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Ahmet Öğüt

Ahmet Öğüt was born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey. He lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. Öğüt graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2003 and completed his MA at the Faculty of Art and Design at Yıldız Technical University in 2006. In 2010 Öğüt received the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft from the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig. His work has been shown at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008), the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009), the 12th Istanbul Biennial and 4th Moscow Biennial (2011). With his drawings, installations, performances and films Ahmet Öğüt reflects on movements, conflicts and innovations in the global economic and geo-political space. Öğüt always starts from or refers to his own well-defined context as a Turkish-Kurdish artist. He explores basic principles of time, distance and speed and uses humour and irony as an essential artistic strategy in his politico-cultural critical discourse.
The Special Prize winner
Ahmet Öğüt was born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey. He lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. Öğüt graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2003 and completed his MA at the Faculty of Art and Design at Yıldız Technical University in 2006. In 2010 Öğüt received the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft from the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig. His work has been shown at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008), the 53rd Venice Biennial (2009), the 12th Istanbul Biennial and 4th Moscow Biennial (2011). With his drawings, installations, performances and films Ahmet Öğüt reflects on movements, conflicts and innovations in the global economic and geo-political space. Öğüt always starts from or refers to his own well-defined context as a Turkish-Kurdish artist. He explores basic principles of time, distance and speed and uses humour and irony as an essential artistic strategy in his politico-cultural critical discourse.

The Special Prize winner