Moderated by Sabancı University Graduate Emre Başkan, the night was attended by Güler Sabancı, Founding Chair of Sabancı University Board of Trustees, and Prof. Dr. Yusuf Leblebici, President of Sabancı University, in addition to managers of Sabancı Holding Group companies, leading representatives of the business world, Sabancı University alumni, scholarship students, and donors.

The biggest surprise of the night, which was held with the theme of "Make a Promise for the Future", was the small sculptures made of sound waves of the promises made by university students for the future according to the theme. Malhun Tosun, an undergraduate student in the Industrial Engineering Program of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, presented the first of the sculptures on display throughout the night to Güler Sabancı, Founding Chair of Sabancı University Board of Trustees. The sculpture included the sound waves of Malhun's promise for the future, which was "I will prevent the food crisis that may occur in the future by specializing in the field of agricultural economics".

Delivering a speech at the event, Güler Sabancı, Founding Chair of Sabancı University Board of Trustees, said the following:

“Today, there are among us those who graduated from our university and hold important positions in very important companies. This journey is one that is going well. This success is crowned with your achievements. But if we walk together, if you do not forget this place, if you follow this university, make a promise, and give support to young people, we will be stronger. The most asked question in life is which school you graduated from. That brand grows with you. The level that our school has attained in 23 years is thanks to you”.

“You picked the champions!”

On the night, Güler Sabancı also shared a memory she had when Sabancı University was founded in 1999: “When we started our education in 1999, we were visiting the university with our International Board of Overseers Member Chad Holliday. The campus was not completely finished, we had 250 students. He chatted with them. He said that we picked the champions and that we should follow these students and the future well, and that these children have the power to make a change wherever they go. Now is the time for our graduates to follow their universities.”

Güler Sabancı continued as follows: “We set out to establish a world university. You all work in world companies. The greatest wish of the late Sakıp Bey was that our graduates 'be successful wherever they go in the world'. At the point to which the world has come today, we all see how important this is. Now we are paving the way for our young people together by saying “Make a Promise for the Future”.

“More than 55 percent of our students at our university have scholarships”

In his speech, Sabancı University President Prof. Dr. Yusuf Leblebici said: “Currently, there are over 5300 students at our university. 80% of our students are undergraduate and 20% are graduate and doctoral students. This year, according to the results of the Higher Education Institutions Exam, we have included 790 very bright young people, including the student ranking 1st in the exam, among these students. The number of students we received from the first 1000 was 140. We have become the university with the highest score in Turkey in terms of the minimum scores required for admission to faculties. 36 percent of our undergraduate students are accepted as scholarship students as they start our university. This rate further increases to 55 percent with the contribution of need and success scholarships. In other words, more than 55 percent of our students are scholarship students.”

Stating that they are among the universities with the highest number of projects and the highest project budget in Turkey in the field of research, Leblebici said, “We are not content with just being the best university in Turkey anymore, we are continuing our efforts to become one of the leading research universities in the world. We aim to reach more successful and needy young people in our 'Make a Promise for the Future' scholarship program, which is inspired by the promises made by our young people to solve problems for a stronger future and a better world”.

At the “Make a Promise for the Future” event, IRG Corporation Founding Partner Giovanna Guzman, Sabancı University Graduate Syed Hunain Imran, Sculptor Leyla Aktaş Rosenberger, Bulgurcu Foundation Founder Ayşen Bulgurcu, and Sabancı University Graduate Selin Kaya, who are among the Sabancı University scholarship fund donors, each delivered a speech.

Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Art Gallery is hosting two unique students exhibitions. The exhibitions titled Sparks 2022 and Proj 3V.2 (Physical and online) can be seen between 5-28 October 2022.

Proj 3V.2

Following a successful project last year, the Fine Arts Diploma Program, McNally School of Fine Arts, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (VAVCD Program), Sabancı University continues with another online collaborative project activity. Students from both institutions collaborate online and produce artworks with proposed topics for the 2022 showcase at FASS ART Gallery (Sabancı University) and ICAS gallery (LASALLE College of the Arts).

The objective of “Project 3V.2: Visualize, Voice and Vision” 2022 encourages students (artists and designers) to engage in critical analysis collectively, reflection and research to investigate the issues that revolve around social, cultural, historical, environmental, and contemporary artistic practices. The learning approach includes online discussions with students and supervisors from both sides.

In this edition (Spring semester), Project 3V.2 further explore the collaboration between students of both institutions based on the concept of global cities, environment and sustainability through online seminars led by students and advisors. The project’s outcome is showcased at the FASS ART Gallery, Sabancı University and the ICAS Gallery at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

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SPARKS 2022 

Another exhibition that will take place at the Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Art Gallery is SPARKS 2022. SPARKS 2022 continues to adopt the open concept, primarily to accommodate students who intend to realize their imagination and creativity in art, design, and artistic expression with digital media courses (3D Modeling, 3D Animation, Digital Video, Motion Graphics and Art).

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Selçuk Artut’s new exhibition “Geomart-ut7” can be seen at Ataturk Cultural Center between 1-23 October 2022.

Selcuk Artut, who gave information about the exhibition said the following: “Geometric patterns sometimes appear as a reflection of an order we observe in nature, and sometimes as abstract results of an intuitive process that emerges with different techniques applied. The geometric patterns obtained with the help of a simple compass and ruler reveal a prosperous world with their complex structures that appear at different levels in the visual content they offer us and their perfect layout. In the art of geometry, which takes its inspiration from deep abstractions, we encounter some mysterious bridges that are tried to be built between the representation and the imagined. When these bridges are skillfully built, they have a simple structure that allows us to look through a window that leads to absoluteness, repetition, eternity, simplicity, complexity, order, and chaos. In this series of works titled Geomart-ut7, I try to present a transformation where simple geometric forms can gain movement and turn into complex structures in a world of perception where meaning takes its breath away from expression. I wish to make visible the connections between the past's geometric art and the present's generative art, shrouded in mist.”

For the ELAE Stage 2 Results click here.

Exam result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE)*: indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the September 27th ELAE and who have gained the right to start their faculty studies as Fall (regular) Freshman in the 2022-2023 Fall Semester.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have not been able to obtain the required grade in the ELAE on the 27th September, 2022.

NA (Non-attendance): indicates students who did not attend the exam and is equivalent to a “UL” grade.

Grade bands are as below:

Students who do not receive a passing grade will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at either Route 3 or Route 4.

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

Please click to see your result.

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE) : This indicates those students who were successful in the 26th September English Assessment Exam  (Stage 1) and who have the right to take the English Assessment Exam  (Stage 2) on September 27th.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): This indicates those students who were unsuccessful in the 26th September English Assessment Exam. Those who receive an unsatisfactory grade from the English Assessment Exam will be placed at an appropriate level in the 2022-2023 Foundation Development Year based on their exam results.

2022-2023 Academic Year Fall Term-Foundation Development Year Classes will start on Monday, 3rd October 2022. The student class lists and class schedules will be be announced on MySU on Friday, 30^th September 2022 at 3.00 pm. Registration to courses are done by the School of Languages. Students themselves do not need to register to courses.

NA (Non-Attendance): Students who do not take the ELAE “NA” grade will be evaluated as an “UL” grade.

Those students who were successful in the 26th September English Language Assessment Exam  (Stage 1) and who have the right to take the English Language Assessment Exam  (Stage 2) on September 27th can check the details given below.

STAGE 2 DATE, TIMES and PLACE:

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022, 09:30-15:00 (details below) / FENS G077

9:30 – 11:00 Writing

11:00 – 12:00 Listening

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 15:00 Reading

For the identification check to be done in time, we ask that students who will take the exam be at the exam hall half an hour before the exam starts and that they bring some official identification which includes their photograph (such as a passport, identification card, driver’s license) with them. Students should also make sure that they bring a pencil, eraser and any other necessary pieces of equipment with them.

There is no make-up for the ELAE.

The results of the second stage will be announced on the external web page of Sabancı University through the SU web-page. These results will be announced on Wednesday, September 28th at 10:00 pm.

Information about results will not be given out over the telephone to avoid any misunderstanding.

ELAE results are announced as letters of the alphabet. As stated in our regulations, no results are released as numeric values.

The Orientation Program, which the all new undergraduate students of Sabancı University will participate, will be held on September 29-30, 2022. 

Please click to read details of the Orientation Program.

To the attention of students who will take the September 2022 ELAE Stage-1,

STAGE ONE EXAM DATE, TIME AND PLACE

Monday, September 26th, 2022 / 09:30 am – 11:00 am / MDBF (FENS) G077 (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Building)

Important Reminder:

For the identification check to be done in time, we ask that students who will take the exam be at the exam hall half an hour before the exam starts and that they bring some official identification which includes their photograph (such as a passport, identification card, driver’s license) with them.

Students should also make sure that they bring a pencil, eraser and any other necessary pieces of equipment with them.

The results of the Stage 1 will be announced on the external web page of Sabancı University through the SU web-page. These results will be announced on Monday, September 26th at 9:00 pm.

Students who receive  unsatisfactory grade (UL) will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at either Route 1, Route 2 or Route 3.

Students who do not take the exam (NA) will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at Route 1.

Therefore, even if an ELAE candidate feels that their English level is not high enough, they are still advised to take Stage 1 and to answer as many questions as they can so that their English level can be measured accurately.

Students who will take stage 2:

• New entry students those who receive satisfactory grade (SL grade) from ELAE Stage 1,

STAGE 2 DATE, TIMES and PLACE:

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022, 09:30-15:00 (details below) / MDBF (FENS) G077 (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Building)

9:30 – 11:00 Writing

11:00 – 12:00 Listening

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 15:00 Reading

Important Reminder:

For the identification check to be done in time, we ask that students who will take the exam be at the exam hall half an hour before the exam starts and that they bring some official identification which includes their photograph (such as a passport, identification card, driver’s license) with them. Students should also make sure that they bring a pencil, eraser and any other necessary pieces of equipment with them.

The results of the second stage will be announced on the external web page of Sabancı University through the SU web-page. These results will be announced on Wednesday, September 28th at 10:00 pm.

No results will not be given out over the telephone to avoid any misunderstandings.

There is no make-up for the ELAE.

ELAE results are announced as letters of the alphabet.*

SL – Satisfactory from the ELAE,

UL-Unsatisfactory from the ELAE; 

NA- Non-attendance, 

UL – Unsatisfactory. 

As stated in our regulations, no results are released as numeric values.

*SL and UL scales are only available for the second stage of the ELAE

SL (Satisfactory):  ‘A-SL, B-SL, C-SL’,

EL  (Exempt from the ELAE),

UL (Unsatisfactory): D-UL, E-UL, F-UL,

NA (Non attendance/ evaluated as UL)’

 Scales are as below:

Students who receive less than 70% (UL) will be placed in the Foundation Development Year at either Route 3 or Route 4.

Students who are successful in Stage 2 of the exam, those who receive SL, will be eligible to start Faculty classes in the 2022-2023 Academic Year.

We recommend that all students who will take the exam check this link.

We wish you every success in the exam.

School of Languages

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum is now hosting Hussein Chalayan’s new solo exhibition, ‘Souffleur.’ Using new media to focus on the body and modern anthropology, the exhibition consists of three series and a video installation and opened to the public on Friday, 16 September 2022.

The three series presented in the exhibition include Pre-tension, inspired by the concept of pretence that is frequently encountered and criticised in popular culture; Fake Celebrations, which protests our ‘digital isolation’ that increases with each passing day, and Post-Colonial Body, dealing with the dance and bodily movements of ethnic groups colonised by the West throughout history. For Chalayan, each object in these installations acts as a ‘prompter’, filling in the gaps within these subjects. Designed and directed by Chalayan, the film of the performance titled Gravity Fatigue deals with identity, disembodiment, migration, and metamorphosis, all areas of ongoing interest for the artist.

Hussein Chalayan is a unique contemporary figure with an innovative perspective, not only in the fashion world but in every discipline involving a creative process. Inspired by architecture, philosophy, science, history, anthropology, biology, and technology; he is a leading representative of contemporary art and fashion. Named Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards for two consecutive years, Chalayan was awarded an MBE in 2006. He is also the recipient of the London Design Medal and several other awards and titles and was named Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). 

Hussein Chalayan is a storyteller. Aside from his fashion collections, he also makes installations, directs short films, designs stage performances, and designs costumes for the performing arts. Concept and execution, philosophy and wearability, theatricality and technique are all skilfully used and equally balanced in his clothing designs. 

Chalayan’s video installation ‘Absent Presence’ featuring Tilda Swinton, exhibited at the Turkish pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, is a short film that examines the relationship between the geographic environment and the structure of DNA. Since his early years were spent between two different cultures, in Cyprus and the United Kingdom, the concepts of cultural identity, nation-states, displacement, immigration, and disembodiment are frequently encountered in his work. 

‘Souffleur’, a collaboration between the Sakıp Sabancı Museum and Pilevneli, will be on view at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum until 8 January 2023. 

Students who students enrolled at universities other than Sabancı University can apply to the courses offered by Sabancı University to participate as special students.

• To be registered as a student in a higher education institution to be able to take a course from undergraduate level,
• To be able to take a course from graduate level, it is necessary to be a student enrolled in a master, doctorate or proficiency in art program in a higher education institution,

Approval for special student application cannot be considered as the approval of any diploma programs. Transcript on which courses registered and course grades are printed can be given on demand to special students.

Deadline for application: September 16, 2022

2022-2023 Academic Year Fall Term Application Requirements

2022-2023 Academic Year Special Student Application

Sabancı University
Student Resources Unit
Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Cd. No:27
34956 Orhanlı-Tuzla
İSTANBUL, TR

Phone: 0216 483 90 93
Fax: 0216 483 90 73

E-mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu, ssadmission@sabanciuniv.edu

This fall, the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) will host ‘The Living Pyramid,’ a site-specific work by Agnes Denes, a prominent ecofeminist artist. The work will be displayed in the SSM garden between September 13, 2022 - January 29, 2023, with the main sponsorship of Sabancı Holding, and all communications sponsorship by Çimsa.

Denes' artistic practice is distinctive in its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. Her art aims to inspire, and urge people to action, as well as calling attention to social concerns, and involving people from all walks of life by way of a benign, non-invasive artistic practice, that is both gentle yet forceful, without conceding artistic intent. Bringing global awareness to humanity’s most pressing issues, such as environmental pollution and climate change, is reflected in all of Denes’ works. She has spent much of the last forty years putting forth her ecological and philosophical ideas to communities throughout the world.

The Sakıp Sabancı Museum Director, Dr. Nazan Ölçer said: “Agnes Denes, a pioneer of ecological art, is the focus of this year’s exhibition of contemporary art at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, a biannual series that began with the Blind Date exhibition in 2007. The pandemic, which has taken a hold on the entire world for the last two years, has only served to exacerbate our environmental concerns, leading us to question our relationship with the earth. Indeed, with the added responsibilities of our new, green museum certification, we have prioritized this issue even more in our programming. ‘The Living

Pyramid’ was realized in close collaboration with Denes, who has made a name for herself with her large-scale ecological interventions from the 1960s onwards and will be on display in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum garden between September 13, 2022 – January 29, 2023. Denes’ ‘Manifesto,’ which she wrote in 1969, will also be exhibited alongside the pyramid, a structure which ‘revives’ our relationship with nature by acting as a metaphor for our existence in this world.

Agnes Denes (b. 1931, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born American artist based in New York, known for her conceptual work that focuses on ecological concerns. Since her exhibition career began in the 1960s, she has participated in hundreds of exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world. Aside from her large-scale environmental projects, her drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works are in the collections of many major institutions. 'The Living Pyramid' is her first work to be exhibited in Turkey.

The pyramid was planted, in part, by volunteer participants on September 10-11, and it will grow and change shape as thousands of seeds turn into grasses and flowers. Denes’ Manifesto, carved onto a marble slab and produced especially for this exhibition in line with the artist’s wishes, takes its place as a permanent addition to the collection and garden. It is a great source of pride that the esteemed author Buket Uzuner, who for many years has focused on ecological concerns in her work, has accepted our invitation to read the artist’s ‘Manifesto’. I am very grateful to her.

‘The Living Pyramid’ will be activated through accompanying educational programs, promoting environmental awareness, conservation, and sustainability. After the exhibition, the Sakıp Sabancı Museum will continue to embrace Denes’ approach, inviting visitors to adopt the plants. Though the pyramid will disintegrate when members of the community share it among themselves, it will continue to grow and prosper as small parts of the formerly monumental form Denes’ ‘Manifesto’, on the other hand, will live on in the garden as a reminder of ‘The Living Pyramid’, and the micro-community that came together to create it. I would like to thank Sabancı Holding and our communications sponsor Çimsa for their support throughout this valuable and meaningful project.”

Sabancı Holding Human Resources and Sustainability Group President Hakan Timur said: “At Sabancı Holding, we are devoted to the issue of sustainability at the highest level. The fact that we chose ‘For sustainable living, we unite Turkey with the world through pioneering initiatives' as our Community Promise is an excellent indicator of this commitment. With our sustainable growth model that protects nature and an awareness of our power to influence, we work hard to do our part in every issue we undertake. Among them, our initiatives regarding art have a significant place. Art brings us together and creates a collective consciousness. Thus, by supporting ‘The Living Pyramid’ exhibition, we aim to sustain a social awareness that will benefit the environment.”

Çimsa CEO Umut Zenar said: “Carrying the utmost awareness of our responsibility towards our environment and society, we consider the issue of sustainability to be part of our primary strategy and our way of doing business. At Çimsa, we are constantly trying to develop solutions to combat climate change, which is critical for a sustainable future. We also support the work done for this cause, which is why ‘The Living Pyramid’ project has been a production that we have stood behind. We aim to reduce the carbon intensity with the studies we carry out within our organisation and our investments in renewable energy sources.”

On Agnes Denes and ‘The Living Pyramid’...

Driven by an inexhaustible curiosity, Agnes Denes continually expands her ideas, forms, and processes to bring to the surface an almost prophetic vision of the future of humanity. This vision she has created boldly evaluates our reality; but, at the same time, continues to look to the future with hope.

‘The Living Pyramid’ is a site-specific work, first constructed in 2015 at the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York and later at the Nordstadtpark in Kassel as part of documenta 14 in 2017. It can also be thought of as a living sculpture, with a natural life cycle. Made of wooden stepped terraces filled with four tons of earth, the pyramid arcs nine meters into the sky. Planted into its terraces are two thousand plants and flowers belonging to approximately six hundred species, selected in collaboration with the artist from the urban flora of Istanbul, their positions on the pyramid determined by the amount of sun and shade falling on each façade. The pyramid will evolve throughout its public exhibition: the plants will sprout and bloom, some will go to seed, some will die.

Denes’ statement, “While the pyramids are based on mathematics and thus achieve a kind of perfection, they contain all the imperfections they are dealing with or are representing and visualizing,” provides some insight into why she chooses to explore the relationship between humans and nature through the living pyramid. The artist, who has been using the pyramid form as a metaphor in different media from drawing to sculpture for nearly half a century, also uses the form to question the social hierarchies inherent in our perception of the world.

‘The Living Pyramid’ is on view at the SSM until 29 January, 2023.

Children's Workshops

Between 1 October, 2022 – 29 January, 2023; SSM Learning Programs will hold workshops for children from different age groups. The focus will be on environment and ecology.

The programme of conferences and events for adults can be found on the SSM website.

*All children’s workshops and adult events are in Turkish.