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
Why Man Creates
The Capsule
October 13
18:00 Enter the Void
October 17
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
October 25
The Show of Shows
October 27
12:30 Enter the Void
October 30
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
November 1
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.
Although mythological themes are not commonly encountered in Turkish painting, it is possible to see variations of widespread themes such as the Venus at her Toilet.
Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.
Organized in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, the exhibition explores Giacometti’s prolific life, most of which the artist led in his studio in Montparnasse, through the works of his early period as well his late work, including one unfinished piece. Devoted to Giacometti’s early works, the first part of the exhibition demonstrates the influence of Giovanni Giacometti, the father of the artist and a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter himself, on Giacometti’s output during these years and his role in his son’s development.
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