlu – Bilsar Art Project Assistant

Mahmut Uğur Çeker – Bilsar IT Manager