THE CHILD WITHIN ME / A SELECTION FROM OMER KOC COLLECTION

20.09.2019 - 29.12.2019

The exhibition, “The Child Within Me”, is one of the close to one hundred parallel activities of the Istanbul Biennial, taking place all over the city. It consists of a selection from the private collection of Mr. Ömer Koç, the Chairman of Board of Koç Holding, the main sponsor of the Istanbul Biennial. Mr. Ömer Koç is not only the leader of the biggest group of companies in Turkey, but he is also a devoted collector as well. Apart from his big art collection, he is also known to have collections of Ottoman objects, documents and tiles.

Organised by Károly Aliotti, “The Child Within Me” exhibition takes the phrases of Antoine de Saint Exupéry as its basis. The writer of the famous book Little Prince is known to have once stated that, “Every adult was initially a child… But very few of them remember that”. Including also Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s original drawings for the Little Prince, the exhibition invites us to remember and to listen to the forgotten child within us. A Picasso painting being one of them, all the contemporary works of art and the installations take visitors on a journey to their long forgotten childhoods.

The full list of the artists whose works of art are on display in this exhibition are: Francesco Albano, Murat Balcı, Ronit Baranga, Yto Barrada, Bertozzi & Cassoni, Stefano Bombardieri, Claudio Bravo, David Breuer-Weil, Paul Carey, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Keith Carter, Loris Cecchini, Taner Ceylan, E.V.Day, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Snyder Dean, Maurice Denis, Nezaket Ekici, Yael Erlichmann, Jan Fabre, Nancy Fouts, Françoise Gilot, Murat Gök, Simon Groves & Tracy Johnson, Mona Hatoum, Kenny Hunter, John Isaacs, Ahmet Doğu İpek, Juneau Projects, Clementine Keith-Roach, Alicja Kwade, Lloyd le Blanc, Fabien Mérelle, Luc-Olivier Merson, Polly Morgan, Ordinary Architecture, İrfan Önürmen, Ferhat Özgür, John Campbell Phillips, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Piccinini, Wilfred Pritchard, Tawatchai Puntusawasdi, Elsa Sahal, Michael Schwarze, Erinç Seymen, Carolein Smit, Yaşam Şaşmazer, Sam Taylor-Wood, Hale Tenger, Seyhun Topuz, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Levi Van Veluw, Fabio Viale, Andy Warhol, Bedwyr Williams, Daphne Wright, Erwin Wurm, Damla Yalçın