The exhibition "Memory and Continuity," which will run until May 1, sheds light on the Huma Kabakçı Collection, its evolution and growth over time and, most importantly, the common and diverging points between two generations of collectors. "Memory and Continuity: A Selection from the Huma Kabakçı Collection" which is co-curated by Huma Kabakçı and Esra Aliçavuşoğlu brings selected work from a diverse group of artists. The exhibition includes pieces by Aliye Berger, Sabri Berkel, Mübin Orhon, Sarkis, Canan Tolon, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Ferruh Başağa and Canan Dağdelen together with work from iconic figures such as Joseph Beuys, Damien Hirst, David Hockney and Max Ernst.Collecting works of art in a conscious and systematic manner dates as far back as the Hellenistic era. Having undergone various changes and transformations throughout the stages of both the history of civilization and art, collecting inherently brings to mind a number of different concepts, including passion, the urge to possess, prestige, aesthetic concern and ideology. In the history of collecting, all these concepts compete against one another to forge ahead.Fahrelnisa Zeid, "Composition with bones"The Huma Kabakçı Collection, which Nahit Kabakçı began to assemble in the 1980s, can be considered one of the most important examples of the limited number of consciously created and well-sustained collections in Turkey. While based on a certain logic, the development and subjectivity of the Huma Kabakçı Collection, the exhibition also aims to illustrate the collection's periodically renewed and expanded structure through a certain objectivity of art history. Preserved and upheld by two consecutive generations, the collection's affiliated and divergent points were brought to the fore and the exhibition is shaped in this thematic manner. Apart from highlighting the contributions of the two generations that made to the collection, this particular selection also seeks to underline the inner consistence and transformation of the whole. Taking into consideration the internal coherence of the collection, the exhibition also sought to point the transformations and kept in sight the integrity of ideas and concepts inherent to the collection.The exhibition is divided into five sections: "Memory," "Shaping Forms," "Fluid Identities," "Modernity" and "Face to Face." These sections provide a detailed perspective into the Huma Kabakçı Collection, emphasizing ideas of nostalgia, memory, forms, modernity, identity, the feminine body and its vocation.Sarkis Zabunyan, "A Melbourne"The exhibition will be on display at Pera Museum until May 1, 2016. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Pera Museum. The artists whose work is included in "Memory and Continuity" are Etel Adnan, Yüksel Arslan, Tomur Atagök, David Bailey, Ferruh Başağa, Aliye Berger, Sabri Berkel, Joseph Beuys, Canan Dağdelen, Nezaket Ekici, Max Ernst, Ali Arif Ersen, Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt, Selma Gürbüz, Ramın Haerizadeh, Susan Hefuna, Gabriele Heidecker, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Ilya Kabakov, İhsan Cemal Karaburçak, Heinz Mack, Basım Magdy, Almagül Menlbayeva, Murat Morova, Edin Numankadic, Mübin Orhon, Ardan Özmenoğlu, Güçlü Öztekin, Panamarenko, Shahpour Pouyan, Robert Rauschenberg, Meriç Algün, Ringborg, Sarkis, Tahir Salakhov, Richard Serra, Kemal Seyhan, Erinç Seymen, Sabina Shikhlinskaya, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Maya Sumbadze, Güneş Terkol, Canan Tolon, Pınar Yolaçan and Fahrelnissa Zeid.About Pera MuseumPera Museum was established by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation in 2005. Located in the historic Tepebaşı district of the city the museum's building, once the famous Bristol Hotel, has been transformed into an impressive new site of galleries housing the Foundation's permanent collection along with a program of national and international temporary exhibitions. As a modern cultural center in a vibrant part of the city, the museum also aims to provide its visitors with a broad range of cultural events that include diverse, temporary exhibitions as well as educational, film, conference and music programs.