ELVAN ALPAY IS MEETING ART LOVERS AT SEVİL DOLMACI GALLERY WITH HER FIRST MAJOR EXHIBITION IN 10 YEARS!
Sevil Dolmacı Gallery, December 2, 2025 – January 3, 2026 Pánta Rheî / Works 2021–2025 The exhibition, whose title is derived from Heraclitus' philosophical fragment "everything flows," approaches flow not merely as a metaphor but as an intrinsic behavior of matter.
In Alpay's canvases, pigment, acrylic, glass dust, and light transcend their role as mere materials and become part of a physical event. In this context, the painting is presented to the viewer not as an object, but as a "current, " a state of becoming.
Elvan Alpay's works are currently featured in important collections such as the Fondation Cartier (Paris), Mitsubishi Foundation (Tokyo), OMM Odunpazarı Modern Museum (Eskişehir), as well as Koç, Sabancı, Eczacıbaşı, Akbank, Alarko, QNB Finansbank, Yıldız Holding, Arçelik, Boyner, ENKA, and TurkishBank. In this exhibition, the artist updates the existing institutional memory with the idea of "matter in motion," transforming the painting from a finished image into a visual record of processes such as breaking, vaporization, seepage, and solidification.
Alpay, winner of the 2006 Beijing Biennale Grand Prize, has a multi-layered exhibition history stretching from Paris to Tokyo, London to New York. However Pánta Rheîpresents a comprehensive selection of the artist's works produced after 2021, which can be seen together for the first time; the physics of dragonflies, the underground intelligence of mushrooms, the maps of leaf veins, and beams of light trapped in acrylic form the world of this exhibition.
Alpay's practice rejects "representing nature" and instead invites nature itself into the painting. In the artist's words: "I don't choose motifs. They behave; I record them."
Pánta Rheî / Works 2021–2025 is not a thematic exhibition; it is an experimental space. The viewer bears witness not to a fixed image, but to a continuous process. This exhibition suggests not merely looking at a painting, but becoming immersed in its flow.
