Selected Exhibitions
2023
➤ Istanbuls Today / Pera Museum / Istanbul, Turkey
➤ In a Multiple-Perspective / YARAT Contemporary Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
2020
➤ Domestic Archeology _ Covid-19 Studio Logs
"Artists in Quarantine" / Commissioned by SALT – L’Internationale
2019
➤ Winter is Coming / Merdiven Art Space @Mebusan#25/ Istanbul/TR
2018
➤ Upside Down / Daire Sanat Istanbul/TR
➤ Power to the People / SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE Frankfurt/ DE
➤ Global Control And Censorship / GALERIA ARSENAŁ Białystok/ PL
2017
➤ AFSAD Exhibition / Contemporary Arts Center Ankara, TR
➤ Global Control And Censorship / TALLINN ART HALL, Tallin, Estonia
2015
➤ Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI, The National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy
➤ The Water Knows All My Secrets / PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY, NYC, USA
➤ Global Control And Censorship / ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
➤ Europe. The Future of History / KUNSTHAUS ZURICH/ Zurich, CH
2014
➤ Q.I. VEDO SOSTENIBILE /Montesanto & Madre Museum, Naples, IT
➤ ODTU SANAT 15, Ankara, TR
2013
➤ global aCtIVISm / ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art / Karlsruhe, DE
➤ Eyeballing / ÇMS, Çankaya/ Ankara, TR
2012
➤ Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, TR
➤ Anatomy of A Deal, Arrow Factory / Beijing, CN
2011
➤ Life in The UK: Balance of Probabilities / Art Asia Triennial Manchester / UK
➤ The Workers / Mass MOCA / North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
➤ Art Works –art in the Deutsche Bank Towers, Deutsche Bank Collection, curated by Alistair Hicks, Frankfurt
➤ Local Global Plan / Public Art Project on Ålekistevej, Copenhagen, Denmark
➤ Variations / Photomed / Espace St Nazaire, Sanary-sur-Mer, France
2010
➤ Divercity. Learning from Istanbul / CCA Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
➤ No Soul For Sale / A Festival Of Independents / Tate Modern/Turbine Hall, London
➤ The Armory Show 2010 / PiST///, New York, USA
➤ As The Land Expands / Al Rivaq Art Space, Kingdom of Bahrain
➤ Istanbul / New Realities / Centro Cultural de Belém CCB, Lisbon, PT
2009
➤ TRANSIT-2 / PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, TR
(Collateral event of 11th Istanbul Biennial)
➤ TRANSIT-2 / Madre Museum, Project Room, Napoli, IT
➤ Istanbul, Traversée / Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, FR
➤ Creative Destruction / OUTLET//Independent Art Space, Istanbul, TR
2008
➤ Candid Stories /Insa Art Space of the Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
➤ Becoming Istanbul / Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, DE
➤ Frieze Art Fair 2008 / PiST///, London, England
➤ Tales Around the Pavement/ Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
2007
➤ Turkish Pavilion / PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, TR
(Collateral event of 10th Istanbul Biennial)
➤ Global Cities / TATE Modern, London, UK
➤ EurHope 1153 / Contemporary Art from Bosphorus Villa Manin, Udine, Italy
➤ Home And Away / Umetnostna Galerija Maribor / Slovenia
2006
➤ Rejection Episodes / Vooruit & DeCentrale, Gent, Belgium
➤ Reserved ’06 / PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, TR
➤ Rest in Peace / PiST/// 7-24, Istanbul, TR
➤ Attitude Video: Short & Experimental Film / Photography Festival / Macedonia
2005
➤ Public Matters, Private Matters / Strand on Volta Gallery / Washington, DC / USA
➤ Dispersed Moments of Concentration / Urban and Digital Spaces
➤ Hartware Medien Kunst Verein / Phoenix Halle Dortmund, Germany
➤ Off Space / Siemens Sanat, Istanbul, TR
➤ art for... /Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, TR
2004
➤ STADTanSICHTen Istanbul / ifa-Galleries Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany
➤ E-flux Video Rental / New York City, USA
2003
➤ 22nd Annual Contemporary Artists Exhibition / Aksanat, Istanbul, TR
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023 Urban Mirrors-Reflections From the Artists of Istanbul by Alistair Hicks/YKY
2023 Istanbuls Today / Editors:Refik Akyüz, Serdar Darendeliler / Pera Museum Publication
2016 Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury / Edited by Hou Hanru, Ceren Erdem,Elena Motisi,
Donatella Saroli/ MAXXI - Quodlibet
2015 The Future of History / Neu Zürcher Zeitung Publishing - Exhibition Catalogue
2015 User's Manual 2.0/ Contemporary Art In Turkey 1975-2015/ art-ist & REVOLVER
2015 Global Activism/ Art and Conflict in the 21st Century edited by Peter Weibel/
The MIT Press
2015 Arrow Factory:The Next Four Years / Editors: Rania Ho, Wang Wei, Pauline Yao
2014 Triennial City: Localising Asian Art - Editors: Beccy Kennedy, Alnoor Mitha, Leon Wainwright/ Cornerhouse Publications
2013 GRANTA -Türkiye, Kimlik #1 / Granta Publications - EVEREST
2012 Eyeballing, YAYGARA - Exhibition Catalogue
2011 Art Works. Deutsche Bank Collection, 2011
2011 101 ARTWORKS-Forty Years of Turkish Contemporary Art / art-ist, Revolver
2011 IMAGES / Le Magazine de la Photographie #46
2011 Lokal Global Plan – Exhibition Catalogue
2010 The Armory Show, Year Book
2009 Istanbul, Traversée, Catalogue published by ACTAR
2008 Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9, Editor; Rosalind Furness
2007 User's Manual/ Contemporary Art In Turkey 1986-2006/ art-ist & REVOLVER
2007 EurHope 1153 / Contemporary Art from Bosphorus, Catalogue
2005 Verstreute Momente der Konzentration, Catalogue, Editor; Inke Arns, Revolver
2005 e-flux video rental catalogue, Revolver
2004 Szene Türkei: Abseits, aber Tor!, Vasıf Kortun & Erden Kosova, Walther König
2004 STADanSICHTen Istanbul, Catalogue published by IFA
SELECTED REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
2019 Sanat Dünyamız, review, Nermin Saybaşılı, #173
2018 Sanat Dünyamız, review, Süreyya Evren, #167
2011 Local Global Plan, interview, Exhibition Newspaper, 2011
2009 Osman Bozkurt: Tape Republic, November Paynter, NAFAS Art Magazine, July
2008 The 20 best up-and-coming artists - Features, Art - The Independent, 10 October
2006 The Turkish New Wave, Fatos Ustek, Tema Celeste, March/April
2005 Osman Bozkurt; Rejection Episodes And Fragments of Memory, Başak Şenova, Camera Austria#92
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
2018 Presentation, BAK, Diyarbakır, TR
2018 Presentation, AFSAD 8TH International Photo Symposium / Ankara, TR
2009 Symposia, Panel Discussion with Didem Ozbek, Lesley Young & James Hutchinson / Rotterdam Dialogues: Curators, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2008 Guest Speaker, I AM HERE, THE TIME IS NOW / European Cultural Foundation/Ong Keng Sen/ Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, NL
2008 Presentation, Open City: Istanbul, Contemporary Image Collective / Cairo, Egypt
RESIDENCIES
2011 DIVA Residency / Copenhagen, DK
2010 PLATFORM GARANTİ CAC / Istanbul,TR
2009 Künstlerhauser Worpswede / Bremen, DE
2007 PLATFORM GARANTİ CAC / Istanbul, TR
OTHER / ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
2005-2008 Lecturer at Kadir Has University, Fine Art Faculty, TR
2002-2008 Lecturer at Yıldız Technical University, Visual Communication Design, TR
1999-2001 Lecturer at Mimar Sinan University, Fine Art Faculty, TR
Also see:
www.pist.org.tr
