Established 2011 Phone +90 212 377 42 00 Founder Vasif Kortun | Website saltonline.org Date founded 2011 | |
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Location SALT Beyoğlu
Istiklal Cd. No:136
Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Turkey
SALT Galata
Bankalar Cd. No:11
Karaköy, Istanbul
Turkey Address Asmalı Mescit Mahallesi, İstiklal Cd. No:136, 34430 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey Similar SALT Galata, SALT Ulus, Arter, Pera Museum, Istanbul Modern Art Museum | ||
SALT is a Turkish contemporary art institution. It was started by Vasif Kortun and Garanti Bank in 2011, and has exhibition and workshop spaces in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. It combines the previous activities of the Garanti Gallery, the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of the bank. It is one of the six members of L'Internationale, a confederation of European art institutions; the other member institutions are the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, in Slovenia; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, in Spain; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona, also in Spain; the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen in Antwerp, in Belgium; and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.
Gallery spaces
SALT has three gallery spaces, all owned by Garanti Bank: the former headquarters of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Galata, Istanbul; a former apartment block, the Siniossoglou Apartments, in Beyoğlu, Istanbul; and an annexe to the Garanti Bank building in Ulus, Ankara.