Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt, Turkey. “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in Turkic languages.[1] The museum offers contemporary art and traditional handcrafts. The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and culture by bringing together contemporary and traditional art, to collect, document, classify, preserve and promote works of contemporary and traditional art, to use this base in realizing creation, and to hand local and national cultural values down to future generations".[2]
Exhibitions
Vuslat Emanet, May–November 2023
AŞİNA ŞAKİR GÖKÇEBAĞ, September 2019-July 2020
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, May–August 2019
Earth, June–October 2018
The Thorn On My Foot, May–November 2017
ON, August 15
The Sculptured Road To Miro, August 2014
Distance and Contact, August 2012
Custom and Art, October 2010
Preparation Stage Exhibitions
Shaman's Diary March - April 2004
Charmed Hands 2, December - January 2003
Charmed Hands, 2000-2002 (Bilgi University's Art Space Information Workshop 111)
History
It sprouted as a dream of Bayburt-born artist and academy Professor. Dr. Hüsamettin Koçan in 2000. This project is the result of an effort to carry life to Husamettin Koçan's lands. Baksı Culture and Art Foundation was founded in 2005 in order to make this idea come to life. The museum has turned into a truly social project over the years with the contribution of many volunteers, especially artists.
The main building of the museum was completed in 2010 after a tough adventure without any financial assistance from the state. The presentation of the Baksı Museum was held in Istanbul Modern in June 2010 and the opening was in July. In 2012, the Warehouse Museum, the new exhibition hall of the museum, met with art lovers.[3]
Workshops
Ehram and Rug Workshop
Contemporary Art Workshop
Activities
YGA Social Innovation Camp was held at the Baksı Museum 20 July 2017
Yoga at Baksı Museum 8 June 2017
Baksı Student Art Festival is 5 Years Old 11 May 2017
Areas
Exhibition halls, Warehouse Museum, workshops, conference hall, library and guest house, Baksı Museum is spreading in a land of 40 acres.