group exhibiton; "time within us" in istanbul modern museum

27 January 2010 – 16 May 2010

The İstanbul Modern Museum Photography Gallery is mounting an exhibition, “Time Within Us”, which will consist of works by photographers from Turkey, Russia and Greece. A collaborative effort on the part of 3 museums, “Time Within Us” is the first show of its kind opened jointly by the 3 countries.

The exhibition’s photographs were selected by the following: Engin Özendes, the Curator of Istanbul Modern Photography Exhibitions; Olga Sviblova, Director of the Moscow House of Photography; and, Vangelis Ioakimidis, the Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.

“Time Within Us”, consisting of 151 photographs by 15 artists (5 from each country), will be held at Istanbul Modern Photography Gallery, from 27 January to 16 May, 2010. It will also open at the Moscow International Photography Biennial in March 2010 and at the Thessaloniki International Photography Biennial in April 2010.

“Time Within Us” does not aspire to present a comprehensive survey of current photography in Turkey , Russia or Greece. Rather, the aim is to give viewers a closer look at work by artists who are already well established in their own countries. By showing that all of us possess a time and space of our own, within ourselves, “Time Within Us” invites viewers to discover their own “personal time and space”.

At the same time, in the context of the relationship between life and art, the viewer will realize that each of the show’s 15 artists also have “an inner space” of their own, as well as their own individual temporalities and rhythms.

The exhibition will display photographs by artists from the 3 countries, as follows:
• from Turkey, Berk Bilgin, Tolga Özgal, Burcu Göknar, Deniz Açıkalın, and Yusuf Sevinçli;
• from Russia, Petr Lovigin, Georgy Pervov, Tim Parshikov, Natasha Pavlovskaya, and Ivan Mikhailov;
• from Greece, Paris Petridis, Panos Kokkinias, Yiorgos Kordakis, Stratos Kalafatis, and Christina Dimitriadis.