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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 (

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...

It’s better to burn out than to fade away

It’s better to burn out than to fade away

In 1962 Philip Corner, one of the most prominent members of the Fluxus movement, caused a great commotion in serious music circles when during a performance entitled Piano Activities he climbed up onto a grand piano and began to kick it while other members of the group attacked it with saws, hammers and all kinds of other implements.

From Cypresses to Turkish Landscapes

From Cypresses to Turkish Landscapes

Among the most interesting themes in the oeuvre of Prassinos are cypresses, trees, and Turkish landscapes. The cypress woods in Üsküdar he saw every time he stepped out on the terrace of their house in İstanbul or the trees in Petits Champs must have been strong images of childhood for Prassinos. 

Introducing… Turkish coffee!

Introducing… Turkish coffee!

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humourous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.