Ergin Cavusoglu

Born:
1968
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
Bulgarian
Trust:
APT London
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  • The exhibition “Ottomans and Europeans: Pasts and Perspectives” will be held between March 4 and 27 at Istanbul’s Tophane-i Amire Culture and...

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  • İstanbul's Rampa Gallery in Beşiktaş has opened exhibits of two artists, Hatice Güleryüz and Ergin Çavuşoğlu, whose work in the gallery's two spaces

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  • To mark its 10th anniversary, Istanbul Modern is home to the first ever group exhibition to explore the interaction between visual arts, sound and

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  • For its 10th anniversary, Istanbul Modern last week opened a new exhibition titled “Plurivocality: Visual Arts and Music in Turkey,” which explores

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  • İstanbul's Rampa Gallery in Beşiktaş has opened exhibits of two artists, Hatice Güleryüz and Ergin Çavuşoğlu, whose work in the gallery's two spaces

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  • Ergin Çavuşoğlu’s Adaptation – Cinefication is made up of two distinct elements. The exhibition examines the artist’s engagement in the past with

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BIOGRAPHY

Ergin Cavusoglu was born in 1968 in Bulgaria and lives and works in London.  He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004, and most recently in 2010 for the UK’s largest International Contemporary Arts Prize Artes Mundi 4. ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu studied at the National School of Fine Arts Iliya Petrov in Sofia in the early 1980s. He received a BA from the University of Marmara, Istanbul, an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Ph.D. from the University of Portsmouth.

Cavusoglu is known for his complex single and multi-screen video installations that reframe his subjects’ surroundings. Cavusoglu often looks to the cultures and environments of Turkey for inspiration, to discover the collision of the contemporary and historical, the local as an implicated place in the context of its globalized position. This is true of the work ‘’Tahtakale’’, which shows the traditional, frenzied trading in currency and gold played out in its historical location in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, the sound of mobile phones and shouting set to the soundtrack of a Byzantine Choir. In ‘’Quintet Without Borders’’, a collaboration between ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu and Konstantin Bojanov, individual footage of five gypsy musicians comes together to create an harmonious work combining cultural identity and community with that of sophisticated synchronization in the space of the gallery.

He represented Turkey at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004, and in 2010 for Artes Mundi 4, the UK’s largest art prize. Solo exhibitions include, Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream? Rampa, Istanbul (2016); Liquid Breeding, YARAT, Baku (2015); Dust Breeding, The Pavilion, Downtown Dubai (2011); Alterity, Rampa, Istanbul (2011); Crystal & Flame, PEER, London (2010); Ergin ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2009); and Place after Place, Kunstverein Freiburg (2008). Group exhibitions include But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern (2015); 4th International Canakkale Biennial (2014); First Kiev Biennale (2012); Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010); fast forward 2, ZKM, Karlsruhe, (2010); All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle (2008), Frankfurt; British Art Show 6 (2005); 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003); and 3rd Berlin Biennial (2003). 

ÇavuoÄŸlu took part in the Turkish Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004, and most recently in 2010 for Artes Mundi 4 – the UK’s Biggest Contemporary Arts Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include ”Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?”, Rampa, Istanbul (2016), ”Cinefication (Tarot & Chess)”, The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2016), ”Adaptation – Cinefication”, Rampa, Istanbul (2014), “Ergin ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu – Dust Breeding”, The Pavilion, Downtown Dubai (2011), “Alterity”, Rampa, Ä°stanbul (2011), “Crystal & Flame”, PEER, London (2010), “Ergin ÇavuÅŸoÄŸlu”, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2009-10), Haunch of Venison, London (2004 and 2009), “Place After Place”, Kunstverein Freiburg (2008), “Quintet Without Borders”, ShContemporary, Shanghai (2008), Haunch of Venison, Zurich (2007), “Point of Departure”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and NGCA Sunderland (2006), and “Entanglement”, DCA, Dundee (2004).

Group exhibitions include “Artists in Their Time”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2015), ”Plurivocality”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2014), “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times; Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art”, First International Contemporary Art Biennial, Arsenale, Kiev (2012), “Migrasophia”, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah (2012), “Zwölf im Zwölften”, TANAS, Berlin (2011), The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011),“Paradise Lost”, Ä°stanbul Modern, Ä°stanbul (2011), Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010), “fast forward 2 The Power of Motion”, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (2010), “HomeLessHome”, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem (2010), The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa (2010), “There is no Road”, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (2009), “All Inclusive – A Tourist World”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2008), “Between Borders”, MARCO Vigo (2007), British Art Show 6 (2005), the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2004), the 50th Venice Biennial (2003) and the 8th Ä°stanbul Biennial (2003).

Ergin Cavusoglu works with Rampa, Istanbul.


 


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