About this Event
Kim Mihri (Who is Mihri)
Film by Berna Gençalp, 89 min., Turkish with English subtitles
Followed by a talk with Dr. Gülşah Stapel and Ayça Bayrak (in English, Turkish consecutive translation when necessary)
Mihri Rasim, a painter, founded the first art school for women in the Ottoman Empire and lived and worked on three continents. Yet she’s still mostly remembered for her aristocratic background, her marriages and her restless life. Berna Gençalp’s documentary follows her traces. It shows how hard it is to change a narrative when the structures of knowledge were never made for you in the first place.
The screening will be followed by a talk with Dr. Gülşah Stapel (TAM Museum) and Ayça Bayrak Uluğ about curatorial practices: Who becomes visible in exhibitions and museum collections, and who remains unseen? Who decides which stories are told? And how can we reconstruct the lives of women artists when the traces of their biographies are scattered across languages, archives, institutions, and countries?
Afterwards, the conversation continues over dinner at HANE.
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Dr. Gülşah Stapel is Co-Director of TAM Museum and Vice-President ICOM Germany, lives and works in Berlin. She has historical expertise and is a cultural researcher specialized in migration between Turkey and Germany, and cultural memory.
Ayça Bayrak Uluğ, part of the volunteer team at TAM Museum, lives and works in Izmir. She is a researcher and curator specializing in museology, curatorial studies and exhibition interpretation.
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This event marks the conclusion of the project “Contextualizing Women Artists: A Turkish-German Dialogue” by TAM Museum Berlin and the İzmir Resim ve Heykel Müzesi. The project is funded through the “Engage in dialogues” program of the Agency for International Museum Cooperation (AIM). AIM is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. In cooperation with SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA.
Photo: Screenshot from Berna Gençalp’s documentary “Kim Mihri” showing the artist painting the portrait of a young man
Event venue & nearby stays
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Lindower Straße 20/22, Berlin, Germany
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