Unplugged
biriken

Performance

September 18, 2018 / 18:30

Art collective biriken performs around their installation “Unplugged” exhibited in Pera Museum’s School Square Galatasaray exhibition. Tackling the relation between breath and memory, “Unplugged” analyses the remains of the 90s with the choreographic performance of a car shaped balloon as the artists accompany the performance with a list from those days.  

Following the performance, curator Çelenk Bafra will be giving a tour of the exhibition. Click here for more info!

About biriken
Founded in 2006 by Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun, biriken works on projects involving drama, video and performance in Turkey and internationally.  biriken’s works deal with today’s reality be it daily, social or conceptual. Throughout their performances, the political is thecritical attitude of the body moving back and forth between fiction and fact, character and the performer, the intimate and the social. There are some recurring patterns in their works such as: identity games, virtual self, local-global and self-space relationship and fragile subjects which are challenged by incessant change. biriken was selected to Future Greats 2018  special listing by Art Review. Venues and festivals where biriken performed so far include:  De Keuze International, Under the Radar Festival, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, iDANS Festival, 13th Sharjah Bienal- BAHAR, Instants Video Festival, Paris Jerk Off Festival, Paris 104, IKSV Theatre Festival, Salt Galata, Ankara International Film Festival, and Zorlu PSM.
 
Free admission, drop in. This event will take place in the auditorium. The performance will be in Turkish.

Temporary Exhibition

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. 

School Square<br> Galatasaray

Happy Republic Day!

Happy Republic Day!

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humorous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.

Game of Mangala

Game of Mangala

Three figures in Eastern dress are shown in repose against an exotic landscape, smoking pipes and playing mangala. Inventories of the royal collections from 1739 identify the members of this group as the royal eunuch Matthias and two odalisques. 

Symbols

Symbols

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