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La La La Human Steps: A Selection from the Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen / 16 February – 6 May 2012

Sjarel Ex, the director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, made a special selection among more than 140,000 works in their collection for the La La La Human Steps exhibition that will be held at İstanbul Modern on February 16-May 6.

La La La Human Steps focuses on human relationships in today’s world. It revolves around the individuals’ desire to find answers for their own personal problems, while questioning people’s ways of interaction on public realm. With the participation of pioneering artists of contemporary art such as Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Cindy Sherman, together with prominent artists such as Aernout Mik, Yang Fudong, Inez van Lamsweerde, Anri Sala and Cyprien Gaillard, the exhibition will include 53 works by 28 artists from different periods and countries. The exhibition focuses on notions of ‘I’ and ‘We’ in three main contexts, Encounters in History, Personal Encounters and Public Encounters.

Artists: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Yael Bartana, Sebald Beham, Erhard Schön, Niklas Stoer, John Bock, David Claerbout, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Peter Feiler, Yang Fudong, Cyprien Gaillard, Sejla Kameric, Paul Kooiker, Inez van Lamsweerde, Erik van Lieshout, Aernout Mik, Melvin Moti, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Bruce Nauman, Joachim Patinir, Anri Sala, Cindy Sherman, Salla Tykka, Marijke van Warmerdam, Andro Wekua, Guido van der Werve, Sylvie Zijlmans

After Yesterday – From the Photography Collection of İstanbul Modern / 16.02.2012 – 03.06.201

İstanbul Modern is exhibiting “After Yesterday,” a selection of its photography collection gathered since the day the museum was founded. Bringing together modern and contemporary examples from Turkish photography, the show displays the technical and conceptual development of Turkish photography from the Ottoman era to our day. The exhibition is curated by Engin Özendes, director of the Photography Gallery since the day it opened. The exhibition will be held between 16 February and 03 June 2012.

Artists: Abdullah Frères, Cengiz Akduman, Burcu Aksoy, Aziz Albek, Ersin Alok, Arif Aşçı, Tahsin Aydoğmuş, Jak Baruh, Guillaume Berggren, Atila Cangır, İbrahim Coşkun, Nevzat Çakır, İsa Çelik, Orhan Cem Çetin, Gültekin Çizgen, Burhan Doğançay, Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Ahmet Elhan, Kamil Fırat, Baha Gelenbevi, Bennu Gerede, Murat Germen, Ahmet Öner Gezgin, Ara Güler, Gülmez Frères, Sami Güner, Selim Güneş, Mehmet Günyeli, Mihran İranian, Sabit Kalfagil, Mustafa Kapkın, Cengiz Karlıova, Şahin Kaygun, İzzet Keribar, Mehmet Kısmet, Sinan Koçaslan, Sıtkı Kösemen, Paul McMillen, Aslı Narin, Ömer Orhun, Bülent Özgören, Lütfi Özkök, Sedat Pakay, Othmar Pferschy, Rubellin Père & Fils, Sevim Sancaktar, Sébah & Joaillier, Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Atilla Torunoğlu, Cem Turgay, Yusuf Tuvi, Cafer Türkmen, İbrahim Zaman