Özgür Kar *1992, Turkey. Lives and works in Amsterdam

CV

    2027

    • Spike Island, Bristol solo, upcoming

    2026

    • Rock Bottom, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel solo, upcoming
    • 11th Contour Biennale, Mechelen group
    • The Campus: 3rd Annual Exhibition, Claverack, NY group
    • Unlicensed Goods, ydp, London group

    2025

    • Pure Intention, Singapore Biennale, Singapore group
    • A Deeper Shade of Soul, The Holy Triangle Biennale, Oosterhout group
    • 24 Flags, Kunstmeile Hamburg, Hamburg group
    • MALAISE, M HKA, Antwerp solo
    • Breaking The Joints, Sapieha Palace, Vilnius group
    • Estalo, 14th Mercosul Biennial, Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre group

    2024

    • HEAVY GROUND, Emalin, London solo
    • IL RESTO DI NIENTE, Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee – museo Madre and Gucci, Naples group
    • Wild Grass: Our Lives, 8th Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama group
    • Ten Thousand Suns, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney group
    • Death's Right Hand, Focus, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm solo
    • NOCTURNE, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims solo
    • Courtplay, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam group

    2023

    • ROT, Édouard Montassut, Paris solo
    • Der pinkelnde Tod or what the dead do, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld group
    • Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz group
    • DAWN REDUX, Fridericianum, Kassel performance
    • GOOD NIGHT, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth solo
    • FALL, Basement Roma, Rome solo
    • Death's Crook, (with Jacqueline de Jong), Château Shatto, Los Angeles solo
    • DAWN, The Renaissance Society, Chicago solo

    2022

    • Live Without Dead Time, Ghost2565:, Bangkok group
    • HAND PLAY, Emalin offsite, 24 Cork Street, London solo
    • 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
    • Thru the Mirror, Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira group
    • Fata Morgana, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris group

    2021

    • 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

    2020

    • 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

    2019

    • 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

    2018

    • Archive Fever, Emalin, London group
    • Noise! Frans Hals Otherwise, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem group
    • Cruising Pavilion, Spazio Punch, Venice group
    • I sit down and they tell me lemme tell you they say, Future Gallery, Berlin group

    2017

    • Finally you are in me, Taylor Macklin, Zurich solo
    • Mene Mene Tekel Parsin, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge group

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

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