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
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
Grey Gardens
21:00 99 Homes
November 11
14:00 Particle
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.
Berggren acquires the techniques of photography in Berlin and holds different jobs in various European cities before arriving in İstanbul. Initially en route to Marseille, he disembarks from his ship in 1866 and settles in İstanbul, where he is to spend the rest of his life.
John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
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