The Culture/Art Department, carrying out its activities in order to ensure the spread of art in every field of our lives in our path towards modernization, is organizing activities, discussions, seminars and conferences in literature, art and cinema, and supports the artistic and cultural activities of some institutions and organizations out of the Foundation with an understanding of solidarity.
Art Gallery: An area of 61 square meters in the Foundation building is arranged as a gallery equipped with high technical capacity with the aim to provide the opportunity for the artists and their works to meet with the audience.
The first exhibition of um:ag Art Gallery was opened on April 13th, 1999 by the pictures donated by various artists. All these invaluable pictures are being exhibited in turn apart from the exhibition schedule. In addition, these pictures, which can also be seen on our site, can be purchased from the Foundation.
The artists whose works have been exhibited in um:ag Art Gallery since 1999...
Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Ahmet Selim Sabuncu, Ara Güler, Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Ozan Sağdıç, Emine Ceylan, Nazif Topçuoğlu, Guido Piacentini, Güneş B. Kocatepe, Reha Akçakaya, Arzu Filiz Güngör & Yalçın Çıdamlı, Tan Oral, Ali Ulvi Ersoy, Semih Poroy, Ross Thomson, Turan Selçuk and Mehmet Güleryüz
Cinema Club: The film performances of um:ag Cinema Club, started in March 2000 to revive the Sinematek spirit, are being continued simultaneously with the Cinema History Seminars of our foundation. The films viewed at our club, which are selected examples of the ages discussed during our Cinema History Seminars and which are greatly appreciated by the film-fans of Ankara, are in English or with English subtitles.
Halls: Uğur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation provides the following halls for other institutions and organizations as well, besides using in its own activities.
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A meeting and film hall equipped with modern technology, with the capacity of 80 seats for meetings, conferences and film performances,
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A and B halls for meetings, seminars and trainings for 30 - 35 people,
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Cocktail hall and gallery area (61 square meters).