Ahmet Öğüt

Ahmet Öğüt studied at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. The recorded working language is Turkish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Ahmet Öğüt is recorded in the collections of Van Abbemuseum and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs.

Ahmet Öğüt received his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, in 2003, and his MFA from the Art and Design Faculty of Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. Öğüt has been a guest artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2007–2008.

In 2009, Ahmet Öğüt represented Turkey with Banu Cennetoğlu at the 53rd Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. He is the founder of 'The Silent University', a programme for and with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants to give and take courses. Parts of the participative project were hosted between 2012 and 2013 at Tate Modern, Delfina Foundation, and The Showroom in London, UK. In 2020, Öğüt had a solo exhibition at Yarat Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Azerbaijan. Due to the institution's use of the exhibition banner as a propaganda means in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he asked for his exhibition to be taken down.

• 'Ahmet Öğüt', Mala Galerija / The Museum of Modern Art of Ljubljana, 2005 • 'Ahmet Öğüt and Borga Kantürk', Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, 2006 • 'Softly But Firmly', Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, 2007 • 'Across the Slope', Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2008 • 'Mutual Issues, Inventive Acts', Kunsthalle Basel, 2008 • 'Things we count', Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2009 • 'Speculative Social Fantasies', Artspace, Sydney, 2010 • 'Ahmet Öğüt: No Protest Lost', curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer, at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017-2018 • 'Ahmet Öğüt: No poem loves its poet', curated by Mari Spirito, at Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2020 • 'Jump up!', MoCA Skopje – Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia, 2022

• 9th Istanbul Biennial, 2005 • 'Normalization', Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, 2006 • 1st Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki, 2007 • 'Stalking with Stories', Apexart, 2007 • 'Car Culture', Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008 • 'Be[com]ing Dutch', Van Abbemuseum, 2008 • 'Fuild Street', Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008 • 5th Berlin Biennial, 2008 • 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial, 2008 • 'The Generational', The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009 • 'Take the Money and Run', De Appel, Amsterdam, 2009 • 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2009 • 'Lapses', Turkish Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Basak Senova, at the Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2009