kunstforum

http://www.artcontent.de/kunstforum2/inhaltsverzeichnis_biennale53.asp?band=198&artikel=198151

residency at Cité Des Arts

Residency at Cité internationale des arts Paris

July-August/2009

report from venice

Art in America:

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/the-market/2009-06-09/report-from-venice-the-wrap-/

Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/jun/09/venice-biennale-art

Bidoun:

http://bidoun.com/venice/?paged=2

Radikal:

http://www.radikal.com.tr/Default.aspx?aType=RadikalHaberDetay&Date=07.06.2009&ArticleID=939465

Sabah:

http://www.sabah.com.tr/Yasam/2009/06/06/kuresel_siddetin_kenti

Conversation: Liam Gillick, Ahmet Ögüt, Tim Griffin

Making Worlds Conversations | The 53rd Venice Biennale

Conversation: Liam Gillick, Ahmet Ögüt and Tim Griffin

Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

5th of June

for further info: http://www.makingworldsconversations.blogspot.com/

curated by Steven Henry Madoff

53rd Venice Biennial | Pavilion of Turkey

view from "Exploded City" Ahmet Ögüt © 2009

Lapses | Pavilion of Turkey 
53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
Banu Cennetoğlu, Ahmet Öğüt

curated by Başak Şenova

Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Artists: Banu Cennetoğlu, Ahmet Öğüt

Curator: Başak Şenova
Assistant Curator: Nazli Gürlek
Project Coordinator: Ustüngel Inanç (Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts)

Arsenale, Venice
June 7 – November 22, 2009
Professional Preview: 3-6 June

http://venicebiennial-turkey.org/

AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA 

Fri, May 15 , 2009 - Mon, September 21 , 2009

Laboral - Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial La Universidad Laboral s/n 33394 Gijón Spain

CURATOR: Alberto Martín
ASSISTANT CURATOR: Victoria del Val
EXHIBITION DESIGN: Longo + Roldán
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.

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA [AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL] is a multifaceted ambitious exhibition project featuring around one hundred works by over sixty artists. The exhibition mines the depth of influence of the automobile within contemporary art, or more precisely, the relationship between car culture and art creation in recent decades. The lead role assigned to the automobile as a mainstay of 20th century culture and as a symbol of our consumer society, encourages us to address the art-car binomial from more than a strictly aesthetic realm, instead expanding our perspective to embrace social, political and anthropological considerations. Precisely at a moment like the present, when we can already detect a feeling of closure to the era of material culture that ruled throughout the 20th century, it becomes more pressing that ever to cast a gaze backwards on that icon that transformed habits, territory and industry.

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/exhibitions/show/95

Take the Money and Run @ de Appel

"Take the Money and Run"

3 May — 12 May 2009
Brouwersgracht 196
Opening: Saturday 2 May from 5 pm onwards

Curators: Danila Cahen, Nell Donkers and Edna van Duyn i.c.w. Ann Demeester

With:
Sven Augustijnen
Maria Barnas
Erick Beltrán
Barbara Bloom
Monica Bonvicini
Daniel Buren
Maurizio Cattelan
Marlene Dumas
Coleen Fitzgibbon and Robin Winters
Claire Fontaine
Meschac Gaba
Dora García
Liam Gillick
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Jens Haaning
Christian Jankowski
Job Koelewijn
Harrie de Kroon
Louise Lawler
Ahmet Ögüt
Roman Ondák
Tomo Savić-Gecan
Sean Snyder
Nedko Solakov
Mladen Stilinović
Apolonija Šušteršić
Lawrence Weiner
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

At the location where Wies Smals initiated de Appel in 1974, thirty artists are reflecting within the context of the auction upon the relationship between the economic and the symbolic value of art. The three curators, members of de Appel’s staff, have invited the artists to make a new work on A4, in which the changed value system within the art world in these times of financial crisis, is being brought up for discussion. After being exhibited, the conceptual works, texts, drawings, promises, understatements, ideas, visions and performances will be part of the “Two in One” auction taking place at Christie’s on 20 May. The project is an empathetic critique from within, in which de Appel and the artists assume the simultaneous role of contemporary collaborator and critical inquirer.

Events:

2 May (Opening), 2009, 6 pm: “Tu Aimes, Tu Achètes - You Like, You Buy”
performance of Meschac Gaba realized by Jonathan and Johannes Gaba.
8 May, 2009, 2 pm: “Ongoing Reading Project” of Job Koelewijn
a ‘reading session’ with the artist (45 min.).
20 May Christian Jankowski “Strip the Auctioneer”, between 5 pm. – 8 pm, Christie's

Opening Hours Exhibition: 3-12 May, daily from 2 - 8 pm

http://www.deappel.nl/exhibitions/e/664/

www.christies.com

DIS-EASE

DIS-EASE
6 APRIL TO 28 JUNE
Iziko South African National Gallery

Artists:
Ahmet Ögüt, Chiara Pirito, Cristina Lucas, Erik Olofsen, Fernando Sánchez Cástillo, Francessca Grilli, Im Go Eun, Greg Streak, Guido van der Werve, Jakup Ferri, Kuang Yu Tsui, Marco Pando, Marianne Flotron, Maze de Boer, Meiro Koizumi, Meiya Lin, Michael Blum, Mounira Al Solh, Nicoline van Harskamp, Owen Oppenheimer, Paulien Oltheten, Persijn Broersen / Margit Lukács, Sascha Pohle, Sefer Memisoglu, Siree van der Velde, Sookoon Ang, Zachary Formwalt

The Iziko South African National Gallery is proud to host DIS-EASE: a new generation of video art from the Rijksakademie archives. Taking place from 6 April until 28 June 2009, the video compilation screening reflects on the power of the medium, both in terms of content and articulation, as explored by some twenty-seven artists of seventeen different nationalities.

DIS-EASE was curated by Durban-based artist and curator, Greg Streak, while on a visit to Amsterdam in early 2008. Streak, representing the artist run initiative PULSE, partnered with the Rijksakademie and Bank Gallery, Durban, to produce the show.

http://www.iziko.org.za/sang/c_ex.html#dis-ease

The Generational - New Museum

The Generational: Younger Than Jesus

New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
08/04/2009 - 14/06/2009

Artists:
Adam Pendleton
Adriana Lara
AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas)
Ahmet Ögüt
Anna Molska
Alexander Ugay
Brendan Fowler
Cao Fei
Carolina Caycedo
Chu Yun
Cyprien Gaillard
Ciprian Muresan
Cory Arcangel
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Elad Lassry
Emily Roysdon
Emre Hüner
Faye Driscoll
Guthrie Lonergan
Haris Epaminonda
Ida Ekblad
Icaro Zorbar
James Richards
Josh Smith
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski
Kerstin Brätsch
Keren Cytter
Kitty Kraus
Katerina Sedá
Luke Fowler
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Liz Glynn
Loris Gréaud
Liu Chuang
Mohamed Bourouissa
Mariechen Danz
Mark Essen
Matt Keegan
Patricia Esquivias
Ruth Ewan
Ryan Gander
Ryan Trecartin
Shilpa Gupta
Stephen G. Rhodes
Tauba Auerbach
Tigran Khachatryan
Tala Madani
Tris Vonna-Michell
Wojciech Bakowsky
Ziad Antar

For “Younger Than Jesus,” the first edition of “The Generational,” the New Museum’s new signature triennial, fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented. The only exhibition of its kind in the United States, “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will offer a rich, intricate, multidisciplinary exploration of the work being produced by a new generation of artists born after 1976. Known to demographers, marketers, sociologists, and pundits variously as the Millennials, Generation Y, iGeneration, and Generation Me, this age group has yet to be described in any way beyond their habits of consumption. “Younger Than Jesus” will begin to examine the visual culture this generation has created to date.
The exhibition is organized by Lauren Cornell, Director of Rhizome and New Museum Adjunct Curator; Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions; and Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator.

http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/411

Ahmet Ögüt / Jakup Ferri

Jakup Ferri | Don't Tell Anybody | 2003 | DVD 12' | video still | courtesy of the artist

Today in History: Ahmet Ögüt  / Jakup Ferri
5 March- 15 April 2009
Centre for Visual Introspection
16 Biserica Enei Str, District 1, Bucharest
Curated by Alina Serban

http://www.pplus4.ro/mainen.html

Random Rules

Random Rules: A Channel of Artists' selections from YouTube

Curated by Marina Fokidis
For PULSE PLAY>Random Rules, Fokidis has invited several artists to create their very own playlists thereby presenting these artists not only as artists, but as curators and as collectors as well.

The selections will be available simultaneously in the video lounge at the Pulse Art Fair (March 5-8, New York 2009) and online as a YouTube Channel.

Artists:
Andrea Angelidakis
Aids 3D
AVAF
Pablo Leon de la Barra
Erick Beltran
Keren Cyter
Jeremy Deller
Cerith Wyn Evans
Dominique Gonzalez Foerster
Dora Garcia
Rodney Graham
Annika Larsson
Matthieu Laurette
Ingo Niermann
Miltos Manetas
Ahmet Ögüt
Angelo Plessas
Lisi Raskin
Linda Wallace

Click here to watch the YouTube Channel

things we count

Image: Things We Count | Ahmet Ögüt © 2008 | Single channel DVD 6' 20'' | video still

solo exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bremen

AHMET ÖĞÜT // THINGS WE COUNT
22. February - 26. April 2009

Eröffnung: Samstag, 21. Februar 2009, 19:30 Uhr

http://www.kuenstlerhausbremen.de

19 - 01 - 2007

19 - 01 - 2007

http://www.hrant-ve-biz.org/

http://www.hrantdink.org/

SOCIALLY DISORGANISED

SOCIALLY DISORGANISED
Opening 6pm Wednesday 18 Feb 2009. 19 Feb until 21 March 2009
Experimental Art Foundation
PO B0X 8091 Station Arcade, Adelaide, South Australia 5000
Curated by Vasif Kortun

Artists:
Halil Altindere
Yu Cheng-ta
Jordi Colomer
Daniel Guzman
Minouk Lim
Ahmet Ögüt
Wael Shawky
Kuang-Yu Tsui
Nasan Tur
Matthias Wermke

Often funny and frequently situationist in character, Socially Disorganised presents video art that activates the city in absurd and novel ways.
'Social disorganization' means a particular set of conditions that make it easier for crime to take hold in urban contexts. The works in this exhibition 'act out' a kind of delinquency," writes the curator.
Vasif Kortun has invited an impressive array of artists who use a range of strategies that include public performance, tactical collaborations, filmed acts of simple and surreal futility, and the simultaneous use of diverse media.

http://www.eaf.asn.au/2009/sociallydis.html
media release

one year passed

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957-2007)

happy together

HAPPY TOGETHER - Critical Reflections on Collective Identities
28 January - 1 March 2009
Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
http://www.kunstihoone.ee/
Curated by Mika Hannula & Minna Henriksson

Participants:
YKON collective
Birgir Birgirsson
Petra Bauer
Karl Ingar Roys
Ahmet Ögüt
Igor Grubic
Katarina Zdjelar
Kristina Norman
Minna Henriksson
Mika Hannula
Hanna Jaanisoo
Villlu Jaanisoo
Kiba Lumberg

New Website

www.ahmetogut.com

p.s. I will keep this blog for news as always

not: bu blogu her zamanki gibi kisisel haber blogu 

olarak kullanmaya devam edecegim.

Podcast

Podcast
Ahmet Ögüt - In Front of Your Eyes

To see the video use this link:
http://www.castyourart.com/en/index.php/2008/11/12/ahmet-ogut-istanbul-in-front-of-your-eyes/

Production
Sigmund Steiner
Ewa Stern
Ferit Katipoglu
Music
"Baglama" from
Nekropsi 'Nekropsi'
by Tolga Yenilmez
copyright: 2007 A.K. müzik & KONTRAPLAK
www.nekropsi.com
special thanks to Cevdet Erek

To download the video on iTunes-store page ( free of charge) this is the way to follow:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=44564599&id=272468026

To see the video on the Iphone enter this link to your iphone browser:
http://www.castyourart.com/mobile/

watch also Füsun Onur - Silent Music:
http://www.castyourart.com/en/index.php/2008/10/02/fusun-onur-sculptor-istanbulsilent-music/

Rijksakademie Open Ateliers 2008

Open Ateliers
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Sarphatistraat, 470
1018 GW Amsterdam - NL

RijksakademieOPEN 2008
29 NOV - 30 NOV van 11:00 - 19:00

Resident artists 2008:

Papa Adama, Mounira Al Solh, Maze de Boer, Mark Boulos, Tudor Bratu, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Francisco Camacho, Alexandra Demenkova, Lucas Di Pascuale, Constant Dullaart, Jakup Ferri, Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, Marianne Flotron, Zachary Formwalt, Alistair Frost, Miklos Gaál, Lotte Geeven, Romeo Gongora, Francesca Grilli, Bart Groenendaal, Rumiko Hagiwara, Anawana Haloba, Nicoline van Harskamp, Sharon Houkema, Istvan Ist Huzjan, Go Eun Im, Sophia Janatti, Aukje Koks, Frank Koolen, Marius Lut, Tala Madani, Nathaniel Mellors, Sefer Memisoglu, Brígida Mendes, Charlotte Mouwens, Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo, Alice Nikitinova, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Lucia Nimcova, Erkka Nissinen, Ahmet Ögüt, Marcel Pinas, Bradley Pitts, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Daishin Sumimoto, Philippe Van Wolputte, Ola Vasiljeva, Marianne Vierø, Andy Wauman, Erik van der Weijde, Marjolijn de Wit, Nina Yuen, Tu Zeng, Itay Ziv

http://www.rijksakademie.nl/exposities/uk_ex_open_ateliers.htm
http://www.openateliers.info/

Catching Breath

still from Mounira Al Solh's "the sea is a stereo"video, 2008

Catching Breath

Film program curated by November Paynter

With works by 

Ahmet Öğüt | Ziad Antar | Lamia Joreige | Mounira Al Solh | Erkan Özgen 

With the introduction of the curator

Sunday 2.11. 11:00-12:30h 

at Stadtkino, Basel

Ahmet ÖĞÜT & November PAYNTER in conversation
Sunday 2.11. 14:00-15:00h 

at Kunsthalle Basel

http://www.culturescapes.ch/en/2008/programm-basel/

http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/events/events#340