Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, California
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.EMPLOI SAISONNIER
“ Une partie des mots qui m’ont été jusqu’à ce jour mystérieusement interdits ” avec Sener Özmen, Cengiz Tekin et Berat Isik
EMPLOI SAISONNIER
Sextant et plusLa Friche La Belle
Vernissage le samedi 9 janvier à 18h30
“ 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
Mind The Gap
Via Panfilo Castaldi, 33
20124 Milan
Not easy to save the world in 90 days
December 12, 5 – 9 pm
10557 Berlin
The Malady of Writing
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.
A project on text and speculative imagination
November 20, 2009 – April 25, 2010
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Performa 09
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
AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA
9 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
Avda. Constitución, 23 – 25
28931 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain
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: Projekty specjalne/ special projects: illustrations:
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
Daniela Brahm
Tomasz Rygalik
Relax Studios
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.
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
In The Between
Istanbul
28th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana
28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
1000 Ljubljana / Slovenia
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.
Künstlerhaus Bremen-EDITIONEN#3
EDITIONEN # 3
residency at Cité Des Arts
Residency at Cité internationale des arts Paris
Conversation: Liam Gillick, Ahmet Ögüt, Tim Griffin
53rd Venice Biennial | Pavilion of Turkey
53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
Banu Cennetoğlu, Ahmet Öğüt
AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL
| 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:
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






