Ergin Çavuşoğlu

Ergin Çavuşoğlu was born in Tirgoviste, Bulgaria in 1968. He studied at I. Petrov School of Fine Arts in Sofia between 1982 and 1987. He then studied and graduated from the Painting Department at Marmara University in 1994. In 2004, he received Beck’s Futures Award at ICA in London. In 2006, Çavuşoğlu won an award from the Art and Humanities Research Council. After finishing his master’s degree at Goldsmiths College, he completed his doctoral degree at the University of Portsmouth, School of Art, Design and Media in London in 2009. Currently, he works mostly in photographic installation and video, often using split or multiple screens. In 2009, Çavuşoğlu won Artes Mundi Prize 2010.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2000, Vitrine, Transit Space, London
2001, Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt
2002, Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul
2004, Poised in the Infinite Ocean and Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London
2004, Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2006, Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2006, Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2006, Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2007, Quintet Without Borders, Eibank Gallery, Sofia
2007, Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
2008, Best of Discovery, ShContemporary, Shanghai
2008, Ergin Çavuşoğlu ′Place After Place′, Kunstverein Freiburg
2009, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2009, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haunch of Venison, London
2009, ′Tahtakale′ - Galerist at Rental Gallery Köln
2009, Voyage of no Return, Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Perth
2010, Ergin Çavuşoğlu - Crystal & Flame, PEER, London

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2001, Look Away, Platform Gallery, ARCO Madrid
2002, Look Again, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
2002, FAIR, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
2003, Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2003, La Biennale di Venezia 50th International Art Exhibition, The Turkish Pavilion, Venice
2004, Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2004, The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London
2004, Whitstable Biennale 2004, Kent
2004, Britannia Works, organized by The British Council, Xippas Gallery, Athens
2004, Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow
2004, 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2005, Something of the Night 1875-2005, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
2005, Video London, Espai Ubú, Barcelona
2005, Radiance - Glasgow Festival of Light, Merchant City, Glasgow
2005, British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead
2005, Der Knochen der Zunge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
2005, Contaging With Nature, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
2005, On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2006, British Art Show 6, Arnolfini, Bristol
2006, British Art Show 6, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
2006, Forest Man, The New Gallery, Jerusalem
2006, Strangers With Angelic Faces, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
2006, British Art Show 6, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
2007, CASZ – Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam
2007, Rencontres Internationales, Le laboratoire, Paris
2007, Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), ICA, London
2007, Imagine There is an Art Work, BM-Suma Center for Visual Art, Istanbul
2007, Every Wind That Blows, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2007, Between Borders, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Marco
2007, Nobody′s Story, /Seconds, 2007, Radikal Art, Istanbul
2008, There is no Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
2008, WIE DU MIR, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
2008, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, ′Fresh Moves′ tank.tv screening, Guangzhou
2008, Still Cinema 6: Light-speed travel, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2008, ZERO GRAVITY the architecture of social space, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
2008, Peace And Agriculture In A Pre-Romantic Idea Landscape Without Sublime Terrors, Haunch of Venison Berlin
2008, The Morning After. Video works from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen
2008, Gone City, Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
2008, M-tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
2008, Night A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2008, Screenings, Haunch of Venison, London
2008, All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2008, The Temporary Zones, Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Vienna
2008, Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester
2009, Make Shift, Fringe Fusina, Venice
2009, Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
2009, The Temptation of CHALGA - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia
2009, There is no Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
2010, Manifesta 8, Murcia (forthcoming)
2010, Midnight in the city, Centre d′Art la Panera, Lleida (forthcoming)
2010, Divercity. Learning from Istanbul, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2010, fast forward 2 The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2010, Itinéraires de l′élégance entre l′Orient et l′Occident, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2010, ID’s please!, Cer Modern, Ankara
2010, Journey′s with no return, Kurt-Kurt, Berlin
2010, Artes Mundi 4, National Museum Cardiff
2010, Distance and Sensibility, Calvert22, London
2010, HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam. Jerusalem
2010, Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul
2010, Journey′s with no return, A Foundation, London
2010, The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa
2011, Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul (forthcoming)
2011, Midnight in the city, ARTIUM, Vitoria (forthcoming)

Reference: ergincavusoglu.com, dirimart.org, sanalmuze.org, peeruk.org, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 122-123.