ÇANAKKALE CERAMIC FESTIVAL
"Little Masters of Çanakkale"
This exhibition features the colorful and creative works of students aged 7 to 14 from the Gelibolu Science and Art Center. The exhibited pieces include traditional Çanakkale ceramics, such as handcrafted çarık-style shoes, pitchers, plates, animal-shaped vessels, and a single ceramic panel—all shaped and formed by the students themselves in the school's ceramic workshop.
Since its establishment in 2023, the Gelibolu Science and Art Center has been providing education to gifted and talented students. Outside of regular school hours, students receive supportive training in their identified talent areas such as general intelligence, visual arts, or music. The center serves a wide range of students, from the second grade of primary school to the final year of high school. From the end of second grade onward, students are introduced to project-based learning and engage in producing various projects across different grades and talent areas until the end of middle school.
Our students actively represent our school in national and international competitions. All teachers at the institution are highly motivated and enthusiastic about project development and execution.
Place and Date
Opening 9 May 14:00
ÇOMU Nedime Hanım Mansion Campus
Joint Exhibition
In the solo exhibition of İrem Çalışıcı Pala, who researches, produces and shares her national and international publications in the field of traditional Turkish ceramics with the motto ‘tile as an academician and producer’, her ceramics produced with many techniques within the scope of Turkish tile art will be exhibited in her solo exhibition consisting of functional and artistic, old and new productions. In the exhibition, ceramics produced by using techniques, materials and styles such as ‘reduction firing underglaze luster technique’, potter's wheel, hand shaping, openwork, fritted mud-stone tile, wild clay, etc., which was registered as a patent in 2023, are preparing to meet with the audience. Have a good time.
TRACES OF TURKISH AGE ANATOLIAN CERAMICS.
THE STORY OF THE CITY.
A city famous for its legends, epics written about it. A city that has shaped Turkish history.
It took its name from the pot, for centuries the soil came to life in human hands and became a horse or a fish. The colours became a secret, blossomed and became spring.
Çanakkale stories that come to life in tiles, which are an integral part of the city's identity and combine the past and the present in one frame, in short, a part of Anatolia that makes us who we are, the narratives of these lands that have come to life in tiles.
In my works that I set out with these thoughts, the viewer will encounter 4 narratives in each work.
In my opinion, I hope to go on a journey with tiles in my exhibition, which is a continuation of the exhibition SEYRİ SEFER ÇANAKKALE, which I set out with the title Çanakkalke, which was opened in the City Museum in May 2022.
International Çanakkale Ceramic Festival | Online Group Exhibition - May 9th, 2025
“Inspirations from Traditional Çanakkale Ceramics"
We are bringing together the rich ceramic tradition of Çanakkale, a city renowned for its historical and cultural heritage, with international artists!
Organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, our online exhibition showcases original works inspired by traditional ceramic art will be with us. With the participation of artists from different parts of the world, we aim to carry this valuable cultural legacy from the past into the future.
We invite you to join us in celebrating art and discovering our cultural heritage through this special exhibition!
HERITAGE OF THE EARTH: Çanakkale Ceramics
Organized by the Association for Preserving Traditional Çanakkale Ceramics, this meaningful exhibition takes place within the scope of the International Çanakkale Ceramic Festival: May 9–17, 2025.
Emerging from the abundance earth of Çanakkale, these traditional forms act as time capsules, carrying the traces of the past into the present.
In this exhibition, where traditional motifs meet contemporary interpretations, each piece reflects both the spirit of the artist and the story of the earth. Every color, every pattern resonates with the deep echoes of Çanakkale.
"Heritage of the Earth: Çanakkale Ceramics" is not only a showcase of ceramics but also a reflection of a culture, a history, and a geography. It is a bridge between the past and the future, a story told through the universal language of art.
We warmly invite you to discover this unique heritage and listen to the voice of the earth at the Fine Arts Gallery.
At CHANAK: International Ceramic Exhibition
Throughout history, Çanakkale has been a crossroads where earth, water, and fire converge, a transition point between continents and cultures. Like the “bowl” it is named after, Çanakkale brings together different geographies, traditions, and stories, becoming a bearer of a shared memory.
Today, the “at CHANAK” exhibition, held as part of the International Çanakkale Ceramic Festival, reinterprets this multi-layered heritage through both contemporary and traditional perspectives. Artists from diverse regions meet here, communicating through the universal language of ceramics, confronting the space and cultural transitions together; weaving a shared narrative with clay, the carrier of memories, traces, and dreams.
at CHANAK focuses on the ongoing interactions between East and West, the flow between the past and the present, and the role of ceramics as both a material and symbolic meeting ground. Artists reinterpret form, memory, and culture in their own languages, transforming Çanakkale into a renewed space for encounter.
This exhibition is a celebration not of a reunion or the end of a journey, but of a continuously evolving and transforming gathering.
Curators: Ebru Ilbeyci Alkan & Yeliz Saydan
ARTISTS
Abbas Akbari, Ahmet Taşhomcu, Ali Temel Köseler, Allan R. Richards, Ayşe Elif Bektaş, Ayşegül Türedi Özen, Barış Koçkan, Betül Katıgöz, Burak Çiftçi, Burak Tatar, Cem Atmaca, Cenk Çankaya, Delfin Demirgüreş, Deniz Fulya Yazan, Dijle Talun, Eda Ilbeyci, Efe Türkel, Elif Yılmaz, Emel İlhan, Saffet Esra Çora, Filiz Sır, Filiz Öztürk, Füsun Çövenoğlu, Göksel Sevim, Gülce İstif, Halil Yoleri, Hüseyin Gürgöze, İbrahim Yıldızbaş, İrem Pala, Jasmina Pjecic, Kadir Ertürk, Kostas Karakitsos, M. Candan Güngör, Maged Zaky Hassan, Melike Doğan, Meliha Selin Eren, Metin Ertürk, Muhammet Emir Taşdemir, Muhammet Onat, Müjde Yücel Coşar, Mustafa Tunçalp, Necati Işık, Neşe Gül Kılıçoğlu, Nilay Köksal Karaman, Oktay Tarahan, Onur Öztürk, Ozan Gürkan Peltek, Ömer Öner, Perihan San Aslan, Pınar Çalışkan Güneş, Rolando Giovannini, Sevinç Zeynep Ellez, Shamai Gibsh, Sinem Kınay, Şahnaz Tuncel, Tuğçe Makarnacı, Yeliz Saydan, Zehra Çobanlı.
