Özgür Kar *1992, Turkey. Lives and works in Amsterdam
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Pas de deux: Cyclodrama (with Jacqueline de Jong), Château Shatto, Los Angeles, 2023, installation view
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DAWN, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2023, installation view
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Özgür Kar
Death playing the clarinet, 2023
2-channel 4K video with sound, 13 mins loop
336 x 96 x 8 cm (132 ½ x 38 x 3 ½ in) -
Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2020, installation view
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Live Without Dead Time, Ghost2565:, Bangkok, 2022, installation view
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Cassandra Complex, Basis, Frankfurt, 2022, installation view
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Manifesto of Fragility, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, 2022, installation view
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MACABRE, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2021, installation view
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MACABRE, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2021, installation view
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STORAGE DRAMA, Emalin, London, 2021, installation view
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MACABRE, Kunstverein Gardenhaus, Vienna, 2021, installation view
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Özgür Kar
COME CLOSER, 2019
4K video, 4 mins loop
200 x 95 x 50 cm (78 ¾ x 37 ⅜ x 19 ¾ in) -
A New Start, UKS, Oslo, 2019, installation view
CV
- Ten Thousand Suns, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney group, upcoming
- Édouard Montassut, Paris solo, upcoming
- Der pinkelnde Tod or what the dead do, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld group
- Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz group
- DUSK, Fridericianum, Kassel solo
- GOOD NIGHT, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth solo
- FALL, Basement Roma, Rome solo
- Pas de deux: Cyclodrama, (with Jacqueline de Jong), Château Shatto, Los Angeles solo
- DAWN, The Renaissance Society, Chicago solo
- Live Without Dead Time, Ghost2565:, Bangkok group
- Optimized Fables about a Good Life, Plato, Ostrava group
- Cassandra Complex, Basis, Frankfurt group
- Manifesto of Fragility, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon group
- 24h, Braunsfelder, Cologne group
- AT THE END OF THE DAY, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam solo
- Des corps, des écritures, Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, Paris group
- Fata Morgana, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris group
- It’s just a Phase, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Trondheim group
- STORAGE DRAMA, Emalin, London solo
- MACABRE, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris solo
- Grim, Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk solo
- The Architecture of Confinement, BNKR, Munich group
- MACABRE, Kunstverein Gardenhaus, Vienna solo
- Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam group
- Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam group
- Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris group
- A Decade of Submission, Édouard Montassut, Paris solo
- Sâr Dubnotal, en quête de l’étrange, CAC, Bretigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge group
- Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam group
- The Watermill Center, Tabula Rasa, New York group
- A New Start, UKS, Oslo solo
- Kaoru Arima, Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Özgür Kar, Édouard Montassut, Paris group
- Exposed, (Public space installation), Europarådets plass, Oslo solo
- Noise!, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem group
- Archive Fever, Emalin, London group
- Cruising Pavilion, Spazio Punch, Venice group
- I sit down and they tell me lemme tell you they say, Future Gallery, Berlin group
- Finally you are in me, Taylor Macklin, Zurich solo
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Education
2020 Resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2018 Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2015 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Awards
2020 Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize, Netherlands
Selected Press
Attila Fattori Franchini, "The Generational Issue", CURA. 38, 2022
Vanessa J.Müller, "Özgür Kar 'Macabre' Kunstverein Gartenhaus/Vienna", FlashArt, 2021
Charles Teyssou, "Hunker Down Özgür Kar", Spike Art Magazine, 2020
Chiara Moioli, "Indistinct Murmur: Özgür Kar", Mousse Magazine, Conversations, 2020
H. G. Masters, "Young & emerging : naratives, Özgür Kar", Art Asia Pacific, 2018
Collections
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
FRAC Picardie, Amiens