Trickster Makes This World

Trickster Makes This World
31 August – 21 November 2010

Nam June Paik Art Center

85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu,
Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do

446-905
Republic of Korea


Curated by Tobias Berger, Nav Haq and Young Chul Lee

with assistance of Sooyoung Lee and Yujean Rhee.

Participating Artists:
Nam June Paik

Heman Chong

Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir

Saskia Holmkvist

Christian Jankowski

Ray Johnson

Jaewhan Joo

Kesang Lamdark

Lim Tzay Chuen

George Maciunas

Gianni Motti

Ahmet Ögüt

Beom Kim
www.njpartcenter.kr

Informal Incidents @ Stedelijk Museum Bureau

Ahmet Ögüt
Informal Incidents
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA)
22 August - 3 October 2010

Opening & Auction:
Saturday August 21
5 - 7 p.m.

During the opening, at about 6 p.m., the auction of Ahmet Ögüt’s self-portrait in oils takes place. For more information, please read the 'Punch This Painting Leaflet': http://www.smba.nl/

Ahmet Ögüt’s solo exhibition taking place in the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. The exhibition, entitled ‘Informal Incidents’, comprises photographs, videos, an installation and an auction; the common denominator in all the works on display is the desire for a departure from the norm. By scheduling an auction at SMBA, which normally is a non-commercial institution, Ögüt aims at pushing our minds open to new possibilities.

The auction is an example of the artist’s celebration of actions performed in order to question social assumptions and the status quo. Ögüt praises acts like challenging the ordinary and exploring the gaps. His actions find expression in generally unspectacular but frequently disconcerting events, often recorded and transmitted to the public by use of documentary materials such as photography or video. However, by faking the action documented, Ögüt simultaneously questions the epistemological status of the documentary material: Can documentary material provide true accounts of fake actions?

The exhibition in SMBA is accompanied by the SMBA Newsletter No. 117 (NL/EN) featuring an essay written by Moosje Goosen.

With thanks to:
Christie’s Amsterdam

http://www.smba.nl/

Destroying Public Harmony

Destroying Public Harmony

6-29 August, 2010
Brukenthal National Museum
Contemporary Art Gallery
Str. Tribunei Nr. 6
Sibiu
Romania

Curator: Andrei Craciun

Participants:

Etcetera presents the International Errorists (AR)

Rainer Ganahl (A/US)

Ciprian Homorodean (RO/BE)

Martin Krenn (A)

Ahmet Ögüt (TR/NL)

Catalina Niculescu (RO/UK)

www.brukenthalmuseum.ro