BiographyImages
Can Altay, b.1975, TR. Lives and works in Istanbul, TR
Education
1999 – 2004
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR, PhD in Art, Design and Architecture
1997 – 1999
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR, MFA in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
1993 – 1997
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR , BFA in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Virgolo Future Institute, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, IT
Loughborough Records Presents Presence as part of Market Town, RADAR, Loughborough University, Loughborouh, UK
2015
Split Horizon (Domestic Disobedience), Oktem & Aykut, Istanbul, TR
Can Altay, Arcade, London, UK
2013
Inner Space Station, Protocinema, New York, US
2012
Distributed, Arcade, London, UK
Distributed, Frieze Projects East, Waltham Forest, London, UK
2011
COHAB: an assembly of spare parts, Casco, Utrecht, NL
2010
The Church Street Partners’ Gazette, The Showroom, London, UK
2008
Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2007
Ey Ahali! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2006
No Bar, Just Bottles., The Abstract Cabinet at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, SP
Selected Group Shows
2016
We are the Centre, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, US
Selfmanagement, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, IT
Ahali at Glasgow School of Art, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Ahali at Ellen De Bruijne with Jeremiah Day, Amsterdam, NL
2015
Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI Foundation, Rome, IT
Old Intersections Make it New III, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki, GR
Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale
Bologna, IT
2014
The Oxymoron of Normality, Depo, Istanbul, TR
The 5th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, MA
2013
Hotspot Istanbul, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
2011
Safari, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR
That’s the Way We Do It, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, AT
Huseyn Bahri Alptekin: I am not a Studio Artist, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, TR
2010
FROM A TO B, FROM B TO P, Bielefelder Kunstverein im Waldhof, DE & Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
‘Diverçity’, Learning From Istanbul, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Fantasy and Island, FRAC Corse, Corsica, FR
One Leading Away From Another, 303 Gallery, New York, US
Can Altay & Iman Issa, Rodeo Istanbul, TR
Open City:IABR in Istanbul, DEPO, Istanbul, TR
2009
The Columns Held Us Up, Artists Space, New York, US
4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, NL
Fantasy For Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG
If There Is No Audience, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, SP
You don’t go slumming… (with Jeremiah Day), Arcade, London, UK
2008
New Ends Old Beginnings, The Bluecoat Liverpool, UK
Social Diagrams. Planning Reconsidered Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Representations of the Artist as an Intellectual, D21, Leipzig, DE
2007
Movement, Contingency, and Community, Gallery 27, Seoul, KR
Says the Junk in the Yard, Flowers East, London, UK
2006
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
A Tale of Two Cities: Busan Biennale, Busan, KR
2005
Day Labor, P.S.1 MoMA, New York City, US
Normalization, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, TR
2004
Common Property – Allgemeingut 6th Werkleitz Biennial, Halle, DE
Call me Istanbul, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE
2003
4D: Four dimensions, Four decades – 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, CU
Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Grants, residencies
2014-16
Radical Hospitality, AR/GE Kunst Galeries Museumm, Bolzano, IT
2008
Artist in Residence (IMP) at Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR
International Studio Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, GR
2007
International Artist Fellowship, production residency at Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2006
‘Artist-to-Artist’ Grant, Visiting Arts in partnership with The Henry Moore Foundation
Contemporary Projects (with British artist James Hutchinson)
2003
Research Scholarship, Swedish Institute and the Swedish Consulate of Istanbul
Other projects
2008
Diplomacy in Reflex. Artist Collective founded with Asli Kalinoglu
2002
School of Applied Spatial Anthropology: SASA, Collective Art Project
Bibliography
Graham, D., 2012, Social Spaces, Frieze, issue 147
Throne, S., 2011, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Frieze, issue 141
Zolghadr, T., 2010, Creamier, Phaidon
Williams, E., 2009, Can Altay & Jeremiah Day, Frieze, published on 05/05/09
Altındere, H. and S.Evren (eds). 1996-2006. User’s Manual: A Guide to Contemporary Art in Turkey,
Istanbul, artist publications.
Pietromarchi, B. (ed). 2005. The [Un]common Place: Art, Public Space and Urban Aesthetics in Europe,
Barcelona: ACTAR
Kane, E. 2007. Previews: Can Altay, Contemporary, issue 94, p.20
Yang, H. 2006. Art in space 14: Can Altay & Wolfgang Breuer, SPACE, issue 468 p.258-265
Bradley, W. 2005. Can Altay, Frieze, issue 92 June/July/August, p.148
Lang, P. and S.Özkaya. 2005. Art Guide – Istanbul: Can Altay, Spike issue 06 Winter p. 83