Pera Museum is one of the main venues for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial A School of Schools. Engaging multigenerational, transdisciplinary practitioners from Turkey and abroad, A School of Schools brings together old and new knowledge, academic and amateur, professional and personal, focusing on the process as much as the outcomes. Pera Film’s program, Life as School presented as part of this biennial aims to reflect on the methodologies and ways of implementation of cohabitation in society and how this trickles down into our private lives. As life is a never ending school, this program hopes to capture the long lasting as well as fleeting moments in our daily colossal existence. The phenomenon of life, approached in several ways may pertain to life as it is known and studied on planet Earth; life imaginable in principle; and life, by hypothesis, that might exist elsewhere in the universe. This selection includes documentaries and fiction films tackling life on earth and how such vast notions play into the abstract as well as the physical. The 4th İstanbul Design Biennial diligently puts it as: “The amount of information in the world is more than doubling every two years. People know more than ever before. Lifelong learning is touted as the only way to keep a job and keep your head. Chalk and talk, and reciting multiplication tables has no chance against the animated distractions in our pockets. Meanwhile, the machines themselves have started learning too. What will be left for humans to do and which mental faculties remain irreplaceable are hot topics. Is it time to go back to school – and redesign it?” Pera Film’s Life as School explores the infinite ways of life and how learning and life are inseparable.
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
September 28
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
21:00 Enter the Void
September 30
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
October 4
19:00 Naqoyqatsi
October 5
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
October 13
18:00 Enter the Void
October 17
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
October 25
19:00 The Show of Shows
October 27
12:30 Enter the Void
October 30
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
November 1
19:00 Enter the Void
November 3
18:00 The Show of Shows
November 4
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
18:00 Naqoyqatsi
September 28
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
21:00 Enter the Void
September 30
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
October 4
19:00 Naqoyqatsi
October 5
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
October 13
18:00 Enter the Void
October 17
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
October 25
19:00 The Show of Shows
October 27
12:30 Enter the Void
October 30
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
November 1
19:00 Enter the Void
November 3
18:00 The Show of Shows
November 4
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
18:00 Naqoyqatsi
Program Trailer
Pera Museum hosted the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). For the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by VitrA, curator Jan Boelen teamed up with Vera Sacchetti as Associate Curator and Nadine Botha as Assistant Curator.
Martín Zapater y Clavería, born in Zaragoza on November 12th 1747, came from a family of modest merchants and was taken in to live with a well-to-do aunt, Juana Faguás, and her daughter, Joaquina de Alduy. He studied with Goya in the Escuelas Pías school in Zaragoza from 1752 to 1757 and a friendship arose between them which was to last until the death of Zapater in 1803.
Nam June Paik was video art’s pioneer (1932 –2006). It is interesting that while Warhol and Nameth were experimenting with psychedelic happenings that combined rock, film and performance, the video art pioneers Nam June Paik, Stephen Beck, Eric Siegel and Steina Vasulka were researching in a similar direction.
Although traditionally used as a medium for functional or decorative objects, ceramic has become a medium that is increasingly used by contemporary. Here is the work of some important contemporary ceramic artists from around the world!
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)
