Biography
Ergin Çavuşoğlu (b. Targoviste, Bulgaria 1968) studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Sofia, Marmara University, Istanbul, Goldsmiths College, London, and the University of Portsmouth. Çavuşoğlu co-represented Turkey at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004 and for Artes Mundi 4 in 2010. His practice includes video and sound installations, anamorphic drawings and sculptures. HIs solo exhibitions have included: Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/, “Artists’ Film International” on Language, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Istanbul Modern Museum and Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2020); Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?, Rampa, Istanbul (2016); Cinefication (Tarot and Chess), in The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2016); Liquid Breeding, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku (2015); Dust Breeding, The Pavilion, Dubai (2011); Alterity, Rampa, Istanbul (2011); Ergin Cavusoglu, Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2011); Crystal & Flame, PEER, London (2010); Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2009); Place after Place, Kunstverein Freiburg (2008), Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2006), and Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee, 2004. Group exhibitions include: But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano (GAM) (2018); On Anam? Where are we going?, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca (2018); Your Story! Geschichten von Flucht und Migration, Kunsthalle Emden (2017); But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern (2015); 4th International Canakkale Biennial (2014); First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2012); Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul (2011); Paradise Lost, Istanbul Modern Art Museum (2011); Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010); fast forward 2 The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (2010); All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle (2008), Frankfurt; the British Art Show 6 (2005); the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003) and the 3rd Berlin Biennial (2003). Çavuşoğlu lives and works in London, where he is currently a Professor of Contemporary Art at Middlesex University.
