1968 Born in Targoviste / Bulgaria
Lives and works in London / UK
Education
2008-2009 PhD, University of Portsmouth
1994-1995 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
1994-1995 BA Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Marmara, Istanbul
1982-1987 I. Petrov School of Fine Arts, Sofia
Selected solo exhibitions
2017
Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/, BüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation
Room 2, Bilsart, Istanbul
2016
Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Cinefication (Tarot and Chess), in The Image Generator II, Extra City
Kunsthal, Antwerp
2015
Liquid Breeding, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
2014
Ergin Cavusoglu – Liminal Crossing, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia
Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, LOOP 2014, Barcelona
Adaptation – Cinefication, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
2011
Ergin Cavusoglu - Alterity, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Ergin Cavusoglu - Dust Breeding, The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, UAE
Ergin Cavusoglu, Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Ergin Cavusoglu / Art in the Auditorium3/, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010
Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, PEER, London
Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, Better Bankside pop-up space, London
2009
Ergin Cavusoglu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Voyage of no Return, Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Perth, Scotland
Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haunch of Venison, London
Ergin Cavusoglu, Galerist at Rental Gallery, Cologne
2008
Quintet Without Borders, Best of Discovery, ShContemporary, Shanghaibr
Ergin Cavusoglu - Place After Place, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
2007
Quintet Without Borders, Eibank Gallery, Sofia
Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
2006
Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2004
Poised in the Infinite Ocean and Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London
Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2002
Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul
2001
Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt
2000
Vitrine, Transit Space, London
1998
Ergin Cavusoglu – New Works, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London
1997
Haunting Presence, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London
1996
Ergin Cavusoglu, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
1993
Ergin Cavusoglu, Yapi Kredi Bank Gallery, Istanbul
Selected group exhibitions
2017
On Anam? Where are we going?, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i
Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, Spain
BüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 1, Collectorspace,
Istanbul
Your Story! Geschichten von Flucht und Migration, Kunsthalle Emden
A Theory of The Present, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
2016
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle
East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Do Boomerangs Always Come Back, Castle Oud-Rekem, Belgium
2015
Wishful Thinking; In Retrospect, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Apricots From Damascus (An apexart franchise exhibition), SALT,
Istanbul
1 day to 5, freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna
Crossing Lines, Open Space Istanbul at Gallery on the Corner, London
Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
Video Screening Program: Illusion, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
films4peace, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
Back to The Future, Cube Cinema, Bristol (screening)
2014
Other Waters, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
4th International Canakkale Biennial, Only the Dead have Seen the End of War (Plato), Canakkale, Turkey
Plurivocality, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
The 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China
this secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa Istanbul
2013
Home/s, Benaki Museum, Athens
Artists’ Film International, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
A selection from the Elgiz Collection, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, at Kino der Kunst, Munich
And I Awoke at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany - Selection by SALT
2012
films4peace, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary art (for full list of exhibitions and screening see http://films4peace.com/screenings)
The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor, Presented by Universal Studio, The Artist's Institute, New York
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Arsenale, Kiev, Ukraine
Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
2011
Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, Berlin
Pop-Up. Veure és afegir, Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona
How We Move - Ergin Cavusoglu - Empire (after Andy Warhol) 2008 - SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul
Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul
Babel Festival, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Elgiz 10 Istanbul, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
Art in the Auditorium 3, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas
Art in the Auditorium, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
Art in the Auditorium, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Art in the Auditorium, 3rd Edition, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Midnight in the city, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2010
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain
Midnight in the city, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
Port Izmir 2 - Silence_Storm, Izmir, Turkey
Divercity. Learning from Istanbul, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
fast forward 2 The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
ID’s please!, Cer Modern, Ankara, Turkey
Journey's with no return, Kurt-Kurt, Berlin, Germany
Indefinite Destinations, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
Artes Mundi 4, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Distance and Sensibility, Calvert22, London
The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
Journey's with no return, A Foundation, London
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul
2009
Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland
Atlantis – Reflections of Tomorrow, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
There is no Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
The Temptation of CHALGA - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008
wie du mir, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 'Fresh Moves' tank.tv screening, Guangzhou, China
Still Cinema 6: Light-speed travel, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
ZERO GRAVITY the architecture of social space, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
Peace And Agriculture In A Pre-Romantic Idea Landscape Without Sublime Terrors, Haunch of Venison Berlin
The Morning After. Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen
Gone City, Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
M-tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
Night A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Screenings, Haunch of Venison, London
All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The Temporary Zones, Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Vienna
Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester
2007
CASZ – Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam
Rencontres Internationales, Le laboratoire, Paris
Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), ICA, London
Imagine There is an Art Work, BM-Suma Center for Visual Art, Istanbul
Every Wind That Blows, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Between Borders, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, MARCO
Nobody's Story, /Seconds, http://www.slashseconds.org
Radikal Art, Istanbul
2006
British Art Show 6, Arnolfini, Bristol
British Art Show 6, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
Forest Man, The New Gallery, Jerusalem
Strangers With Angelic Faces, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
British Art Show 6, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
2005
Something of the Night 1875-2005, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Video London, Espai Ubú, Barcelona
Radiance - Glasgow Festival of Light, Merchant City, Glasgow
British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead
Der Knochen der Zunge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Contaging With Nature, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2004
Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Public Media Space, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London
Whitstable Biennale 2004, Kent
Britannia Works, organised by The British Council, Xippas Gallery, Athens
Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow
3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin
2003
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
La Biennale di Venezia 50th International Art Exhibition, The Turkish Pavilion, Venice
SPACE Open 2003, The Triangle, London
2002
Look Again, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
FAIR, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions I: Nisantasi. Personal Geographies, Global Maps, Istanbul
60 Years 60 Artists, Eczacibasi Virtual Museum, Istanbul
2001
Look Away, Platform Gallery, ARCO Madrid
1999
Medway Open, Royal Engineers Museum Gallery, Gillingham
Multiples, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul
Evil Eye, True Gaze, Pamukbank Photography Gallery, Istanbul
1998
Roundtrip, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul
Minus, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London
The Whitechapel Open, London
1997
Big Popas – Ten Deep, Coins, London
1996
Future Vision, The Photographers' Gallery, London
Awards
2014 The Jarman Award, nomination
2012 Future of Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, nomination
2009 Artes Mundi Prize 2010, shortlist
2008 M-tel Awards for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria, nomination
2004 Beck’s Futures, shortlist, ICA, London, UK
Ergin Cavusoglu
1968 Born in Targoviste / Bulgaria Lives and works in London / UK Education 2008-2009 PhD, University of Portsmouth 1994-1995 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London 1994-1995 BA Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Marmara, Istanbul 1982-1987 I. Petrov School of Fine Arts, Sofia Selected solo exhibitions2017 Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/, BüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 2, Bilsart, Istanbul 2016Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?, Rampa Gallery, IstanbulCinefication (Tarot and Chess), in The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp 2015 Liquid Breeding, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan 2014 Ergin Cavusoglu – Liminal Crossing, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, LOOP 2014, Barcelona Adaptation – Cinefication, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul 2011 Ergin Cavusoglu - Alterity, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul Ergin Cavusoglu - Dust Breeding, The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, UAE Ergin Cavusoglu, Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London Ergin Cavusoglu / Art in the Auditorium3/, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010 Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, PEER, London Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, Better Bankside pop-up space, London 2009 Ergin Cavusoglu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen Voyage of no Return, Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Perth, Scotland Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haunch of Venison, London Ergin Cavusoglu, Galerist at Rental Gallery, Cologne 2008 Quintet Without Borders, Best of Discovery, ShContemporary, Shanghaibr Ergin Cavusoglu - Place After Place, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany 2007 Quintet Without Borders, Eibank Gallery, Sofia Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich 2006 Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 2004 Poised in the Infinite Ocean and Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 2002 Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul 2001 Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt 2000 Vitrine, Transit Space, London 1998 Ergin Cavusoglu – New Works, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London 1997 Haunting Presence, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London 1996 Ergin Cavusoglu, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul 1993 Ergin Cavusoglu, Yapi Kredi Bank Gallery, Istanbul Selected group exhibitions2017On Anam? Where are we going?, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, SpainBüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 1, Collectorspace, IstanbulYour Story! Geschichten von Flucht und Migration, Kunsthalle EmdenA Theory of The Present, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul2016But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkDo Boomerangs Always Come Back, Castle Oud-Rekem, Belgium 2015Wishful Thinking; In Retrospect, Rampa Gallery, IstanbulApricots From Damascus (An apexart franchise exhibition), SALT, Istanbul1 day to 5, freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL, ViennaCrossing Lines, Open Space Istanbul at Gallery on the Corner, LondonArtists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul Video Screening Program: Illusion, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul films4peace, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town Back to The Future, Cube Cinema, Bristol (screening) 2014 Other Waters, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand 4th International Canakkale Biennial, Only the Dead have Seen the End of War (Plato), Canakkale, Turkey Plurivocality, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul The 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China this secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa Istanbul 2013 Home/s, Benaki Museum, Athens Artists’ Film International, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul A selection from the Elgiz Collection, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, at Kino der Kunst, Munich And I Awoke at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany - Selection by SALT 2012 films4peace, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary art (for full list of exhibitions and screening see http://films4peace.com/screenings) The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor, Presented by Universal Studio, The Artist's Institute, New York The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Arsenale, Kiev, Ukraine Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE 2011 Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, Berlin Pop-Up. Veure és afegir, Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona How We Move - Ergin Cavusoglu - Empire (after Andy Warhol) 2008 - SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul Babel Festival, Bellinzona, Switzerland Elgiz 10 Istanbul, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul Art in the Auditorium 3, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas Art in the Auditorium, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway Art in the Auditorium, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Art in the Auditorium, 3rd Edition, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey Midnight in the city, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2010 Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain Midnight in the city, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain Port Izmir 2 - Silence_Storm, Izmir, Turkey Divercity. Learning from Istanbul, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland fast forward 2 The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany ID’s please!, Cer Modern, Ankara, Turkey Journey's with no return, Kurt-Kurt, Berlin, Germany Indefinite Destinations, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria Artes Mundi 4, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales Distance and Sensibility, Calvert22, London The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel Journey's with no return, A Foundation, London HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul 2009 Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland Atlantis – Reflections of Tomorrow, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria There is no Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón The Temptation of CHALGA - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 2008 wie du mir, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 'Fresh Moves' tank.tv screening, Guangzhou, China Still Cinema 6: Light-speed travel, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool ZERO GRAVITY the architecture of social space, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv Peace And Agriculture In A Pre-Romantic Idea Landscape Without Sublime Terrors, Haunch of Venison Berlin The Morning After. Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen Gone City, Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz M-tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv Night A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Screenings, Haunch of Venison, London All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt The Temporary Zones, Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Vienna Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester 2007 CASZ – Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam Rencontres Internationales, Le laboratoire, Paris Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), ICA, London Imagine There is an Art Work, BM-Suma Center for Visual Art, Istanbul Every Wind That Blows, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam Between Borders, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, MARCO Nobody's Story, /Seconds, http://www.slashseconds.org Radikal Art, Istanbul 2006 British Art Show 6, Arnolfini, Bristol British Art Show 6, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Forest Man, The New Gallery, Jerusalem Strangers With Angelic Faces, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul British Art Show 6, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester 2005 Something of the Night 1875-2005, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Video London, Espai Ubú, Barcelona Radiance - Glasgow Festival of Light, Merchant City, Glasgow British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead Der Knochen der Zunge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz Contaging With Nature, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam 2004 Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Public Media Space, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London Whitstable Biennale 2004, Kent Britannia Works, organised by The British Council, Xippas Gallery, Athens Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow 3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin 2003 Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul La Biennale di Venezia 50th International Art Exhibition, The Turkish Pavilion, Venice SPACE Open 2003, The Triangle, London 2002 Look Again, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art FAIR, Royal College of Art Galleries, London Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions I: Nisantasi. Personal Geographies, Global Maps, Istanbul 60 Years 60 Artists, Eczacibasi Virtual Museum, Istanbul 2001 Look Away, Platform Gallery, ARCO Madrid 1999 Medway Open, Royal Engineers Museum Gallery, Gillingham Multiples, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul Evil Eye, True Gaze, Pamukbank Photography Gallery, Istanbul 1998 Roundtrip, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul Minus, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London The Whitechapel Open, London 1997 Big Popas – Ten Deep, Coins, London 1996 Future Vision, The Photographers' Gallery, London Awards 2014 The Jarman Award, nomination2012 Future of Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, nomination 2009 Artes Mundi Prize 2010, shortlist 2008 M-tel Awards for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria, nomination 2004 Beck’s Futures, shortlist, ICA, London, UK