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Young Expansion in Contemporary Turkish Art

June 8 - September 30, 2005

The Young Expansion in Contemporary Art exhibition opened as one of the events organised in association with the International Art Association's Third European General Assembly, which was held at Pera Museum, June 16th -18th, 2005. The exhibition presented works by 61 artists, all under the age of 35.

Exhibition Concept and Design: Mehmet Güleryüz

Artists: Serkan Adın, Murat Akagündüz, Neslinur Akgün, Burcu Aksoy, Murat Aksoy, Ömer Yiğit Aral, Burcu Arısoy, Ansen Atilla, Deniz Aygün, Can Aytekin, Yahya Bağcı, Tufan Baltalar, Ragıp Bazmazölmez, Banu Birecikligil, Berna Bermek, Antonio Cosentino, Seçil Çeliktürk, Yunus Emre Dokumacı, Nermin Er, Burçin Erdi, Yasemin Erdin, Hümeyra Erkmen, Tuğrul Emre Feyzoğlu, Leyla Gediz, Deniz Gül, Nilbar Güreş, Seda Hepsev, İlke İlter, Gülveli Kaya, Serpil Kapor Kılıç, Huri Kiriş, Veysel Kurucu, Sevil Kutlu, Nuri Kuzucan, Erdem Küçükköroğlu, Nathalie Mamboury, Mustafa Orkun Müftüoğlu, Enis Özbek, Dilek Alkan Özdemir, Mehmet Özen, Pelin Özgöçen, Erhan Özışıklı, Aslı Özok, Burcu Perçin, Seçkin Pirim, Ahmet Polat, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Çağrı Saray, Barış Sarıbaş, Nursel Sarıkaya, Seçil Solak, Şevket Sönmez, Hasan Şahbaz, Başak Leman Şimşek, Emre Tandırlı, Yasemin Nur Toksoy, Aslı Torcu, Ayça Tüylüoğlu, Alpaslan Uçar, Yasemin Yılmaz, Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu.

 

Exhibition Catalogue

Young Expansion (

Young Expansion (

Young Expansion ( exhibition opened as one of the activities organised on the occasion of the International Art Association's Third European General Assembly that was held at Pera Museum...

Modernity Building the Modern / Reshaping the Modern

Modernity Building the Modern / Reshaping the Modern

A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey.

The Golden Horn

The Golden Horn

When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.

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.