About the Artist

Born in Silvan, Diyarbakir, Ahmet Öğüt completed a BA from the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara, and an MA from the Art and Design Faculty at Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul.

Öğüt works across different media and has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions in Van Abbemuseum, State of Concept Athens, Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, and Kunsthalle Basel.

He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including; Poetics of Power, Kunsthaus Graz, (2024); Allegory of public happiness, Galleria Civica di Trento (2024); Dhaka Art Summit (2023); 17th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, (2022); FRONT International 2022, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Ohio (2022); 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 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 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). His work is in institutional collections such as The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Kadist, San Francisco, US - Paris; Rennie Collection, Vancouver; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Frans Hals Museum; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Hesinki; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul.

Upcoming shows include the Singapore Biennale 2025, steirischer herbst ’25 and group show Translated into Socialism at Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM) Ljubljana.