The Baksı Museum Project in northeastern Bayburt province is primed to have a good time its 20th 12 months with a wealthy program accentuating its function in including up to date museology to the map of cultural belongings of Anatolia.
According to an announcement by Baksı Museum, a one-year-long program, beginning in July, options new exhibitions, workshops, scholarships, movie screenings and live shows, in addition to an award program open to people and establishments producing tasks within the area of tradition and humanities.
Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, the founder of the Baksı Culture and Art Foundation and Baksı Museum, stated the 20th 12 months program is impressed by the cultural heritage and creativity of Anatolia. Koçan famous that the journey of Baksı, which started with the primary groundbreaking for the development of the museum in July 2000, has continued uninterrupted since then, including: “Baksı is rising and creating with new stops added. Over the final 20 years, we now have made it a precept to maintain our doorways open to variations, similar to Anatolia itself. We have eliminated the excessive partitions between artwork and craft. We don’t restrict ourselves to being a mere museum. We have created a brand new mannequin primarily based on kids’s artwork schooling, girls’s employment, regional improvement and enhancing high quality of life. This understanding continues to make clear all our tasks from previous to current.”
Şakir Gökçebağ’s exhibition “Aşina” (Familiar), consisting of the artist’s sculptures and installations that rework acquainted and on a regular basis objects into new kinds with a powerful model, will proceed till the top of July. Also, three new exhibitions will probably be opened successively throughout the framework of Baksı’s 20th-year program in October. The first exhibition titled “20 works for the 20th 12 months” will meet the viewers on the Depo Museum, that includes the unique works of 20 artists and designers, specializing in how masks have joined the indispensable gadgets of on a regular basis life in the course of the pandemic. The works of the artists concentrate on masks each as a way of use and an idea. Among the taking part artists are Mustafa Horasan, İrfan Önürmen, Mike Berg, Alp İsmen, Beyza Boynudelik, Mehmet Dere, Fırat Engin, Ferhat Özgür, Gülcan Şenyuvalı, Halit Berker, Özlem Süer, Simay Bülbül, Merve & Kerem Ariş (uniqka), Hatice Gökçe, Enis Karavil, Ayşegül Hotiç, Felekşan Onar and Aykut Erol.
The second exhibit titled “Kıraç Sırtta” (Barren Crest) is a sculpture exhibition by 10 artists. The sculptures that may settle within the open air subsequent to the Baksı Museum will watch the Çoruh River over Baksı Hill. The artists of this exhibition are Yunus Tonkuş, Tuğrul Selçuk, Elif Süsler, Berg, Ali Teoman Germaner, Nermin Er, Güler Güngör, Kemal Tufan, İbrahim Koç and Koçan.
Besides the exhibition, the eighth of the Student Art Festival, organized yearly by the Baksı Museum in cooperation with the provincial directorates of nationwide schooling and with the help of the Aydın Doğan Foundation, will broaden its scope and supply scholarships to 150 college students this 12 months. The provinces the place the scholarship will probably be awarded to college students are Bayburt, Erzurum, Trabzon, Gümüşhane, Erzincan and Rize. The museum can be launching the Anatolian Awards Project this 12 months. The Anatolian Awards will probably be given commonly from this 12 months on, and the primary one will happen in November this 12 months.
The Baksı Museum will begin the 12 months 2021 with a complete exhibition by Osman Dinç titled “Gözlem Evi” (The Observatory). Also, a giant venture developed by the Baksı Culture and Art Foundation will probably be launched as effectively. The basis of the internationally awarded “Women Employment Center” constructing designed by Tabanlıoğlu Architecture will probably be laid in a ceremony in May 2021.