Ahmet Ögüt
01 Nov - 16 Dec 2012
Ahmet Öğüt
This exhibition’s factual accuracy may be compromised due to its practical nature
1 November - 16 December 2012
Istanbul and Amsterdam based artist Ahmet Öğüt, presents his first solo exhibition in Stuttgart featuring a comprehensive study of his recent projects; as well as earlier video based works and performances. The exhibition occupies both exhibition spaces at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Öğüt’s solo exhibition, “This exhibition’s factual accuracy may be compromised due to its practical nature”, aims to develop a critical perspective on how we demand and supply social changes as economical, but irrational subjects in a world in transition.
Witnessing political transitions in our global context, Ahmet Öğüt promises critical thinking and participatory imagination through his conceptualist approach. His understanding of political subjectivity and collective unconscious are reflected in his projects, in the way they communicate with potential audience.
Öğüt’s proposal for “Artistic Dialogues” is formed in reference to how information is processed, circulated and co-edited today. Wikipedia operates as a shared, collective source of information. Articles that are deemed unsatisfactory by Wikipedia include a disclaimer: This article’s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please help improve the article by updating it. This disclaimer invites contributors to change the article, thereby contributing to Wikipedia’s collective knowledge. Adapting this disclaimer into his title, and emphasizing the form of exhibition as his primary material, Öğüt invites the audience to see the exhibition with its artistic and institutional references and with contextual reality.
The audience is welcomed to the exhibition by posters entitled “Post No Bills” (2011-12), which include street tags appropriated from a Felix Gonzales Torres poster, “Untitled (The End) (1990)”. The second floor includes earlier video works, “Death Kit Train” (2005), “Short Circuit” (2006) and an edited film program that shows documentation from Öğüt’s early performances. The fourth floor will focus on his recent works including “Stones to throw” (2011), and “Oscar William Sam” (2012). The exhibition functions as a space for investigating the new artistic directions Öğüt is heading to – with a focus on his recent works as well as the conceptual origins.
To contextualize Öğüt’s earlier work, a re-staging of an early performance work will test the Künstlerhaus audience – with a traditional game from Turkey, “Okey”. This will take place during the end of the exhibition.
In close collaboration with Lost Books – a Stuttgart-based publisher founded by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart studio-grant holder Juliane Otterbach – an artist book will accompany the exhibition and include Öğüt’s latest statement, “Stones to Throw”, (2011).
This exhibition’s factual accuracy may be compromised due to its practical nature
1 November - 16 December 2012
Istanbul and Amsterdam based artist Ahmet Öğüt, presents his first solo exhibition in Stuttgart featuring a comprehensive study of his recent projects; as well as earlier video based works and performances. The exhibition occupies both exhibition spaces at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Öğüt’s solo exhibition, “This exhibition’s factual accuracy may be compromised due to its practical nature”, aims to develop a critical perspective on how we demand and supply social changes as economical, but irrational subjects in a world in transition.
Witnessing political transitions in our global context, Ahmet Öğüt promises critical thinking and participatory imagination through his conceptualist approach. His understanding of political subjectivity and collective unconscious are reflected in his projects, in the way they communicate with potential audience.
Öğüt’s proposal for “Artistic Dialogues” is formed in reference to how information is processed, circulated and co-edited today. Wikipedia operates as a shared, collective source of information. Articles that are deemed unsatisfactory by Wikipedia include a disclaimer: This article’s factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please help improve the article by updating it. This disclaimer invites contributors to change the article, thereby contributing to Wikipedia’s collective knowledge. Adapting this disclaimer into his title, and emphasizing the form of exhibition as his primary material, Öğüt invites the audience to see the exhibition with its artistic and institutional references and with contextual reality.
The audience is welcomed to the exhibition by posters entitled “Post No Bills” (2011-12), which include street tags appropriated from a Felix Gonzales Torres poster, “Untitled (The End) (1990)”. The second floor includes earlier video works, “Death Kit Train” (2005), “Short Circuit” (2006) and an edited film program that shows documentation from Öğüt’s early performances. The fourth floor will focus on his recent works including “Stones to throw” (2011), and “Oscar William Sam” (2012). The exhibition functions as a space for investigating the new artistic directions Öğüt is heading to – with a focus on his recent works as well as the conceptual origins.
To contextualize Öğüt’s earlier work, a re-staging of an early performance work will test the Künstlerhaus audience – with a traditional game from Turkey, “Okey”. This will take place during the end of the exhibition.
In close collaboration with Lost Books – a Stuttgart-based publisher founded by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart studio-grant holder Juliane Otterbach – an artist book will accompany the exhibition and include Öğüt’s latest statement, “Stones to Throw”, (2011).