Gönül Sen-Menzel and the Artemis Art Center in Istanbul

About the Art Center

The Artemis Art Center (Artemis Sanat Merkezi) is located in Istanbul’s Şişli district, in the lively Osmanbey neighborhood near Halaskargazi Caddesi. For many years it showed painting by Turkish artists – solo exhibitions as well as group shows that the press announced as gatherings of “masters of painting”.

Its exhibitions met with a broad response: daily newspapers such as Yeni Yüzyıl and Son Havadis reported on them, as did interior and culture magazines such as Maison Française, House Beautiful, Art Decor and the Istanbul culture guide sokakTA. The TV channel CINE5 devoted an episode of its art program “Sanat Günlüğü” to one of the exhibitions. In 2001 the center also presented its artists at Ankara’s first art fair, Ankart. Istanbul gallery guides still listed the art center in the 2010s.

Gönül Sen-Menzel at the Artemis Art Center

1996 – Solo Exhibition
From April 3 to 26, 1996, she showed her paintings at the Artemis Art Center. At their center were the people of an oversaturated society and the theme of liberation; bright colors stood for light, liveliness and freedom, dark ones for confinement and limitation. The TV channel CINE5 presented the exhibition in its program “Sanat Günlüğü”, in which Gönül Sen-Menzel also explained her understanding of art.

2001 – “Masters of Painting”
From January 9 to February 3, 2001, she took part in a group exhibition with Salih Acar, Ruzin Gerçin, Hatice Kumbaracı Gürsöz, Birsen Salahi and Ahmet Yeşil. The culture guide sokakTA wrote that she painted concrete objects that seem abstract at first glance and, on closer inspection, appear “as if released from their shell”.

2001 – Ankart in Ankara
At Ankara’s first art fair, Ankart 2001, she was represented with works at the stand of the Artemis Sanat Galerisi.

2005
In 2005, too, her paintings were on view at the Artemis Art Center, as Hürriyet reported in December 2005.

Press Coverage

• “Her 150th Exhibition Opens in Cologne” · Exhibition Report · Hürriyet
• “Group Exhibition at Artemis” · Exhibition Notice · Hürriyet Art Decor
• “Mixed Group Painting Exhibition” · Exhibition Notice · sokakTA
• “Masters of Painting – Artemis Art Gallery” · Exhibition Notice · Maison Française
• “Parade of Masters” · Exhibition Notice · House Beautiful
• “Art Diary” · Exhibition Notice · Spor Gazetesi
• “Gönül Şen at Artemis” · Exhibition Notice · Yeni Yüzyıl
• “Pictures That Live Through Color” · Exhibition Notice · Son Havadis
• “Gönül Şen, Cheerful Pictures” · Exhibition Notice · Tempo (Hürriyet)

All exhibitions at a glance: Exhibitions of Gönül Sen-Menzel