Cold Front from the Balkans

Curator's Tour

March 16, 2017 / 18:30

Join us for a guided tour of the Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition with the co-curator Alenka Gregorič. The tour will offer a unique insight to the works of the exhibition.

Alenka Gregorič is an art historian, curator and writer. She previously worked as artistic director of Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana and currently she is the artistic director and curator at City Art Gallery Ljubljana and CC Tobacco 001. In 2009 she was the curator of Slovenian pavilion at Venice Biennial and co-curator of 28th Graphic Biennial in Ljubljana, and in 2011 she was co-curator of the 52nd October Salon in Belgrade, in 2014 one of the curators for the Curated by Vienna. Her various curated exhibitions featured works by artists such as Vuk Ćosić, Jan Fabre, Omer Fast, Harun Farocki, Vadim Fiškin, IRWIN, Jannis Kounellis, Rabih Morue, Ivan Moudov, Dan Perjovschi, Marjetica Potrč, Mladen Stilinović, Raša Todosojević, Bill Viola, Katarina Zdjelar and many others. In addition she has written numerous essays, reviews and articles for various artist books, catalogues and other publications. 

The tour will be in English with consecutive Turkish translation.

Admission: 30 TL  (Free for Friends of the Museum) 
Tickets can be purchased on Biletix. Or to book please e-mail: resepsiyon@peramuzesi.org.tr
Places are limited. 

Temporary Exhibition

Cold Front from the Balkans

Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brought together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

Cold Front from the Balkans

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Published as part of Pera Learning programs, “The Little Yellow Circle (Küçük Sarı Daire)” is a children’s book written by Tania Bahar and illustrated by Marina Rico, offering children and adults to a novel learning experience where they can share and discover together.

Girl in a Blue Dress

Girl in a Blue Dress

This life-size portrait of a girl is a fine example of the British art of portrait painting in the early 18th century. The child is shown posing on a terrace, which is enclosed at the right foreground by the plinth of a pillar; the background is mainly filled with trees and shrubs. 

Chlebowski’s Sultan

Chlebowski’s Sultan

This is one of Stanisław Chlebowski’s larger canvasses dealing with themes other than battles; only Ottoman Life at the Sweet Waters now at the Istanbul Military Museum can compare with it in size.