Ankara’s First Art Fair
Name: ANKART 2001 – 1st Ankara Art Fair (“2001 Ankara Art Meeting”)
Venue: Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi (Contemporary Arts Center) of the Çankaya municipality, Ankara
Exhibitors: 24 galleries as well as publishers, banks and foundations
Partner: ÇAĞSAV – Çağdaş Sanatlar Vakfı (Contemporary Arts Foundation)
Next edition: Ankart 2002
Catalog: cagsav.org
About the Ankart Art Fair
In 2001, Ankart became the Turkish capital’s first art fair. Under the title “2001 Ankara Sanat Buluşması” – “2001 Ankara Art Meeting” – 24 galleries as well as publishers, banks and cultural foundations came together at the Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi, the Contemporary Arts Center of the Çankaya municipality. They included galleries from Ankara as well as from Istanbul.
The fair is closely connected with the foundation ÇAĞSAV – Çağdaş Sanatlar Vakfı, which is dedicated to promoting contemporary art in Turkey and preserves the Ankart catalogs in its archive to this day. The fair saw itself as a meeting place for collectors, galleries and artists; a second edition followed in 2002.
Gönül Sen-Menzel at Ankart 2001
At Ankart 2001, Gönül Sen-Menzel was represented with works at the stand of the Artemis Sanat Galerisi from Istanbul. The catalog lists her there alongside Birsen Salahi and Hatice Kumbaracı Gürsöz – artists with whom she had also shown in the group exhibition “Masters of Painting” at the Artemis Art Center in January 2001.
All exhibitions at a glance: Exhibitions of Gönül Sen-Menzel
