Feelings in Common: Selected works from the British Council Collection, Group exhibition, Pera Museum, Istanbul

Graham Fagen

Feelings in Common: Selected works from the British Council Collection, Group exhibition, Pera Museum, Istanbul

Graham Fagen (Artist)

Contemporary Art Practice

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Abstract

Exhibition Dates: September 16, 2025 - January 18, 2026
Exhibition Venue: Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Feelings in Common is a contemporary group exhibition bringing together works of 29 artists from the British Council Collection. The exhibition, in striving to form a zone where feelings in common are shared amidst uncertainties and transformations regarding the future, approaches the British Council Collection from a contemporary and speculative viewpoint.

Graham Fagen’s ‘Rose’ will be featured in 'Feelings in Common, Works from the British Council Collection'.

Feelings in Common is a contemporary group exhibition bringing together works of 29 artists from the British Council Collection, which has been acquiring works since the 1930s, and comprises almost 9000 works, focusing on 20th and 21st century art from the United Kingdom. This valuable collection, which does not form a permanent exhibition, and is mostly lent to international exhibitions, has also been referred to as a “museum without walls.”
In museums, which can be defined as spaces of encounter, the common feelings triggered by the works infectiously wander between those who share the space and carry the potential of bringing individuals together on a common ground. Throughout the history of Western philosophy, feelings represented the weaker side of the logic and feeling duality, and when a work of art is said to “address feelings”, this has come to suggest that it is insufficient, intellectually poor, or decorative. In today’s political climate, when we feel ever more intensely the way in which Western-centred rational thought and colonial approaches are driving systems towards total collapse, could we chart a new course by problematising this duality and focusing on feelings in common?

Feelings in Common focuses not only on the task of collections and institutions to preserve and protect the past, but also on their potential to establish strong links with today’s social and political dynamics. The sticky and infectious nature of feelings means that museums are not only spaces where works are held, but also function as dynamic spaces that contain an embracive imagination. In this process, the effort of institutions to sustain care, and to make this polyphonic community feel at home, reinforces this possibility.

The exhibition, in striving to form a zone where feelings in common are shared amidst uncertainties and transformations regarding the future, approaches the British Council Collection from a contemporary and speculative viewpoint.
Comprised of three chapters titled “Preserving Care”, “Familiar Faces” and “Future Perfect”, the exhibition invites to contemplate institutional collection policies, communities that come together through art and the future of art institutions and their collections.

Artists: Larry Achiampong, Laura Aldridge, Ed Atkins, Sonia Boyce, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eileen Cooper, Tony Cragg, Tracey Emin, Jane England, Cerith Wyn Evans, Graham Fagen, Lucian Freud, Anya Gallacio, Gilbert and George, Richard Hamilton, Lubaina Himid, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Michael Landy, Delaine Le Bas, Sarah Lucas, Kate Malone, Chris Ofili, Marc Quinn, Raqib Shaw, Wolfgang Tillmans, Suzanne Treister, Bedwyr Williams, Madame Yevonde.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Istanbul, Turkey
Publisher	Pera Museum
Media of output	Other
Publication status	Published - 2025

Keywords

Exhibition
Graham Fagen
Rose
Istanbul
Contemporary Art
British Council

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