No Admittance Except on Business is a group exhibition at Salt Galata in Istanbul, on view from 17 October 2026 to 14 February 2027. Nine artists, four of them working in pairs, fill several floors of the building. They show drawings, archives, documentation and collaborative projects about factories and the people who work in them. The show's image is one of Merve Bedir's drawings for Near Miss (2026).

The starting point is the workplace, a space that shapes daily life yet stays closed to anyone without a reason to enter. After 1980 many factories left the centres of cities as manufacturing was reorganised worldwide. Old plants were replaced by housing, malls and cultural buildings, while production shifted to the edges of cities, organised industrial zones and logistics hubs. The exhibition follows this change at four scales: the body of the worker, the workplace itself, the city and the networks that move goods around the world.

Merve Bedir looks at how bodies and labour are optimised and automated, and at how this reshapes the bond between people, machines and the spaces they occupy. Kamil Dalkır and Sibel Karadağ study recycling yards in Istanbul that process waste shipped from Europe, and the harm this work does to those who sort it. belit sağ turns to the privatisation and closure of the Sümerbank Bakırköy Cloth Factory, setting the claim that state factories were a "burden" against the injuries of the workforce. Dilşad Aladağ traces the Simyonoğlu Factory, which became the National Factory and then a museum, through official records, local accounts and personal memory.

Metehan Özcan has built an archive from found material such as job advertisements and factory yearbooks, raising questions about home and work in modernist buildings. Sultan Gökdemir records the workers' protests that spread across Turkey in 1989. Tamar Levit and Yaën S. Levi address the rights of textile workers who produce for global supply chains, in a project made with the choir Çalışan Eller [Toiling Hands] and Neval Tarım. The programme is by Eylül Şenses, with Aslı Odman and Görkem Akgöz as advisors; the two advisors lead a tour of the exhibition at 4pm on 17 October.