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Light as a Feather
The Art of Weights and Measures Exhibition Tour
May 23, 2025 / 18:30

Egyptians weighed the goods on their scales and people’s sins. To the Egyptians, the heart was the source of human wisdom and the centre of emotions and memory. In the rite of the weighing of the heart, the deceased's heart was weighed on the scale against the feather of the goddess Maat, who personified order and truth.The guided tour explores the Art of Weights and Measures exhibition from a thematic perspective. The tour examines Anatolia's social and economic history spanning four millennia through metaphors shaped around the concepts of weights and measures.

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Hide or Emerge: Papier-Mâché Masks
May 25, 2025 / 12:00

Inspired by Marcel Dzama's world of masks, disguises and fictional characters, this workshop invites participants to step into the playful universe of papier-mâché and create their unique masks. During the two-day workshop, the papier-mâché technique is introduced and basic shaping and painting methods are practiced. Participants get to know the material and design a personal mask that they can use to “hide” or, on the contrary, to “emerge” in a completely different way.

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The Salt of the Earth
May 23, 2025 / 19:00

The Salt of the Earth, directed by visionary filmmaker Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, son of Sebastião Salgado, offers a unique opportunity to observe the world's significant social, economic, and environmental changes through the perspective of the world-renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.

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The Great Barrier Reef
May 17, 2025 / 15:00

This unique documentary by Pierre Levie reveals life on land and underwater at the Great Barrier Reef. Filmed during an expedition lasting over five months, it captures not only the rich oceanic flora and fauna but also the technical equipment used to record these rare, now-vanished images.

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MARCEL DZAMA
Dancing with the Moon
With a little help from his friend Raymond Pettibon

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”

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SAMİH RİFAT  "Much Is to Be Done"
photographs, films, drawings, poems, notebooks, books, and music…

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,

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Calculations and Coincidences

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.

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The museum is closed on Mondays.

Young Wednesday

On Wednesdays, the students can

visit the museum free of admission.

ENTRANCE FEES

Full ticket: 300 TL

Discounted: 150 TL

Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)

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