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Alptekin, Hüseyin
1957 Ankara, lives in Istanbul (Turkey).

venue: exteriors
Paso Peatonal Trintxerpe - Topo Herrera
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Hüseyin Alptekin’s work is about mobility. The artist refers to the experience of the non-native pedestrian within foreign landscapes, congested urban areas, or ports, in order to emphasize the absurdity evident in the signage of global economics. For Manifesta 5, Alptekin utilizes reproduced signs of hotel names (such as Hotel Odessa, Hostal Balkan, Hotel Baghdad) from his travels as found objects. Playing with various linguistic representations of the word “hotel,” he conflates conflicting notions of hospitality and hostility. The artist’s hangs the signs along what is referred to as Rape Alley to not only illuminate a darkened street, but also launch a critique of urban neglect.

curriculum:

Selected individual exhibitions
Georgia on My Mind: B- fact. Leena Kuumola Gallery, with B- fact Group, Helsinki, 2003.

Total Global. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2000.

Sur les Traces de Jules Verne: A Propos de Kiraban. Institut Français, Istanbul (Turkey), 2000

Over the Threshold. Museum Ksiazki, Artystycznej, fabs, Lodz (Poland), 1999.

Kriz: Viva Vaia. Gallery Dulcinea,
Istanbul (Turkey), 1999.

Winter Depression. Gallery Nev,
Istanbul (Turkey), 1998.

Desert in the Bath. Tvrvk F|rdu,
Budapest, 1995.

Selected group exhibitions
Permanent Revolution. The Project Studio, IASPIS, Stockholm, 2004.

Balkan Bunker Hotel.The Balkans, A Crossroad to the Future. Arte Fiera, Bologna (Italy), 2004.

Community and Art: Artists and Independent Initiatives. Yogyakarta, 2003.

Bunker Research Group. 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, 2003.

B- Fact. Gallery, 1, 1, 1, Istanbul (Turkey), 2003.

B- Fact/ Bunker Research Group. Tirana Biennial, Tirana, 2003.

In den Schlucten des Balkan. Kunsthalle Fredicianum, Kassel (Germany), 2003.

Turkish Art Today. Saitama Contemporary Art Center, Saitama/Tokyo, 2003.

How Latitudes Become Forms. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin (Italy), 2003.

Prophetic Corners. Periferic 6, Contemporary Art Biennial, Lasi (Finland), 2003.

Bal/Kan: Blutt und Honig. Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Wien, 2003.

Ghosts and Shadows. Platform Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (Turkey), 2003.

Burada/Here. Platform Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (Turkey), 2003.

How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA), 2003.

Small Brother. National Gallery
of Modern Art, Tirana, 2002.

Between the Waterfronts. Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 2002 .

Fundamentalisms of the New Order. Charlottenborg (Denmark), 2002.

In Search of Balkania. Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (Austria), 2002.

Intersection. Khar- Khorum/Ulaan Baatar, 2002.

4th Cetinje Biennale. Cetinje, Montenegro, 2002.

Under the Sign of the City. Kunst Museum, Bonn (Germany), 2001.

200, 1- 2002 Mutations/Rumour City. TN Probe, Tokyo, 2001.

Conversation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 2001.

Becoming a Place. Project 4L, Istanbul New Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (Turkey), 2001.

Zero_Absolute_the Real. Gallery Marino Cettina, Umag (Croatia), 2001.

Ante- Sound. Center of Contemporary Art/Inner Spaces. Poznan (Poland), 2000.

Springtime - New Art from Istanbul. Nikolaj Museum, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, 2000.

Ah Odessa: Tracing Jules Verne. Museum in Progress, Der Standard, 1999.

skorpit: Recent Art from Istanbul. Badischer Kunstverein e.V., Karlsruhe (Germany), 1999.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1999.

24th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo (Brazil), 1998.

4th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (Turkey), 1995.

Little Things. Art in General, New York (USA), 1994.

A Foreigner=A Traveller. Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam (The Netherlands), 1993.

 
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