Pera Museum is one of the main venues for the 15th Istanbul Biennale “a good neighbour”. Pera Film’s program, A Place Called Home, formed within the curators Elmgreen and Dragset’s notion of home: “deals with multiple notions of home and neighbourhoods, exploring how living modes in our private spheres have changed throughout the past decades. Home is approached as an indicator of diverse identities and a vehicle for self-expression, and neighbourhood as a micro-universe exemplifying some of the challenges we face in terms of co-existence today.” A Place Called Home brings together films depicting the intricate relationships and stories that people have with their homes. Independent of whether they are from America, Europe or Turkey, people share very similar fates. Urban gentrifications and economic crises are most often what force them to confront dramatic ordeals. Some live under the threat of their neighbours, some experience hardships with the people they live under the same roof, and ultimately these stories, as the biennale, invite one to think about what a “good neighbour” could really mean.
Not only does the necessity for shelter strike us, but also the humane need for belonging and the fear of losing one’s home… these form the common ground for Pera Film’s A Place Called Home program.
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
October 6
21:00 Home
October 7
17:00 Leviathan
October 8
14:00 La Soledad
16:00 99 Homes
October 11
19:00 Straw Dogs
October 13
19:00 Leviathan
October 14
14:00 The Queen of Versailles
16:00 La Soledad
18:00 Home
October 15
13:00 Eastern Boys
16:00 Particle
18:00 The Queen of Versailles
November 2
19:00 Eastern Boys
November 10
19:00 Grey Gardens
21:00 99 Homes
November 11
14:00 Particle
November 12
14:00 Straw Dogs
16:00 Grey Gardens
October 6
21:00 Home
October 7
17:00 Leviathan
October 8
14:00 La Soledad
16:00 99 Homes
October 11
19:00 Straw Dogs
October 13
19:00 Leviathan
October 14
14:00 The Queen of Versailles
16:00 La Soledad
18:00 Home
October 15
13:00 Eastern Boys
16:00 Particle
18:00 The Queen of Versailles
November 2
19:00 Eastern Boys
November 10
19:00 Grey Gardens
21:00 99 Homes
November 11
14:00 Particle
November 12
14:00 Straw Dogs
16:00 Grey Gardens
Program Trailer
Pera Museum hosted the 15th Istanbul Biennial, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding. The 15th Istanbul Biennial brought together artworks by 55 artists from 32 countries, all addressing different notions of home, belonging and neighbourhood.
Louis Isadore Kahn was born in 1901 to a Jewish family in Pärnu, Russia (today Estonia), far from Philadelphia where he spent his whole life, worked, fell in love, and breathed his last. Kahn family emigrated to America when he was five years old.
A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey.
When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
