Selected Works

A focused view of key pieces, arranged by series to reveal ongoing narratives and methods.

Collective Banner Workshops


Collective Banner Workshops — exhibition view
Epipe — Salt Galata

Anabala

Salt Galata

30 January – 8 March 2026

Workshop participants: Filiz Agi, Halenur Agis, Nerkiz Akçura, Nergiz Akış, Taliye Çuraki, Suzan Devletşah, Aynur Fomin, Sadiye Kiriş, Elmira Terkol, Deniz Tiniş

Güneş Terkol — exhibition artwork

Hopes from Mothers

Lining Revealed

2024. Embroidery on textile banner, 191 x 254 cm. Co-commissioned by CHAT and Sharjah Biennial 16.

CHAT Museum, Hong Kong — 2025

Gori Leso Leso, 2024

Gori Leso Leso

16th Sharjah Biennial

6 Feb – 15 June 2025

Curators: Natacha Ginwale, Amar Khalaf, Alia Swastika, Megan Tamati Quenneil, Zeynep Oz

2024

Collaboration with Mama Maria, Mama Rafina, Mama Helena, Mama Katarina, Mama Koriana, Mama Margaret, Mama Rejina, Mama Stevi, Mama Helmina, Mama Yuliana, Mama Amel Lesisana

Women's Hopes, 2023 — Jogja Biennial

Women’s Hopes

Biennale Jogja ’17, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2023. Curator: Alia Swastika

Sewing on fabric, 250 x 300 cm

Güneş Terkol held an online workshop as part of Biennale Jogja 17 in Indonesia. The banner work created after the workshop with the participation of local women will be exhibited during the biennial. Workshop name: Women’s Hopes.

La Biennale Di Venezia 60th — Foreigners Everywhere, Venice 2024

La Biennale di Venezia / 60th International Art Exhibition

Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere

Curator: Adriano Pedrosa

2024, Venice, Italy

A Song to the World -2, 2024 — La Biennale Di Venezia

A Song to the World -2

2024. Embroidery on fabric, 198 × 321 cm

Participants: Casa Punto Froce

2024, Venice, Italy — La Biennale di Venezia / 60th International Art Exhibition — Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere — curator: Adriano Pedrosa

Casa Punto Froce — exhibition artwork

A Song to the World -1

2024. Embroidery on fabric, 188 × 304 cm

Participants: CO.GE.S don Lorenzo Milani

2024, Venice, Italy — La Biennale di Venezia / 60th International Art Exhibition — Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere — curator: Adriano Pedrosa

WE WON’T GIVE UP, 2023

We Won’t Give Up, 2023
sewing on fabric
350 x 150 cm
Produced in the workshop held at Karsi Sanat
with
Cumartesi Insanlari (Saturday People)
the invitation of the Bellek Museum.
Photography: Engin Gerçek / Studio Majo

Istanbul, Türkiye

HOME IS MY HEART, 2017

Home Is My Heart, 2017
Embroidery on fabric
200 x 300 cm
(Middlesex Street Estate, London, England, workshop held with local participants)
Name of the workshop: “Home Is My Heart”
Middlesex Street Estate, London, England

GOOD DAYS, 2017

Good Days, 2017
embroidery on fabric
600 x 800 cm
(iksv_alt, Istanbul, Turkey, in collaboration
with
Syrian immigrant women at Institut Français
istanbul)
name of the workshop: ‘’good days. ’’
iksv_alt, Istanbul, Turkey

AGAINST THE CURRENT, 2013

Against the Current, 2013
Embroidery on fabric
200 x 265 cm
(MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria. Workshop held with Deniz Ulusoy for Women’s Day. Participants: TBC)
Name of the workshop: ‘Against the Current’
MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria

A Banner for an Afternoon, 2011

A Banner for an Afternoon, 2011

Sewing on fabric
171 x 265 cm
(Workshop held at Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey, in collaboration with local participants)
Istanbul, Turkey

Women's Song, 2010 — Embroidery on fabric, 190 x 300 cm, 2nd Antakya Biennial

Women’s Song, 2010

Embroidery on fabric
190 x 300 cm
(Produced collectively with the women contributors of the workshop at the 2nd Antakya Biennial)
Name of the workshop: ‘Women’s Song’
ANTIM, Antakya, Turkey

MOUNTAINS OF THE HEARTS, 2023

Mountains of the Hearts, 2023
sewing on fabric
205 x 300 cm
Produced with Syrian immigrant women in the
Neighborhood Community House in Ornek Tepe,
Istanbul, in cooperation with IBB and UNHCR.
Istanbul, Türkiye

DREAMS ON TRAIN, 2023

Dreams on Train, 2023
embroidery on fabric
240 x 305 cm
(Paris, in collaboration with local
associations such as
Le “Bureau des Heures Invisibles” in
Aubervilliers,
“La Débrouille”, and “La Maison des Femmes”)
Name of the workshop: The Banner Workshop
Paris, France

BRIDGE THE GAP, 2020

Bridge the Gap, 2020
sewing on fabric
220 x 28 cm
(Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
in collaboration with La Nara, a group
against women’s violence)
Name of the workshop: “Bridge the Gap”
Luigi Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy

CHROMATIC KITES OF WOMEN, 2012

chromatic kites of women, 2012
embroidery on textile
250 x 300 cm
(Workshop held in cooperation with Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin, Germany)
Name of the workshop: ‘Chromatic Kites of Women’
TANAS, BERLIN, GERMANY

DREAM ON THE RIVER, 2011

Dream on the River, 2011

Sewing on fabric
215 x 286 cm
(Workshop held at Organhaus, Chongqing, China, in collaboration with local participants)
Name of the workshop: ‘Dream on the River’
ORGANHAUS, CHONGQING, CHINA

Print

Lithography & Screenprint

All editions are signed and numbered by the artist. Printed and published by Derin Print Shop 2024. https://www.derinprintshop.com/shop

Reviews

Kaya Genç – ARTFORUM April 2026

Terkol’s recent exhibition “Epipe,” combining drawings, animations, and stitched works, was the outcome of a similarly collective process spanning an extended period. Since 2002, Terkol has been conducting oral history and archival work with her mother, Elmira Terkol.

https://www.artforum.com/events/gunes-terkol-salt-galata-review-1234746767/

Rahel Aima – CANVAS Issue 122
March – April 2026

Güneş Terkol’s Epipe at Salt Galata traced one such journey,taken by her own family. It saw them settling in Harbin in Manchuria, a Russian-built railway company town that was subsequently occupied
by Imperial Japan before falling to Chinese rule. Following the Second
World War, the family moved on to Türkiye, with stops in Hong Kong
and India along the way.

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