Türk Music Concerts
“Bimen Şen”

Concert

May 27, 2018 / 15:30

Pera Museum's Turkish Music Concerts series continues with a program celebrating “Bimen Şen”. Programmed by consultant Prof. Dr. Alâeddin Yavaşca and coordinated by Sinan Sipahi, the Turkish Music Concerts highlight great composers and their works, underlining the different periods of Turkish music from the historical, cultural, traditional, sociological, anthropological, philosophical, and literary aspects.

Guest Solists
Adnan Mungan - Demet Gürsoy
 
Musicians  
Osman Nuri Özpekel - Lute    
Taner Sayacıoğlu - Kanun (Zihter)   
Lütfiye Özer - Kemençe  
Volkan Yılmaz - Ney  
Volkan Ertem - Cello
 

Admission 20 TL. Sales at the Museum will begin on the day of the concert. Friends of Pera Museum have a 50% discount. Places are limited.

Midnight Stories: COGITO <br> Tevfik Uyar

Midnight Stories: COGITO
Tevfik Uyar

He had imagined the court room as a big place. It wasn’t. It was about the size of his living room, with an elevation at one end, with a dais on it. The judges and the attorneys sat there. Below it was an old wooden rail, worn out in some places. That was his place. There was another seat for his lawyer. At the back, about 20 or 30 chairs were stowed out for the non-existent crowd.

Jean-Michel Basquiat Look At Me!

Jean-Michel Basquiat Look At Me!

The exhibition “Look At Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection” examined portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos shaped a labyrinth of gazes that invite spectators to reflect themselves in the social mirror of portraits.

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The series of paintings depicting the audience ceremonies of European ambassadors hold a unique place among the works of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour of Valenciennes, who lived in İstanbul from 1699 until his death in 1737.