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Salt Research
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SALT is a Turkish contemporary art institution. It was started by Vasif Kortun and Garanti Bank in 2011, and has exhibition and workshop spaces in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.[1][2] It combines the previous activities of the Garanti Gallery, the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of the bank.[3] It is one of the six members of L'Internationale, a confederation of European art institutions; the other member institutions are the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, in Slovenia; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, in Spain; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona, also in Spain; the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen in Antwerp, in Belgium; and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.[4]
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Established | 2011 |
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Location | SALT Beyoğlu Istiklal Cd. No:136 Beyoğlu, Istanbul Turkey SALT Galata Bankalar Cd. No:11 Karaköy, Istanbul Turkey |
Founder | Vasif Kortun, Garanti Bank |
Website | saltonline |