Kop-Art

Categories: Art gallery, Design, Music http://www.kop-art.com/

About the place

Istanbul based art collective and independent street-couture brand Kop-Art, is engrossed with clothing, graphics/video-art visuals, installations & p(art)y performances. At the very beginning (2000), Kop-Art was the title of a fantastic comic strip inspired by a fight between an iconic actress and a well known artist while in time it was transformed to a concept by Gamze Fidan and Cansu Aybar who boosted a rebel against modernist-elitist roots of fashion/art market. Since that day, its basic principle is to bring a campy gusto integrated with a conceptual background. After years of activism with a motto of ‘art for nothing’ at the streets-clubs-galleries, Kop-Art managed to open its unique street-couture store Al Sana! at İstanbul at 2006. The space already launched many wheat paste installations and miscellaneous unique clothing pieces since then.
 
Kop-artists believe in interaction and up-cycling. In creation, their way is pretty trashy and multi-level, recognizing no obstacles between art and life. Kop-Art’s anarchistic attitude against ordinary ‘good taste’ is present in every item created as well as its introduction to people.

Contact:
www.kop-art.blogspot.com
koparttanalsana@gmail.com

Turnacibasi Sok.
No:34/A Beyoğlu - Istanbul

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