Guided Tour
Masculinities: Berlin Perspectives
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Special Tour with Aykan Safoğlu in Turkish
Part of the exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
Catherine Opie, Bo, From the series “Being and Having”, 1991. Chromogenic print, 39.4 x 50.8 cm Courtesy: Collection of Gregory R. Miller and Michael Wiener, © Catherine Opie
The artist Aykan Safoğlu will pair the works of selected artists from the exhibition in relation to one another. Putting authoritarian art historiographies to the test, Safoğlu and the participants will examine important political events, artistic collaborations, ephemeral working methods and power-critical concepts that influence visual artists until today.
The exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography offers a panorama of filmic and photographic works that present masculinity as a performative concept of identity in a complex field of social expectations. Patriarchal structures, queer identities, discourses about race and class, sexual identity and female perceptions of men are brought into focus in different ways.
In order to provide space for a critical reflection on the exhibition, three Berlin artists and cultural practitioners are invited to share their personal perspectives on the presented themes and positions with the audience.
After an introduction, the participants will walk through the exhibition on their own and reassemble afterwards, due to current capacity restrictions in the exhibition spaces.
Aykan Safoğlu lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. Through his works that include film, photography and performance, Safoğlu conducts open-ended investigations into cultural identity, creativity and kinship. In 2017, he co-curated the exhibition ğ - soft g - queer forms migrate at Schwules Museum* Berlin. Two of his works are currently on view at the 11th Berlin Biennale until November 2020.