Cold Front from the Balkans
The exhibition avoided the usual unflattering political connotations the region’s name inevitably brings up, but instead focused on a natural phenomenon — the wind. The exhibition title referred to the well-known saying in Turkish: “Cold wind blowing from the Balkans” which conveys winter's arrival and is most commonly used in television weather reports.
Following this very common idiom in Turkey, the exhibition brought together the artists who deal with their immediate surroundings, reacting and commenting on their social, political and cultural milieu, such as
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Production: Pera MuseumCoproduction: Museum and Galleries of LjubljanaExhibition curators: Alenka Gregorič & Ali AkayArtists: Maja Bajević, Dimitrije Bašičević – Mangelos, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska, Mircea Cantor, Jasmina Cibic, Nemanja Cvijanović, Lana Čmajčanin, Braco Dimitrijević, Goran Djordjević, Vadim Fiškin, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Ibro Hasanović, Irwin, Laibach, Vlado Martek, Mladen Miljanović, Ivan Moudov, OHO, Adrian Paci, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Mark Požlep, Kiril Prashkov, Anri Sala, Erzen Shkololli, Sašo Stanojković, Mladen Stilinović, Raša Todosijević, Slaven Tolj, Jelena Tomašević, Milica Tomić, Ulay, Sisley Xhafa & Katarina ZdjelarText: Alenka Gregorič, Blaž Peršin, Ali AkayRealisation of the exibition: Pera Museum
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