Monday, November 22, 2010

TO THE ARTS, CITIZENS!



TO THE ARTS, CITIZENS!

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto

21 NOV 2010 - 13 MAR 2011
Rua Dom João de Castro,210
4150-417 Porto
Portugal

ROSSELLA BISCOTTI & KEVIN VAN BRAAK
BUREAU D’ÉTUDES
STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN
CAROLINA CAYCEDO
CHTO DELAT?
SAM DURANT
GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON
MATIAS FALDBAKKEN
CLAIRE FONTAINE
ZACHARY FORMWALT
ANDREA GEYER
SHILPA GUPTA
SHARON HAYES
GERT JAN KOCKEN
ASIER MENDIZABAL
CARLOS MOTTA
TOM NICHOLSON
AHMET ÖGÜT
NIKOLAY OLEYNIKOV
RIGO 23
ANDRÉ ROMÃO
PEDRO G. ROMERO
AHLAM SHIBLI
MARIANA SILVA
ANTÓNIO DE SOUSA
JOÃO SOUSA CARDOSO
NICOLINE VAN HARSKAMP
VANGELIS VLAHOS
DANH VO
SIMON WACHSMUTH

Curators of the exhibition ‘To the Arts, Citizens!’: Óscar Faria and João Fernandes

http://www.serralves.pt/actividades/detalhes.php?id=1758

Monday, November 15, 2010

Pratt Manhattan Gallery / Blind Dates

Blind Dates: New Encounters from the Edges of a Former Empire

November 19, 2010 – February 12, 2011

Opening:
Thursday, November 18, 6-8 PM
With a performance of AH-HA by Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Öğüt
Free and open to the public

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6, closed December 23-January 3.

co-curators Defne Ayas and Neery Melkonian

Participating artists, architects, dancers, scholars and cultural producers are:
Silva Ajemian and Aslihan Demirtaş
Karen Andreassian with Citizen Walker Sergey
Hrayr Anmahouni Eulmessekian with sound scholar Anahid Kassabian
Michael Blum and Damir Nikšić
Jean Marie Casbarian with historian Nazan Maksudyan
Özge Ersoy with Taline Toutounjian
Linda Ganjian and Elif Uras
Aram Jibilian with Aaron Mattocks as Arshile Gorky's ghost
Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Öğüt
Karine Matsakian and Sona Abgarian
Stefanos Tsivopoulos with dancers Ursula Eagly, Carlos Fittante & Christopher Williams
Jalal Toufic with Selim S. Kuru as Ottoman translator

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

solo show @ Museum Villa Stuck



Ricochet #4. Ahmet Öğüt

Wherever I go I see your shadow behind me

11th November 2010 / 23rd January 2011

Museum Villa Stuck
München

Monday, November 01, 2010

Kritische Komplizenschaft / Critical Complicity

Kritische Komplizenschaft / Critical Complicity
Exhibition: November 11 – December 18, 2010
Opening: Wednesday, November 10, 7 pm

Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber
Dexter Sinister
Hans Haacke
What will I not regret later?
Laura Horelli & Gerhard Friedl
Felipe Mujica with Juan Céspedes
Cristóbal Lehyt
José Luis Villablanca und Johanna Unzueta
Olaf Nicolai
Ahmet Ögüt
Tanja Ostojic
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Alterazioni Video
Anna Scalfi

Curators: Lisa Mazza, Julia Moritz

Complicity is a micro-community alliance that operates on the periphery of established ordering systems. Its critical potential emerges from the multitude of subversive modi operandi in the grey zone of deceitful agreements. Artists, curators, critics, consumers… the vast number of possible positions complicates collectivity and multiplies the contradictions of complicity. Five facets of alternative artistic thinking and method inform the concept of Critical Complicity / Kritische Komplizenschaft: The transitions from macro to micro-community; the field of tension between legal/illegal; affect and seduction; the moment of interdependency; and the employment of tactical media. However, only the interconnection of these fields amongst each other can do justice to the complexity of critical complicity. Thus, what the participants in this exhibition have in common is the concern to deconstruct the singular.