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Cengiz Tekin was born in Diyarbakır in 1977. In the 1990’s, he decided to study fine arts at a university. He interprets the Kurdish question in his own inimitable manner. His works constantly allude to potential crisis. He uses the language of art in a rebellious way without expressing actual rebellion. Tekin had his first solo exhibition in Diyarbakır in 2007. He has participated in many group exhibitions and art fairs in Turkey and aboard. Currently, Tekin continues to work in Diyarbakır.
Solo Exhibition:
2007-2008, So Called portrait of the Artist, Diyarbakir Art Centre, Diyarbakır (curated by Şener Ozmen)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2002, Under The Beach: The Pavement, Proje4L Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, (curated by Vasif Kortun & Halil Altindere)
2003, In Den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (curated By René Block)
2003, U-Topos, 2nd Tirana Biennial, National Museum of History, Tirana, Albania (curated by Ann Demeester, Vasif Kortun, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Anri Sala, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Sandra Antelo Suarez, Branislava Anelkovic)
2003, I Am Too Sad To Kill You!, Proje4L, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (curated by Halil Altindere)
2003, 2th Performance Days, Babylon, KV Istanbul, Bilgi Atolye, Istanbul
2004, Love It or Leave It/Cetinje Biennial V, National Museum of Cetinje, Montenegro Cetinje-Dubrovnik-Tirana (curated by René Block)
2004, The Force Of Language-Becoming Minor, Keciburcu, Diyarbakir (curated By Ali Akay)
2004, Love It or Leave It / Cetinje Biennial V, Diyarbakir Art Center, Diyarbakir (curated by René Block)
2004, The Visitor, Galerist, Istanbul (curated by Emre Baykal & Rob Perree)
2005, 7th Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios de Santiago (curated by Ali Akay)
2005, Free Kick, Antrepo, Istanbul (curated by Halil Altindere)
2005, Etrangeté en soi: Unheimlich, Akbank Culture and Arts Centre, Istanbul (curated by Ali Akay)
2005, Etrangeté en soi: Unheimlich, Apollonia, Strasbourg (curated by Ali Akay and Dimitri Konstantinidis)
2006, Territories of Duration, Karsi Art Gallery, Istanbul (curated by Gülsen Bal)
2007, RadikalArt: Ardında Değil Karşısına, (coordinators: Övül Durmuşoğlu, Cem Erciyes)
2005-7, Transfer Turkey-nrv, Aachen, Bochum, Münster, Istanbul (curated by Basak Doğa Temur, Emre Baykal, Dr.Hans Günter Golinski, Dr. Gail Kirkpatrick, Harald Kunde)
2008, I Refuse to Become What You Call Normal, Outlet Gallery, Istanbul
2008, “Held Together with Water”, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul (curated by Gabriele Schor (the Director of the Verbund Collection))
2008, “What about Power Relation?”, Conceptual design and coordination: Martina Vovk, Alenka Gregoric, Tevz Logar, Mara Vujic / Slovenia), Vanja Zanko & Mihaela Richter / Croatia), Yane Calovski / Macedonia), Gallery and City Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008, “Sampling”, Locus Athens, Greece (curated by Maria Thalia Carras-Sophia Tourn)
2009, The Attitude Festival, Bitola, Macedonia, Project (curator: Gülsen Bal)
2009, (Very) Small Distortions in the Order, 28th International Istanbul Film Festival, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
Reference: habervesaire.com, outlet-istanbul.org, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 284-285.
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