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The-Pill

THE PILL® was founded in 2016 in the historical peninsula of Istanbul to operate as a global platform for trans-local and trans-disciplinary contemporary art. 
By creating new process-sensitive infrastructures for artistic collaboration, experimentation and critical dialogue anchored in the region, the gallery strives to foster cosmopolitanism and to amplify voices beyond the dialectic of center and periphery.
Initially imagined as a mobile naval project space by it's founder Suela Cennet, the gallery’s program is strongly inspired by the history and ideas of utopia in modernism, ranging from scales of architecture to those of displacement and dispossession, through molecular shifts at the level of the bodies and new affective articulations as reflected in contemporary artistic production. Fully embracing the meanings encapsulated within the gallery’s name, in Cennet’s words, “the pill evokes both the relationship to truth and fiction as in The Matrix, as well as the foundational discovery of female contraception which marked a definitive anthropological break leading up to contemporary issues surrounding the self-engineered body. Both carry an emancipation whose validity we continue to question today”. 
The last years were marked by the publication of New Art Scales by JBE Books, revisiting the gallery’s first years of programming with contributions by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Suela J. Cennet alongside represented and exhibited artists. In 2022, THE PILL® produced two off-site solo exhibitions in Paris, announcing a new chapter in the gallery’s trajectory with the opening of its Parisian space in the prestigious Place de Valois near the Louvre Museum, as well as a publishing line.
Former FRAC director Jean-Charles Vergne joined the gallery in 2023, bringing his expertise after his three decades tenure at the French institution. He will supervise the opening of the new Parisian space in October 2024 concomitantly with the gallery's participation at ArtBasel Paris.

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