Publisher: Self-published
Author(s): Ahmet Öğüt Şener Özmen
Format: Softcover
Size: 21 x 29,7 cm 
Edition: 1st Edition 2004
Pages: 126
ISBN: n/a

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ziyaretçi - The Visitor", held at the Galerist gallery, Istanbul, from November 9 to December 5, 2004.

AHMET ÖĞÜT

Ahmet Öğüt born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, is a sociocultural initiator, artist, and lecturer. Working across a variety of media, including photography, video, and installation, Öğüt often uses humor and small gestures to offer his commentary on rather serious or pressing social and political issues. Öğüt is regularly collaborating with people from outside of the art world to create shifts in the perception of common.

He has exhibited widely, more recently with solo presentations at Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery, and Van Abbemuseum. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone (2021); In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020); Zero Gravity at Nam SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art (2019); Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale (2018); the British Art Show 8 (2015-2017); the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); Performa 13, the Fifth Biennial of Visual Art Performance, New York (2013); the 7th Liverpool Biennial (2012); the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); the New Museum Triennial, New York (2009); and the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008). Öğüt is currently a guest professor at Institut für Kunst im Kontext at Universität der Künste Berlin, and has been a guest mentor, guest tutor, advisor, research teacher at several schools. Among the schools are Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; Sandberg Institute Amsterdam; Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki; TransArts - Transdisziplinäre Kunst, Institut für Bildende und Mediale Kunst Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien; and DAI (Dutch Art Institute) Arnhem. Öğüt was awarded the Visible Award for the Silent University (2013); the special prize of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine (2012); the De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Netherlands; and the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2010). He co-represented Turkey at the 53rdVenice Biennale (2009). (https://www.theartists.net/selection/ahmet-ogut)

SENER OZMEN

1971, Hezex, / Şirnex (Kurdistan)

Sener Ozmen is a new media artist, writer, editor and translator living in Wilmette, Illinois, US. He was an both actor of dissident contemporary art practices that developed in Istanbul after the 1990s, and in Diyarbakir in 2000s, the city where he lived and produced, and he was one of the art writers who wrote this development through period exhibitions and artists (especially Kurdish artists). His articles on Kurdish identity, nationalism, militarism, sexism, production of art and literature in war and conflict zones, migration and post-migration trauma problems in his unique language have been published in art magazines and newspapers, and he has published two books on these subjects, as well as catalog texts. Ozmen's short films and video works have been shown in the world's most respected contemporary art museums and group exhibitions. In 2016, he was a judge at the Love & Change Film Competition at if Istanbul (If Istanbul International Independent Film Festival) together with documentary director and screenwriter Adam Curtis (UK) and documentary producer Philippa Kowarsky (Israel). Ozmen won the Prix Meuly (Hoch Hinaus, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland) in 2005 and curated many exhibitions and performed solo exhibitions. (https://senerozmen.com)