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Born in Istanbul in 1976, Köken Ergun currently lives and works in Berlin. Ergun’s performance and video works reflect on the contemporary body under various forms of stress. Ongoing research and experience in the fields of theatre as well as theory have greatly influenced his practice, which looks to Turkey and in particular Ergun’s home city of Istanbul for subjects and topics of inspiration. These include looking at current societal contradictions where there are examples of secular, religious and cultural bodily trauma with recent works referencing the headscarf issue and nationalism.
Ergun has exhibited work at institutions including KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Arts (Helsinki); Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul); Art in General (NYC); Art Sonje Center (Seoul); Museum of Contemporary Arts (Taipei); Sparwasser HQ (Berlin), and Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Stockholm). His video works have been screened in film festivals in Europe such as the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and at IDFA Amsterdam. In 2007 he was commissioned to present a solo work at Yama in Istanbul and in 2005 his work "I Soldier" was included in the exhibition Free Kick in the Hospitality Zone of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial. |
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