PİLEVNELİ is pleased to present Bora Akıncıtürk’s solo project “The Interior” in the Present Future section of Artissima 2025!
PİLEVNELİ is participating in Artissima 2025 with Bora Akıncıtürk’s solo project “The Interior,” invited by Léon Kruijswijk, one of the curators of the fair’s Present Future section. Taking place from 31 October to 2 November 2025 at OVAL, Lingotto Fiere in Turin, Artissima welcomes art enthusiasts this year under the theme Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Inspired by Richard Buckminster Fuller’s 1969 book of the same title, the theme encourages reflection on the planet’s future and opens up discussions on alternative modes of living and production through art.
As one of Artissima 2025’s most innovative curatorial sections, Present Future brings together emerging and rising artists from the international contemporary art scene, aiming to highlight new forms of expression that envision the future of art. This year, curators Joel Valabrega and Léon Kruijswijk present a selection that explores distinctive artistic languages through their engagement with cultural transformations.
Within this context, Bora Akıncıtürk introduces his solo presentation “The Interior,” featuring new paintings and installations inspired by music, fashion, television, and internet culture. In his first solo presentation at an art fair, Akıncıtürk brings together a selection of works that continue his exploration of dystopia, overconsumption, and artistic autonomy. Blending pop imagery, internet-sourced visuals, and personal ephemera, the works reflect on the industrial and ecological collapse that followed the capitalist optimism of the early 2000s.
This solo project also highlights the artist’s multidisciplinary practice through an installation that includes two new sound pieces and a sculptural intervention. Composed of obsolete CDs and portable music players, the installation acts as a “ghost media” of a bygone era of personalization—pointing to the fragility of today’s reality against the technological optimism of the past. Another work in the presentation features a series of ironing boards rendered unusable by holes. In this series, Akıncıtürk reflects on the unsustainable lives of today’s nine-to-five workers, deprived of stability and social security. As the ironing boards become perforated and lose their function, they mirror the collapse of the capitalist system that once promised productivity and comfort, exposing the emptiness of a structure that can no longer hold together.
Through his presentation at Artissima 2025, Akıncıtürk offers a critical perspective on the end of the globalization dream—tracing a path from the early 2000s’ optimism to today’s hyper-capitalist insecurity.
