Türk Music Concerts
“Bimen Şen”

Concert

May 27, 2018 / 15:30

Pera Museum's Turkish Music Concerts series continues with a program celebrating “Bimen Şen”. Programmed by consultant Prof. Dr. Alâeddin Yavaşca and coordinated by Sinan Sipahi, the Turkish Music Concerts highlight great composers and their works, underlining the different periods of Turkish music from the historical, cultural, traditional, sociological, anthropological, philosophical, and literary aspects.

Guest Solists
Adnan Mungan - Demet Gürsoy
 
Musicians  
Osman Nuri Özpekel - Lute    
Taner Sayacıoğlu - Kanun (Zihter)   
Lütfiye Özer - Kemençe  
Volkan Yılmaz - Ney  
Volkan Ertem - Cello
 

Admission 20 TL. Sales at the Museum will begin on the day of the concert. Friends of Pera Museum have a 50% discount. Places are limited.

Museum of Shedding <br> Dayanita Singh

Museum of Shedding
Dayanita Singh

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.

 

The Conventions of Identity

The Conventions of Identity

The exhibition “Look At Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection” examined portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos shaped a labyrinth of gazes that invite spectators to reflect themselves in the social mirror of portraits.

Sea Baths

Sea Baths

It is understood from Evliya Çelebi’s well-known Book of Travels that the history of sea baths goes as far back as the 17th century; their acceptance and popularization take place in mid-19th century as a result of Westernization, among other things.