Title: I’m still alive, yet

Year: 2024 -ongoing

Media: one selected certificate for organ donation —with artist’s heart rate updated daily.

Size: 21 x 29 cm

About the work: 

𝚒𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝙸 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎, 𝙸'𝚖 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎

مع كل نفس أستنشقه، مازلت على قيد الحياة

𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛

و لكن بمجرد آخر نبضة حياة

𝙸 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚎  𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝

أعطي الإذن لإزالة قلبي

𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝙰𝚕-𝚂𝚑𝚒𝚏𝚊 𝙷𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚕

و اوافق على التبرع به لمستشفى الشفاء

𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝

كهدية لفائدة شخص محتاج

Bio: Born in Silvan, Diyarbakir, Ahmet Öğüt completed his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara, MA from Art and Design Faculty at Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul. He works across different media and has exhibited widely, more recently with solo exhibitions in institutions including Van Abbemuseum, State of Concept Athens, Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery; Berkeley Art Museum; and Kunsthalle Basel. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including; Allegory of public happiness, Galleria Civica di Trento (2024); Dhaka Art Summit (2023); 17th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, (2022); FRONT International 2022, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Ohio (2022); Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone (2021); In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020); Zero Gravity at Nam SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art (2019); Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale (2018); the British Art Show 8 (2015-2017); the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); Performa 13, the Fifth Biennial of Visual Art Performance, New York (2013); the 7th Liverpool Biennial (2012); the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); the New Museum Triennial, New York (2009); and the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008). Öğüt was awarded the Visible Award for the Silent University (2013); the special prize of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine (2012); the De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Netherlands; and the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2010). He co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul. His works in institutional collections such as The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Kadist, San Francisco, US - Paris; Rennie Collection, Vancouver; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Frans Hals Museum; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Hesinki; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul.