Initiated for the first time in 2017, British Council Turkey's Arts team has offered a curated visual art exhibition out of the British Council Collection, a museum without walls in a virtual space which can be accessed by anyone having an internet connection.
Bringing together works of 113 artists from the British Council Collection as well as international artists, the platform has so far hosted five successful exhibitions and received prestigious awards including Golden Spider Awards, Webbys Awards, Felis Awards and International Design and Communication Awards.
The platform reached over 1 million unique visitors from around the globe using a simple internet connection.
Museum Without Walls offers various accessibility tools including an audio description of artworks, text enhancement and sign language interpretations for all languages of all texts, enabling visitors to experience and discover the exhibition at their own pace, with detailed text and audio-visual information on the artworks and artists in the virtual exhibition space.
Get more details on each exhibition from the links below!
| Year | Exhibition | Curator |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | I Dreamed A Dream The Other Night | Elif Kamışlı |
| 2018 | You Look Familiar | Ulya Soley |
| 2019 | Dancing With Witches | Mine Kaplangı |
| 2020 | Almost There | Seyhan Musaoğlu, Tatiana Kochubinska, Teona Burkiashvili |
| 2021 | Does it feel cosy? | Rita Aktay, Rikita Biswas |