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Yoko Ono, Robert Longo, Marilyn Minter and more team up with Creative Time and Opening Ceremony to raise flags throughout the city
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Released in 1984, the video for Queen’s single “Radio Ga Ga” places the medium of radio in the semiotic ecology of early modernism.
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After joining Alt as director and curator of exhibitions just last year, Mari Spirito will step down from her position after February 28.
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The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which has quickly become one of the most closely watched regularly scheduled international exhibitions after its first two editions, announced plans today for its third, which will run from December 12, 2016, through March 29, 2017, in Kochi, India.
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Artists are installing work in the poisoned nuclear landscape devastated in 2011’s tsunami – and of course, no one can visit it. I can’t think of a more fatuous plan.
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Born in Diyarbakir (Turkey) in 1981, lives and works in Amsterdam.
Ahmet Öğüt works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing and printed media. He received his BA in painting from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 2003, his MA from the Art and Design Faculty at Yildiz Teknik University in Istanbulin 2006 and he completed a two-year residency at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 2007 – 2008.
Öğüt’s solo exhibitions include Modern Essays 1: Across the Slope, SALT, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); Once Upon A Time A Clock-watcher During Overtime Hours, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy (2011); Stones to Throw, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal (2011); Speculative Social Fantasies, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA), Adelaide, Australia (2011); Exploded City / MATRIX 231, The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum, USA (2010); Black Diamond - Het Oog 3, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2010); Informal Incidents, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Netherlands (2010); Alpha 2000 - Art Prize ‘’Europas Zukunft’’, Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig, Germany (2010); Speculative Social Fantasies, Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia (2010); Ricochet # 4, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (2010); Underestimated Zones, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA (2010). His recent group exhibitions include Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia (2011); Commercial Break, Garage Projects, Venice, Italy (2011); 2011 Asian Art Biennial, Taichung, Taiwan (2011); Ahmet Cevdet Bey Presents Tunnel of Fear, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark (2011); iRonic. Die feinsinnige Ironie der Kunst, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany (2011); De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Netherlands (2011); Yes, We Don’t, Institut D'art Contemporain - Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France (2011); Fetisch Auto. Ich Fahre, Also Bin Ich, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2011); ECHT? based on a true story, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (2011); Survival Kit 3, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art – LCCA, Riga, Latvia (2011).
In 2009 Ahmet Öğüt co-represented Turkey at 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2010 he received „Europas Zukunft“ prize from Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK) Leipzig, 2010.
Ahmet Öğüt’s website: www.ahmetogut.com
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
