Young Fresh Different 2025 - İstanbul: Group Exhibition

 Zilberman is pleased to present the 14th edition of the Young Fresh Different. The exhibition will take place at Zilberman Istanbul, between August 2 - 23, 2025.

For the past 14 years, Zilberman has positioned Young Fresh Different not merely as a space of display, but as a dynamic platform for emerging voices. By increasing the visibility of diverse practices and cultivating spaces where new voices can sustain their work, the initiative fosters long-term artistic development beyond the exhibition itself.

YFD’25 aims to remind us of the collective possibilities of thought in the face of various forms of censorship in Turkey. The selected works span a broad spectrum from personal memory to public space, from identity to site, from the everyday to the political. Rather than orbiting a singular theme, YFD’25 unfolds around the possibilities of being together. Concepts such as the body, memory, and belonging are explored through a wide range of mediums and approaches: from video installations to AI-generated narratives, from biological remnants to traditional objects. These works come together across personal and collective thresholds, engaging in layered dialogues.

This year’s selection was made from over 400 applications by the jury composed of Burcu Çimen (Director and Curator at Yapı Kredi Museum), Ulya Soley (Curator at Hamburger Bahnhof), Sena Başöz (Artist), Lotte Laub (Director of Zilberman | Berlin), and Ece Ateş (Program Manager of Zilberman | Berlin). Bringing together a diversity of production motives, modes of thought, and narrative strategies, YFD’25 reflects the contemporary potential of emerging artists, and offers an invitation to think together, to create together, and to imagine new possibilities.