Nesli Gül invites: Mountain as a living archive
Help ArtTable member and curator Nesli Gül bring this exhibition to life!
Hi, I’m Nesli Gül Durukan, an independent curator, researcher, and art writer based in Amsterdam. My work explores memory, archives, and overlooked narratives in contemporary art. After completing my PhD, I’ve curated exhibitions across the Netherlands, Turkey, and beyond. With Mountain as a Living Archive, I’m bringing together artists from different generations and cultures to reflect on transformation, resilience, and the landscapes we carry within us.
In a city without mountains, we’re building one from art. Amsterdam is a city defined by its flatness, a landscape reclaimed from the water. But what if we could build a mountain here? Not of rock and earth, but of memory, resilience, and shared history.
This is the vision behind Mountain as a Living Archive, a cross-cultural group exhibition coming to Amsterdam’s PAKT Foundation from August 29 to September 21, 2025. The exhibition explores mountains as living repositories of time, memory and transformation, featuring breathtaking works by four incredible artists from the Netherlands and Turkey.
Read more and donate via this link:
https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19496-mountain-as-a-living-archive
Images: Awoiska van der Molen makes a special edition ‘The Living Mountain’ (an image-booklet measuring 21x17cm) for this Crowdfunding campaign. [Top left] Müge Yılmaz presents signed limited edition A3 prints, part of The Water, The Soil, The Jungle. [Bottom right] Kevin Bauer presents signed limited edition A2 prints from his installation work P (Parking). [Bottom right] Zeynep Yilmaz’s drawing, 10.5×14.5 cm (oil pastel on paper).
