Ahu Antmen

Guided Tour

January 21, 2016 / 19:00

With the participation of Ahu Antmen, curator of the exhibition Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting, the tour will offer an opportunity to have a closer look at the exhibition.

Ahu Antmen graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Communications. She obtained an MA in 20th Century Art from London University Goldsmiths College, and completed her PhD on New Approaches in Turkish Art at Mimar Sinan University. She lectures on 20th Century Art, Art Theory and Criticism, Contemporary Art Practice and Contemporary Turkish Art at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts and Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in Istanbul. Her recent publications include Bodies with Identities, Trends in 20th Century Western Art, monographies on Turkish artists Ali Teoman Germaner and Hale Tenger, and the edited volume Art/Gender: Art History and Feminist Criticism

The event is now fully booked - thank you for your interest!

Admission: 30 TL  (Free for Friends of the Museum)
Please email resepsiyon@peramuzesi.org.tr to book your place. Please note that the tour language is Turkish.

 

Temporary Exhibition

Bare, Naked, Nude

Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting aimed to reveal the transformation from the Ottoman Empire into the Republican Era and how the few secretly made paintings at the turn of the 20th century created a new perspective for present times.

Bare, Naked, Nude

Mark Požlep

Mark Požlep

Our Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition focuses on different generations of artists and art groups from the Balkan region. Throughout the exhibition, we keep sharing detailed information about the artworks. Take a look at Mark Požlep’s “Stranger than Paradise” video installation. Also you can check our interview with the artist on our YouTube channel! 

Midnight Horror Stories: <br> Witches’ Sun <br> Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

Midnight Horror Stories:
Witches’ Sun
Mehmet Berk Yaltırık

I walk over rocks hot as iron under the September sun. I can make out a few lines in the distance, and a few cracked rocks, but apart from those, not a single tree, not one plant

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.