Ceramic

Turkey's well-known ceramic artist, Candeğer Furtun, says that her artworks tell a story as a whole and that leaving any one of them would mean as if the story is missing a page.

"They all tell my story; they depict my life," she said.

A Turkish firm is exhibiting its new ceramic kitchen design valued at 250,000 Turkish liras ($40,600) at an international fair in Istanbul.

The Tresette Mutfak kitchen, made of 100 percent ceramic, has automatic door system, scratch resistance and strong shelves.

As part of the International Ceramic, Bathroom, Kitchen Fair (UNICERA), the kitchen design is drawing rave reviews.

Istanbul’s Akaretler exhibition space is due to host Füreya Koral, an iconic figure in contemporary ceramic art in Turkey. The show, which will take the form of a retrospective, opens on Nov 18

The world's first and only underground ceramic museum was opened last year in Turkey's Cappadocia region by a family engaged in the ceramic business for five generations The Cappadocia Underground Ceramic Museum (Güray Museum) is considered the world's first rock-carved underground ceramic museum and is a highly popular spot in the Avanos district in the central Anatolian province of Nev

ZLAKUSA - The 19th International Colonyof Fine Ceramics has started in the village of Zlakusa, near the west Serbian city of Uzice, where 10 artists from around the world will have a unique opportunity to make clay objects in a way that has been used there for 400 years.