NASAN TUR
In a diverse practice that ranges from sculpture, drawing, video, and photography to performance and installation, Nasan Tur examines social conditions, probing the relationship between production and value and modes of communication, and their relation to power. The artist, with his interventions invites the viewer to think on them anew. He compelled attention with his somersaults, singings, shoutings he performs in streets, public squares, airports in various cities, out of blue; his work that comprises 800 different spellings of the word “capital” referring to Marx’s Capital; his videos displaying gestures and expressions of people who shot a gun for the first time in their lives. He made a video installation featuring himself while painting on an empty white wall the graffiti pieces he collected from all around Berlin, with spray paint. He performed that with Istanbul graffitis as well.
Nasan Tur (b.1974, Offenbach) graduated from the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach and Academy of Art Städelschule Frankfurt. He was exhibited extensively internationally, including solo exhibitions at Splinter in My Eye, Dirimart Dolapdere, Istanbul (2017); Oldenburger Kunstverein (2017); Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milano (2017); Blain/Southern, Berlin (2016); Deweer Gallery, Belgium (2016); Kunst Haus Wien (2016); Blain/Southern, London (2015); Kunsthal 44 Møen, Denmark (2014); Kunsthalle Mannheim (2011); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2009) and Yapı Kredi Kazım Taşkent Art Gallery, Istanbul (2009). A major solo show at Pori Art Museum in Finland is upcoming in 2018. Important group exhibitions include Documenta 14 (2017); Bucharest Biennale (2016); Lentos Museum Linz (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Fondazione MAXXI, Rome (2015); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (2015); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2014); Istanbul Modern (2013); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); Arter, Istanbul (2011); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2009); Taipei Biennale (2008); and Istanbul Biennial (2007). Nasan Tur lives and works in Berlin.
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