School Square Galatasaray

On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, School Square Galatasaray offered a fresh perspective through contemporary art, to this deep-rooted school, which has hosted cultural and artistic events along with being an educational institution encouraging and supporting its students’ artistic tendencies and creativity throughout its history.

The exhibition takes on the name of “school” (mektep) in reference to the name of the institution still remembered as and called “the school” by its graduates even today, to the history of the building and its character as a place of education. This word play thus both references the Galatasaray Square with which the school is inextricably and necessarily intermeshed and envisages the structure of the Galatasaray High School with its garden and surrounding walls as an intellectual square where contemporary artists shall meet and debate.

The site and context-specific works in the exhibition by the artists Elvan Alpay, biriken (Melis Tezkan, Okan Urun), Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Antonio Cosentino, Burak Delier, Hasan Deniz, Cemal Emden, Barış Göktürk, Ali Kazma and Vahit Tuna related to the location, function, history and space of Galatasaray High School by means of painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, sound and performance.

The exhibition catalogue presents three articles, which provides different perspectives on culture of Galatasaray. The curator of the exhibition Çelenk Bafra’s essay on the relationship between the school and the square contextualizes the works in the exhibition. Besim F. Dellaloğlu presents his thoughts about what it means to experience Galatasaray High School. Murat Alat uses his personal experience to contemplate on the idea of school and education in a more general sense.

Publication Date: 2018
Number of Pages: 136
ISBN: 978-605-4642-80-9

7 Foreword
Suna, İnan & İpek Kıraç
 
24 School Square Galatasaray
Çelenk Bafra
 
50 Galatasaray, an Institution of Institutions
Besim F. Dellaloğlu
 
64 Offside
Murat Alat
 
76 Elvan Alpay
 
84 biriken (Melis Tezkan, Okan Urun)
 
90 Hera Büyüktaşçıyan
 
96 Antonio Cosentino
 
102 Burak Delier
 
108 Hasan Deniz
 
114 Cemal Emden
 
118 Barış Göktürk
 
124 Ali Kazma
 
130 Vahit Tuna
 
136 Author Biographies

School Square
Galatasaray

Pera Museum presented a contemporary exhibition exploring the multi-layered architectural, art-historical and sociological significance of the Galatasaray High School on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. 

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