In this workshop, Ali Taptık, who is contributing to the Istanbuls Today exhibition with the Topographic Nostalgia series, will be accompanied by the artist Beste Kopuz. In the workshop inspired by these questions; “While the city is changing, transforming, being destroyed and rebuilt at a speed that challenges our memory; will our memories, traditions and rituals be able to withstand extinction in these cycles?”, “What is the effect of history on cities in the traces of the past, present and future? In today's world, where the rubble of ruins replaces the places of memories; how can we talk about the lost places, our memories, the past, and protect all these at the same time?”, participants will have the opportunity to rethink the changing and transforming urban life around the concepts of remembering, forgetting, witnessing and protecting.
This workshop will take place on different dates as two interconnected sessions.
Session 1 (March 19): The artists will share the methods and tools of today's urban archivists, starting from their own artistic and research practices, and will look for ways to ventilate the archives.
Session 2 (March 26): Participants will talk about the relationship they have established with archives and memory from the workshop's first session to the second one and present the archives they have prepared.
Related Exhibition: Istanbuls Today
Ages: 18 years and older
Capacity: 12 people
Fee for the two-day workshop program: 300 TL
Fee for the two-day workshop program for students: 150 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum (face-to-face).
For more information: ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr
About Ali Taptık
His art and publishing works focus on issues such as urban landscape and architecture representation, the relationship between the individual and the city, and the relationship between literature and visuality. Accident and Fate (Filigranes Editions, 2009); He has books titled Painting Istanbul - Introduction to Turkey's Visual History (in collaboration with Uğur Tanyeli; Akın Nalça Books, 2010), There are no failed experiments (Atelier de Visu, 2012) and Nothing Surprising (Marraine Ginette, 2015). His works have been exhibited in many institutions including Salt (Istanbul), MAXXI (Rome), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut) and the 14th International Venice Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. He has been running Onagöre since 2017, which he founded, which sets out with the principles of fair sharing and equal voice, and works in the fields of design, research and publishing. Photography and the archival practice that comes with it form the basis of Taptık's approach to his projects. This foundation can be summarized as the search to establish organic links between the past and the future.
About Beste Kopuz
The artist, who produces in a multidisciplinary style, focuses on the city’s history, the memory of the place, and the layered network of relations established with the place by conducting archival studies. The artist believes that one of the most important features of cities is that they cannot be completely destroyed and in any case, have traces of their past. In her productions, she looks for these traces in the city and questions the re-creation of the old with the new. Her studies were exhibited in both local and international platforms such as Mamut Art Project 2017, BASE 2017, CAPTCHA Design Festival, Mixer, Space Debris, and Şehre BAK. In November 2019, she opened her first personal exhibition titled "Kazıklıköy" at Versus Art Project. She joined the Istanbul Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy in 2020 and the Istanbul Biennial Work and Research Program in 2022. She lives in Istanbul and continues her postgraduate education at Hacettepe Fine Arts Institute painting department.
John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Organized in collaboration with the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, the exhibition explores Giacometti’s prolific life, most of which the artist led in his studio in Montparnasse, through the works of his early period as well his late work, including one unfinished piece. Devoted to Giacometti’s early works, the first part of the exhibition demonstrates the influence of Giovanni Giacometti, the father of the artist and a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter himself, on Giacometti’s output during these years and his role in his son’s development.
The second part of exhibition illustrates Alberto Giacometti’s relations with Post-Cubist artists and the Surrealist movement between 1922 and 1935, one of the important sculptures series he created during his first years in Paris, and the critical role he played in the art scene of the period.
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: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
