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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
email: sanatgalerisi@millireasuranssanatgalerisi.com
open every day from 11 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.
except sunday and monday
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