gallery 4
curated by Hou Hanru with curatorial and research MAXXI team
A passionate work of research, a thoughtful debate on the XXI century’s first decade through the MAXXI’s point of view.
In 2020, MAXXI celebrates its first 10 year anniversary. It is an opportunity to reflect on the identity of the museum, to retrace the path taken in the past years and set a direction for the future. The exhibition, which pivots around five major themes, is conceived as an analysis of the development of MAXXI in response to the great challenges of our time. It does not wish to be a self-referential overview of the museum’s exhibitions, but an “intangible” reinterpretation in a perspective that lays the foundations of a “story for the future”.
Thousands of images, videos, sounds and words are presented according to thematic and chronological criteria. Multimedia installations in an exhibition curated by the Dutch studio Inside-Outside by Petra Blaisse, which is recognised worldwide for its innovative contribution in the design of exhibitions and landscape architecture, creating an immersive environment focused on a multisensory experience. An oral history of the MAXXI’s journey is created through the presentation of the words of the artists, curators and the museum staff
MAXXI's First Decade.
MAXXI presents the engaging, immersive and radical exhibition/installation, that marks the museum's tenth anniversary. Conceived as a journey through the history of this institution, the project aims at creating new ideas and visions of the future, underlining the intense relationship between artistic creation and the evolution of the contemporary world.
On the same occasion, The Independent Wall, a research project dedicated to independent thought and practice, will be inaugurated.
Güneş Terkol, 1981
Against the Current, 2013
Embroidery on fabric
200 x 265 cm
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Collection
Acquired by the Women Artists Fund.
Members of the Women Artists Fund
Mehveş Arıburnu, Işık Keçeci Aşur, Berrak Barut, Banu Çarmıklı, Oya Eczacıbaşı,
Hatice Meriçten, Beril Miskavi, Meltem Demirören Oktay, Ebru Özdemir, Nesrin Sarıoğlu, Müge Sevil, Rana Erkan Tabanca, Türkan Özilhan Tacir