ahmet öğüt

review @ ArtSlant San Francisco

Rewind and Replay

review by Georgia Fee:

http://www.artslant.com/sf/articles/show/13211

review in frieze magazine

review by Barbara Casavecchia in frieze magazine:

http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/ahmet_ogut/

Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231

Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231

January 24, 2010 - April 11, 2010

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, California

With Exploded City, Ahmet Öğüt envisions an imaginary metropolis comprising buildings, monuments, and vehicles that have figured in acts of violence and terrorism over the past two decades. Structures from Turkey, Ireland, India, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, and the United States, among other countries, form a unified urban scale model, reconstructing these sites in the moments before they were destroyed. The installation, originally commissioned for the Turkish Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, is accompanied by a text situating the included locations within a Calvinoesque narrative that engages the poetics and politics of space, architecture, violence, and international relations. Paraphrasing Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Öğüt presents visible but “semi-anonymous” buildings, whose intact form may be forgotten while the aftermaths of their destruction are seared into the collective consciousness via the media and individual consciousnesses via personal experience. The collapsing of time and distance in this collection of models is echoed by the vehicles—also used in terrorism, but referencing as well Öğüt’s ongoing interest in distance, time, and speed, measures by which our relationship to reality is shaped and through which disparate lands are connected.

From this central installation, the exhibition expands to other works. The film Things We Count pans slowly across the retired fighter planes at an airplane graveyard in Arizona’s Sonoran desert, as a voice counts them one by one in Kurdish, Turkish, and English. This counting, in the languages of faraway lands, connects the planes in their U.S. resting place to their actions in the larger world.

Öğüt recently had solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bremen; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; and Kunsthalle Basel. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; De Appel, Amsterdam; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and the Berlin Biennale. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Born in Turkey in 1981, Öğüt lives and works in Amsterdam.

Elizabeth Thomas
Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator

The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum is supported by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees. The presentation of Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231 was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/231

Talk at KUVA, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki

PILVI TAKALA and AHMET ÖGÜT

Time: Wednesday January 13, 6-8 pm
KUVA, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Auditorium, Kaikukatu 4, Helsinki

Pilvi Takala and Ahmet Ögüt, both currently living and working in Amsterdam, will talk about their practice.

Ahmet Ögüt works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing and printed media. His work often borrows from the experience of everyday life, which he observes and then amplifies and alters to expose its many contradictions. He weaves reality and fiction, success and failure, human tragedies and comedies to explore the failings and gaps of political and social structures.

Pilvi Takala works with narrative forms such as video, artist books and performance. Her work is based on subtle interventions in specific social settings, such as a work place, a local cafe or shopping mall. By breaking the rules in a subtle but constructive way Takala's actions reveal, question and eventually reinvent shared truths.

http://www.kuva.fi/portal/ajankohtaiset_tiedotteet/?id=1206

Artforum | 500 words | Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Ögüt

Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Ögüt talk about AH-HA

Artforum | 500 words:

http://artforum.com/words/#entry24561

EMPLOI SAISONNIER

EMPLOI SAISONNIER
Sextant et plus

La Friche La Belle

12-01 / 13-02- 2010

Vernissage le samedi 9 janvier à 18h30

“ Une partie des mots qui m’ont été jusqu’à ce jour mystérieusement interdits ” avec Sener Özmen, Cengiz Tekin et Berat Isik
“ Arrangements ” avec Elmas Deniz, Mehmet Dere, Cevdet Erek, Deniz Gül, Borga Kantürk, Ahmet Ögüt, Canan Senol, Merve Sendil et Gokce Süvari
“ La Ville Blanc ” (Die Weisser Stadt) un projet du collectif Xurban

http://www.sextantetplus.org/

Mind The Gap

Mind The Gap
Ahmet Ögüt
Peep-Hole
Via Panfilo Castaldi, 33
20124 Milan
18 December 2009 – 6 February 2010

Opening Thursday 17 December 2009, 6.30 PM

http://www.peep-hole.org

Not easy to save the world in 90 days

image: Halil Altindere Mirage, 2008, C-Print auf Alu-Dibond, 80 x 120 cm

Not easy to save the world in 90 days

14/12/ - 13/3/2010

Opening:
December 12, 5 – 9 pm

Curator: René Block

Halil Altindere, Fikret Atay, Köken Ergun, Ali Kazma, Servet Kocyigit, Ahmet Ögüt, Erkan Özgen, Sener Özmen, Cengiz Tekin, Nasan Tur

Tanas

Heidestraße 50
10557 Berlin

http://www.tanasberlin.de/index.php

The Malady of Writing

The Malady of Writing.
A project on text and speculative imagination
November 20, 2009 - April 25, 2010

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Artists: Fia Backström, Stuart Bailey, Becky Beasley, Julian Beck, Erick Beltrán, Kim Beom, Bernadette Corporation, David Bestué, Iñaki Bonillas, Thomas Boutox, Peggy Buth, Kristian Byskov, Mariana Castillo, Daniela Castro, Heman Chong, Keren Cytter, Dexter Sinister, Tim Etchells, Matthias Faldbakken, Richard Foreman, Uqbar Foundation, Justine Frank, Ryan Gander, Dora García, Hadley & Maxwell, Karl Holmquist, Daniel Jacoby, Miranda July, Hassan Khan, Viola Klein, Bitsy Knox, Irene Kopelman, Zak Kyes, Lea Lagasse, Guillaume Leblon, Arvo Leo, Melissa Lim, Rita McBride, Jorgen Michaelsen, Helen Mirra, Johnatan Monk, Fabio Morais, Valérie Mrejen, Marc Nagtzaam, Ingo Niermann, Miguel Noguera, Ahmet Ögüt, Terje Overas, Sener Özmen, Adrian Piper, Falke Pisano, Olivia Plender, Seth Price, Roee Rosen, Joe Scanlan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Frances Stark, Michael Stevenson, Rupert Thomson, Sue Tompkins, Jalal Toufic, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Jan Verwoert, Marc Vives, Rodolfo Walsh and Adrian Williams.

Curator: Chus Martínez, MACBA chief curator

http://www.macba.cat

Performa 09

Performa 09

The third biennial of visual art performance, New York

November 1–22, 2009

Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance, will be held in New York City from November 1–22, 2009, showcasing new work by more than 150 of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists.

Agnieszka Kurant, Ahmet Ögüt, Aida Ruilova, Aldo Tambellini, Alex Waterman, Alexandre Singh, Alicia Framis, Amy Granat, An Architektur, Anat Pick, Anna Halprin, Anne Collod, Arto Lindsay, Aurélien Froment, Ben Coonley, Benedict Drew, Bernd Krauss, Blixa Bargeld, Braco Dimitrijevic, Bradley Eros, Brendan Fowler, Brody Condon, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Jasienski, Candice Breitz, Carlo Zanni, Chamecki-Lerner, Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowska, Christoph Draeger, City of Tomorrow (Lize Mogel, Jen Kaminsky, and Stephanie Rothenberg), Cyprien Gaillard, Danielle Freakley, Darius Miksys, Deborah Hay, Darren Bader, Destroy All Monsters, Dexter Sinister, Diango Hernandez, Didier Faustino, Discoteca Flaming Star, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin-Meyer, Einat Amir, Elliott Sharp, Emily Coates, Emily Mast, Emily Sundblad, Emma Hart, Eva and Franco Mattes, Extended Organ, Felicia Ballos, Fischerspooner, Fluxus, Fred Frith, The Future (Matthew Silver and Shoval Zohar), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, George Kuchar, Glenn Kaino, Guillaume Désanges, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Guy Ben-Ner, Guy Benfield, Hair Stylistics, Jad Fair and Lumberob, James Hoff, Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers, Jen DeNike, Jennifer Walsche, Joan Jonas, Joan La Barbara,jodi.org, Johanna Went, John Malpede, John Butcher, John Cage, John Duncan, John Zorn, Jonas Mekas, Justin Bond, Kabir Carter, Kalup Linzy, Karin Schneider, Katia Bassanini, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Katie Paterson, Keren Cytter/DIE Now, Khatt Foundation, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Loris Gréaud, Luciano Chessa, Lucy Raven, Luis Recoder, Luisa Gui, Carlos Soto, and Christian Wassmann, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynne Margulies, Mai Ueda, Maria Hassabi, Marije Vogelzang/Proef, Marina Rosenfeld, Margaret Lee, Markus Miessen and nOffice, Martha Colburn, Martí Guixé, Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings, Matthieu Laurette, Max Neuhaus, Meg Stuart, Michael Aerts, Michel Auder , Michael Smith, Mike Kelley , Mike Patton, Nick Relph, Nikhil Chopra, Nils Bech and Lina Viste Groenil, Noordung, Olaf Breuning, Oliver Herring, Omer Fast, Oswaldo Macia, Paul Elliman, Pauline Oliveros, Pedro, Murial, and Esther (PME), Pierre Bismuth, Professor Eilers, Rabih Mroué, Ragnar Kjartansson and Alterazioni Video, Rancourt/Yatsuk, Rhys Chatham, Robert Lazzarini, Rodney Graham, Ruth Sacks, Ryan McNamara, Ryan Sawyer, Sandra Gibson, Santiago Sierra, Saya Woolfalk, Scott Keightley and Tom O’Neill, Shana Lutker, Shana Moulton, Shannon Plumb, Shelley Hirsch, Snöfrid, Stuart Sherman, Sung Hwan, Kim, Tacita Dean, Tamar Ettun, Tanja Ostojic, Terence Koh, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tony Clifton, Tony Conrad, Thurston Moore, Tracey Emin, Trisha Baga, Uqbar Foundation (Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman), Vadim Vosters, Wangechi Mutu and Imani Uzuri, William Kentridge, Yemenwed, Yeondoo Jung, Yoko Ono, Yvonne Rainer, z’ev

http://performa-arts.org/blog/performa-09/artists/

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA

Automobile culture as critical and creative territory
9 October 2009 - 10 January 2010

CA2M Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo
Avda. Constitución, 23 – 25
28931 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain

ARTISTS:

Roy Arden, Eric Aupol, Yael Bartana, Manolo Bautista, Michele Bazzana, Hans Op de Beeck, Valérie Belin, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Etienne Bossut, Frank Breuer, Michel de Broin, Alain Bublex, June-Bomb Park, Edward Burtynsky, Andrew Bush, Hervé Coqueret, Stéphane Couturier, Félix Curto, Stephen Dean, Jeremy Dickinson, Juan Fernández, Sylvie Fleury, Alicia Framis, Juan del Junco, Pannos Kokkinias, Annika Larsson, Miki Leal, Ange Leccia, Zilla Leutenegger, Juan López, Maider López, Chip Lord, Thom Merrick, Vik Muniz, Ahmet Ögüt, Julian Opie, Sven Pählsson, Miguel Palma, Jesús Palomino, Panamarenko, Martin Parr, Tobias Rehberger, Pedro Reyes, Betsabeé Romero, Samuel Rousseau, Bruno Rousseaud, Michael Samuels, Corinna Schnitt, Franck Scurti, Jim Shaw, Roman Signer, Dirk Skreber, Amy Stein, Thomas Struth, Xavier Veilhan, Kelley Walker, Koen Wastijn, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, Erwin Wurm.

An exhibition curated by: Alberto Martín

Auto. Sueño y Materia is organized by CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

Auto. Sueño y material, examines the influence of the car in contemporary art. With over one hundred works by sixty artists from Spain and further afield, the exhibition throws light on the relationship between car culture and art over recent decades. The vast majority of the works presented come from the last two decades but with a heavy accent on the current moment, a period in which the reading of the car from an art perspective took on such density and complexity as well as critical perspective and detached biting wit. The automobile has been, and indeed still is, one of the most effective media for the material embodiment of dreams. And now, artists are questioning the reality of those dreams.

http://www.madrid.org/centrodeartedosdemayo/

Warsaw under construction

Warsaw under construction

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

03.10.2009 - 22.11.2009

The list of artists participating in the project:
Michał Budny
Carlos Bunga
Daniela Brahm
Cyprien Gaillard
David Maljković
Bartosz Mucha
Ahmet Ögüt
Toby Paterson
Katarzyna Przezwańska
Tobias Putrih
Joanna Rajkowska
Ariel Schlesinger
Magdalena Staniszkis/Jan Smaga
Superflex
Armando Andrade Tudela
Uglycute
Aleksandra Wasilkowska
Karol Żurawski

Projekty specjalne/ special projects:
Daniela Brahm
Tomasz Rygalik
Relax Studios

illustrations:
David Maljković, movie still "Images with their own Shadows", 2008
Tobias Putrih, "4th Gift (Warsaw)", 2009
Toby Paterson, bez tytułu (wystawa „Ever Growing Never Old”, Modern Institute), 2008

On Oct. 3 the Museum launches its feature project - "Warszawa w budowie" - "Warsaw under construction", a trailer of a new festival focused on designing. The trigger for this event was the City of Warsaw's request to have a new design festival. The Museum proposed to debate it's formula - is bringing beautiful objects into an ugly city worth the effort. Shouldn't we discuss the quality of the urban space instead? During the forthcoming two months of exbibitions and talks the Museum is looking for answers, how to redesign the public space in Warsaw in order to make it better.

The EXHIBITION presented at the Museum’s temporary HQ and in the neighbouring locations (the pedestrian passage in front of it, the Honorary Tribune on the Defilad Sq. and inside the Palace of Culture) comprises of works by artists, who relate their practice to design and urban planning and who borrow from their languages. They offer no solutions, do not yield to the demand for functionality. Instead, they bring into focus the particularities of Central-European urban space. The key-words to that world are: temporariness, decay, non-durability, anarchy, the validity of urban utopias. Where complex solutions are bound to fail, makeshift replaces designing and becomes an alternative way of satisfying needs. Temporariness, remaining half-way characterizes Warsaw just as other metropolises of the dynamically developing regions – Asia, Middle East or Latin America.

http://www.warszawawbudowie.pl/

http://warszawawbudowie.blox.pl/html

203 Mehmet YILDIZs @ Pandora Kitabevi

Ahmet Öğüt
“203 Mehmet YILDIZs”
22, 09 – 30, 09 2009
Place: Pandora Kitabevi
MASA presents Ahmet Öğüt's "203 Mehmet YILDIZs"
Öğüt grounds his work on the fact that there are 203 licensed football players named 'Mehmet Yıldız' registered in Turkish Football Federation. Setting out from this information, the artist forms an imaginative team consisting of 203 different Mehmet Yıldız's. In his MASA exhibition, Öğüt is going to exhibit the voice record of the match between the two imaginary teams: “All Stars Team” and “All Stars Collective”
Exhibition can be visited everyday at Pandora Kitabevi between 22 and 30 September, from 12 to 6pm
Special Thanks:
Daghan Irak, Ali Murat Hamarat, Elif Bereketli, Pandora Kitabevi
www.masaprojesi.blogspot.com

In The Between

From 9/10/2009 to 10/10/2009

Curated by Suzanne Egeran

Artists:

Hüseyin Alptekin, Peter Coffin, Martin Creed, Martha Friedman, Tom Friedman, Diana Al-Hadid, Ali Kazma, Christian Marclay, Iván Navarro, Ahmet Ögüt, Cerith Wyn Evans

First Floor, Passage Petit Champs
Istanbul

The exhibition will take place in the Beyoğlu District of Istanbul, on the first floor of a 19th century art nouveau building, and will coincide with the Istanbul Biennial. The space has been generously provided by Tabanlioğlu Architects

http://www.inthebetween.egeran.com/

28th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana

28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
1000 Ljubljana / Slovenia

4 September - 25 October 2009

Patrick Ward, Vahram Aghasyan, David Kareyan, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Klaus Schafler, Tracey Moffatt, Ivan Moudov, Ján Mancuška, Ahmet Ögüt, Jesper Fabricius, Therese Sunngren, Société Réaliste, Space Invader, Igor Eškinja, Ivan Fijolic, Iva Kovac;, Jelena Kovacevic, Ana Lozica, Ines Matijevic, Marko Tadic, Afsoon, Eva & Franco Mattes, Cesare Pietroiusti, Taiyo Kimura, Nana Shiomi, Lee Chul Soo, Bu Hua, Ye Funa, Zhang Minjie, Carlos Motta, Jakup Ferri, Alban Muja, Hungarian Double-tailed Dog, Nada Prlja, Julieta Aranda, Betsabee Romero, Adrian Sauer, Nasan Tur, Maria Alicia Zamora Noguera, Jorgen Craig Lello & Tobias Arnell, Sameera Khan, M-City, Malgorzata Etber Warlikowska, ChtoDelat.org, Nika Autor, Viktor Bernik, BridA, Ksenija Cerce, Vuk Cosic;, Vesna Drnovšek, Samuel Grajfoner, Dejan Habicht, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Matej Košir, Borut Krajnc, Tanja Lažetic, Nika Oblak & Primož Novak, radioCona, Katja Sudec, Miha Štrukelj, Tomaž Tomažin, Huiqin Wang, Ivan Grubanov, Dejan Kaludjerovic, Jelena Sredanovic, Katarina Zdjelar, Juan Perez Agirregoikoa, Fernando García, La Más Bella, Francesc Ruiz, Ignacio Uriarte, Moises Yagües Fernandez, BAS / Bent, Anita di Bianco, JustSeeds, Nicola López, Swoon

The 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts is a multifaceted event with a long tradition; it consists of a number of exhibitions as well as other happenings. Once again, the Biennial's central exhibition, The Matrix: An Unstable Reality, on view for two months in Ljubljana galleries, will focus on contemporary graphic art in the broadest sense of the term.
At the invitation of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, which proposed the theme of the main show, this idea was further developed and shaped by Galerija Alkatraz, Galerija Ganes Pratt, Galerija Jakopič, Galerija Kapsula, and Galerija Škuc, which are also serving as venues for the Biennial. Alongside the central exhibition, the 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts includes as well the Artist's Book Salon, the traditional exhibition for the winner of the Grand Prize from the previous Biennial, and a number of accompanying exhibitions.

www.mglc-lj.si

Künstlerhaus Bremen-EDITIONEN#3

EDITIONEN # 3

Künstlerhaus Bremen

Bob Braine & Leslie C. Reed // Ingo Gerken // Sebastian Gräfe // Elín Hansdóttir // Jorge Macchi // Ahmet Öğüt // Wolfgang Plöger // Albrecht Schäfer // Sibylle Springer // John Wood & Paul Harrison

http://www.kuenstlerhausbremen.de/