"What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed in order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare."
- George Perec
Pera Film’s sixth edition of Hors Pistes Istanbul gathered under the title The Artist vs. Life captures the social and intimate narratives and observations through the personal voyages of eight artists: Narimane Mari, Frank Smith, Gurwann Tran Van Gie, Isabelle Prim, Shanti Masud, Marie Losier, Jonathan Caouette, and Cecile Paris. As each artist explores history, reality, and the subliminal under different visual languages and stories, their common denominator presents itself as a matter of standing against the norms, questioning what has been built up or presented so far within the world of the artist. Such becomes a crucial survival, to live and create in order to make sense, to rationalize, to bring order to a world of chaos, disorder, and turmoil. As Andy Warhol once claimed: “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
February 26
March 12
19:00 Honest Experience
March 20
19:00 Metamorphoses
March 21
13:00 Metamorphoses
15:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
17:00 Everyday Life
March 22
15:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
March 25
19:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
March 26
18:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
19:00 Everyday Life
March 28
14:00 The Film Of Questions
15:30 Honest Experience
17:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
18:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
April 1
19:00 The Film Of Questions
March 12
19:00 Honest Experience
March 20
19:00 Metamorphoses
March 21
13:00 Metamorphoses
15:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
17:00 Everyday Life
March 22
15:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
March 25
19:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
March 26
18:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
19:00 Everyday Life
March 28
14:00 The Film Of Questions
15:30 Honest Experience
17:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
18:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
Tarnation
April 1
19:00 The Film Of Questions
Program Trailer
Our Doublethink Double vision exhibition’s title alludes to George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 and presents a selection that includes Tracey Emin, Marcel Dzama, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, and Thomas Ruff, as well as Turkish artists, tracing the steps of pluralistic thought through works of art.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.
Beliefs surrounding illness and healing in Byzantium stem from the myths, astrology, and magic practiced around the Mediterranean by Jews, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Greeks.
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)
