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Title
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Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Öğüt Episode 1
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Description
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This exhibition is the result of Witte de With director Defne Ayas’ pairing of two critically engaged artists, Goshka Macuga and Ahmet Öğüt. Both artists’ interests are tied to political and historical contexts, distilled through a variety of media and strategies of representation that include performance, participatory event, sculpture, film, and installation. Macuga and Öğüt began a conversation, and through a series of coincidences identified parallel references drawn from their shared social concerns, personal stories, and the ideas driving their respective practices, such as their mutual investment in collaboration and interest in the representation of critical thinkers in the global imaginary. Such references mark the point of departure for a two-part exhibition – the first steered by Ahmet Öğüt (17 June – 20 August), with the second part to follow in Fall with Goshka Macuga (8 September – 31 December). Both artists examine each other’s practices, a process subject to misinformation and misunderstandings along the way, as much as a generosity of ideas, commitment of time, and peer-to-peer play.
Participants
Ahmet Ögüt, Goshka Macuga
Curators
Defne Ayas, Rosa de Graaf, Samuel Saelemakers
Supported By
Mondriaan Fund and SAHA Association
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Identifier
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KIM-EXH-2469
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17_6
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Type
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Exhibition
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Date
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2017-06-17/2017-08-20
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Temporal Coverage
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2017
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Publisher
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Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
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Spatial Coverage
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Rotterdam
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Language
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en
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Is Part Of
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Exhibition history
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Rights Holder
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Kunstinstituut Melly
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Creator
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Ahmet Ögüt
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Goshka Macuga
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Contributor
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Defne Ayas
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Rosa de Graaf
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Samuel Saelemakers
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Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Öğüt Episode 1 — image 005 Exhibition overview Öğüt & Macuga, Goshka Macuga, Burnt Guernica (2015), oil on canvas, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2017. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Öğüt Episode 1 — image 004 Exhibition overview Öğüt & Macuga, with Ahmet Öğüt, Information Power to the People (2017), bronze cast; and Goshka Macuga, Wax Cast Series: Madame Blavatsky, Olympe de Gouges, Pussy Riot, Guerilla Girls, Ada Lovelace, Mary Shelley, Donna Karaway (2015), wax cast, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2017. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Öğüt Episode 1 — image 003 Exhibition overview Öğüt & Macuga, with Ahmet Öğüt, Where is Karl Marx? (2016), Will Lammert, Karl Marx (1953), bronze cast, wooden pallet, dust; and Goshka Macuga, Karl Marx (2016), Parian ware, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2017. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Öğüt Episode 1 — image 002 Exhibition overview Öğüt & Macuga, with Goshka Macuga, In Debt View (2015), coin-operated telescope, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2017. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Öğüt Episode 1 — image 001 Exhibition overview Öğüt & Macuga, with Miroslav Tichý, untitled., date unknown, silver print mounted on cardboard, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2017. Photographer: Kristien Daem.