Exhibition:
80 Years of Tomorrows
Salt Galata
June 3 – September 30, 2026
Mastercard Exhibition Hall
The exhibition 80 Years of Tomorrows traces the eighty-year history of Garanti BBVA through Turkey’s economic, social, cultural, and technological transformation.
Since its founding in 1946, the bank has amassed an institutional memory that extends from the transformation of the financial system to the fabric of everyday life, from the language of communication to visual culture. Tracing Garanti BBVA’s enduring relationship with Turkey and the world, the exhibition proposes a fresh reading of the past from the perspective of the present. It builds on the comprehensive archival work initiated by Salt in April 2023, approaching this history as a field of inquiry open to multiple interpretations. Interviews with individuals connected to the bank’s history accompany a selection of archival documents, visual materials, and objects that have become part of the collective memory.
The exhibition presents the bank’s milestones, its technology-driven business model, and its evolving understanding of customer experience. The exhibition’s narrative takes shape around four main themes, ranging from corporate identity and advertising to social investment and sustainability. It brings together documents, videos, objects, and publications from the bank’s archive, while also offering site-specific digital experiences.
In the exhibition, data visualization, algorithmic systems, and AI-driven analysis turn thousands of visual and textual materials from the Garanti BBVA Archive into a multilayered sensory environment. Using interactive touchscreens, visitors can chart their own paths through the archive.
Salt Research Garanti BBVA Archive
As part of the archival work launched in April 2023, more than 36,000 physical items—including posters, photographs, reports, commercials, periodicals, albums, film negatives and positives, brochures, and various objects—were cataloged in Turkish and English and digitized, while approximately 255,000 digital documents were inventoried. Bank employees contributed new materials to the archive throughout the project. The archive also includes interviews that shed light on the institution’s history, and its first installment, comprising 10,000 documents, will soon be accessible at Salt Research.
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Project Leads: Deniz Ova, Derya Açar Ergüç, Elif Güvenen
Program: İzzeddin Çalışlar, Lorans Tanatar Baruh
Project Coordinators: Canan Erbil, Elif Hazal Bilgi, Gözde Koca Aktaş, Sinem Ayşe Gülmez Saydam
Project Team: Ahmet Metin Öztürk, Ali Baras, Ayça Yavaş, Başak Can, Baturalp Gülbay, Burcu Sayın, Burcu Tokcan Yenal, Cevdet Öztürk, Elif Tuna, Ezgi Yılmaz, Gamze Cebeci, Gökhan Özdemir,
Gözde Pınar, İsmail Ayten, Masum Yıldız, Mehtap Kuru, Metean Bars, Nihan Güleç, Orhan Uslu,
Orkun Dayıoğlu, Özgenur Yanıkdağ, Özgür Dağgez, Özgür Üner, Rabia Nur Önder, Sinan Demir,
Yusuf Karamustafa, Zerrin Kantaroğlu, Zeynep Akan
Research and Digitization: Barış Korkmaz, Ebrar Başyiğit, Elif Başgöl, Hilal Nur İsi, Mine Geçit, Rabia Keleş, Rana Kurtcuoğlu
Technical Consultant: Eray Özcan
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Cem Kozar, Işıl Ünal Kozar — PATTU
Aysu Keten, Deniz Baydar, Dicle Ağaoğlu, Doğan Talaz, Oya Çitçi
Communication Design: Cem Kozar, Işıl Ünal Kozar — PATTU
Editors: Emre Ayvaz, İlkay Baliç — Mümkün
Interviews: AKA
Installation: Eray Özcan, OCD Museum Works
Exhibition Production: Difoart, Evist, Fuarled, Garanti Teknoloji, Incase, Maksu, Özyapı Halı, TSSPro
Digital Experience Design: NOHLAB
Creative Direction and Design: Candaş Şişman, Deniz Kader — NOHLAB
Creative Coding and Visual Production: Çağatay Güçlü
Music and Sound Design: Gökalp Kanatsız
Interactive Experience Design and Creative Coding: DECOL Stüdyo
Creative Director: Ahmet Said Kaplan
Producer: Nebi Cihan Çankaya
Data Analysis and Design: Pelin Erman, Özge Tunalı
Video Production: Ece Tunca
User Interface Design: Uğur Özdemir
Narrators: Akın Öngör, Ali Fuat Erbil, Cemal Onaran, Elif Güvenen, Ergun Özen, Ferit F. Şahenk, Görgün Taner, Hülya Muslu, Hüsnü Erel, İbrahim Betil, İlker Kuruöz, Leyla Etker, Mahmut Akten, Mehmet Sezgin, Meral Ayaz, Nafiz Karadere, Olkan Kalaycıoğlu, Onur Genç, Saide Kuzeyli, Sibel Asna, Sibel Çılgın, Süleyman Sözen, Şengül Tüfekçi, Uğurcan Ataoğlu, Vasıf Kortun, Volkan Zarif
Acknowledgments: Atılay Ünal, Burak Ali Göçer, Caner Apaydın, Duygu Türemez, Elif Gül Özak, Emirhan Altuner, Ensar Güvenç, Ezgi Yurteri, Fatih Bektaşoğlu, Fevzi Çakmak, Hanife Güldağ, Kaan Demirçelik, Kaan Kırtız, Murat Koraltürk, Osman Bahri Turgut, Özge Öner, Selda Kesici, Sezin Çelik, Sezin Romi, Zeynep Toy Büke, DenizTemiz Derneği/TURMEPA, Doğal Hayatı Koruma Vakfı, İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı, Öğretmen Akademisi Vakfı, Tarih Vakfı, Tohum Otizm Vakfı, Türkiye Basketbol Federasyonu, Zorlu Performans Sanatları Merkezi
The exhibition 80 Years of Tomorrows traces the eighty-year history of Garanti BBVA through Turkey’s economic, social, cultural, and technological transformation.
Since its founding in 1946, the bank has amassed an institutional memory that extends from the transformation of the financial system to the fabric of everyday life, from the language of communication to visual culture. Tracing Garanti BBVA’s enduring relationship with Turkey and the world, the exhibition proposes a fresh reading of the past from the perspective of the present. It builds on the comprehensive archival work initiated by Salt in April 2023, approaching this history as a field of inquiry open to multiple interpretations. Interviews with individuals connected to the bank’s history accompany a selection of archival documents, visual materials, and objects that have become part of the collective memory.
The exhibition presents the bank’s milestones, its technology-driven business model, and its evolving understanding of customer experience. The exhibition’s narrative takes shape around four main themes, ranging from corporate identity and advertising to social investment and sustainability. It brings together documents, videos, objects, and publications from the bank’s archive, while also offering site-specific digital experiences.
In the exhibition, data visualization, algorithmic systems, and AI-driven analysis turn thousands of visual and textual materials from the Garanti BBVA Archive into a multilayered sensory environment. Using interactive touchscreens, visitors can chart their own paths through the archive.
Salt Research Garanti BBVA Archive
As part of the archival work launched in April 2023, more than 36,000 physical items—including posters, photographs, reports, commercials, periodicals, albums, film negatives and positives, brochures, and various objects—were cataloged in Turkish and English and digitized, while approximately 255,000 digital documents were inventoried. Bank employees contributed new materials to the archive throughout the project. The archive also includes interviews that shed light on the institution’s history, and its first installment, comprising 10,000 documents, will soon be accessible at Salt Research.
Project Leads: Deniz Ova, Derya Açar Ergüç, Elif Güvenen
Program: İzzeddin Çalışlar, Lorans Tanatar Baruh
Project Coordinators: Canan Erbil, Elif Hazal Bilgi, Gözde Koca Aktaş, Sinem Ayşe Gülmez Saydam
Project Team: Ahmet Metin Öztürk, Ali Baras, Ayça Yavaş, Başak Can, Baturalp Gülbay, Burcu Sayın, Burcu Tokcan Yenal, Cevdet Öztürk, Elif Tuna, Ezgi Yılmaz, Gamze Cebeci, Gökhan Özdemir,
Gözde Pınar, İsmail Ayten, Masum Yıldız, Mehtap Kuru, Metean Bars, Nihan Güleç, Orhan Uslu,
Orkun Dayıoğlu, Özgenur Yanıkdağ, Özgür Dağgez, Özgür Üner, Rabia Nur Önder, Sinan Demir,
Yusuf Karamustafa, Zerrin Kantaroğlu, Zeynep Akan
Research and Digitization: Barış Korkmaz, Ebrar Başyiğit, Elif Başgöl, Hilal Nur İsi, Mine Geçit, Rabia Keleş, Rana Kurtcuoğlu
Technical Consultant: Eray Özcan
Exhibition and Graphic Design: Cem Kozar, Işıl Ünal Kozar — PATTU
Aysu Keten, Deniz Baydar, Dicle Ağaoğlu, Doğan Talaz, Oya Çitçi
Communication Design: Cem Kozar, Işıl Ünal Kozar — PATTU
Editors: Emre Ayvaz, İlkay Baliç — Mümkün
Interviews: AKA
Installation: Eray Özcan, OCD Museum Works
Exhibition Production: Difoart, Evist, Fuarled, Garanti Teknoloji, Incase, Maksu, Özyapı Halı, TSSPro
Digital Experience Design: NOHLAB
Creative Direction and Design: Candaş Şişman, Deniz Kader — NOHLAB
Creative Coding and Visual Production: Çağatay Güçlü
Music and Sound Design: Gökalp Kanatsız
Interactive Experience Design and Creative Coding: DECOL Stüdyo
Creative Director: Ahmet Said Kaplan
Producer: Nebi Cihan Çankaya
Data Analysis and Design: Pelin Erman, Özge Tunalı
Video Production: Ece Tunca
User Interface Design: Uğur Özdemir
Narrators: Akın Öngör, Ali Fuat Erbil, Cemal Onaran, Elif Güvenen, Ergun Özen, Ferit F. Şahenk, Görgün Taner, Hülya Muslu, Hüsnü Erel, İbrahim Betil, İlker Kuruöz, Leyla Etker, Mahmut Akten, Mehmet Sezgin, Meral Ayaz, Nafiz Karadere, Olkan Kalaycıoğlu, Onur Genç, Saide Kuzeyli, Sibel Asna, Sibel Çılgın, Süleyman Sözen, Şengül Tüfekçi, Uğurcan Ataoğlu, Vasıf Kortun, Volkan Zarif
Acknowledgments: Atılay Ünal, Burak Ali Göçer, Caner Apaydın, Duygu Türemez, Elif Gül Özak, Emirhan Altuner, Ensar Güvenç, Ezgi Yurteri, Fatih Bektaşoğlu, Fevzi Çakmak, Hanife Güldağ, Kaan Demirçelik, Kaan Kırtız, Murat Koraltürk, Osman Bahri Turgut, Özge Öner, Selda Kesici, Sezin Çelik, Sezin Romi, Zeynep Toy Büke, DenizTemiz Derneği/TURMEPA, Doğal Hayatı Koruma Vakfı, İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı, Öğretmen Akademisi Vakfı, Tarih Vakfı, Tohum Otizm Vakfı, Türkiye Basketbol Federasyonu, Zorlu Performans Sanatları Merkezi
