Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in

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) is a Kurdish conceptual artist living and working in

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and Istanbul. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing, painting 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

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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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, and

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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

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;

Jan van Eyck Academie The Van Eyck – Multiform Institute for Fine Art, Design, and Reflection (formerly known as “Jan van Eyck Academie”) is a post-academic institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and art theory, based in Maastrich ...

, 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

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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',

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, 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',

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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 contemporary art, design, and architecture. The Museum has five galleries t ...

, 2008 * 'Be omng Dutch',

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, 2008 * 'Fuild Street', Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008 * 5th Berlin Biennial, 2008 * 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial, 2008 * 'The Generational',

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, 2009 * 'Take the Money and Run', De Appel, Amsterdam, 2009 * 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2009 * 'Lapses',

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, curated by

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, at the Arsenale, 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

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