Sunday, August 22, 2010

Trickster Makes This World


Trickster Makes This World
31 August – 21 November 2010

Nam June Paik Art Center
85 Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu,
Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do

446-905
Republic of Korea

Curated by Tobias Berger, Nav Haq and Young Chul Lee
with assistance of Sooyoung Lee and Yujean Rhee.
Participating Artists:
Nam June Paik
Heman Chong
Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir
Saskia Holmkvist
Christian Jankowski
Ray Johnson
Jaewhan Joo
Kesang Lamdark
Lim Tzay Chuen
George Maciunas
Gianni Motti
Ahmet Ögüt

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Informal Incidents @ Stedelijk Museum Bureau



Ahmet Ögüt
Informal Incidents
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA)
22 August - 3 October 2010


Opening & Auction:
Saturday August 21
5 - 7 p.m.

During the opening, at about 6 p.m., the auction of Ahmet Ögüt’s self-portrait in oils takes place. For more information, please read the 'Punch This Painting Leaflet': http://www.smba.nl/

Ahmet Ögüt’s solo exhibition taking place in the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. The exhibition, entitled ‘Informal Incidents’, comprises photographs, videos, an installation and an auction; the common denominator in all the works on display is the desire for a departure from the norm. By scheduling an auction at SMBA, which normally is a non-commercial institution, Ögüt aims at pushing our minds open to new possibilities.

The auction is an example of the artist’s celebration of actions performed in order to question social assumptions and the status quo. Ögüt praises acts like challenging the ordinary and exploring the gaps. His actions find expression in generally unspectacular but frequently disconcerting events, often recorded and transmitted to the public by use of documentary materials such as photography or video. However, by faking the action documented, Ögüt simultaneously questions the epistemological status of the documentary material: Can documentary material provide true accounts of fake actions?

The exhibition in SMBA is accompanied by the SMBA Newsletter No. 117 (NL/EN) featuring an essay written by Moosje Goosen.

With thanks to:
Christie’s Amsterdam

http://www.smba.nl/

Friday, August 06, 2010

Destroying Public Harmony


Destroying Public Harmony
6-29 August, 2010

Brukenthal National Museum
Contemporary Art Gallery

Str. Tribunei Nr. 6
Sibiu
Romania

Curator: Andrei Craciun

Participants:
Etcetera presents the International Errorists (AR)
Rainer Ganahl (A/US)
Ciprian Homorodean (RO/BE)
Martin Krenn (A)
Ahmet Ögüt (TR/NL)
Catalina Niculescu (RO/UK)