Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in

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ist living and working in

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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

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, Ankara, in 2003, and his MFA from the Art and Design Faculty of

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in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. Öğüt has been a guest artist at the

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van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2007–2008.

Career

In 2009, Ahmet Öğüt represented Turkey with

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at the 53rd

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

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

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, Delfina Foundation, and The Showroom 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

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, he asked for his exhibition to be taken down.

Teaching

Ahmet Öğüt has been a guest professor, tutor, advisor, and research teacher at several

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. Among the schools are Institut für Kunst im Kontext at

Universität der Künste Berlin The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...

; 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; and DAI (Dutch Art Institute) Arnhem. Since 2021 Öğüt is guest professor at

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 The contemporary art institution Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center opened in 2001 and was located on the pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey. Platform Garanti organized exhibitions; conferences and events; hosted an internationa ...

, Istanbul, 2006 * 'Softly But Firmly', Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2007 * 'Across the Slope',

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (CASM), more commonly abbreviated as Arts Santa Mònica, is a public venue in Barcelona, (Catalonia) opened in 1988, for exhibiting contemporary art. It is located in the Raval side of Rambla de Santa Mònica ( Ciutat ...

, Barcelona, 2008 * 'Mutual Issues, Inventive Acts',

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, 2008 * 'Things we count', Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2009 * 'Speculative Social Fantasies', Artspace, Sydney, 2010 *'Ahmet Öğüt: No Protest Lost', curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer, at

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, 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

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, 2005 * 'Normalization', Rooseum 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 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) in the state of Arizona is a museum in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum is dedicated to exhibiting modern works of art, design and architecture. The Museum has four ...

, 2008 * 'Be omng Dutch',

Van Abbemuseum The Van Abbemuseum () is a museum of modern and contemporary art in central Eindhoven, Netherlands, on the east bank of the Dommel River. Established in 1936, the museum is named after its founder, Henri van Abbe, who loved modern art and wante ...

, 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 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New S ...

, 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

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, Venice, Italy, 2009

Books

* Today in History (published by Book Works, 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

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Artfacts.net

References

Turkish conceptual artists Turkish male artists Turkish contemporary artists Dutch people of Turkish descent 1981 births Living people {{art-stub