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Mustafa Kunt was born in Ankara in 1978. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of Hacettepe University. He then went to Frankfurt and completed his mater’s degree with Wolfgang Tillmans at the Stadel Art Academy. Since then, he has routinely collaborated with Özlem Günyol in Germany and Turkey. Their subjects are the language and symbols of the media, and the meaning of language. Working with a range of media, from video to installation, ink-jet prints to artists’ books, they interrogate and dismantle perceived notions of identity, advocating pluralism over homogeneity. In 2008, Kunt had a solo exhibition “Vier Mustafa Kunt III” at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt / Main. He has participated in many group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. Currently, Kunt lives and works in Frankfurt / Main.
Group Exhibitions:
2005, PoetikaErotika - Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt/Main
2006, Emerging German and Turkish Artists from the Elgiz Collection - Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
2006, GOLD MINE - Galerie Appel, Frankfurt/Main
2007, Türkisch Delight - Galerie der Stadt Backnang - Turmschulhaus, Backnang
2007, Be a realist, demand the impossible! - Karsi Sanat, Istanbul
2007, Türkisch Delight - Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn
2007, be-cause - Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt - Basis Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
2007, Alman Mali - Kunstverein München, Munich
2008, Fare Una Scenata / Making a Scene - Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
2009, El Dorado - Über das Versprechen der Menschenrechte - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2009, on the edge - Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt/Main
2010, When Ideas Become Crime - Depo, Istanbul
2010, UNERWARTET / UNEXPECTED - Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst Kunstmuseum Bochum - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
2010, Enovos Förderpreis Junge Kunst - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Reference: universes-in-universe.org, basis-frankfurt.de, mmk-frankfurt.de, Unleashed Contemporary Art from Turkey, (ed. Hossein Amirsadeghi, London: TransGlobe Publishing, 2010), p. 160-161 |
