Metrum Ensemble Trio+

Concert

February 21, 2025 / 19:30

Pera Museum welcomes a special concert by Metrum Ensemble Trio+ as part of Calculations and Coincidences. 

The ensemble interprets classical and contemporary works with a unique approach, highlighting that music, like visual arts, contains structured and spontaneous elements. This special performance also features flutist Anna Rákóczy, daughter of Gizella Rákóczy, whose works are displayed in the exhibition. 

The concert offers a musical journey from Western Europe to Hungary, inviting listeners to explore compositional masterpieces from the Renaissance to the present day. 

The concert will take place on the 4th floor of the Pera Museum, in the hall where the exhibition Calculations and Coincidences is displayed. Tickets are 450 TL and can be purchased from Biletix or the Pera Museum reception on the concert day. Seating is unreserved. Pera Museum Friendship Program members may enjoy a 20% discount. The concert is without intermission and lasts approximately one hour. 

About Metrum Ensemble 
Since its debut in 2012, the Metrum Ensemble has been associated with a unique artistic vision and a consistent work ethic, characterising its significant musical achievements and long list of memorable concerts.   

The art of the Metrum Ensemble evokes both playfulness and responsibility. The ensemble members are not afraid to become “co-authors” of classical works, as they perceive every musical act as a contemporary creative process. The musicians are equally attracted by the discovery of the past, playing classical oeuvres as music that has never been performed before, and interpreting the contemporary, performing new music as one belonging to us, waiting to be discovered. Their constant interest in collaboration with contemporary composers has resulted in more than forty world premieres. 

The Metrum Ensemble is always eager to participate in “border-crossing” productions with other branches of creative arts and constantly draws inspiration from unique venues, such as museums, galleries, theatres and churches, that reveal new aspects of the performed pieces. 

Temporary Exhibition

Calculations and Coincidences

Calculations and Coincidences brings together three pioneers of algorithmic art; Vera Molnár, Dóra Maurer and Gizella Rákóczy through their works from the Central Bank of Hungary Collection. The exhibition focuses primarily on the profound influence of Molnar, who was unquestionably among the most significant names in computer art, while tracing how the artistic explorations of Maurer and Rákóczy have expanded the boundaries of abstraction through the integration of algorithms and mathematics.

Calculations and Coincidences

Midnight Horror Stories: The Landlord <br> Hakan Bıçakcı

Midnight Horror Stories: The Landlord
Hakan Bıçakcı

Three people sleeping side by side. On the uncomfortable seats of the stuffy airplane in the air. Three friends. I’m the friend in the window seat. The other two are a couple, Emre and Melisa. I’m alone, they are together. And another difference. I’ve only closed my eyes. They are asleep.

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

The man is depicted in three-quarters view, turning straight to the viewers with a penetrating glance. The background is grey, while the clothes, the hair, and cap are black. 

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

Between 1963 and 1966 Andy Warhol worked at making film portraits of all sorts of characters linked to New York art circles. Famous people and anonymous people were filmed by Andy Warhol’s 16 mm camera, for almost four minutes, without any instructions other than ‘to get in front of the camera’.