Instruction pieces and participatory works come to Istanbul.
Sakıp Sabancı Museum presents a major exhibition of works by Yoko Ono, bringing together instruction pieces, interactive installations, and film works spanning more than six decades of practice. The exhibition marks one of the most significant presentations of her work in Turkey.
Yoko Ono’s practice resists easy categorization. Emerging from the Fluxus movement of the 1960s, her work has consistently engaged with ideas of imagination, participation, and the possibility of collective action through small, deliberate gestures.
Sakıp Sabancı Museum presentation draws from several bodies of work, including her celebrated Instruction Paintings—text-based works that invite viewers to complete the piece through imagination or action—alongside large-scale installations and rarely exhibited film works.
Central to the exhibition is Wish Tree, an ongoing participatory work in which visitors are invited to write wishes on small cards and tie them to a living tree. The accumulated wishes become part of the work itself, growing throughout the duration of the show.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and a program of public events.
