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Köken Ergun was born in Istanbul in 1976. He studied theater acting with the playwright Güngör Dilmen and the actress Yıldız Kenter at the Istanbul State Conservatory of Istanbul University. He completed his postgraduate degree in Classics at King′s College in London. Between 1998 and 2002, he worked with American theatre director Robert Wilson. In 2001, Ergun presented öte-oceanwide, an installation / performance project on the occasion of the Istanbul Biennial with Carlos Soto, Ferhat Karakaya and Dominic Reeves. Ergun continued his master’s degree in Visual Communication Design at Bilgi University. He then became involved with contemporary art, specifically video and performance.
Ergun’s works often have a political edge. He has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions and performances in Turkey and abroad. His video works have also screened in several film festivals, including the Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Sydney, VideoZone and Zagreb Film Festivals. He is the 2007 recipient of the Tiger Award of the Rotterdam Film Festival for his short film “The Flag”. In 2010, his work was presented in the ARS (Artists in Residence Show) in Milan. Since 2007, Ergun has been based in Berlin.
Solo Exhibition:
2007, Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm, SwedenTur
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2002, 1st Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions, curated by Fulya Erdemci, Istanbul
2003, Institutions2, curated by Jens Hoffman & Vasıf Kortun, KIASMA, Helsinki
2003, 3rd Performance Days, curated by Nadi Güler, Istanbul
2004, Placebo Effect, curated by Vasıf Kortun, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2004, Rimbaud, curated by Max Henry, I-20 Gallery, New York
2004, Public Execution, curated by Michele Thursz & Anne Ellegood, Exit Art, New York
2004, Artists-in-Residence Show, Location One, New York
2005, Free Kick, curated by Halil Altındere, Hospitality Zone at the 9th Istanbul Biennial
2005, Normalization: Art For... (Part One), curated by November Paynter & Vasıf Kortun, Platform Garanti Contemporary Arts, Istanbul
2006, Somewhere in Time, curated by Sunjung Kim, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2006, Naked Life, curated by Manray Hsu & Maren Richter, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei
2006, Rejection Episodes, curated by Basak Senova, Vooruit, Ghent
2006, Köken Ergun & Markus Lohman, Kuenstlerhauser Worpswede
2006, Helter/Helter, curated by Max Henry, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2006, People, Land, State curated by Galit Eliat, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2006, The Peninsula, curated by Heman Chong, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Singapore
2006, Re-shuffle, Art in General, New York
2007, Locus Athens
2007, Ortung, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
2007, On the Brink, curated by Heidi Lee, Curators without Borders, Berlin
Screenings, Film Festivals:
2005, The Sculpture Center, New York
2005, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2006, San Francisco Cinematheque
2006, PLATFORMA VIDEO6, Athens
2006, Trafo Center of Arts, Budapest
2006, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
2006, Montpellier Film Festival
2006, Zagreb Film Festival
2006, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2006, Reykjavik Film Festival
2006, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2006, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen
2006, Odense Film Festival
2006, Oberhausen Short Film Festival
2006, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
2007, Rotterdam Film Festival
2007, !f Istanbul, Festival of Independent Films
Reference: vdb.org, .location1.org, digitalartlab.org.il, sparwasserhq.de, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 138-139.
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