Artistanbul is the most important art event in Turkey and many galleries, artists and art dealers meet in Artistanbul every year. Turkish Association of Art Gallery owners organise the exposition. More than 80.000 people visits Artistanbul every year. Turkish and foreign galleries exhibits their artists together. It's the most important cultural event that combine the West and the East. Istanbul as multicultural city offer a proper atmosphere for the main aims of the exposition. Artistanbul invites galleries from Turkey and other countries to define the meaning of art again together.

Contemporary Istanbul, amongst the youngest art fairs in the world and already established as one of the most promising in the region, prepares to welcome an even greater crowd of art lovers.
Contemporary Istanbul 2008 edition, scheduled to run on October 19 - 26, will build on the success of the past year. Planning to attract dozens more exhibitors, coming from the eastern and the southern parts of the globe as much as the northern and the western, CI'08 will also host a wider range of events, letting the visitors enjoy roundtable talks, performance art, and musical nights alongside the various forms of contemporary arts on display.