Orhan Pamuk is one of the most significant novelists living today and the first Turkish author to win the Nobel Prize in literature. The exhibition at the Dresden State Art Collections is dedicated to, perhaps, a less-known side of Pamuk’s creativity – his work as a visual artist.

Poetic three-dimensional collages stylized as curiosity cabinets reflect on the special kind of consolation that objects can give us. Pamuk develops the themes he has been exploring for many years: cultural change, Occidentalism and Orientalism, the immanent nature of collecting, fiction, and memory, and even the role of museums in the modern world.

STAATLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DRESDEN
Curator: Aleksandr Godovanets
Exhibition Architecture: Marcus Lilge
Graphic Design: Natasha Agapova