works
videos / video-installations
cv
1970
born in Ankara
1988–1992
Marmara University, Istanbul
1992–1995
Post Graduate, Marmara University, Istanbul
1999–2000
Postdiploma Programme, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
awards / scholarships
2009
Berlin Senate Work Scholarship
2005–2006
Delfina / Visiting Arts, International Fellowship Programme, London
2004
Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
2001
IASPIS Scholarship, Stockholm
1999
Foundation Kulturfonds, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg
1998
NRW-Foundation, Künstlerdorf Schoppingen, Münsterland
ACC Galerie and Stadt Weimar
ACC Galerie and Stadt Weimar
lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul
exhibitions
selected solo exhibitions
2010
Kâzim Taskent Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul (Cat.)
2009
Reisende, TANAS, Berlin (Cat.)
2008
Perfect – Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully, rahncontemporary, Zurich
2007
Rehabilitation, 300m3 Art Space, Gothenburgh
Elsewhere, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz
Elsewhere, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz
2006
Ist das Leben nicht schön?, Frankfurter Kunstverein
2005
Esra Ersen. Arbeiten / Works 1998–2005, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (Cat.)
2002
Esra Ersen, Bild Museet, Umea
2001
If You Could Speak Swedish…, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Cat.)
1997
Macka Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
1995
Dialogues, Yerebatan Cisterne, BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
selected group exhibitions
2010
DEAD_lines. Todesbilder in Kunst – Medien – Alltag, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (Cat.)
Selected Artitsts 2009, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Cat.)
tanzimat, Belvedere Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
Selected Artitsts 2009, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Cat.)
tanzimat, Belvedere Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
2009
C.D.R.D.E.E.J.G.M.S., rahncontemporary, Zurich
WEIYTH – Where Everything Is Yet To Happen, 2nd Spaport Biennial, Banja Luka (Cat.)
Zeichen von Respekt, Kubi-Center, Hamburg
Ausgewählt – 10 Jahre rotor, rotor, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz
Tarjama / Translation, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Tarjama / Translation: New Video Art, Asia Society and Museum, New York
Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ), Berlin (Cat.)
35 videos from 35 years of video art in Turkey, 20th International Film Festival, Ankara
Art (film/video), activism and politics, Wip:Sthlm, Stockholm
Coalesce: Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
WEIYTH – Where Everything Is Yet To Happen, 2nd Spaport Biennial, Banja Luka (Cat.)
Zeichen von Respekt, Kubi-Center, Hamburg
Ausgewählt – 10 Jahre rotor, rotor, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz
Tarjama / Translation, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Tarjama / Translation: New Video Art, Asia Society and Museum, New York
Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ), Berlin (Cat.)
35 videos from 35 years of video art in Turkey, 20th International Film Festival, Ankara
Art (film/video), activism and politics, Wip:Sthlm, Stockholm
Coalesce: Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
2008
Moment of Agency, Kunsthalle Basel / Kunstmuseum Bern
Übersetzungsparadoxien und Mißverständnisse, Shedhalle, Zurich
Activism and Politics, European Culture Festival a part of European Social Forum, Malmö
Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt on the Main (Cat.)
Save as…, Triennale Bovisa Museum, Milan
Every Story is a Travel Story, Candid Arts Trust Projection Room, London
Personal Protocols and other Preferences, CCS Bard The Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, New York
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennial of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (Cat.)
Candid Stories, Insa Art Space, Seoul
Documentary Perspectives, Vancity Theatre and International Film Festival, Vancouver
Damn! I wish I’d done that I’d wish made…, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Gone City, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein
Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto
Übersetzungsparadoxien und Mißverständnisse, Shedhalle, Zurich
Activism and Politics, European Culture Festival a part of European Social Forum, Malmö
Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt on the Main (Cat.)
Save as…, Triennale Bovisa Museum, Milan
Every Story is a Travel Story, Candid Arts Trust Projection Room, London
Personal Protocols and other Preferences, CCS Bard The Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, New York
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennial of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (Cat.)
Candid Stories, Insa Art Space, Seoul
Documentary Perspectives, Vancity Theatre and International Film Festival, Vancouver
Damn! I wish I’d done that I’d wish made…, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Gone City, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein
Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto
2007
Modern and Beyond, Santral, Centre for Culture and Arts, Istanbul
Every Wind that Blows, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (Cat.)
Is this fiction, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
A forest and a tree, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Every Wind that Blows, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (Cat.)
Is this fiction, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
A forest and a tree, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2006
How to live together, 27th Biennial Sao Paulo (Cat.)
City Breaks? – Art and Culture in Times of Expendiency, 4th Biennial Liverpool, Tate Liverpool (Cat.)
EurHope 1153, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo (Cat.)
Verstehst Du das?, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster
The Peninsula, The Singapore History Museum
Cooling out – Zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork / Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz
Trans:it – Moving Culture through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
City Breaks? – Art and Culture in Times of Expendiency, 4th Biennial Liverpool, Tate Liverpool (Cat.)
EurHope 1153, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo (Cat.)
Verstehst Du das?, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster
The Peninsula, The Singapore History Museum
Cooling out – Zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork / Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz
Trans:it – Moving Culture through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
2005
Day Labor, P.S.1, New York
Rundlederwelten, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (Cat.)
EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Pursuit of Happiness, Utrecht
Mov!ng on, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin (Cat.)
Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière…II, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d`Art Contemporain (Cat.)
2052 Malmo no Longer be Swedish, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
How Latitudes Become Forms, Museo d’arte Contemporaneo (MARCO), Monterrey
Normalization, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
A forest and a tree, Center for Cultural Studies, Bard College, Yellow Bird Gallery, New York
Others, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (Cat.)
Der Knochen der Zunge – Türkische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstverein Medienzentrum, Graz
Hilchot Shchenim Chapter C, Israeli Digital Art Lab, Holon
It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Yeans, Gothenburgh
Rundlederwelten, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (Cat.)
EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Pursuit of Happiness, Utrecht
Mov!ng on, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin (Cat.)
Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière…II, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d`Art Contemporain (Cat.)
2052 Malmo no Longer be Swedish, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
How Latitudes Become Forms, Museo d’arte Contemporaneo (MARCO), Monterrey
Normalization, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
A forest and a tree, Center for Cultural Studies, Bard College, Yellow Bird Gallery, New York
Others, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (Cat.)
Der Knochen der Zunge – Türkische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstverein Medienzentrum, Graz
Hilchot Shchenim Chapter C, Israeli Digital Art Lab, Holon
It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Yeans, Gothenburgh
2004
Coalesce, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo
Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián (Cat.)
Trans:it – Moving Culture through Europe, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome
Continental Breakfast, Cultural Centre, Belgrade
Re:Location, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain (Cat.)
How Latitudes Become Forms, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico-City (Cat.)
Swedish Hearts, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Borderline, kino arsenal, Berlin
Shake Society, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain (Cat.)
Exciting Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig
Trading Places, The Pump House Gallery, London
Call me Istanbul ist mein Name, ZKM I Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Cat.)
Revolution is Not What is Used to Be, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián (Cat.)
Trans:it – Moving Culture through Europe, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome
Continental Breakfast, Cultural Centre, Belgrade
Re:Location, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain (Cat.)
How Latitudes Become Forms, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico-City (Cat.)
Swedish Hearts, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Borderline, kino arsenal, Berlin
Shake Society, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain (Cat.)
Exciting Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig
Trading Places, The Pump House Gallery, London
Call me Istanbul ist mein Name, ZKM I Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Cat.)
Revolution is Not What is Used to Be, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2003
Poetic Justice, 8th Biennial Istanbul (Cat.)
The way of the ideas, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
10ième Biennale de l`Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l`image contemporaine, Saint Gervais (Cat.)
In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (Cat.)
Where? Here?, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Cat.)
How Latitudes Become Forms, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (Cat.)
Real Utopia, rotor, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz
Total motiviert, Kunstverein, Munich
It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Kunstverein, Munich
Here, Platform Garanti, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Cat.)
Blut & Honig – Zukunft ist am Balkan, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (Cat.)
The way of the ideas, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
10ième Biennale de l`Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l`image contemporaine, Saint Gervais (Cat.)
In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (Cat.)
Where? Here?, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Cat.)
How Latitudes Become Forms, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (Cat.)
Real Utopia, rotor, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz
Total motiviert, Kunstverein, Munich
It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Kunstverein, Munich
Here, Platform Garanti, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Cat.)
Blut & Honig – Zukunft ist am Balkan, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (Cat.)
2002
Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt on the Main (Cat.)
Pause, 4th Biennial Kwangju (Cat.)
What? A tale in free images, Memling Museum, Bruges
Animation: Video, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
In Search for Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (Cat.)
Art and Documentary, TEMPO Documentary Festival, Stockholm
On my way to Timbuktoo, ifa Galerie, Berlin/Bonn
Pause, 4th Biennial Kwangju (Cat.)
What? A tale in free images, Memling Museum, Bruges
Animation: Video, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
In Search for Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (Cat.)
Art and Documentary, TEMPO Documentary Festival, Stockholm
On my way to Timbuktoo, ifa Galerie, Berlin/Bonn
2001
Im Zeichen der Stadt – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Türkei, Kunstmuseum Bonn (Cat.)
Becoming a Place, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Dare to be different, Cultural Art Center Lind Art, Fier
StandardRum, Kunstmuseum, Randers (Cat.)
Becoming a Place, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Dare to be different, Cultural Art Center Lind Art, Fier
StandardRum, Kunstmuseum, Randers (Cat.)
2000
SansSouci oder die Kunst der Entsorgung, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (Cat.)
Spring Time, Nicolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (Cat.)
One night stand, Klemens Gasner & Tanja Grunert, New York
Spring Time, Nicolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (Cat.)
One night stand, Klemens Gasner & Tanja Grunert, New York
1999
mode of art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf (Cat.)
Die Einbeziehung des Anderen, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten
Gemeinschaft – Gesellschaft, ACC-Galerie Weimar
Die Einbeziehung des Anderen, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten
Gemeinschaft – Gesellschaft, ACC-Galerie Weimar
1998
Interfaces, Paläontologisches Museum, Münster
1996
Dialogues – The lost idea of the order of things, Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf
A Ding Table, BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
A Ding Table, BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
1995
Orient/ation, 4th Biennial Istanbul (Cat.)
exhibitions rahncontemporary Zurich
2009
C.D.R.D.E.E.J.G.M.S. (group show)
6.11.2009 – 16.1.2010
6.11.2009 – 16.1.2010
2008
Perfect – Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully (solo show)
7.11. – 31.12.2008
7.11. – 31.12.2008
catalogues
Call me Istanbul ist mein Name. Kunst und urbane Visionen einer Metapolis
Exhib. Cat. ZKM Karlsruhe, ed. by Peter Weibel, Berlin 2004.
ISBN 3-8030-0700-3
Exhib. Cat. ZKM Karlsruhe, ed. by Peter Weibel, Berlin 2004.
ISBN 3-8030-0700-3
38 SF*
Esra Ersen. Arbeiten/Works 1998–2005
Exhib. Cat. OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz / Frankfurter Kunstverein / Kunsthaus Baselland Muttenz, Vienna / Bolzano 2006.
ISBN-13 978-3-85256-334-3
Exhib. Cat. OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz / Frankfurter Kunstverein / Kunsthaus Baselland Muttenz, Vienna / Bolzano 2006.
ISBN-13 978-3-85256-334-3
22 SF*
Esra Ersen. Moderna Museet Project 2001
Exhib. Cat. Moderna Museet Stockholm, 2001.
ISBN 91-7100-665-6
Exhib. Cat. Moderna Museet Stockholm, 2001.
ISBN 91-7100-665-6
15 SF*
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
38 SF*
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news
TANZIMAT (group show)
Belvedere Augarten Contemporary
Scherzergasse 1 a, A-1020 Wien
www.belvedere.at
January 22 – May 16, 2010
****
DEAD_LINES
TODESBILDER IN KUNST – MEDIEN – ALLTAG (group show)
Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal
Turmhof 8, D-42103 Wuppertal
www.von-der-heydt-museum.de
Opening: September 2010
press
selected reviews
Artforum International, January 2004
Sara Arrhenius, 8th International Istanbul Biennial
www.artforum.com
Camera Austria, 2006, issue 93
Maren Richter, Esra Ersen
du Magazin, June 2004, issue 747 – Was ist Kunst?
Harald Szeemann, Mein Museum. Der Ausstellungsmacher.
Sammlung einer Spürnase
Frieze Magazine, March 2007, issue 105
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Cooling Out
www.frieze.com
Frieze Magazine, June – August 2006, issue 100
Amanda Coulson, Esra Ersen
www.frieze.com
Kunst-Bulletin, March 2007
Brita Polzer, Opfer oder Täterin
www.kunstbulletin.ch
Kunstforum International, 2010, issue 200
Michael Nungesser, Esra Ersen. Reisende – Passengers – Yolcular
www.kunstforum.de
Kunstforum International, 2006, issue 181
Christian Huther, Esra Ersen
www.kunstforum.de
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 30, 2002
Samuel Herzog, Kunstzentrum Istanbul
www.nzz.ch
Springerin, January 2006
Walter Seidl, Esra Ersen
www.springerin.at
Tagesspiegel, January 27, 2010
Anna Pataczek, “Selected Artists 2009″ in der NGBK Berlin
www.tagesspiegel.de
Tagesspiegel, September 8, 2009
Julia Boeck, Neue Künstlergeneration erobert Berlin
www.tagesspiegel.de
Tema Celeste, March – April 2006
Fatos Ustek, The Turkish New Waves
The New York Times, June 20, 2008
Roberta Smith, Just Enough Seriousness to Go Around
www.nytimes.com