MARCEL DZAMA
Dancing with the Moon

With a little help from his friend Raymond Pettibon

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The exhibition titled “Dancing with the Moon” features drawings, sculptures and videos by Winnipeg-born New York-based artist Marcel Dzama, offering a glimpse into the artist’s lyrical, magical, humorous and often exaggerated telling of peculiar yet relevant stories. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition emerges from the artist’s colourful imaginative world centred on music and dance to address significant global issues such as the failures of governance, environmental destruction, and the calamities caused by wars.

The catalogue accompanying the exhibition includes a curatorial text by Alistair Hicks titled “Bughouse Chess: Bughouse Truth”, delving into Marcel Dzama’s visual language and influences, an insightful interview with the artist conducted by Ulya Soley at his studio in Brooklyn, New York enriched by photographs taken by Civan Özkanoğlu, as well as a comprehensive text by Ezgi Bakçay titled “I Dreamed I Woke Up” that reveals the many unique ways Dzama’s work can be conceptualised throughout art and cultural history.

Publication Date: 2025
Number of Pages: 144
ISBN: 978-625-94734-4-4

7: Foreword
Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation

25: Bughouse Chess: Bughouse Truth. Why do we need Dzama now?
Alistair Hicks

64: An Organized Chaos: At Marcel Dzama’s Studio
Ulya Soley

107: I Dreamed I Woke Up
Ezgi Bakçay

MARCEL DZAMA
Dancing with the Moon

Pera Museum is pleased to present Marcel Dzama’s first solo exhibition in Turkey, surveying the artist’s unique approach and compelling storytelling. The exhibition curated by Alistair Hicks, emerging from the artist’s colourful imaginative world that is centred on music and dance, is made up of works that address the failures of governance we are currently subjected to, environmental destruction, and the calamities caused by war.