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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

How can we preserve history when the infrastructures of memory are constantly under attack? Ahmet Öğüt’s recreation of Hosni Radwan’s In Memory of Palestine (from the 1980 Palestinian Painting exhibition at Zachęta) part of WHAT ARE OUR COLLECTIVE DREAMS? at Zachęta zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/o...

How can we preserve history when the infrastructures of memory are constantly under attack - by war, by radical shifts of regimes, by the rewriting of narratives? Born in Diyarbakir, a city scarred by civil war, Kurdish artist Ahmet Ögüt approaches art not as an object but as a political and social situation.
In this installation, Ogüt returns to the fragile traces of two exhibitions that have largely disappeared from art history:
Palestinian Painting (Zacheta, 1980) and the International Art Exhibition for Palestine (Beirut, 1978). The archive of the former is incomplete, neglected as part of Poland's inconvenient socialist past; the latter was almost entirely destroyed, along with its collection of nearly 200 works, during Israeli bombings of Beirut in 1982.
As a gesture of care, Ogüt has recreated two works from these vanished archives: Hosni Radwan's In Memory of Palestine and Janet Venn Brown's Zionist Crime, October
1972. Traditionally, copies are considered a lesser form, mere craft. Here, however, replication becomes a subversive act: restoring erased histories, resisting disappearance, and placing them back into the public sphere. Ögüt first applied this method in 2024, recreating works from art collections evacuated from war-torn Kharkiv. By extending the gesture to Palestinian archives, he bridges geographically distant conflicts, underlining our interdependence and the possibility of new translocal solidarities.
For Zacheta, Ogüt presents these copies behind panes of magic glass - disappeared and destroyed artworks become visible only when viewers stand directly in front of them. The artist thus shows the vulnerability not only of art but also of fragile human lives and connections. Framed against two large murals that reproduce the visual codes of the 1978 and 1980 exhibitions, his installation restores visibility to what was nearly lost. Through acts of reconstruction, Ogüt insists that art can reactivate forgotten archives, reinsert them into history,…

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papapapararo.bsky.social @papapapararo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Thinking about art that examines mass protests. Will post here starting with this work by Ahmet Öğüt, which posits art as part of it’s strategy

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Bakunin's Barricade — Ahmet Öğüt

Bakunin’s Barricade 2015-2022 Frist version Eindhoven 2015 a barricade inspired by Bakunin’s never realized proposal in 1849 using works from...

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EPOCH @epoch.gallery · 02/12/2025

Ahmet Ögüt Monuments of the Disclosed 2022, 3d digital sculptures, video stills and video Dedicated to: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Kimberly Young-McLear, Marlene Garcia-Esperat, Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Li Wenliang, Phillip Saviano, Karen Silkwood, Aaron Swartz

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EPOCH @epoch.gallery · 02/12/2025

It was a privilege and honor to work with Ahmet Ögüt @ahmetogut.bsky.social on his installation for our current virtual exhibition, The Generative Museum, in collaboration with ICA Pittsburgh and @kadistkadist.bsky.social! Experience Ahmet’s work in the Generative Museum at EPOCH.gallery

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EPOCH @epoch.gallery · 21/10/2025

The Generative Museum is now live! Featuring installations by Morehshin Allahyari, Holly Herndon and Mathew Dryhurst, Joe Namy, and Ahmet Ögüt, alongside the generative exhibition Unseen Forces 1.0 (optimized for desktop viewing only). Experience the virtual exhibition online at epoch.gallery.

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The Generative Museum | ICA Pittsburgh x KADIST x EPOCH | October 21, 2025 – February 13, 2026

THE GENERATIVE MUSEUM ICA Pittsburgh x KADIST x EPOCH October 21, 2025 – February 13, 2026 Morehshin Allahyari | Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst | Joe Namy | Ahmet Öğüt

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CLondoner92 @clondoner92.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Ahmet Öğüt’s new artwork at Stratford station explores art’s power to save and transform. Inspired by a 2020 incident in Rotterdam, it features Dr. Helen Whitley’s story of art saving a life, celebrating 25 years of Transport for London’s Art programme. tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/new-art...

Ahmet Öğüt, ‘Saved by the Whale’s Tail, Saved by Art’, 2025, Stratford station. Commissioned by Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries. Photo: GG Archard.

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Mayor of London Press Office @ldn-pressoffice.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Saved by the Whale’s Tail by artist Ahmet Öğüt has been unveiled at Stratford station today. It’s a fantastic new addition to our #ArtontheUnderground collection – which helps to transform journeys for millions every day shorturl.at/xDCQG

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Mayor of London's Culture team @ldnculture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Artist Ahmet Öğüt, Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries are seeking stories about how art has saved lives✨ Do you have a story about how art has saved a life? The most compelling story will be displayed on the London Underground! Submit by 2 June⬇️ art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/sav...

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Saved by the Whale's Tail, Saved by Art - Art on the Underground

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Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Remember when a public sculpture saved a train operator’s life? Ahmet Öğüt certainly does, and his new project was inspired by that moment. My latest for Artnet: news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

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Did an Artwork Save Your Life? Artist Ahmet Öğüt Wants Your Story

Kurdish Turkish artist Ahmet Öğüt unveils a new public project in London, seeking to collect stories of lifesaving art.

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Ahmet Öğüt @ahmetogut.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

First step of my new project “Saved by the Whale’s Tail, Saved by Art” Commissioned by Art on the Underground and New Contemporaries. newcontemporaries.org.uk/current/save... Photo: Benedict Johnson

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Framer Framed @framerframed.nl · 12/03/2025

What happens when art becomes more than a symbol? Artist Ahmet Öğüt (@ahmetogut.bsky.social) addresses, for the first time, the situation surrounding his work 𝐵𝑎𝑘𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑛’𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒, exploring its power as both art and tool for change. Join the artist talk and Q&A → bit.ly/4kHaXE5

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Protocinema @protocinema.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Protocinema and the National Academy of Design invite you to join us for an engaging conversation "Forms of Bravery" with artist Ahmet Öğüt @ahmetogut.bsky.social and artist and curator Ella den Elzen, on Feb 20, 2025 6–7:30pm at the National Academy of Design. www.protocinema.org/exhibitions/...

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Ahmet Öğüt + Ella den Elzen: Forms of Bravery - Protocinema

Protocinema is a cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents site-aware art around the world. Based in Istanbul and New York, we produce critical installations of the highest artisti...

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Ahmet Öğüt @ahmetogut.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My work “Monuments of the Disclosed” (2022) has become the first augmented reality work to enter the Guggenheim Museum New York’s collection 🧿

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Gigi Spelsberg @gigispelsberg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Collage by Ahmet Ögüt 2025

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Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Ayla Jean is on the scene of the Mardin Biennial which has one Kurdish artist and no labels in Kurdish. A “touristic and colonial-industrial complex” according to Ahmet Öğüt, the only Kurd represented. Still, it perseveres. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/03/m...

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Mardin Biennial finds a common ground

But event has been also been criticised for lack of “respect for local cultures and languages”

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