There is no later. Later is here.

There is no later. Later is here. is a group exhibition of works from the Arter Collection, curated by Delfin Öğütoğulları. It opened to visitors on 8 October 2026 in the third-floor gallery of Arter in Dolapdere, Istanbul, and runs until 28 March 2027. Its twenty entries include works by Halil Altındere, Necla Rüzgar, Hrair Sarkissian, Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell. Installation views show video projections, illuminated text panels, wall pieces and works spread across the floor.

The title is borrowed from Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road. In Arter's reading, the book treats the end of the world as a slow thinning of what is real rather than a single final event. The exhibition follows that idea through the tragic, the cinematic and the absurd. It also asks how apocalyptic thinking is manipulated, spread through the media and repeated again and again.

Visitors first meet works that cast them as onlookers. In one, a reporter reads out news of disaster in front of an imagined screen. In another, they face a heap of devices that seem to have been thrown away once everything was over. Sin Wai Kin's video Today's Top Stories (2020), first produced for TANK Shanghai, is the image Arter has chosen to introduce the show.

Further rooms hold images that recall catastrophe but point to a slower, continuing collapse. The curatorial text lists radiation, global warming, hydrocarbons and plastics as forces whose effects will outlast human life on Earth. It recalls that the Greek root of the word apocalypse means an uncovering. One question links the selection: why is the end of the world easier to picture than the end of the systems that wear it down? Entry is free on Thursdays and for visitors under 24.