ESTABLISHED CONTEMPORARY

Elipsis Gallery

This small photography gallery, opened by Sinem Yoruk in 2007, is tucked away on a leafy street in the newly stylish neighborhood of Karakoy. But don’t let its size fool you. Elipsis has relevance in the broader art world; it even counts the Guggenheim among its followers on Twitter. It has the requisite white walls and charcoal matte floors of a big-city gallery, and when I was there had a show called Edition III that included the work of an art darling: Civan Ozkanoglu, a Turk who now lives in New York. (He is also part of a show at the Museum of Modern Art.) Opening next month is an exhibition featuring digitally reproduced works of the avant-garde photographer Sahin Kaygun, whose medium in the early ’80s was Polaroids.

Elipsis Gallery, Hoca Tahsin Sokaka, Akce Han, 10, Karakoy; elipsisgallery.com.

Rampa Gallery

This gallery sits in a renovated row house in Besiktas, northeast of the old town, nestled in the little hills of the city and facing the Bosporus. Founded in 2010 by the husband-and-wife team of Arif and Leyla Tara Suyabatmaz, it is one of the most renowned galleries in Istanbul. It reliably delivers work by a set of high-priced artists who are no strangers to prestigious art fairs across Europe, and the gallery was part of New York’s Frieze this year. Its next exhibition, called “Open Phone Booth” (and opening Sept. 11), features pieces by the Turkish artists Cengiz Cekil, whose work is part of MoMA’s permanent collection, and Nilbar Gures, who now lives in Vienna.