Analyzing baksı museum through the search for the center in today’s art

This thesis is based on the understanding of center in art; examines the displacement of the dominant forces of art along with economic, political or social changes and the reasons for this change. By examining this change from the Renaissance period to the present day, by tracing the similarities and contrasts in the past and present, through the conditions that led to the formation of these centers, their artistic production and consumption between these periods and today, the circulation of artistic productions in the world, museology, and collections, we answer the question of whether we can talk about a center today. It aims to search and adapt these central searches to today and to shed light on the transformations taking place in the art world. It aims to make an analysis by examining where artistic production and consumption has shifted through the phenomena of globalization and the formation of alternative centers of the West. After examining these center changes, we compare the Baksı Museum, which presents itself with a different stance, unlike the models existing in the center, by establishing a relationship with capital or the city in the global art environment where different center definitions are formed and the center is displaced, and reveals its special situation by comparing it with known museology models to put; using keywords such as periphery, production, migration, alienation, cultural democracy, employment, the museum's new definition of centerperiphery is tried to be defined.