Foo Bar

May 18 – June 03

 

 

The exhibition brings an extraordinary interpretation to the recycling of nature and culture as the continuation of techno trend which started at the end of 80’s. This interactive exhibition is based on creative programming and composed of static installations and it is open to visitors on the last two weeks of the season at Milk Gallery with a cult venue design.

Lady Sun

Iran’s Contemporary Illustration

April 26 – May 16

 

 

Iranian contemporary illustration since the 60s and 70s has mostly tended toward western illustration. In the past, there were random attempts to revive the old and rich Iranian illustration. However, in recent years, we have witnessed attempts by few young illustrators to use visual elements of the past in a modern way. The recent illustration mostly concentrates on the personal aspect and its artistic and personal aspects are stronger, in a way that we can hardly distinguish between an illustration and a modern painting.

Iranian contemporary illustration has traveled a long way during the last 150 years and it is now part and parcel of Iranian visual arts, beyond doubt.

Merve Morkoç

December 2 – December 31

 

 

Merve Morkoç

Ufuk Atan

October 7 – October 31

 

 

Ufuk Atan

Jon Burgerman

September 2 – September 25

 

 

Jon Burgerman is one of England’s most revered cartoonists. His distinctive style has been seen in pride of place at exhibitions from as far wide as LA, to Shanghai and Melbourne, and he’s designed everything from tees, toys, books, stickers and sneakers to bags, sick bags and video games. Yes, even napkins, cardboards off the street and toilet rolls! He’s also been invited to doodle in places such as hotel rooms, clothing stores and of course numerous exhibitions all over. He’s been featured in many websites and articles, and has also appeared in some genre driven books such as Pictoplasma, Los Logos 3, The Art of Rebellion 2 and Dot Dot Dash.

Ezgi Genç

Dowery Movies

April 01 – April 18

 

 

Ezgi Genç, who studies Traditional Turkish Arts in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University puts a new interpretation on movie posters, with felt, an art material which has never been used before in designing traditional movie posters. Because she thinks the movie posters get more ordinary day by day and the designers take the easy way out, Ezgi tries to find a personal approach for the situation.

 

Ezgi’s first personal exhibition, which she calls “Dowery Movies”, is at Milk Gallery and Design Store on April 1!

Das Mo

March 25 – March 31

 

Timo aka „das mo“ is a toy designer and customizer currently based in Munich, Germany. He started casting toys like 3 years back – 100% handmade, 100% in house production. das mo published his first DIY toy platform Mate end of 2007 and kicked of his Tales from Mo Island series with the release of his Monster Mates in early 2008. Since there were various toy customs and character related canvases published and currently das mo is working on a new toy platform to be released this year!
Some of his works will be;

MoRobo – custom robolucha

some hand casted blank toys

the king off… – custom mate

heavy monster mate support bot – custom monster mate

custom ego – ego platform by dust

sad little tv – custom toy made from munny accessories

bramble dog – custom bramble by ashley wood

skully bo(o)mber – custom skully

the lost guard – custom mate

custom fyoog robot toy

and some more suprises !

 

Hello My Name Is

March 11 – March 27

 

 

Turkish graffiti exhibition featuring; Turbo, Tabone, Wyne, Weak, Omeria, Canavar, Cins, Funk.

 

Milk Gone Mad! Paper Toy Show

January 21 – February 21

 

 

Milk will host first custom toy show in Turkey! The print – cut – build generation is invading the gallery with some of the unique characters made out of paper ! Until now, the approved artists for this experience are;

 

Internation princess of paper toys ” Dolly Oblong “, Alexander Gwynne, Anıl Tortop, Bengi Gençer, Buğra Bayrak, Burak Şentürk, Çağrı Akyurt, 2mikrop, Derin Çiler ( Mekazoo ), Deniz Beşer, Fatih Yılmaz, Uçman Balaban, Dyadic, Duygu Esentürk, Rüya Ögü, Ece Diçmen, Eric Wirjanata, Esra Arıcı, Gemma Correll, Japi Honoo, Luke Glood, Michael C. Hsiung, Nur Teker, Olcayto Cengiz, Pamela Halomoan, Sadi Tekin, Sernur Işık, Toygun Özdemir, Volkan Saruç, Zeynep Rojda Güvenç, Yusuf Gençer, Nadire Şule Atılgan, Bal İçme, Öykü Akkoyunlu, Yasin Sandık.

We thank Çağrı Akyurt for making the Yubba’s availible for this show.

 

You can find the event photos at Flickr Stream

Eyesores in Istanbul

January 7 – January 19

 

 

Eyesores. Hello Eyesores lovers!
Istanbul will be hosting the first eyesore art show, and the Milk Gallery & Design Shop will be the place ( a really cool spot right in the center )
For that special day, I will be there in person to hug,dance, jump and chat with you, so please… don’t disappoint me, come.
Lot of eyesores products will be available on the gallery, time has come to eyesorize your world.
lot of love for you and more for me. : )
xavier.

Engin Öztekin “Gayri Meşrutiyet”

December 3 – December 27

Milk’te Gayri Meşrutiyet!

İstanbul’da sokak sanatını benimseyen ilk sanat galerisi Milk, Aralık ayında Engin Öztekin’i ağırlıyor! Türkiye’nin önemli illüstratörlerinden Engin Öztekin ilk solo sergisini 3 Aralık’ta açıyor. “Gayri Meşrutiyet” isimli sergide sanatçı, Osmanlı döneminden esinlenerek yarattığı kurgu dünyayı kendine özgü stiliyle yorumluyor. Geleneksel ve dijital tekniklerin bir arada kullanıldığı çalışmalar, Diagonal tarafından iç mekana uygun ‘fine art’ baskı tarzı ile gerçekleştirildi. Sergide sanatçının 20’ye yakın sayıda çalışmasının yanı sıra özel olarak üretilmiş ve sınırlı sayıda basılmış tişörtleri ve rozetleri de yer alacak.


Engin Öztekin Kimdir?
1978 yılında Isparta’da doğan Engin Öztekin, grafik eğitimini tamamladıktan sonra reklam sektöründe çalışmaya başladı. Bir yandan sanat çalışmalarına devam eden sanatçı en son İstanbul Laleler Heykel ve Tasarım Sergisi’nde yer aldı. Bugüne kadar Mavi Jeans, IF Istanbul, Studio Nommo gibi markalarla ortak projeler gerçekleştirdi. Ulusal ve ulusalararası platformda yarattığı karakterlerle adından sıkça söz ettirdi. Sanatçı halen Propaganda İstanbul’da sanat yönetmeni olarak çalışmaya devam etmektedir.

Joe Ledbetter

November 5 – November 29

 

 

Joe Ledbetter’s art. This Fall (2009), artist and toy designer Joe Ledbetter (Los Angeles, USA) will take his act on the road and present 5 art shows in 5 different cities across Europe. In the spirit of a touring rock band, Ledbetter will travel from city to city (London, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, and Istanbul) presenting separate shows that will feature new paintings, toy releases, and book signings. While each exhibition will showcase a different theme, the work is meant show international commonalities through current events and humor. In addition to original artwork, there will be European exclusive toy releases, print releases, books, T-shirts, and many other fun surprises.

 

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Look at the shop section for the exclusive items such as t-shirts, feed me magnet set, prints, artworks and more !

Guy McKinley

October 1 – October 25

Guy McKinley is a Manchester based Artist who claims he just makes pretty pictures.
The reality is he does a lot more than that! His illustrations oozes style and class and he is recognised as a leading light in the burgeoning UK Street Art scene.
Guy has has produced various professional works for Sprite/Coca Cola, New Balance, Brahma, Cahartt, McKenzie and Adidas. His work was also featured in Street Sketchbook. Published by Tristan Manco.

 
Tiny Diamonds
The Robo Girls are after the missing crystals/diamonds. Most of the images are them posing with them after gathering them up. Either way its a nice excuse to get lots more colour in there. Which is all I need to get the bright pinks and green out. I think colour is such a big important part of my work.
Another new dimension, are the Diamonds themselves, I am usually paint all curves and smooth lines and it was great to throw in a few harder geometric lines against all that smoothness. Hopefully this will push new works another step into expanding on the characters and how I go about paintings them in the future.

See & Buy the works from here

Rebecca Ward

September 3 – September 27

My installations are site-specific works dependent upon the space they occupy. Utilizing existing lines, beams, and angles, each piece I create is informed by the individual site and its unique linear movement. Thus, my installations are inherently architectural. I choose patterns and shapes according to detailed measurements of the installation site. Ideally these patterns are numerically symmetrical or somehow numerically balanced, producing a dialogue between line and space.

Merve Morkoç, Bora Baskan, Ayse Küçük

Ufuk Atan, Gökhan Okur

MILK hosts the Istanbul part of the first collaboration project between member galleries of the ROJO ®artspace global network and more than 150 artists. Part of a series of group shows in different cities around the world; ®Barcelona, ®Milano, POP Sao Paulo, ClubBlast Rosario, Concrete Hermit London, We Love Asbaek Copenhagen, Inoperable Vienna, Carmichael Los Angeles & Subaquatica Madrid. OCHO group exhibitions scheduled to take place this year and run through world class galleries until August 2009.

Artworks by;

Bora Başkan

Gökhan Okur

Ufuk Atan

Merve Morkoç

Ayşe Küçük

Matei Apostolescu

May 13 – June 15

Winner of various international design competitions, member of the most notable international digital art groups, having his works featured in countless magazines, albums and collections, Matei is one of the most appreciated freestyle artists in the international art scenery and definitely the best Romanian digital artist at the present moment. Ever since he switched his artistic medium from paper to the computer and seriously took up digital creation, Matei made his way into becoming a freelance illustrator and an independent graphic designer.

A selection of his work was recently featured at the Illustrative Berlin 07 exhibition, alongside the likes of David Foldvari and Büro Destruct. Matei is also one of the artists selected by Taschen for this summer’s hotly anticipated sequel to ”Illustration Now”, a selection of today’s best illustrating artists from around the world.

Consistently pushing the boundaries of visual communication, his style – a mix of analogue and computer art – is above all pure freestyle, as he himself quotes:
“I try to explore as much as I can. It is a fusion of different media: drawing, vector, photography, manipulation, sometimes even clay modeling [...] To me, inspiration is about having the courage to explore the world, and especially yourself and the processes that take place in your own mind. Inspiration is at its simplest a recombinational process – you have to deal with huge amounts of information that’s all around you, information that only needs to be channeled into something new.”

Ayse Küçük – “This is my beautiful dream … Kiss Me”

April 02 – April 26

Milk, Ayşe Küçük’ün ilk kişisel sergisine ev sahipliği yapıyor.
“Hiçbir zaman uyanmak istemedim ama uyanmaktan da korkmadım” dediği, alaycı ve küstah bir tavırla eleştirdiği eserlerini “This Is My Beautiful Dream… Kiss Me” adlı sergide 26 Nisan’a kadar görülebilir.2007 yılından bu yana Ayşe Küçük, çalışmalarını Türkiye, Romanya, Italya ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde sergileme imkanı bulmuştur. İngiltere’de genç sanatçıları destekleyen Noise tarafından “Basement of Wonderland” isimli eseri 2008 The Best New Creative Talent’ e seçilmiştir. Özellikle, New York’ta, kollektif bir proje olan “Dreamy Techniques”’de Yoko Ono ile çalışma fırsatı elde etmiş ve çalışmaları hakkında NY Arts Magazine’de eleştiriler yeralmıştır. Kişisel sergisi ile aynı tarihlerde New York City APW Galeri’de “Sketch It Out” sergisinde yer alacaktır.Daha fazla bilgi.

Milk Gallery hosts Ayşe Küçük’s first solo exhibition.
You may find the opportunity to see her exhibition “This is My Beautiful Dream… Kiss Me”; in which she criticised her works with a mocking attitude remarking “I never wanted to wake up but was never afraid of awakening, either.”Since 2007, Ayse Kucuk has exhibited her work in Turkey, Romania, Italy and [the] United States. In 2008, her work “Basement of Wonderland” led to her nomination as “The Best New Creative Talent” by young artist supporter Noise in Britain. Most notably, she has worked with Yoko Ono in New York City on a collective project titled “Dreamy Techniques” and her works have received critiques in NY Arts Magazine as well. While this personal exhibition is taking place, Ayşe Küçük’s works will aslo be exhibited in NYCity APW Gallery. More at blog.

Meredith Dittmar – GREY AREA

March 05 – March 28

Meredith Dittmar is an artist living in Portland OR. Educated in computer science, a career in interactive design and over all of this she makes unique pieces with polymer clay.

Dittmars human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness . Her characters are frequently involved in quiet expressive moments, or lounge facing their audience so they can share their inner space.

Dittmars work is featured in the books Dot dot Dash and Mascotte 2, along with numerous magazines and online publications. In conjunction with her artwork she works as an independent character designer and maintains her company Corporatepig, through which she continues to create thousands of unique handmade characters called “My Guys”.

eBoy

They express their art as an extension of their childhood. Their influences come from: “Pop culture… shopping, supermarkets, TV, toy commercials, LEGO, computer games, the news, magazines. Kai was the only one who grew up with Nintendo to inspire him, the rest of the eBoys lived in East Germany where video games didn’t exist. Their work makes intense use of popular culture and commercial icons, and their style is presented in three-dimensional isometric illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls. Mostly their designs are printed today and not used solely for computer screens anymore, allowing images to get more complex with details.

Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, as well as a long list of commercial clients. Their latest project are plastic Peecol toys with Kidrobot, and soon a new line of wooden toys are to be produced under their own label.