The Landscape of Perpetual Flags

Dates: 9 April – 27 April 2019 


Casa dell’Arte Gallery is proud to present its second exhibition of the year; “The Landscape of Perpetual Flags” by Mustafa Boga, in collaboration with ThirdBase. The exhibition can be viewed between 9 April – 27 April 2019.
Located at the center of two historical neighbourhoods, Alfama and Graça, Casa dell’Arte Club House is dedicated to the arts through its hotel design, the gallery, coffee shop and artist residency program. Built in 1783, this historical building connects traditional and contemporary arts and becomes a venue for producing, discovering and sharing inspirational art projects from all around the world.

The Casa dell’Arte Club House is decorated with paintings, sculptures and objects from one of the most significant private art collections in Turkey, the Büyükkuşoğlu Collection. Starting from the mid-19th century and continuing with modern and contemporary Turkish masters, se
lections from the collection can be discovered at every corner of the hotel which resembles a museum.

The Gallery is dedicated primarily to Portuguese and Turkish artists and aims to become a home for artistic dialogue and collaborations. Through the new Club House in Lisbon, Casa dell’Arte connects its artistic operations in Turkey - such as curated exhibitions, artist talks, artist residency program, creating new audience for local and international artists.

For this series of fabric collages, Mustafa Boga has been looking at flags from different countries and objects from Portuguese folk culture to describe a nation as a whole. To discover a new place, story or idea implies a change of expectation and point of view. Boga tries to achieve a series of compositions that challenge context, while combining colours, patterns and shapes with images from nature, drawings of traditional objects from both rural and urban areas of Portugal with objects that are connected to colonial relationships that underpin people’s cultural history. People are currently thinking much about their political identity and sovereignty. Boga’s flags contradict the nationalism associated with flags by incorporating images which celebrate the multiculturalism brought by immigration.

About Mustafa Boga

Mustafa Boga is an artist based in the UK and Turkey. He completed his master's degree in 2016 from Central Saint Martins in London after studying for an MA in Fine Art. He also obtained another masters degree from Greenwich University in London after studying an MA in Cinematography and Post Production. Before that, he achieved a bachelors degree from Istanbul University after studying at the Faculty of Communication and Journalism. 

Since graduation, Mustafa has won several awards including The Red Mansion Art Prize. He was selected to perform at The Royal Academy in conjunction with the Ai Weiwei exhibition, and was also selected to attend workshops with Isaac Julian and Mark Nash at the 56th Venice Biennale. Mustafa has had solo exhibitions in London, Iceland and Berlin, and group shows in Beijing, Athens, London, Oxford, Ruse and Poznan. He has recently worked with international artists such as Otobong Nkanga and Irena Haiduk, and has performed in Documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. In 2018 he was awarded as ‘Highly Commended Artist’ at the Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize and got a fellowship at RAW Material Company in Dakar, Senegal.

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