Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) presents the most comprehensive exhibition of Yoko Ono’s work ever presented in Türkiye, realised with the support of Akbank and in collaboration with MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain.
Yoko Ono: Insound and Instructure presents an extensive selection from over seventy years of artistic production by Yoko Ono, whose career began in the avant-garde milieu of New York in the late 1950s. Comprising 67 works, including some of Ono’s earliest and most influential pieces. The exhibition spans many of the forms through which Ono has worked over the course of her career, from early instruction pieces and conceptual works to performance, film, installation, and participatory pieces. It highlights the breadth of an artistic practice that has made pioneering contributions across multiple disciplines.
Yoko Ono: Insound and Instructure has been realised in collaboration with Yoko Ono’s Studio One, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM), and MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, the contemporary art museum in León, Spain; with the support of Akbank. Developed together with Studio One, the exhibition has been shaped by the spatial particularities of MUSAC and SSM, as well as by the curatorial approaches of both institutions. Rather than a travelling exhibition, Yoko Ono: Insound and Instructure is the outcome of an institutional collaboration. Following its presentation at MUSAC in León from 8 November 2025 to 17 May 2026, the exhibition will be on view at SSM from 25 June to 27 December 2026.
The exhibition takes its title from the concepts insound and instructure, terms Ono introduced in 1964 that provide the conceptual framework for the exhibition. Extending throughout Sakıp Sabancı Museum and into its garden, the exhibition brings together works from across Ono’s career, inviting visitors to engage with questions of imagination, perception, participation, memory, peace, and human connection.
At SSM, Yoko Ono: Insound and Instructure unfolds as an expansive museum experience, extending beyond Gallery -2 and Gallery -3 to the garden and the gallery housing the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection in Atlı Köşk.
The exhibition is accompanied by a Turkish-English catalogue prepared in collaboration with MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León). In addition to texts by Ahu Antmen, Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Connor Monahan, and Jon Hendricks, the catalogue also features several writings by Yoko Ono herself.
Insound and Instructure will be open to visitors from 25 June to 27 December 2026, every day except Mondays, between 10.00 and 18.00.
