Özgür Kar *1992, Turkey. Lives and works in Amsterdam
CV
- 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
- NOCTURNE, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims solo
- Courtplay, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam group
- 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 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