The 'Yaşamak Güzel Şey Be Kardeşim' exhibition organized by the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality within the scope of the 'Year of Nazım Hikmet' and the 'Nazım Hikmet Symposium at the Table of the Sun' begins on May 9.
The Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, which declared June 2024 - June 2025 as the 'Year of Nazım Hikmet', is opening an exhibition on Nazım Hikmet between May 9 and September 9. The exhibition, which takes its name from the novel 'Yaşamak Güzel Şey Be Kardeşim' written by Nazım Hikmet in 1962, consists of two parts in two different venues simultaneously.
In addition, a symposium titled 'Nazım Hikmet Symposium at the Table of the Sun' is being held on May 9-10. The symposium, the opening speech of which will be given by Murathan Mungan, will include papers on the works, life and years of the world poet Nazım Hikmet in Bursa Prison.
The curator of the exhibition 'Yaşamak Güzel Şey Be Kardeşim', which will open simultaneously with the symposium, is Emre Zeytinoğlu, the interior design is Savaş Çekiç and the communication design is Nejat Biçen. The first part of the exhibition is located in the Şefik Bursalı Art Gallery belonging to the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and has a documentary quality consisting of texts and visuals about Nazım Hikmet. Prepared with the support of the Turkish Social History Research Foundation (TÜSTAV), the Nazım Hikmet Foundation and the Piraye Collection, the exhibition conveys chronological information to the audience and helps to visualize that information as a scene through visuals.
This documentary section, which tells the story of Nazım Hikmet’s poetry, theater, novel, cinema and painting world, keeps his political side on the agenda, while also touching on his private life from his childhood and aims to establish connections between the dynamic movements of each area.
The second section in the Tayyare Cultural Center, which belongs to the Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, includes works by artists who have addressed Nazım Hikmet and reflected the intellectual or emotional ties they established with him. The majority of these works are placed in the exhibition space within the scope of the “Ahmet Merey Collection”. On the other hand, the works of four artists, including Nazım Hikmet’s niece Ayşe Yaltırım, are being added to this exhibition from outside the collection in question. The artists in the exhibition are: Asaf Zeki Yüksel, Ayşe Yaltırım, Hakan Gürsoytrak, Huri Kiriş, İrfan Okan, Memet Güreli, Metin Karayağız, Murat Germen, Mustafa Horasan, Mustafa Orkun Müftüoğlu, Nalan Yırtmaç, Neslihan Pala, Savaş Çekiç, Selçuk Fergökçe, Sezai Özdemir, Taner Güven, Umut Germeç, Ümit Öztürk, Veysel Kurucu, Yalçın Karayağız, Yonca Karayağız and Zeynep Özdemir.
Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber/yasamak-guzel-sey-be-kardesim-619096