The contemporary art exhibition in Istanbu

The annual art fair of the contemporary art called Contemporary Istanbul which is inaugurated in the capital of Turkey on November, 25 celebrates this year a small holiday –its fifth anniversary. For the art institutions from all over the world and will beat its own record this year: 80 art galleries will participate in it and 37 of them will come from the foreign countries. In general, the 2010 became the year of big numbers for the Contemporary Istanbul: 2000 pieces of art, 420 authors, and 12 million audience provided by numerous media.Painting,sculpture, graphic art and engraving, video-art and installations will be represented there. Though the exhibition has an international character the major attention at the Contemporary Istanbul is paid to the promoting of the art of Turkey and the whole region. The “New Horizons” became a traditional section of the exhibition where the Arabian and Asian countries showed their art the previous years. Last year the "New Horizons" were given to the Syrian artists, now the Iranian authors will show their last works there.

But the Contemporary Istanbul doesn’t focus attention on the art of any particular Asian country. Special attention is paid to the galleries and authors of the region. The forum “TRANSITION: The New Art of Saudi Arabia” will be carried out in the exhibition framework as well. The American artists whose works will be united in a large-scale project were invited to the Contemporary Istanbul. A range of seminars, round-table discussions and workshops will be held according to the tradition. Among them we would like to emphasize especially the lecture called Collecting: Contemporary Art.

Time: November, 25-28 of 2010. Place: Istanbul Exhibition Center Lutfi Kirdar, Rumeli Hall, Istanbul, Turkey. The Contemporary Istanbul is opened