Ceren Oykut / Lost passport, exhibition & Black on white / Kibla's New Year's party

Ceren Oykut / Lost passport, exhibition
Murat Ertel / sound installation
Črno na belem / Kibla's New Year's party

Kibela - the opening of the Lost passport exhibition by turkish artist Ceren Oykut on Friday 19th December 2008 at 8 pm. After the opening you were invited to Black on white New Year's party. Code: black on white.
Music by DJ David, visual back up by VJ Inocybe.
At midnight we prepared a special surprise.

Ceren Oykut: Lost passport
"Ceren Oykut proudly presents her one-year Schengen visa on her lost passport.
The persistent feeling of trespassing would not fade away. Yet, the riotous will to discover new lands and to explore different lives is always at stake. The more it becomes unreachable, the more you insist: New rules. New obligations. Additional documents. Further verifications. More questions. More legality. More reliable proof. A constant state of claiming your decency: all in all, you simply want to go to another land, not commit a crime. In the atlas of concealed lands, your voyage starts with daydreaming. Impossible lands with fictive characters and never-ending adventures shap your dreams with overlapping stories waiting to be told. To be in command of these passionate dreams, all you need is a visa on your passport. Some brave and lucky dreamers have managed to obtain it before, that we know. An artist girl worked hard for this: it is said that her dreams have exceeded her maps and that she has been searching for ways to control these maps. Then, she was invited here to exhibit these maps. Now, she also has to prove that she is in control of the situation. Even so, Ceren Oykut proudly presents her one-year Schengen visa on her lost passport."
Basak Senova

Ceren Oykut (1978, Istanbul) is an artist who draws about urban culture focused on daily realities, she also produces multidisciplinary projects, which blend sound and visual representation modes through drawings on urban cultures and past traditions like shadow theatre and calligraphy. Her drawings were presented in various magazines such as L-inc, Kontrol, Roll, and Fuct-D. She also works with a music band called “Baba Zula” and a collective called “Anabala” by creating and rendering projected digital images in real time on the stage. She contributed to many projects in Turkey Belgium, Germany, Austria, Serbia and Montenegro, and Egypt. Oykut lives and works in Istanbul.

Solo Exhibitions
2006
- “Musical Drawings” Karaburun Festival, Izmir
-“City Can- Kustepe Branch” Under Construction Contemporary Art Center,
Kustepe, Istanbul
-“City Can” Under Construction Contemporary Art Center, Maltepe, Istanbul

2005
-“Utopia” Karaburun Festival, Izmir

2003
- “Drawing Exhibition”, Kultur Köln 30, Köln

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
- “ Memory City “ Portable Art Project by 2010 Visual Arts Projects, Istanbul, curated by Derya Yucel
- “ Index. Zeichen des Alltags ”, Kunstraum Palais Porcia, Wien, curated by Deniz Ova and Daniela Gregori
- “ Coincidences, Intuitions, Fictions on Istanbul ” Exhibition series at the 2010 office, Istanbul, curated by Deniz Erbaş
- “Save As..” Contemporary Art From Turkey, Triennale Bovisa, Milano
    Curated by Derya Yücel

2007
- “Allah Korkusu” , Hafriyat Karaköy, Istanbul
- “light, Illuminatıon and Electricity” curated by Basak Senova, Energy Museum, Santral Istanbul
- “Slow Space Fast Pace” an exhibition in public space, curated by Rana Ozturk, Patrick street no 23 Shandon, Cork, Ireland
- “2+1” a project by Apartment Project, Selda Asal, Neriman Polat, Ceren Oykut, 10th International Istanbul Biennal, Santral Istanbul
- “Hafriyat Karaköy” Hafriyat Group Exhibition, Karaköy, Istanbul
-"From Owner with Wiew", group exhibition curated by Derya Yücel
Ortakoy, Istanbul
-"Nothing is going to be allright" Apartment Project,Istanbul
-"Ardindan Degil Karsisina", curated by Övül Durmusoglu, Radikal Newspaper, street exhibition, Istanbul

2006
- "Everything's Gonna be Allright" Apartment Project,Istanbul
- “Rejection Episodes", curated by Basak Senova, Arts Centre Vooruit, De Centraale, Ghent
- “Yerel Cennet” (Local Heaven) Hafriyat Group Exhibition, Diyarbakir
- "Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair" Lutfi Kirdar Fair Center, Istanbul
- “Topkapi” Spedition, Bremen
- "All About Lies", Apartment Project, Istanbul
- “Postcards from Stokholm/Istanbul” colaboration with Selda Asal,     Botkyrka Konsthall, Stokholm
- “Istanbul Defterdarlari” Karsi Sanat Çalismalari,Istanbul

2005
- "Project:Production Fault", Hafriyat Group Exhibition,Antrepo5, Istanbul
-“Young Art Europe” Museum of Young Art, Wien
-“Öcü” Neurotitan, Berlin
-"The Thieving City" Akbank Culture and Art Center,Istanbul curated by Levent Çalıkoğlu
-"Tele-City" Siemens Art Center,Istanbul organisation by Nomad

2004
-"The Visitor" Galerist, Istanbul curated by Emre Baykal, Rob Perree
-"23rd International Contemporary Artists Exhibition", Istanbul and Diyarbakir
curated by Başak Şenova, Anton Lederer, Eyal Danon

2003
- "Belvu Apartment" group exhibition, Galatasaray, Istanbul

2001
- “Dükkan Dövmeciyan” group exhibition, Anabala Han, Beyoglu, Istanbul

Residences
2007
- “Light, İllumination and Electricity” residency project, Santral Istanbul, Istanbul
2006
- “Topkapı”, Spedition, Bremen
- “Open Sound Studio” with Anabala, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2005
- K-34 Köln/Istanbul Partnership Project, Turkis-German artists colaboration,     hosted by Stad Köln, Köln
2004
- K-34 Köln/Istanbul Partnership Project, Turkis-German artists colaboration,     hosted by Stad Köln, Köln
2003
- K-34 Köln/Istanbul Partnership Project, Turkis-German artists colaboration,     hosted by Stad Köln, Köln
2002
- K-34 Köln/Istanbul Partnership Project, Turkis-German artists colaboration,     hosted by Stad Köln, Köln

Printed Projects
1986
- “Nisan”, Istanbul
2005-2006
- Roll Music Magazine, Istanbul
2005
- “Vs, Dergi..” Art Magazine, Istanbul
- “Istanbul Defterdarları” ,Hafriyat Art Group Publishing House
- Post Express, Istanbul
2006
- Bant Magazine, Istanbul
- “Hafriyat Ameleleri”,Birgün Newspaper, with Hafriyat Art Group, Istanbul
- “Hafriyat Ameleleri” Hafriyat Publishing House, compilation of the works published on Birgün newspaper, Istanbul
- L-inc Magazine for contepporary drawing, Wien
- KONTROL, perspectives on control in the course of contemporary art, culture, thecnology, information channels, and politics, online magazine, editorial by Basak Senova and Yane Calovski
2007
- Fuct-D Magazine for contemporary drawing, editorial by Bjorn Hegardt and Yane Calovski, Berlin

More about artist on: http://www.cerenoykut.blogspot.com/

The exhibition will be on display until 10. 1. 2009.