Turkish museum director who signed OLYMP'ARTS CHARTER sent a video of best wishes

Mr. Balcıoğlu

Museum director in Turkey, Emin Mahir Balcıoğlu, who signed the OLYMP'ARTS CHARTER sent his best wishes via video to the IOAC on the success of the OLYMP’ARTS 2023.

In 1995, the then president of an art association in Ankara, Sabanci, Mr. Balcıoğlu signed the OLYMP'ARTS CHARTER with Founding President of the IOAC, Mr. Marc Verriere, and other representatives of 64 countries. Now, a top director of museums in Turkey, he is a member of the Executive Board of Contemporary Istanbul.

In the video, he wished his best to the OLYMP’ARTS 2023 and expressed his respect to the IOAC for its unrelenting works. He expressed full support and will do everything he can for the event and the Committee, and is an expectation to be in Geneva next year.

Mr. Balcıoğlu is one of the representatives of the Charter, and a founder of the OLYMP’ARTS. The IOAC has enormous gratitude to him and hope to share our journey together next year!

Emin Mahir Balcioglu：

Middle East Technical University, PhD, 1983

Aga Khan Network, 1983 -1887

Sabanci Museum, Founding Director, 1997 - 2003

Head of the Museums Unit at the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva, 2003 - 2005

Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, 2005 - 2008

Director of Contemporary Istanbul, 2008 - 2011

Director of the Orientalist Museum, Qatar Museums Authority, 2011 - 2016

Director of the Museum Programs, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2016 - 2019

Director of the Contemporary Istanbul Foundation, 2019-2021

Member of the Executive Board of Contemporary Istanbul, 2021-

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