EXHIBITION KITS
13 September - 22 December 2019
Beyond The Vessel: Myths, Legends, and Fables in Contemporary Ceramics around Europe

Beyond the Vessel: Myths, Legends, and Fables in Contemporary Ceramics around Europe demonstrates how ancient myths from various cultures have echoed down generations and inspired an exciting new wave of contemporary art. The exhibition showcases clay, a material often used simply to manufacture vessels and other utilitarian objects, manifesting its prolific and versatile rhetoric in the hands of artists with exceptional skill and vision, expressing human emotion in the greatest degree of subtlety. While some artists in the exhibition do not kiln-dry clay, others use found shards of ceramic to develop their works.

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7 February - 1 November 2020
Alexis Gritchenko: The Constantinople Years

Meşher’s second exhibition Alexis Gritchenko: The Constantinople Years marks the 100th anniversary of Alexis Gritchenko’s stay in Istanbul by bringing together—for the first time ever—over 150 watercolors, charcoal drawings, gouache and oil paintings by Gritchenko depicting the Istanbul of that period.

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16 November 2020 - 1 August 2021
Preserving The Past: A Selection from the Sadberk Hanım Museum

Meşher’s third exhibition, Preserving the Past, brings a selection of works from the Sadberk Hanım Museum, celebrating its 40th anniversary, to Beyoğlu. Curated by art historian and the museum’s director Hülya Bilgi, the exhibition offers a journey through the history of Anatolian civilizations with over 200 remarkable artifacts selected from the Archaeology and Turkish-Islamic Arts sections of the museum.

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9 October 2021 - 27 March 2022
I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women

I-You-They: A Century of Artist Women features a selection of works by artist women who lived and worked in Turkey between roughly the 1850s and the 1950s. Realized under the patronage of Çiğdem Simavi and curated by Deniz Artun, the exhibition derives its name from one of Şükran Aziz’s exhibited works. The exhibition not only recognizes each woman, most of whom could not realize themselves and therefore were overlooked and neglected by art history, but also searches for the grounds for making a collective “we”.

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