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"ANTAKYA: From Past to Present" Exhibition Opened
The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews in Istanbul opens its doors to a meaningful exhibition. October 17, 2025
The exhibition titled "Antakya: From Past to Present - On the Edge of Destruction, In the Footsteps of Antakya" is meeting the art lovers, in the Museum of Turkish Jews, as a parallel event to the 18th Istanbul Biennial.
Focusing on the memory shaken by the February 6th, 2023, earthquake of Antakya, the ancient city of Hatay, the exhibition aims to make the traces of destruction visible while witnessing the process of recovery and reconstruction.
The exhibition is coordinated by Rubi Asa and Nisya İşman Allovi, while architect Rubi Asa and Liza Cemel are contributing to the project with their photographs that convey a strong visual memory of Antakya. Pianist and composer Renan Koen enhances the emotional depth of the exhibition with her installation works she has based on "sound memory."
Inviting visitors to a multi-layered experience spanning from Antakya's past to present, the exhibition is shaped around four thematic axes:
Remembering — Life before the earthquake, sounds, smells, beliefs
Being shaken — The moment of destruction, losses, silence
Feeling — Lost senses, and echoes of the past
Healing — Resistance, solidarity, and efforts to rebuild
In the curatorial sense, Antakya is compared to a 'three-legged cat' - walking again, with unsteady but determined steps, and this exhibition presents us a testimony to this walk.
The exhibition "Antakya: From Past to Present" will be open for visit until June 30th, 2026.
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