Founded in the late 1970s, Dr. Şükrü Bozluolcay Collection will periodically meet the audience again with thematic exhibitions. Featuring more than forty works, the new collection exhibition “A Bond Inside” is curated by İbrahim Cansızoğlu and it explores the exchanges between artists as well as the encounters between genres and species. 

Ranging from late Ottoman painting to contemporary art works and covering the landmarks in the history of Turkish art by a holistic approach, Dr. Şükrü Bozluolcay Collection inspire new exhibitions with its structure that allows for multiple readings. Following the show titled “Laterna Magica” curated by Dr. Özlem İnay Erten in 2022 through a chronological method, the collection will continue to be presented to art lovers with a series of exhibitions to be organized with thematic perspectives.

A thematic exhibition based on the Dr. Şükrü Bozluolcay Collection, “A Bond Inside” will take place at the Mongeri Building between September 27 and December 21. It takes its title from a self-portrait by Burhan Uygur, which feature the lines, “If there is a bond in me towards this life, it is to prove a trickless solution against it.” Curated by İbrahim Cansızoğlu, “A Bond Inside” includes unexhibited pieces from the collection as well as newly produced works. The artist list of the exhibition includes Şemsi Arel, İlgen Arzık, İlhan Berk, Cihat Burak, Server Demirtaş, Abidin Dino, İsmet Doğan, Evren Erol, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Can Göknil, Mehmet Güleryüz, Bahriyeli İsmail Hakkı, Demet Kaya, Komet, Zühtü Müridoğlu, Meliha Sözeri and Burhan Uygur.

“A Bond Inside” presents a selection of works by artists who stand out in the history of Turkish art with their distinctive styles and whose aesthetic approaches erode the boundaries of movements and categories. The mechanisms of reflection and projection, as both physical and psychological metaphors, constitute the main axes that connect the works in the exhibition. Self-portraits that artists construct by projecting their own images onto paper or wood; domestic cats, which are believed to reflect human characteristics more than any other species except primates, and compositions that reorganize the limbs that make up human and animal bodies in fluid forms are among the trajectories followed by the exhibition. “A Bond Inside” is shaped around the questions of how the sense of self is formed and how human relationships with other living beings and objects play a role in it.