"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
06:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
March 12
07:00 Honest Experience
March 20
07:00 Metamorphoses
March 21
13:00 Metamorphoses
15:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
17:00 Everyday Life
March 22
03:00 The Affaire’s Prompter
March 25
19:00 Alan Vega, Just A Million Dreams
19:00 Tarnation
March 26
06:00
Cecile Paris
Selected Videos
07:00 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
18:00 Tarnation
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
19:00 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
18:00 Tarnation
April 1
19:00 The Film Of Questions
Program Trailer
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.
Among the most interesting themes in the oeuvre of Prassinos are cypresses, trees, and Turkish landscapes. The cypress woods in Üsküdar he saw every time he stepped out on the terrace of their house in İstanbul or the trees in Petits Champs must have been strong images of childhood for Prassinos.
Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined. Through the exhibition, we will be sharing detailed information about the artist and the artworks.
Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 19.00
Sunday 12.00 - 18.00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 25 TL
Discounted: 10 TL
Groups: 20 TL (10 people or more)
