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Young Expansion in Contemporary Turkish Art

June 8 - September 30, 2005

The Young Expansion in Contemporary Art exhibition opened as one of the events organised in association with the International Art Association's Third European General Assembly, which was held at Pera Museum, June 16th -18th, 2005. The exhibition presented works by 61 artists, all under the age of 35.

Exhibition Concept and Design: Mehmet Güleryüz

Artists: Serkan Adın, Murat Akagündüz, Neslinur Akgün, Burcu Aksoy, Murat Aksoy, Ömer Yiğit Aral, Burcu Arısoy, Ansen Atilla, Deniz Aygün, Can Aytekin, Yahya Bağcı, Tufan Baltalar, Ragıp Bazmazölmez, Banu Birecikligil, Berna Bermek, Antonio Cosentino, Seçil Çeliktürk, Yunus Emre Dokumacı, Nermin Er, Burçin Erdi, Yasemin Erdin, Hümeyra Erkmen, Tuğrul Emre Feyzoğlu, Leyla Gediz, Deniz Gül, Nilbar Güreş, Seda Hepsev, İlke İlter, Gülveli Kaya, Serpil Kapor Kılıç, Huri Kiriş, Veysel Kurucu, Sevil Kutlu, Nuri Kuzucan, Erdem Küçükköroğlu, Nathalie Mamboury, Mustafa Orkun Müftüoğlu, Enis Özbek, Dilek Alkan Özdemir, Mehmet Özen, Pelin Özgöçen, Erhan Özışıklı, Aslı Özok, Burcu Perçin, Seçkin Pirim, Ahmet Polat, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Çağrı Saray, Barış Sarıbaş, Nursel Sarıkaya, Seçil Solak, Şevket Sönmez, Hasan Şahbaz, Başak Leman Şimşek, Emre Tandırlı, Yasemin Nur Toksoy, Aslı Torcu, Ayça Tüylüoğlu, Alpaslan Uçar, Yasemin Yılmaz, Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu.

 

Exhibition Catalogue

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Young Expansion ( exhibition opened as one of the activities organised on the occasion of the International Art Association's Third European General Assembly that was held at Pera Museum...

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.

Cameria (Mihrimah Sultan)

Cameria (Mihrimah Sultan)

Based on similar examples by the European painters in various collections, this work is one of the portraits of Mihrimah Sultan, who was depicted rather often in the 16th century.

The Captive Sultan

The Captive Sultan

The war fought by the Greeks to shake off the Turkish yoke was closely observed around Europe and, this being the era of romanticism, the events taking place around Greece between 1821 and 1832 became a symbol for national liberation struggle.