Baksı Museum
museum in Bayburt, Turkey
Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt, Turkey. “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in Turkic languages. The museum offers contemporary art and traditional handcrafts. The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and culture by bringing together contemporary and traditional art, to collect, document, classify, preserve and promote works of contemporary and traditional art, to use this base in realizing creation, and to hand local and national cultural values down to future generations".
Themes
The themes behind of yearly exhibitions, workshops and other events are notable. These are reflects aim of the museum. These themes are Travel, Traditional and contemporary art, Woman, Cultural Sustainability, Children.
Exhibitions
Vuslat Emanet, May–November 2023
AŞİNA ŞAKİR GÖKÇEBAĞ, September 2019-July 2020
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, May–August 2019
Earth, June–October 2018
The Thorn On My Foot, May–November 2017
Scent of Baksı, a multisensory installation by Ahmet Yiğider that transformed the story of the museum into an olfactory experience October 2016.
ON, August 15
The Sculptured Road To Miro, August 2014
Distance and Contact, August 2012
Custom and Art, October 2010
Preparation Stage Exhibitions
Shaman's Diary March - April 2004
Charmed Hands 2, December - January 2003
Charmed Hands, 2000-2002 (Bilgi University's Art Space Information Workshop 111)
History
The main building of the museum was completed in 2010 after a tough adventure without any financial assistance from the state. The presentation of the Baksı Museum was held in Istanbul Modern in June 2010 and the opening was in July.
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