Turkish artists at Paris art fair

ISTANBUL

The Carrousel Artshopping Contemporary Art Fair, which is organized every year in Paris by Louvre Museum, will be held this year on Oct. 19, 20 and 21. The Contemporary Turkish Artists Paris Association (ACT), which was established in 2015 in Paris to represent Turkish artists, will attend the fair again this year with 28 artists. 

The founder and the chair of the association, Nazan Aktan, said she founded the association to improve relations between Turkey and France through artistic activities. “Our goal is to promote Turkey and Turkish artists in France and contribute to dialogue between the two countries. We will be in international platforms with many different artistic activities,” she added. 

Also, the association will open a stand to display “Virtual Devrim Room Scale VR Experience,” which is made up of the artist Devrim Erbil’s serigraphs. 

Along with Erbil, the other artists to take part in the fair are Sema Çulam, Burcu Yavuz, Ayşen Savcı, Deniz Say, Dilek Yerlikaya, Gülen Kesova, Gülay Aytan, Cemil Onay, Nazlı Sanberg, Nazan Pamuk, Zeynep Aksu, Meriç Pabuççuoğlu, Beste Alperat, Fatoş Aktaş, Burçe Atal, Aslı Aksoy, Güneş Büyükuğur, Merve Keskin, Nelly Yaffe, Ebru Egeli, Elda Fresko, Zuhal Atalay, Burcu Erdoğan, Bilun Marmara, Uğur Süel and Zehra Korkmazlar.