Art and philosophy talks await the people of Bursa at Kültür Fabrikası on Saturday 14 February! At the Art Talks session at the Mehmet Âkif Ersoy Kültürevi at 14.30, Assoc. Prof. Dr Seda Yavuz will examine the shifting directions of contemporary art in Türkiye, this time through the practice and works of sculptor Mehmet Aksoy. The Philosophy Talks series “İnsan ve Felsefe” (Humanity and Philosophy), which looks from a fresh perspective at the bonds people form with the world and with the other, will welcome Ceren İplikçi for its fourth session at 18.00 at the Tayyare Kültür Merkezi, posing the question “Does Love Need Proof?”. Organised free of charge by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality’s Department of Culture, Arts and Social Affairs (Bursa Kültür), the talks are open to all.
In the Art Talks series entitled “Individual Tendencies and Different Disciplines after 1980”, held at Kültür Fabrikası by Bursa Kültür, which aims to make Bursa a centre for the arts, Assoc. Prof. Dr Seda Yavuz examines approaches to art in Türkiye from 1950 to the present day. The third session, taking place on Saturday 14 February 2026 at 14.30 at the Mehmet Âkif Ersoy Kültürevi, will scrutinise individual tendencies and interdisciplinary approaches in Turkish sculpture after 1980, with a focus on the sculptor Mehmet Aksoy. In the talk, Assoc. Prof. Dr Seda Yavuz will assess the artist’s work in its historical and conceptual contexts.
Meanwhile, the free Kültür Fabrikası Philosophy Talks series, held under the title “İnsan ve Felsefe” (Humanity and Philosophy), welcomes academics from a range of disciplines across six sessions spanning everything from politics to racism and from the cosmos to love. The fourth event in the series, run by Prof. Dr Kadir Çüçen and Ceren İplikçi, invites philosophy enthusiasts to reflect with Ceren İplikçi on the question “Does Love Need Proof?” The talk, which takes place on the evening of Saturday 14 February 2026 at 18.00 at the Tayyare Kültür Merkezi, will explore, from a philosophical perspective drawing on Socrates, Plato and Hannah Arendt, an understanding of love shaped between affection, desire and display. It will also open up for discussion the meaning of love, its foundations and its place in human life.
