Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in
Diyarbakır,
Turkey) is a
conceptual artist living and working in
Amsterdam,
Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing and printed media.
Education
Ahmet Öğüt received his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty of
Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2003, and his MFA from the Art and Design Faculty of
Yıldız Technical University
Yıldız Technical University ( Tr. ''Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi'', often simply referred to as YTU or Yıldız) is a prominent technical university dedicated to engineering and natural sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is o ...
in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. Öğüt has been a guest artist at the
Rijksakademie
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school support ...
van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2007–2008.
Career
In 2009, Ahmet Öğüt represented Turkey with
Banu Cennetoğlu at the 53rd
Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy.
He is the founder of 'The Silent University', a programme for and with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants to give and take courses. Parts of the participative project were hosted between 2012 and 2013 at
Tate Modern,
Delfina Foundation
The Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.
About
Delfina Foundation was founded in 20 ...
, and
The Showroom
The Showroom is a not-for-profit art gallery in Marylebone, London, which displays site-specific works by emerging artists. The gallery presents four shows each year, a schedule that allows artists the time to develop and realise their work on sit ...
in London, UK.
In 2020, Öğüt had a solo exhibition at
Yarat Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan. Due to the institution's use of the exhibition banner as a propaganda means in the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he asked for his exhibition to be taken down.
Teaching
Ahmet Öğüt has been a guest professor, tutor, advisor, and research teacher at several
schools. Among the schools are
Institut für Kunst im Kontext at
Universität der Künste Berlin;
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht;
Sandberg Institute Amsterdam;
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki;
TransArts - Transdisziplinäre Kunst, Institut für Bildende und Mediale Kunst
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
The University of Applied Arts Vienna (german: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, or informally just ''Die Angewandte'') is an arts university and institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university sta ...
; and
DAI (Dutch Art Institute)
Dai may refer to:
Names
* Dai (given name), a Welsh or Japanese masculine given name
* Dai (surname) (戴), a Chinese surname
Places and regimes
* Dai Commandery, a commandery of the state of Zhao and in early imperial China
* Dai County, in ...
Arnhem.
Since 2021 Öğüt is guest professor at
Universität der Künste Berlin at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext.
Solo exhibitions
* 'Ahmet Öğüt', Mala Galerija / The Museum of Modern Art of Ljubljana, 2005
* 'Ahmet Öğüt and Borga Kantürk',
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2006
* 'Softly But Firmly', Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2007
* 'Across the Slope',
Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2008
* 'Mutual Issues, Inventive Acts',
Kunsthalle Basel, 2008
* 'Things we count', Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2009
* 'Speculative Social Fantasies', Artspace, Sydney, 2010
*'Ahmet Öğüt: No Protest Lost', curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer, at
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017-2018
*'Ahmet Öğüt: No poem loves its poet', curated by Mari Spirito, at
Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2020
*'Jump up!', MoCA Skopje – Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2022
Group exhibitions
* 9th
Istanbul Biennial, 2005
* 'Normalization',
Rooseum
The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art was a formally private-owned (though publicly funded) centre for contemporary art located in Malmö, Sweden.
Founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos (1951-1991), Rooseum beg ...
Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, 2006
* 1st Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki, 2007
* 'Stalking with Stories', Apexart, 2007
* 'Car Culture',
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008
* 'Be
omng Dutch',
Van Abbemuseum, 2008
* 'Fuild Street', Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008
* 5th Berlin Biennial, 2008
* 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial, 2008
* 'The Generational',
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009
* 'Take the Money and Run', De Appel, Amsterdam, 2009
* 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2009
* 'Lapses',
Turkish Pavilion,
53rd Venice Biennale, curated by
Basak Senova, at the
Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2009
Books
* Today in History (published by
Book Works
Book Works is a London-based publisher of books on contemporary visual arts, and print studio specialising in bookbinding, letterpress printing, boxmaking, and printmaking. Established in 1984, it has "the mission to disseminate visual art practice ...
, London and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2007)
* Softly but Firmly (published by Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2007)
* On The Road to Other Lands (published by A Prior and 5th Berlin Biennial, 2008)
* Informal Incidents (published by art-ist contemporary art, Istanbul, 2008)
External links
*
Artfacts.net
References
Turkish conceptual artists
Turkish male artists
Turkish contemporary artists
Dutch people of Turkish descent
1981 births
Living people
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