Exhibition

Regular Insanity

Exhibition
Regular Insanity

Curator: Marcus Graf
Artists: Ana Adamovic, Anna Fausshauer, Basim Magdy, Buğra Erol, Fischli and Weiss, Joseph Beuys, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Komet, Lars Breuer, Nasan Tur, Özlem Günyol - Mustafa Kunt, Marcus Popp (Oval), Robert Barta, Rudolf Reiber, Serhat Kiraz, Thomas Baldischwyler, Yeşim Uzunöz

Regular Insanity

An Exhibition about Reality and other Nonsenses

Regular Insanity is an international group exhibition of contemporary artists from various fields and disciplines at Akbank Sanat in Istanbul. The show reviews the concept of knowledge in our so-called information age, where most known is mediated through uncountable screens and media channels. While exposing a pluralist and holistic understanding of knowledge, the exhibition questions given intellectual hegemonies.

Valuing unorthodox ways of dealing with reality for formulating alternative insights in the world we live in, Regular Insanity also underlines the meaning of not-knowing and un-knowing. The exhibition at Akbank Sanat exposes that in our so drastically wild and crazy spinning world, raising questions and going beyond the known is more relevant than looking for answers and final conclusions.

Following the concept of Informal Knowledge (Michael Polanyi), Regular Insanity criticizes the insufficiency of objectivist and rationalist knowledge and reveals the importance of holistic worldviews. Today, after all absolute knowledge has vanished, truth is only valid in temporary cultural groups, and social agreements. Despite common mediatic populism, overwhelming post-truth propaganda and widely spread superficial eclecticism, artists have never given up to critically question given and achievable reality constructions. Regular Insanity reflects on this by presenting artists that question knowledge-based concepts of identity and history, as well as nationalism and geopolitics. The exhibited positions go beyond the known in order to propose alternative ways of a knowledge production that is not afraid to sometimes even draw on absurdness and nonsense in order to be able to cope with the craziness of our time.

Please click here for the exhibition poster.

20 November 2019 - 11 January 2020

Akbank Sanat

Show on Map
Exhibition Catalogue
Follow Us
TR EN
Filter events by label
12 MAY MON
2

18:00

Seminar From New Media to Digital Art

Online Platform – Zoom

20:00

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

13 MAY TUE
1

20:00

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

14 MAY WED
1

20:00

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

15 MAY THU
2

18:00

Seminar Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Nature's Intelligence

Online Platform – Zoom

20:00

Learning Program An Alternative View on Art and Children

Online Platform – Zoom

16 MAY FRI
4

16:30

Workshop For Youth: Expressive Mask-Making and Collective Creation Workshop

Akbank Sanat

18:00

Seminar The Atlas Project: Excerpts from a Curatorial Research

Online Platform – Zoom

18:30

Seminar Courtyards

Akbank Sanat

18:30

Workshop Sculpture Workshop for Youth: A Fictional World from Clay

Akbank Sanat

17 MAY SAT
6

12:00

Children’s Theatre Akbank Children’s Theatre
"What Am I Going To Be?"

Akbank Sanat

12:00

Children Workshop A City: The Journey of Lost Voices
(Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

13:30

Children Workshop Istanbul in My Library: Book Nook Workshop
(Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Acting Workshop Creating Situation and Psychophysical Action - I

Akbank Sanat

15:30

Children Workshop Tracing Migratory Birds: Birdhouse Design Workshop
(Ages 6-10)

Akbank Sanat

17:30

Adult Workshop Upcycling Workshops: Creative Prints with Waste Materials

Akbank Sanat

18 MAY SUN
2

14:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (May - Group 1)

Akbank Sanat

17:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (May - Group 2)

Akbank Sanat

19 MAY MON
-
20 MAY TUE
-
21 MAY WED
1

18:30

Seminar (CANCELLED) The Current State of Digital Technologies: 'New Wave Artificial Intelligence', Promises and Problems

Akbank Sanat

22 MAY THU
1

19:30

Conversation ​Producing From Waste

Akbank Sanat

23 MAY FRI
1

18:30

Conversation Loneliness

Akbank Sanat

24 MAY SAT
7

12:00

Children Workshop A City: The Journey of Lost Voices
(Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

13:30

Children Workshop Istanbul in My Library: Book Nook Workshop
(Ages 5-9)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (March - Group 1)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (March - Group 2)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (May - Group 1)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Adult Workshop Alphabet Experimental Photography Workshop (May - Group 2)

Akbank Sanat

15:00

Acting Workshop Creating Situation and Psychophysical Action - II

Akbank Sanat

25 MAY SUN
-
26 MAY MON
-
27 MAY TUE
-
28 MAY WED
-
29 MAY THU
-
30 MAY FRI
-
31 MAY SAT
-
01 JUN SUN
-

Add event to your calendar

Registration Form

I've read and approved the KVKK text.

Subscribe to Newsletter