“Nostos” is an ancient Greek word for homecoming. The journey back to where we belong, or back to our roots, or our memories or even to a bitter reflection of our life, or even to what we are now, the modern days, the days that we need “passwords” to move on.Nostospassword adapts the term to mean the homecoming as a return to wholeness of consciousness itself. This six-days event, which will take place at the Fransiz Sokagi Culture Center, will be fully dedicated to this journey. Paintings, Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics, Modern Dance, Fashion Design and Video Art Dimitris Vogdanis-Danis has expressed his feelings and thoughts about this event with the following sentences: “This exhibition won't have a usual opening party. In the NostosPassword Art Banquet, art-lovers will be able to experience a new mystic feeling every day. “Nostalgia” as we say in Greek, is when we let our mind go back and awake all the memories of our past, so I invite you all to come and see these works of the artists that follow their own “nostos”, their own instinct, their own journey. My expectation from this event is to create an art event that emphasizes the ideas. “So we, Dimitris Vogdanis-Danis (curator) and Sanat Tanitim are inviting you to join us in this mystic way of art presentation and to honor us and all of the participants who are involved in this Project with your presence. During this art week also special happenings will take place: First of these special happenings is the Contemporary Dance “Nostos Suitcase” by Eder Cardoso. The Second one, on the 28th of October, is the “Card Castle” Theater One Act by Maria Kougianou (The text will be handet in Turkish) And the last one, Contemporary Dance Performance by Can Kandera “Lost Memories”

PARTICIPANTS: AHMET GÜLKOKAN - Photography | AHMET SAYMANLIER – Digital Design | AYTEN CERAN – Painter | BOSMAT NIRON – Sculptor | BELGIN ALAGÖZ – Painter | CAN KANDARA – Dancer | CATERINA DROSSOPOULOU – Painter | CIHAN AKIN – Painter | EDER CARDOSO – Dancer | EFEKAN ÇELIK – Ceramics Artist | EMINE ALISIK – Painter | ESIN MUMCU – Painter | FANOURIS MORAITIS - Digital Art | GEORGIA GRIGORIADOU – Installation | GÜNES SAHIN – Painter | GÜLGÜN TÜZÜN – Painter | HANDAN GÜNAYDIN – Painter | HARRIS LOUVROS – Photography | KAAN DEMIRÇELIK – Illustrator | KAMER BATIOGLU – Painter | MARIA KOUGIANOU – Artist | MATINA SARANTI – Collage | MÜRECCEL KÜÇÜKAKSOY – Painter | NAZAN PAMUK – Painter NILHAN SESALAN – Sculptor | OMIROS KOSTOPOULOS - Video Art | POYRAZ TOPALZADE – Painter | SELIM SÜRGIT – Painter | SERAP GÜMÜSOGLU – Sculptor | SERAP URAL GÜRBÜZ – Painter | SINAN BESE – Fashion Design | STRATOS VOGIATZIS – Photography | TARIK TUSUN – Sculptor

Curator : Dimitris Danis PR: Sanat Tanitim / Z. Fügen Akkemik Translator: Rena Bilgin FRANSIZ SOKAGI KULTUR MERKEZI French Street Entrance No: 12/3 Galatasaray

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