GODIVA Celebrates 100 Years of Chocolate Craftsmanship With Exclusive Art Edition by Ekrem Yalçindağ

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Created for GODIVA’s 100th anniversary, the collaboration carries Ekrem Yalçındağ’s art from canvas into packaging, textile and the chocolate itself.

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LONDON, Oct. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GODIVA has unveiled the GODIVA Centennial Collection Art Edition, a limited collaboration with internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Ekrem Yalçındağ, at a launch event in Shanghai on Wednesday, 23 September. Created for the brand’s 100th anniversary, the collection translates Yalçındağ’s work into packaging, textile and bespoke chocolate moulds.

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The Shanghai launch forms part of GODIVA’s global centennial celebrations taking place throughout 2026. The anniversary celebrations began earlier this year in Japan and the United States with a special collection box featuring chocolates selected to represent each of GODIVA’s ten decades. They now continue in Shanghai with the launch of two limited-edition collections bringing Ekrem Yalçındağ’s art together with GODIVA’s chocolate craftsmanship.

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Following Shanghai, GODIVA’s centennial events will continue in Riyadh and Istanbul before culminating in Belgium, where the GODIVA story started in Brussels in 1926.

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THE COLLECTION

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The Art Edition makes up 2 styles, each checking out a various relationship in between art and chocolate. The Tablets include’Feels Like Home’, an initial work developed by Yalçındağ particularly for GODIVA’s 100th anniversary. Aspects of the style were equated into bespoke chocolate moulds, bringing the art work straight into the kind and surface area of the chocolates.

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Influenced by the sensation of home, the work makes use of repeating, rhythm and colour to stimulate something both individual and universal: the experience of going back to something familiar, valued and sustaining. It shows how significant experiences settle into memory, not as a single minute, however as something we go back to.

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The Tablets choice consists of Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate with Pistachio, White Chocolate with Almond, and Gold Chocolate with Salted Caramel Pieces. The edition is restricted to 5,000 boxes worldwide, each accompanied by a celebratory fabric bearing its private edition number.

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The Carrés take their motivation from Impressions, Yalçındağ’s 2014 oil-on-canvas work, determining 175 cm in size and kept in the Yıldız Holding Art Collection. The art work is reinterpreted on the product packaging, and the Dark Chocolate and White Chocolate Carrés are accompanied by a fabric including the art work, producing a concrete connection to the initial piece.

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MURAT ÜLKER: “WHEN ART BECOMES PART OF THE CHOCOLATE”

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Murat Ülker, Chairman of GODIVA and pladis, stated:

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“I ended up being familiarized with Ekrem Yalçındağ’s work before I satisfied him personally. Functions from various durations of his profession have actually long become part of the Yıldız Holding Art Collection, so this partnership represents a brand-new chapter in a relationship developed over several years. That makes it especially significant to bring his creative language together with GODIVA as we commemorate the brand name’s 100th anniversary.