The organisers of Art International, the Istanbul-based contemporary art fair, have decided to postpone this year’s edition, which was scheduled to take place this autumn (23-25 September) at the Haliç Congress Centre on the banks of the Golden Horn.
“The fair is on hold until we can put together something all the stakeholders and shareholders can buy into,” says co-founder Sandy Angus of the London-based events company Angus Montgomery. “We will definitely re-convene next year and are determined to maintain the high quality.”
Angus adds that security issues played a part but “this is not the only reason” (in March a militant Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that killed 37 people in Ankara).
The Turkish trade show business Interteks also runs the fair which launched in 2013; last year’s edition included 87 galleries from 27 countries