Orhan Pamuk
14 Oct 2008 - 18 Jan 2009
ORHAN PAMUK
The Museum of Innocence
On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008, the Schirn will present the exhibition “Orhan Pamuk. The Museum of Innocence.” The exhibition will be based on the Turkish Nobel Prize winner’s novel of the same name whose German translation will be published at the time of the Book Fair for the first time. The novel is set in Istanbul between the 1970s and the 1980s. It tells the story of Kemal, heir to one of the city’s very well-to-do families, and his passionate love for Fusun, a remote relative from the lower middle-classes. Kemal reconstructs the story of his love’s failure on the basis of a comprehensive collection of everyday objects and keepsakes. Pamuk’s novel presents itself as a catalogue of this imaginary museum. In collaboration with the author, the novel “The Museum of Innocence” will be transferred into reality in the Schirn for the first time to be subsequently installed as a permanent presentation in a house in Istanbul in which part of the story transpires.
The Museum of Innocence
On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008, the Schirn will present the exhibition “Orhan Pamuk. The Museum of Innocence.” The exhibition will be based on the Turkish Nobel Prize winner’s novel of the same name whose German translation will be published at the time of the Book Fair for the first time. The novel is set in Istanbul between the 1970s and the 1980s. It tells the story of Kemal, heir to one of the city’s very well-to-do families, and his passionate love for Fusun, a remote relative from the lower middle-classes. Kemal reconstructs the story of his love’s failure on the basis of a comprehensive collection of everyday objects and keepsakes. Pamuk’s novel presents itself as a catalogue of this imaginary museum. In collaboration with the author, the novel “The Museum of Innocence” will be transferred into reality in the Schirn for the first time to be subsequently installed as a permanent presentation in a house in Istanbul in which part of the story transpires.