United, 2016-2017
Video Animation
Öğüt created the animation United in memory of twenty-one year old protester Lee Han-yeol, who died in Seoul in 1987, and Enes Ata, a six-year-old Kurdish boy who lost his life during protests in Diyarbakır, in Öğüt’s homeland Turkey in 2006. This animation, in the style of Korean comics manhwa, not only portrays the stories of these two young boys that fell victim to state violence, struck with gas canisters during civilian protests, but portrays them both as narrators, giving us tips on how to protect ourselves from tear gas. United was initially produced in collaboration with JM Animation Studios, commissioned by the 11th Gwangju Biennale.
Öğüt created the animation United in memory of twenty-one year old protester Lee Han-yeol, who died in Seoul in 1987, and Enes Ata, a six-year-old Kurdish boy who lost his life during protests in Diyarbakır, in Öğüt’s homeland Turkey in 2006. This animation, in the style of Korean comics manhwa, not only portrays the stories of these two young boys that fell victim to state violence, struck with gas canisters during civilian protests, but portrays them both as narrators, giving us tips on how to protect ourselves from tear gas. United was initially produced in collaboration with JM Animation Studios, commissioned by the 11th Gwangju Biennale.
Ahmet Öğüt
Ahmet Öğüt, born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, works across a variety of different media often picking up on an urban environment. With an eye for daily encounters and moments of improvisation his works address topics such as structural inequality, state suppression, censorship and forms of resistance. Singular acts of non alignment or collective struggles against militarized powers equally tend to inspire the aesthetic and thematic reflections that occur in Ahmet Öğüt's work just as the way he operates in the institutional ecology surrounding his practice. He had solo shows among others at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2012), Kunsthalle Lissabon (2011) and SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2011). He has participated in group shows such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11 (2016), “Museum On/OFF” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), “Political Populism” at Kunsthalle Wien, the Kyiv Biennial (2015) and many more.
- Anna Boghiguian
- Candice Breitz
- Marco A. Castillo
- CATPC
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Clegg & Guttmann
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Anna Ehrenstein
- León Ferrari
- Peter Friedl
- Sophie Gogl
- Barbara Hammer
- Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Simon Lehner
- Renzo Martens
- Chris Martin
- Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Santiago Sierra
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony