The Pavilion of Turkey in Venice Biennial will be coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the contribution of the Promotion Fund of the Turkish Prime Ministry, and sponsored by Fiat in 2013, as it was in 2011. Emre Baykal, the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey in the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale was appointed by İKSV's Pavilion of Turkey Advisory Board, consisting of Esra Aysun, Cengiz Çekil, Mine Haydaroğlu, Adriano Pedrosa and Cristiana Perrella.

The first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be held from 13 October to 12 December 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) under the co sponsorship of Eren Holding, Koray Group of Companies, Vestel and VitrA. The deadline for submissions for the two exhibitions, which will be independently curated by the biennial’s curators, Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima within the framework of the biennial theme ‘Imperfection’ (Kusurluluk) is 2 June 2012.

The 13th Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and sponsored by Koç Holding, is set for the autumn of 2013, under the curatorship of Fulya Erdemci. Fulya Erdemci, who is currently Director of SKOR | Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam, will curate the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2013.