Kutlug Ataman

Selected Biography

MFA University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1988

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

Mesopotamian Dramaturgies

MAXXI- National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome

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Whitechapel Gallery, London

2009

Mesompotamian Dramaturgies

Linz, Austria

Kuba and Paradise

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Abraaj Prize: Strange Space

Dubai

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Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2008

Kutlug Ataman: Paradise and Kuba

Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada

Kuba

Tanas Berlin

Paradise

Harris Museum, & Art Gallery, Preston, UK

2007

Paradise

Orange County Museum of Art, California

2006

Küba: Journey Against the Current

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Vienna; Traveled to 13 destinations along the Danube, Slovakia with a final exhibition at the former Jewish Theater of Vienna

Sherman Galleries, Sydney

Küba

Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

De-regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

2005

Kutlug Ataman: Perfect Strangers

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Stefan's Room

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

2004

Stefan’s Room

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Küba

Co-produced by and traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Artangel at The Sorting Office, London; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York (not exhibited); Theater der Welt 2005, Stuttgart, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art

2002

Women Who Wear Wigs

Istanbul Contemporary Arts Museum, Turkey

Never My Soul

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

A Rose Blooms in the Garden of Sorrows

BAWAG Foundation, Vienna

Kutlug Ataman: Long Streams

Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark;
GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands; Serpentine Gallery, London

Context: europe 2002-impulses from south-eastern europe

Theater Des Augenblicks, Vienna

2001

Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden

kutluğ ataman’s semiha b. unplugged

Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam

Women Who Wear Wigs

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

2000

Enter Gallery, City Museum of Art, Helsinki

The Lux Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

Sydney Biennale, Sydney

Tactics of Invisibility

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

2009

Byzance Istanbul, Un Port Pour Deux Continents

Grand Palais, Paris

2008

Laughing in a Foreign Language

The Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre, London

2007

Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia

Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

2006

The Grand Promenade

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

Nature Attitudes

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Vienna

Partial Recall

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Boys and Flowers

Western Bridge, Seattle

Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Snafu: Medien, Mythen, Mind Control

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2005

REALIT;-)T

Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland

2004

Turner Prize 2004

Tate Britain, London

Neue Kunsthalle III: materiell—immateriell

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

The Future Has A Silver Lining

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Athens Concert Hall, Greece

Documentary ‘Fictions’

CaixaForum, Barcelona

Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Down Here

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection

Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

2003

Days Like These

Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art 2003, Tate Britain, London

Image Stream

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

Poetic Justice

8th International Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo 4, Turkey

Two Zero Zero Two

Deste Foundation, Athens

Witness: Contemporary Artists Document Our Time

The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London

Die Neue Kunsthalle I

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

Testimonies: Between Fiction and Reality

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

fast forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection

ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid

2002

Context: europe 2002—artistic impulses from south-eastern europe

Theater des Augenblicks, Vienna

Two Zero Zero Two

Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

FAIR

Royal College of Art, London

XXV Bienal de São Paulo

Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo

Documenta 11

Kassel, Germany

Hautnah: The Goetz Collection

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

2001

Narrative Affinities

GB Agency, Paris

2nd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art

Postfuhramt, Berlin

2000

Agitated Histories: Video Art and the Documentary

Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit

Museum Moderner Kunst

Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

1999

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genèva

Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick

Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

48a Biennale di Venezia, Venice

1998

La Biennale de Montréal 1998, Canada

Up To Date

Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

Manifesta 2

Casino Luxembourg—Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

Videobrasil 98

São Paulo

1997

On Life, Beauty, Translations/Transfers and Other Difficulties

5th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

Awards

2006

Best Film, Best Director

Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey

Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay

Antalya International Film Festival, Turkey

2004

Turner prize shortlisted artist

Tate Britain, London

1999

Best Film

NewFest Festival, New York

Audience Award

Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey

1996

Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay

Serpent’s Tale

Best Film

Writers Union of Turkey Awards

1994

Special Prize

Turkish Film Critics Association