16 June Monday The museum is closed on Mondays.
Participants who visit the Samih Rifat: “Much Is to Be Done” exhibition are inspired by Samih Rifat's notebooks, notes, drawings and photographs, and the personal and poetic ways of relating to the city. In this workshop, which explores the link between observation and memory, participants design personal memory notebooks in which they interpret their urban experiences through written and visual expressions.
We invite you to explore Marcel Dzama: Dancing with the Moon, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Turkey, accompanied by the exhibition curator Alistair Hicks! The exhibition brings together Dzama’s enchanted universe, where music and dance take center stage, alongside poignant reflections on the chaos brought about by environmental destruction, war, and poor governance.
Luc de Heusch, a passionate literary and cinema figure and a member of the COBRA movement, captured his friends and artists on film. More than just a portrait, this short offers a portal into René Magritte’s dreamlike world, which not only appears in the film but seems to engulf it—turning the entire work into a surrealist object itself.
Pera Classics welcomes Onur Özkaya and friends under the name Der Wiener Kontrabass this June. The concert, themed “Melodies from Vienna”, features works by prominent 18th-century composers such as Carl Friedrich Abel, Joseph Haydn, and Johann Matthias Sperger.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes a curatorial text by Alistair Hicks titled “Bughouse Chess: Bughouse Truth”, delving into Marcel Dzama’s visual language and influences, an insightful interview with the artist conducted by Ulya Soley at his studio in Brooklyn, New York enriched by photographs taken by Civan Özkanoğlu, as well as a comprehensive text by Ezgi Bakçay titled “I Dreamed I Woke Up”
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes Serhan Ada’s curatorial text titled “Much is to be done, alas, time!” and Esra Özdoğan’s text offering a thorough look at Samih Rifat’s photographs titled “Samih Rifat: Before the Death of the Author”, Enis Batur’s commentaries on his poems “Bard of Overlooked Poems”, “In Pursuit of Lost Beauties” by Celal Üster on Samih Rifat’s translations, as well as texts by Orçun Türkay,
The publication accompanying the exhibition features Kinga Rózsa Hamvai's curatorial text and Kerem Ozan Bayraktar's essay, "I Love Order but I Can't Stand It," which takes its title from Vera Molnár's words. Bayraktar's text explores Molnár's practice alongside the historical context of algorithmic art.
