BIRTH / 1969TR-14
12
MARCH
MARCH
BOLU
The first stop. Winter’s white will later blend into the color of a signature and a screen name.
DEPARTURE 00:01ONE WAY →
A voice first dissolved into the night. Then a silhouette fell onto the screen. At last, millions shared their Friday nights around the same living-room chair.
BEYAZ
Some people appear on screen.
Some turn that screen into a home.
“Beyaz” began as a signature beneath a drawing. Then it became the voice inside the night, and finally the familiar face at the center of the screen.
Four cities,
one frequency.
As a police officer’s posting changed, so did the window of home. Childhood fit into suitcases; humor learned a slightly different accent at every stop.
HIGH SCHOOL / GEMLİKTR-16
SEA
MEMORY
MEMORY
GEMLİK
Hallway bells, classroom impressions and the light sense of distance carried by the sea.
YOUTH PLATFORMCONTINUE →
UNIVERSITYES-26
FINE
ARTS
ARTS
ESKİŞEHİR
Ceramics and sculpture. Patience in the hand as clay turns, rhythm in the sentence as radio comes alive.
WORKSHOP / NIGHT96.12 FM →
BROADCAST / STAGEİST-34
LIVE
SHOW
SHOW
İSTANBUL
A webcam silhouette, a Friday night and a studio gradually becoming the country’s shared living room.
ARRIVAL: NONETHE JOURNEY ↗
01 / HAND MEMORYFIRST
FIRST
CLAY.
Behind the improvisation on screen was the discipline of a workshop bringing a form forward without rushing it. Ceramics and sculpture at Anadolu Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar: listening to mud, seeing the negative space and turning flaws into character.
A good joke is a little like ceramic: press too hard and it collapses; let go at the right time and it finds its form.
Hold the form and pull side to side — it is partly yours now
GINAEskişehir / humor fanzine
02 / THE SIGNATURE UNDER THE LINE
Before the radio microphone, there was a pen. The cartoons from university years landed on the pages of the humor magazine “Gına”. A short signature beneath them eventually traveled farther than the name itself: Beyaz.
This page is not a display case but an open notebook. Move your finger or mouse across it; a new character may appear in the corner.
Paper / ink / a little mischiefBlank page — drawing welcomeBeyazA name sometimes arrives first as a signature.
NIGHT
VOICE.
When there is no image, the sentence works harder. A broadcast that began by telling the time became a laboratory for learning how to make things; “Gece Tavuğu” became companionship between sleep and wakefulness.
BEYAZ / ANALOG RECEIVER 96
Sesin ilk odası
A microphone opened to tell the time teaches storytelling, waiting through silence and knowing a night listener without seeing them.
NUMBER ONE TV / WEBCAM● LIVE
03 / SHADOW OF A VOICEFIRST
FIRST
SILHOUETTE.
A webcam placed in the radio studio. The image was so dark that there was no face, only a speaking shadow. People already knew the voice; now curiosity settled into the space the image left empty.
“Before the face appeared, the voice had already entered the home.”
KANAL D / FRIDAY06DECEMBER 1996
FIRST BROADCAST NIGHT
FIRST BROADCAST NIGHT
04 / THE STUDIO DOOR OPENSFIRST
FIRST
NIGHT.
The first guests were Hande Ataizi and Okan Bayülgen. A table, a few lights, audience rows and that first “welcome” nobody yet knew would last twenty-two seasons. The set below is not a one-to-one décor copy; it is an interactive stage memory made from the warmth of the analog era.
GUEST 01Hande
Ataizi
Ataizi
GUEST 02Okan
Bayülgen
Bayülgen
22 SEASONS,
the same Friday feeling.
Drag the cards sideways. This is not an episode list; it is a set of small time capsules holding screen textures from analog to digital, changing sets and an unchanged sense of home.
First light
A table, two first guests and a beginning whose ending nobody knew.
Sound settles in
Radio improvisation finds the rhythm of television.
The room grows
The wall between the studio audience and the audience at home becomes thinner.
Cassette trace
Analog tapes, opening themes and the fixed habit of Friday night.
New millennium
As the calendar changes, the conversation on the desk stays just as warm.
Phone line
A ring closes the distance between studio and home.
Live reflex
A broadcast language that plays with the unexpected instead of hiding it.
Table companion
Guest, audience and host step into the same story.
Friday ritual
The week truly closes with the first note of the opening theme.
Tenth ring
A long road becoming shared memory more than a program.
The set changes
Colors and lines are renewed; intimacy keeps its place.
Behind the camera
Live-broadcast flaws turn into the most loved little memories.
The screen expands
The format grows, while the sentence still feels as if it came from the next seat.
Digital threshold
Clips begin their journey online; Friday night breaks apart and multiplies.
Fresh polish
New set, new jingle, old familiarity.
High definition
Detail multiplies without losing the warmth of improvisation.
Common language
A relaxed room where both celebrity and audience can tease themselves.
The clip age
A moment travels from screen to screen the next morning.
Sung reply
A musical exchange with Candan Erçetin turns the studio into a sweet duel.
Twentieth curtain
One generation’s childhood meets another’s youth in the same opening theme.
Final turns
Seats are full, the calendar is full, and the archive keeps growing.
A comma
May 4, 2018: a night that looked like a finale while the story continued elsewhere.
DRAG / ARROW KEYS
480i → 1080p
but the laughter is the same.
Screens grew thinner, images sharper, and streams replaced tapes. Yet Beyaz Show’s true resolution was never pixels: it was the person at home feeling as if they were in the studio.
2010s / SHARP IMAGE
1990s / SWEET STATIC
THE COUNTRY’S
LIVING ROOM.
Tea beside the remote, someone asleep in the corner of the sofa, kitchen work postponed until the commercial. The show was not only on the screen; it had blended into the rhythm of the home.
“1990s: Turn the antenna a little to the right. It’s snowy, but everyone is here.”
BEYAZ
SHOWKANAL D / FRIDAY NIGHT
SHOWKANAL D / FRIDAY NIGHT
05 / FRIDAY NIGHT RITUALTHE CITY IS
THE CITY IS
ON AIR.
The shared feeling Beyaz created on Friday nights did not stay in the studio. Living rooms, windows and apartment façades seemed to join the rhythm. This nightscape salutes that collective broadcast feeling: windows light in sequence like an audience choir, go dark and sometimes breathe together.
BEYOND
THE DESK.
When you confine a person to one program, the quiet sides disappear. Drawing, folk song, cinema, a judge’s chair and clay revisited: each is another light in the same orbit.
BEYAZHE DOESN’T FIT ONE ROLE
Beyaz
TürkülerThe 1999 album where the voice touched folk songs this time.
TürkülerThe 1999 album where the voice touched folk songs this time.
Kardan
AdamWriting in Aktüel; another narrator waiting at the corner.
AdamWriting in Aktüel; another narrator waiting at the corner.
SinemaA face entering the rhythm of other characters in front of the camera.
Jüri
KoltuğuThis time, the side that listens and gives courage rather than narrates.
KoltuğuThis time, the side that listens and gives courage rather than narrates.
Aileler
YarışıyorThe instinct that turns even a quiz table into a conversation table.
YarışıyorThe instinct that turns even a quiz table into a conversation table.
Gece
TavuğuA radio friendship between sleep and wakefulness.
TavuğuA radio friendship between sleep and wakefulness.
Karikatür
& GınaThe paper where the signature was born, humor’s first workshop.
& GınaThe paper where the signature was born, humor’s first workshop.
Seramik
& HeykelThe place where the hand quietly returned after the noise of the screen.
& HeykelThe place where the hand quietly returned after the noise of the screen.
2014 / A SWEET DUEL
BEYAZ
“Your turn.”
A joke that began with a song became a television game answered clip by clip for weeks. There was no winner; only the smile left on the viewer’s face.
VS
A SUNG REPLY / CANDAN ERÇETİN
CANDAN
“The reply is here.”
We do not repeat the lyrics here; we remember the game’s grace through two records, two sentences and an imaginary microphone moving between them.
ŞEY
& ŞEYLER.
In 2026, forgotten belongings at İstanbul Havalimanı became sculpture and installation. The path of the baggage belt joined the knot tied around a finger so something would not be forgotten. Beside the talkative face of the screen, a quiet side that thinks through material appeared again.
LOST & FOUND ART
OBJECT FILE / 01
What does a forgotten thing remember?
Touch one of the objects. Each one will tell not about the owner of a lost item, but about the possibility it awakens in us.
* These small stories are creative interpretations written for the site; they are not the exhibition’s official descriptions.“Şey”, imagined as a permanent sculpture carrying the circular path of the baggage belt and the idea of a knot tied for remembering.
“Şeyler”, left quiet questions about travel, forgetting, ownership and return through an exhibition of lost belongings.
2026 / NEW TABLE, NEW GAMEJOKER
JOKER
on the table.
With “Beyaz’la Joker”, there were four contestants instead of four options, two jokers and plenty of improvisation. Hover over the cards and let the deck open. On Beyaz’s screen journey, the format changes; the eye contact with the audience does not.
First broadcast / 04.01.2026LEFT ON THE TABLELEAVE
LEAVE
a trace.
Turn the dial. Choose a program, move to a song, then leave your small note at the edge of the table.
BEYAZ°96.12 / TABLE•••••••
OPEN FREQUENCYor press P
Show archive
choose a program
> touch a record to choose
From signal to stage
A signature beneath a drawing, a voice dissolving into the night and a face bringing Friday evenings to the same table. This small device opens the quiet records of that journey one turn at a time.
Three small records left around the table.
Remote / in hand
Table / shared
Audience / inside
Song archive
Turn the circle. Each song opens another night; no single record contains the whole story.
small movements, long nights
BEYAZ / TABLE RECORD · 2026
GLADLY
you came home.
BEYAZ • RADIO • CLAY • FRIDAY • TABLE • AUDIENCE • ŞEY • ŞEYLER • JOKER • BEYAZ • RADIO • CLAY • FRIDAY • TABLE • AUDIENCE • ŞEY • ŞEYLER • JOKER •