Events

Roots for the Future: Ecology, Art, and Seeds

17 May 2026 Sun ○ 13:00 - 16:00

Workshop for Youngs and Students (Ages 16–25)

Date: Sunday, 17 May 2026
Time: 13.00-16.00
Age Range: 16–25

Designed within the scope of Edward Burtynsky: Shifting Topography at Borusan Contemporary, this workshop invites young participants to collectively reflect on nature, the future, and responsibility.

Led by artist and academic Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk, the workshop draws on Edward Burtynsky’s human-altered landscapes to explore our relationship with nature from a different perspective. Accompanied by selected photographs from the exhibition and a short discussion, participants reflect together on questions such as “How do humans transform nature?” and “What kind of world do we want to live in in the future?”

Throughout the workshop, experience, intuition, and creative expression take center stage. Through writing, drawing, and collages, participants are encouraged to build connections between the images encountered in the exhibition, their own lives, and their visions of the future.

In the final section of the workshop, participants work with soil and seeds, planting in small pots together. Here, the seed is approached not only as the beginning of a plant, but also as a symbol of the future, hope, and a process that requires care. At the end of the workshop, participants take their planted pots home, extending their relationship with nature beyond the exhibition experience.

About Işıl Eğrikavuk
Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk is an artist and academic working in the fields of performance art, dialogical art, and artistic research. A co-recipient of Türkiye’s first contemporary art award, the Full Art Prize, Eğrikavuk has participated in international exhibitions and artist residency programs, while her work has been published in numerous local and international journals. Developed at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), her project The Other Garden explores the relationships between art, ecology, and collective production as a space for collaborative learning.