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Aykan Safoğlu was born in Istanbul in 1984. After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University, where he studied film, he completed his master′s degree in "Art in Context" at the University of the Arts Berlin in 2010. He also completed his MFA in Photography at Bard College in New York in 2013. Since 2005, Safoğlu has made several short films, published articles and reviews in various magazines. He has participated in many group exhibitions and curated them. In 2013, he received the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen in the 59th international Short Film Festival Oberhausen for his short film "Kırık Beyaz Laleler (Off-White Tulips)." Safoğlu was awarded a 2014 residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He is a member of the curatorial collective “ğ” (soft g). Currently, Safoğlu lives and works in Berlin.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011, “Station”, Konsthall C, Stockholm
2010, “Rundgang ’11”, University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
2010, “AH OH”, Gallery Non, Istanbul
2010, “Embodiments”, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
2009, “Chicken”, The Spare Room Project, San Francisco
2009, “Psychometry”, Galerie Exile, Berlin
2008, “Reasonable”, Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul
Reference: aykansafoglu.wordpress.com, filmcomment.com, youngart.ru
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