works: video / video-installation
cv
awards / scholarships
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
ACC Galerie and Stadt Weimar
lives and works in Berlin (D) and Istanbul (TR)
exhibitions
selected solo exhibitions
Passengers, Kâzim Taskent Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul (TR)
Elsewhere, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (CH)
selected group exhibitions
Aussicht auf Veränderungen, Hamburg (D)
Localities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK)
No Ifs, no Buts…, Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna (A)
Tarjama / Translation, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art / Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)
Tactics of Invisibility, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary / KlausEngelhorn Depot, Vienna (A) / TANAS Berlin (D)*
Selected Artitsts 2009, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (D)*
tanzimat, Belvedere Augarten Contemporary, Vienna (A)
WEIYTH – Where Everything Is Yet To Happen, 2nd Spaport Biennial, Banja Luka (BIH)*
Zeichen von Respekt, Kubi-Center, Hamburg (D)
Ausgewählt – 10 Jahre rotor, rotor, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz (A)
Tarjama / Translation, Queens Museum of Art, New York (USA)
Tarjama / Translation: New Video Art, Asia Society and Museum, New York (USA)
Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ), Berlin (D)*
35 videos from 35 years of video art in Turkey, 20th International Film Festival, Ankara (TR)
Art (film/video), activism and politics, Wip:Sthlm, Stockholm (S)
Coalesce: Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
Übersetzungsparadoxien und Mißverständnisse, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
Activism and Politics, European Culture Festival a part of European Social Forum, Malmö (S)
Becoming Istanbul, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt on the Main (D)*
Save as…, Triennial Bovisa Museum, Milan (I)
Every Story is a Travel Story, Candid Arts Trust Projection Room, London (GB)
Personal Protocols and other Preferences, CCS Bard The Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, New York (USA)
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennial of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (CZ)*
Candid Stories, Insa Art Space, Seoul (ROK)
Documentary Perspectives, Vancity Theatre and International Film Festival, Vancouver (CAN)
Damn! I wish I’d done that I’d wish made…, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (GB)
Gone City, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (A)
Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto (CAN)
Every Wind that Blows, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)*
Is this fiction, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul (TR)
A forest and a tree, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (A)
City Breaks? – Art and Culture in Times of Expendiency, 4th Biennial Liverpool, Tate Liverpool (GB)*
EurHope 1153, Villa Manin, Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo (I)*
Verstehst Du das?, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster (D)
The Peninsula, The Singapore History Museum (SGP)
Cooling out – Zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork (IRL) / Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (CH)
Trans:it – Moving Culture through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest (RO)
Rundlederwelten, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (D)*
EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
Pursuit of Happiness, Utrecht (NL)
Mov!ng on, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin (D)*
Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière…II, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d`Art Contemporain (L)*
2052 Malmo no Longer be Swedish, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (S)
How Latitudes Become Forms, Museo d’arte Contemporaneo (MARCO), Monterrey (MEX)
Normalization, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR)
A forest and a tree, Center for Cultural Studies, Bard College, Yellow Bird Gallery, New York (USA)
Others, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (N)*
Der Knochen der Zunge – Türkische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstverein Medienzentrum, Graz (A)
Hilchot Shchenim Chapter C, Israeli Digital Art Lab, Holon (IL)
It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Yeans, Gothenburgh (S)
Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián (E)*
Trans:it – Moving Culture through Europe, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome (I)
Continental Breakfast, Cultural Centre, Belgrade (SRB)
Re:Location, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain (L)*
How Latitudes Become Forms, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico-City (MEX)*
Swedish Hearts, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S)
Borderline, kino arsenal, Berlin (D)
Shake Society, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art Contemporain (L)*
Exciting Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig (D)
Trading Places, The Pump House Gallery, London (GB)
Call me Istanbul ist mein Name, ZKM I Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (D)*
Revolution is Not What is Used to Be, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (GB)
The way of the ideas, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (E)
10ième Biennale de l`Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l`image contemporaine, Saint Gervais (CH)*
In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (D)*
Where? Here?, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (J)*
How Latitudes Become Forms, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (I)*
Real Utopia, rotor, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz (A)
Total motiviert, Kunstverein, Munich (D)
It’s Hard to Touch the Real, Kunstverein, Munich (D)
Here, Platform Garanti, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR)
How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)*
Blut & Honig – Zukunft ist am Balkan, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (A)*
Pause, 4th Biennial Kwangju (ROK)*
What? A tale in free images, Memling Museum, Bruges (B)
Animation: Video, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva (CH)
In Search for Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (A)*
Art and Documentary, TEMPO Documentary Festival, Stockholm (S)
On my way to Timbuktoo, ifa Galerie, Berlin/Bonn (D)
Becoming a Place, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR)
Dare to be different, Cultural Art Center Lind Art, Fier (AL)
StandardRum, Kunstmuseum, Randers (DK)*
Spring Time, Nicolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (DK)*
One night stand, Klemens Gasner & Tanja Grunert, New York (USA)
Die Einbeziehung des Anderen, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten (D)
Gemeinschaft – Gesellschaft, ACC-Galerie Weimar (D)
A Ding Table, BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR)
* = Catalogue
exhibitions rahncontemporary Zurich
6.11.2009 – 16.1.2010
7.11. – 31.12.2008
catalogues
Exhib. Cat. ZKM Karlsruhe, ed. by Peter Weibel, Berlin 2004.
ISBN 3-8030-0700-3
38 SF*
Exhib. Cat. OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz / Frankfurter Kunstverein / Kunsthaus Baselland Muttenz, Vienna / Bolzano 2006.
ISBN-13 978-3-85256-334-3
22 SF*
Exhib. Cat. Moderna Museet Stockholm, 2001.
ISBN 91-7100-665-6
15 SF*
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
38 SF*
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news
TARJAMA / TRANSLATION (group show)
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art / Cornell University
Central & University Aves., USA-Ithaca, NY 14853-4001
www.museum.cornell.edu
August 14 – October 3, 2010
****
NO IFS, NO BUTS… (group show)
Open Space, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2, A-1020 Wien
www.openspace-zkp.org
Opening: September 7, 2010, 7 – 9.30 pm
September 8 – October 3, 2010
****
AUSSICHT AUF VERÄNDERUNGEN
Akademie einer anderen Stadt, Hamburg
www.mitwisser.net
Kunstprojekte rund um die S-Bahnstationen
Altona, Landungsbrücken, Veddel, Wilhelmsburg
Opening: September 9, 2010, 2 – 7 pm
September 10 – October 3, 2010
****
LOCALITIES (group show)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Stændertorvet 3 D, DK-4000 Roskilde
www.samtidskunst.dk
Opening: September 9, 2010, 5 – 7 pm
September 10 – November 7, 2010
****
TACTICS OF INVISIBILITY (group show)
TANAS
Heidestr. 50, D-10557 Berlin
www.tanasberlin.de
Opening: September 9, 2010, 6 – 9 pm
September 14, 2010 – January 15, 2011
****
DEAD_LINES (group show)
Von der Heydt-Museum
Turmhof 8, D-42103 Wuppertal
www.von-der-heydt-museum.de
Opening: 2011
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