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MİLLÎ REASÜRANS ART GALLERY



A Distinctive Institutional Gallery:Millî Reasürans Art Gallery

It is a fact that institutional and private galleries have, in the past and today, made significant contributions to Turkish art. Millî Reasürans Art Gallery is an institutional gallery whose name is frequently in the agenda with the exhibitions it helds and the books it publishes.

The story of Millî Reasürans Art Gallery started in October 1994 by Millî Reasürans 's planning a section of its business complex in Teşvikiye, architects of which were Sevinç and Hadi Şandor, for cultural activities, reserving in this section a library, an auditorium and a gallery.

Within the past fourteen years Millî Reasürans Art Gallery has organized more than 100 exhibitions which all had excellent echos in the art circles and were followed with interest. The gallery has published approximately ninety books and catalogues with texts by famous Turkish and foreign authors and art critics.
Millî Reasürans Art Gallery is an institutional gallery which developed a new kind of understanding by organizing for the first time in Turkey extensive retrospective, thematic and foreign exhibitions and is considered today as being among the leading galleries in this field.

Millî Reasürans Art Gallery also organizes exhibitions abroad (Germany, Slovenia, Bosna-Hersek, Georgia, etc.) and the Rural Architecture in the Eastern Black Sea Region exhibition is on show until 11th November at the oldest museum of architecture in the world, the Museum for Finnish Architecture in Helsinki from where the exhibit will travel through Europe.

Retrospective Exhibitions - Books (Monographies and/or Biographies)
Millî Reasürans Art Gallery which has a privileged place among the institutional galleries fills with its activities an important gap in the field of artistic events. It is the leading institution in the art field with the books it publishes and retrospective exhibitions it organized so far of artists such as Kuzgun Acar, Naile Akıncı, Avni Arbaş, Tiraje Dikmen, Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Turan Erol, Neşet Günal, İhsan Cemal Karaburçak, Saim Özeren, Orhan Peker, Nevhiz Tanyeli, Eşref Üren, etc.

Selective Exhibitions of Turkish Artists - Books
Millî Reasürans Art Gallery has given support to Turkish art by organizing exhibitions and publishing books and catalogues of artists such as Murat Aksoy, Rahmi Aksungur, Bilge Alkor, Gülgün Başarır, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Abidin Dino, Sebla Eczacıbaşı, Ali Arif Ersen, Haşim Nur Gürel, Can Göknil, Sedef Hatapkapulu, Mustafa Horasan, Balkan Naci İslimyeli, Azade Köker, Ahmet Oran, Necmettin Özlü, İrfan Önürmen, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, Kemal Seyhan, Emine Sılan, Cengiz Tacer, Filiz Tokcan, Fatma Tülin and İsmail Türemen, Mustafa Okan, Gül Ilgaz.

Thematic Exhibitions
In Turkish art history there is great need for thematic exhibitions furnishing information and research about various periods, facts and important artists: information and documents disappear so easily. In the Western world such activities are generally organized by museums and institutes. In this respect the exhibition and publications by Millî Reasürans Art Gallery called "Yurt Gezileri" (Country Tours) and "Yurt" (Country) paintings (1938-1943)", "The Nude", "Rural Architecture in the Eastern Black Sea Region", "18th-19th Century Anatolian Kilims-Brigitte and Ayan Gülgönen Collection", ".with regard to" by EAA Achitecture and Haymatloz and Baumschlager Eberle, Bülent Erkmen are good examples.

Cultural Activities
In recent years institutional galleries also made exhibitions and publications regarding cultural and social themes in an interdisciplinary environment using paintings, photographs, graphics, etc. The exhibitions and publications by Millî Reasürans Art Gallery in honour of the 75th anniversary of the Turkish Republic and the documentary exhibition, video-film and the book: "Thinking for Atatürk - Two Architects: Bruno Taut and Emin Onat, Two Works of Art: The Catafalque and the Mausoleum" in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Afife Batur are good examples in this field. This exhibition has drawn significant attention of the public as it was the first complete monography written in respect of both the Catafalque of Atatürk, the Mausoleum and its architects, Bruno Taut and Emin Onat, important architects in Turkish and German architectural history. The exhibition was also shown in Cyprus, Bursa, Gaziantep and in various cities of Germany. Also, the exhibition called "Istanbul: City where faiths meet" organized by Millî Reasürans Art Gallery has attracted considerable attention not only in Turkey but also abroad.

Important foreign exhibitions
In Turkey, channels with today's world art are nearly non existent. Millî Reasürans Art Gallery is also in this field an avant-garde institution with exhibitions of "Léopold -Lévy", "The Major Tradition and Italian Painting in the Nineties", "Maeght Collection: Black is a Colour", "Charlotte Salomon", "Norbert Kricke", "Max Ernst", "Sigmar Polke", "German Fashion Photography: 1945-1995", "Erwin Bohatsch", "Günter Grass", "Günther Uecker", "Jochen Proehl", "WOLS" and "Distance and Near: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich, Itinerarios Afines : Alberto Garcia- Alix, Bleda& Rosa, Ferran Frexia, Cristobal Hara, Ouka Lee, Chema Madoz, Angel Marcos, Xavier Ribas, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Javier Vallhonrat. "


Milli Reasürans Art Gallery
Maçka Cad. No: 35
Teşvikiye - Şişli 34367 İstanbul


Telephone :
00 90 - 0212 230 19 76
00 90 - 0212 219 62 58

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except sunday and monday

 

 

'New Trends in Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific'
is on view at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery

 

  • Milli Reasürans Art Gallery is taking part in Istanbul 2010 Capital Culture of Europe events with the exhibition 'New Trends in Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific'. The exhibition is also included in the events of '2010 Japanese Year in Turkey'.
  • Organised by Arkitera Architecture Center, sponsored by 2010 İstanbul Capital of Culture Agency and supported by Buildist, the exhibition 'New Trends in Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pasific'  is on view at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery between March 9 - April 10, 2010.
  • In the exhibition where the unique and outstanding designs of architects from 8 countries in Europe and 7 countries in Asia-Pacific are shown together, Han Tümertekin  is also represented.
  • Within the context of the exhibition, a panel is organised in Milli Reasürans Auditorium on Tuesday, March 9 at 4 p.m. Guest speakers: Han Tümertekin, Mun Summ Wong from Singapore, Reinhard Kropf from Norway, Bernardo Rodrigues from Portugal and Tatsuya Yamamote, the Japanese architect who works in Istanbul.
  • The exhibition will be inaugurated by Şevkip Avgadiç,  President of  Istanbul 2010 Capital of Culture Agency.
  • A bilingual publication (Turkish and English) including the text of  Sir Peter Cook and  Toyo Ito, curators of the exhibition,  is available during the exhibition period at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery.

The exhibition 'New Trends in Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific' which was initiated in 2001 by a group of cultural and press counsellors to Japan of the then fifteen EU memberstates, European cultural institutes, and a delegation of the European Commission to Japan with the aim of creating opportunities to share ideas and experiences between Europe and Japan, will have its final launching in Istanbul.

Sir Peter Cook and Toyo Ito, curators of the exhibition, made a selection of unique and outstanding projects of architects from 8 countries in Europe and 7 countries in Asia-Pacific which are being shown together. 

The exhibition was already hosted in 18 cities including Tokyo, Salamanca, Bordeaux, Lizbon, Madrid, Lille, Hong Kong, Cork, Melbourne, Anyang, Porto, Patras, Perth, Barcelona, Luxembourg and Niiagata.


Within the context of the exhibition, a panel is organised with Ömer Kanıpak as moderator and Han Tümertekin, Reinhard Kropf from Norway, Bernardo Rodrigues from Portugal and Mun Summ Wong from Singapore as well as the Japanese Architect Tatsuya Yamamoto who works in Istanbul, as guest speakers.

The participating Architects/Architecture Offices of the Exhibition:
France: Herault Arnod Architectes, UK: CJ Lim/Studio 8 Architects,  Spain: Izaskun Chinchilla, Arqchitects, Portugal: Bernardo Rodrigues, Arcquitecto, Norway: Helen&Hard AS, Hungary: Adam Somlai-Fischer, Austria: Wolfgang Tschapeller Architects, Turkey: Han Tümertekin, Japan: Sou Fujimoto, China: Zhu Xiaofeng / Scenic Architecture, Korea: Moongyu Choi + GA.A Architects Taiwan: Yu-Tung Liu/AleppoZONE, Singapure: Woha, Australia:




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