Recent:
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at Silent Green, Berlin
Juni 2026
Past:
Filmscreening Donaufestival, Krems an der Donau, Österreich
Mai 2025
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
new cinema and contemporary art exhibition Fondation Fiminco
November 2024
Contact: mail@cankurucu.com
Berlin, Germany
2016 – 2022 Visual Arts / Meisterschüler, University of Arts Berlin (UdK), Berlin
2014 – 2015 Fine Arts / Bauhaus-University, Weimar
2007 – 2011 Fine Arts / BA, Marmara University, Istanbul
2026 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at Silent Green, Berlin
2025 Rencontres Internationales LOODS6/Amsterdam” at Loods6, Amsterdam
Schwester Courage / Donaufestival, Krems an der Donau
2024 The Measuares Taken / Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at Fondation Fiminco, Paris
Über Bedingungen / a52/Rhizom, Graz
2022 Hybrid Biennale / Hellerau, Dresden
Lausitz, Am Ende Landschaft - the Driving Factor / Station Urbaner Kulturen, nGbK Berlin
Save Changes / Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2021 Deep States / Bärenzwinger, Berlin
Conditions of a Necessity / Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2020 Grounded / collab.RITA, Ljubljana
2019 Mountain Hauntology / CAR-INLAND, Madrid
2018 Conlang / Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Mutterzunge / Babylon, Berlin
2017 Farocki Now / Silent Green, Berlin
2015 Kunst & Krise / FreiRaum, Jena
Transit-Revisited / Other Music Academy, Weimar
2014 31Kilo / Istanbul (off-space) & Künstlerhaus Dortmund
20XX: Relics / Co-Pilot Gallery, Istanbul
2013 Connecting the Dots / Pera Museum, Istanbul
Waterwerk / Siemens Sanat, Istanbul
2012 Encounters / ARA Art Square, Seoul
‘‘Yes, You Can Not’’/ Pilot Gallery, Istanbul – Solo Ausstellung
Impudence of Good Intent / Art Sümer, Istanbul
2010 When Ideas Become Crime / Depo, Istanbul
Grants
2022 Akademie der Künste
2021 Draußenstadt-Urbane Praxis
2020 Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung
2014 EFC Labs-European Cultural Foundation
Workshops
2017 Does the Network Fit into the Cube? / RCPP, Art Academy Oslo
2013 Waterwerk / Marmara-University Faculty of Fine Arts &
The Royal Academy of Art, den Haag (KABK), Istanbul
2011 Trace In Spaces / AIAS, Wroclaw
2010 Transposition / Marmara-University Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul
Working Groups & Collectives and Participations
2019 - 2024 Zugang Kollektiv (Film Collective), Berlin // 2019 - 2024 Research Institute for Technical Aesthetics (RITA), Berlin // 2024 der Turm stürzt ein, Berlin // 2022 the Driving Factor, Lausitz-Berlin // 2020-2021 Lauratibor, Berlin // 2013-2014 Sanat Tanımı Topluluğu, Istanbul