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Installation view:
Virgolo Future Institute, ar/ge kunst, Lungomare, Bozen, IT
2016

 

Installation view:
Virgolo Future Institute, ar/ge kunst, Lungomare, Bozen, IT
2016

 

Installation view:
Virgolo Future Institute, ar/ge kunst, Lungomare, Bozen, IT
2016

 

Installation view:
(Market Town) Loughborough Records Presents Presence
2016
Commissioned by Radar, LU Arts, Loughborough UK

 

Window
2015
pages from satirical magazines Penguen, Uykusuz, Leman, Girgir and Bayan Yani

Installation view:
Arcade, London

 

Light
2015
fabricated by Hayalbilim

Installation view:
Arcade, London

 

Inner Space Station
2013
The Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library, New York, US
Commissioned by Protocinema

 

Deposit (Spring Deficit: After Hammons, After Dubai, and after the politics of white noise)
2012
metal, glass, sand, wood, cd player, speaker, amplifier
ø 160 cm, h 48 cm

 

Deposit (Spring Deficit: After Hammons, After Dubai, and after the politics of white noise)
2012
metal, glass, sand, wood, cd player, speaker, amplifier
ø 160 cm, h 48 cm

 

Distributed
2012
chrome door knobs
Frieze Projects East, Waltham Forest, London (YMCA)

 

Installation view:

Distributed
2012

Arcade, London

 

Installation view:

COHAB: An Assembly of Spare Parts
2011

CASCO – Office for Art, Design & Theory, Utrecht, NL

 

Installation view:
PARK: bir ihtimal (PARK: a possibility)
2010

Nisantasi Maçka Dimitrie Cantimir Park, Istanbul, TK with Nils Norman, Ceren Oykut, Sinek Sekiz and the Park Collective

 

Installation view:
PARK: bir ihtimal (PARK: a possibility)
2010

Nisantasi Maçka Dimitrie Cantimir Park, Istanbul, TK with Nils Norman, Ceren Oykut, Sinek Sekiz and the Park Collective

 

Installation view:
Another Empty Pedestal: after similar skis from recent past
2010
Setting with concrete Lotus Leaf sculpture from the evicted Vietnamese Community Worship Centre in Warsaw.
CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castel , Warsaw, PL

 

Installation view:

Another Empty Pedestal: after similar skis from recent past
2010
Setting with concrete Lotus Leaf sculpture from the evicted Vietnamese Community Worship Centre in Warsaw.

CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castel , Warsaw, PL

 

Installation view:

The Church Street Partners’ Gazette
2010

The Showroom, London

 

Installation view:

CLOUD CROWD CLOUD (setting no. II)
2009

If there is no Audience!
Group Exhibition: Centre Cultural Montehermoso. Vitoria-Gasteiz, SP

 

Installation view:

CLOUD CROWD CLOUD (setting no. II)
2009

If there is no Audience!
Group Exhibition: Centre Cultural Montehermoso. Vitoria-Gasteiz, SP

 

Installation view:

Ey Ahali / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go
2007
Solo Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

 

View from Performance by Lead to Will and Barnabas Yianni:

Ey Ahali / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go
2007
Solo Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

 

View from Performance by Lead to Will and Barnabas Yianni:

Ey Ahali / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go
2007
Solo Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

 

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