Haunted

Curated by Dr. Kumru Eren, Director of Borusan Contemporary, Haunted brings together works from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection by leading figures in new media and technology-based art. About Borusan Contemporary presents Haunted , a new collection exhibition exploring how artificial intelligence, algorithms, data technologies and digital culture are transforming the ways reality is produced, perceived and remembered. Running in parallel with Olivo Barbieri’s Time Space Geometry , on view from 19 September 2026 to 15 August 2027, Haunted brings together works from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection by leading figures in new media and technology-based art—including Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Memo Akten, teamLab, Quayola, Zimoun, DRIFT, Marco Brambilla and Daniel Canogar —alongside works on paper by Kemal Önsoy. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Kumru Eren, Director of Borusan Contemporary. Among the artists featured is Memo Akten, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and computer scientist whose practice investigates emerging technologies as both creative media and subjects of critical inquiry. Working extensively with AI, deep learning, Big Data and collective intelligence, Akten creates speculative simulations and data-driven works that examine the cultural, social and ecological consequences of technological systems. His practice moves across moving image, sound, light, installation and interactive media, questioning the nature of reality, consciousness and the human condition. The exhibition also features the work of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer , one of the leading figures in interactive and technology-based art. Working at the intersection of architecture, performance and digital media, Lozano-Hemmer creates participatory environments using technologies including robotics, sensors, projections, computerized surveillance, digital networks and responsive systems. His practice frequently examines perception, participation, surveillance and the relationship between individuals and technological infrastructures. Quayola approaches the relationship between technology and the natural world through algorithmic processes, computational systems and digital simulations. His practice often translates natural phenomena and art-historical forms into computationally generated images, sounds and sculptures, examining how machines can observe, interpret and reconstruct the world. In Effets de Soir (2022), for example, images of nocturnal floral formations are transformed into datasets and used to generate new computational paintings, exploring the space between the pictorial and the algorithmic. The exhibition brings these practices into dialogue with teamLab , the interdisciplinary international art collective whose work brings together artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects. Working through digital technologies and interactive environments, teamLab creates immersive spaces in which images, bodies and physical surroundings continuously interact, challenging conventional distinctions between artwork, viewer and environment. The technological and digital practices in the exhibition are complemented by the work of Zimoun , whose installations combine simple industrial materials with mechanical systems, motors and sound. Through repetition, movement and autonomous processes, his sound sculptures transform mechanical structures into dynamic environments, exploring relationships between order and chaos, system and behaviour, and the physical and computational. DRIFT explores the relationship between humans, nature and technology through immersive interactive installations. Their Coded Nature I (2022) translates research into the collective behaviour of starlings into a real-time interactive AI system, in which an evolving digital swarm responds to the movement of the audience. Marco Brambilla , works across video, digital art and cinema, often reassembling fragments of popular culture into immersive moving image environments. His Heaven’s Gate (2021) reassembles fragments of Hollywood cinema into an immersive moving-image environment, exploring spectacle, collective visual memory and the image culture of the digital age. Daniel Canogar works at the intersection of art, technology and the body, creating video light and interactive installations that explore the relationship between digital information and physical space. His 250K (2011) reflects his interest in transforming intangible data into dynamic, spatial experiences. Alongside these technology-driven practices, Haunted includes works by Turkish artist Kemal Önsoy, whose works on paper move between figuration and abstraction. Their presence introduces a different relationship to image-making and representation, creating a dialogue between analogue mark-making and the computational image. This juxtaposition allows the exhibition to consider not only what new technologies produce, but also how technological forms of image-making relate to longer histories of representation. The title Haunted draws directly on the history of Perili Köşk (the Haunted Mansion), the historic mansion overlooking the Bosphorus that has been home to Borusan Contemporary since 2011. Originally known as the Yusuf Ziya Paşa Mansion, the building remained unfinished for decades after construction was interrupted during the First World War. With its uncompleted upper floors, the mansion became known locally as Perili Köşk, or “the Haunted Mansion.” For the exhibition, this history of the “haunted” building is reinterpreted through the invisible systems of the digital age. Perili Köşk is imagined not as a space inhabited by ghosts of the past, but by new forms of presence generated through data, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine processes. The building’s historical memory thus becomes a conceptual counterpart to technologies that operate largely beyond direct human perception, shaping contemporary life through systems that are often invisible but increasingly influential. Read more Toggle Photography Digital Multi-disciplinary