Pera Museum is one of the main venues for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial A School of Schools. Engaging multigenerational, transdisciplinary practitioners from Turkey and abroad, A School of Schools brings together old and new knowledge, academic and amateur, professional and personal, focusing on the process as much as the outcomes. Pera Film’s program, Life as School presented as part of this biennial aims to reflect on the methodologies and ways of implementation of cohabitation in society and how this trickles down into our private lives. As life is a never ending school, this program hopes to capture the long lasting as well as fleeting moments in our daily colossal existence. The phenomenon of life, approached in several ways may pertain to life as it is known and studied on planet Earth; life imaginable in principle; and life, by hypothesis, that might exist elsewhere in the universe. This selection includes documentaries and fiction films tackling life on earth and how such vast notions play into the abstract as well as the physical. The 4th İstanbul Design Biennial diligently puts it as: “The amount of information in the world is more than doubling every two years. People know more than ever before. Lifelong learning is touted as the only way to keep a job and keep your head. Chalk and talk, and reciting multiplication tables has no chance against the animated distractions in our pockets. Meanwhile, the machines themselves have started learning too. What will be left for humans to do and which mental faculties remain irreplaceable are hot topics. Is it time to go back to school – and redesign it?” Pera Film’s Life as School explores the infinite ways of life and how learning and life are inseparable.
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
September 28
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
21:00 Enter the Void
September 30
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
October 4
19:00 Naqoyqatsi
October 5
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
October 13
18:00 Enter the Void
October 17
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
October 25
19:00 The Show of Shows
October 27
12:30 Enter the Void
October 30
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
November 1
19:00 Enter the Void
November 3
18:00 The Show of Shows
November 4
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
18:00 Naqoyqatsi
September 28
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
21:00 Enter the Void
September 30
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
October 4
19:00 Naqoyqatsi
October 5
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
October 13
18:00 Enter the Void
October 17
19:00 Madeline's Madeline
October 25
19:00 The Show of Shows
October 27
12:30 Enter the Void
October 30
19:00 Why Man Creates
The Capsule
November 1
19:00 Enter the Void
November 3
18:00 The Show of Shows
November 4
14:00 Koyaanisqatsi
16:00 Powaqqatsi
18:00 Naqoyqatsi
Program Trailer
Pera Museum hosted the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). For the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by VitrA, curator Jan Boelen teamed up with Vera Sacchetti as Associate Curator and Nadine Botha as Assistant Curator.
1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.
Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined.
As artisanship became a part of artistic practices with the blurring of art and craft, the use of traditional motifs has also flourished. In this context, how are these motifs currently structured or designed beyond their traditional connotations?
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
