Galeri / Miz hosts the group exhibition Dönüş from 9 December 2025 to 9 January 2026.
The exhibition brings together works by Beyza Boynudelik, Delal Eken, Huri Kiriş, and Seydi Murat Koç, each produced through distinct creative processes, techniques, and material approaches.
Kehre is a German word that translates directly as “turn” or “reversal.” In a philosophical context, Heidegger employs this term as a pivotal moment within his thinking on “being and time.” According to Heidegger, Western thought has cultivated a tendency to instrumentalise nature and being by placing the human at the centre of all meaning. This stance forms the foundations of modernity and the age of reason. Heidegger uses Kehre to describe a shift in this trajectory—a moment in which the human reverses their relationship with being. This turning signifies a passage from a human-centred gaze to a being-centred awareness, an effort to move beyond modern rationality and to contemplate being on its own terms. In this moment, the human is no longer the one who controls being, but the one who bears witness to it.
With modernity, humanity stepped into an era governed by rationality—often at odds with its own internal rhythms. The progressive temporality of reason began to surpass the capacity to view the world from within nature’s own dynamic logic. Nature became objectified within the human cognitive map; it was defined, interpreted, measured, categorised, and transformed for human purposes.
Within this framework, the exhibition Dönüş invites viewers to reflect on the delicate threshold between nature and the human, progress and disappearance, structure and collapse. By centring this relationship, it encourages contemplation on the connections between life forms and civilisation. The exhibition explores the boundaries of an understanding in which humans and nature exist within the same shared metabolism. While questioning the hierarchical relationship between the two, it refrains from treating nature as either a surface to be represented or a space to be romanticised; instead, it focuses on nature’s autonomous order and its inherent energy.
The four participating artists make this conceptual ground visible in distinct ways, each prompting a reconsideration of the modern human’s position in relation to nature.
