Can ALTAY (1975, Ankara)

Can ALTAY  (1975, Ankara)

 1. EDUCATION

1999 – 2004 Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

2003 – 2004 Post-Graduate Degree in Critical Studies. Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden.

 

1997 – 1999. M.F.A. in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

1993 – 1997. B.F.A. in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

2. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2.A Teaching Position

2004 – ongoing. Full-Time Instructor for the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, in Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

2001 – 2003. Part-Time Instructor for the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Second Year Design Studio. 4 Semesters.

 

1998 – 2001. Studio Assistant – Graduate Student in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Second Year Design Studio. 6 Semesters.

 

2.B Scholarships and Awards

March 2006. “Artist-to-Artist” Grant by Visiting Arts (U.K.) in partnership with The Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects (with British artist James Hutchinson).  

 

December 2003 – March 2004. Research Scholarship from the Swedish Institute and the Swedish Consulate of Istanbul.

 

3. ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE

3.A Solo Exhibition (invited) by Year                                       

(cat. indicates catalogue published)

2006

May 2006 “No Bar, Just Bottles”. The Abstract Cabinet at Sala Rekalde. Curated by Leire Vergara. (cat.) Bilbao, Spain.

 

3.B Group Exhibitions, Festivals, Symposia (invited) by Year                                       

(cat. indicates catalogue published)

2006 

November 2006 (forthcoming) “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” exhibition at CCA Wattis Institute. Curated by Will Bradley. San Francisco, U.S.A.

September 2006 Busan Biennale. Directed by Manu Park. Busan, South Korea.

2005

November 2005 “Terminal” exhibition at Triskel. Organized by Cork Artists Collective. Cork, Ireland.

 

October 2005 “Day Labor” exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart. New York City, U.S.A.

 

October 2005 “EindhovenIstanbul” exhibition at the Van Abbe Museum. Curated by Charles Esche and Eva Meyer-Hermann. (cat.) Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

 

June 2005 “Cork Caucus: on art, democracy and possibility” Symposium and Events Organized by Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher. Cork, Ireland.

 

June 2005 “NowHere Europe” exhibition at Polo Museale Veneziano Alla Misericordia. Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi. Collateral Event of the 51. Venice Biennial. Venice, Italy

 

May 2005 “Arbeitshaus: Einatmen, Ausatmen (House of Work: Inhale, Exhale)” exhibition at KunstHaus Dresden. Curated by Christiane Mennicke and Annette Weiser. Dresden, Germany

 

March 2005. “Normalization” exhibition at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, İstanbul, Turkey.

 

March 2005. “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey. Curated by Philippe Vergne (on tour). Monterrey, Mexico

 

January 2005. “Art for ...” exhibition at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, İstanbul, Turkey.

 

2004

November 2004. “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo. Curated by Philippe Vergne (on tour). Mexico City, Mexico.

 

November 2004. “How Can You Resist? – L.A. Freewaves 9th Biennial Festival of Film, Video and New Media” Los Angeles, U.S.A.

 

October 2004. “STARSHIP space debris” BÜRO DC, Köln, Germany.

 

September 2004. “Common Property – Allgemeingut 6th Werkleitz Biennial” (cat.). Halle, Germany.

 

July 2004. “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” exhibition at Houston Contemporary Arts Museum. Curated by Philippe Vergne (on tour). Houston, U.S.A.

 

May 2004. “Can Altay, Bauer and Krauss, New Beginings” exhibition at Signal. Malmö, Sweden.

 

April 2004. “Call me İstanbul” exhibition at ZKM Center for Art and Media. Curated by Peter Weibel, Roger Conover, Eda Cufer. (cat.) Karlsruhe, Germany.

 

March 2004. “Manyfacture” Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

 

2003

November 2003. “4D: four dimensions, four decades - 8th Havana Biennial” Curated by RAIN. (cat.) Havana, Cuba.

 

September 2003. “Poetic Justice: 8th İstanbul Biennial” Curated by Dan Cameron. (cat.) İstanbul, Turkey.

 

July 2003. “Making Space” exhibition at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. Curated by November Paynter. İstanbul, Turkey.

 

June 2003. “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Curated by Philippe Vergne (on tour). Torino, Italy.

 

February 2003. “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” exhibition at Walker Art Center. Curated by Philippe Vergne. (cat.) Minneapolis, U.S.A.

 

2001 and Earlier

September 2001. “Becoming a Place – Yerleşmek” exhibition at Proje4L İstanbul Contemporary Art Museum. Curated by Vasıf Kortun. (cat.) İstanbul, Turkey.

 

October 2000. "Ankara'da Genç Sanat-3" exhibition at the Çankaya Center for Contemporary Arts. Curated by  Vasıf Kortun, organized by a+A (Unesco AIAP).(cat.) Ankara, Turkey.

 

November 1998. “A Special Day” exhibition at ICAP. Curated by Vasıf Kortun. İstanbul, Turkey

 

3.C Collective Projects

2003. “Bunker Research Group”. Research and Exhibition Series, initiated by Huseyin Alptekin.

 

2002. founded “SASA: school of applied spatial anthropologists” as an ongoing project.

 

2001. “ABAP: as big as possible” was a collective project initiated by Serkan Özkaya, involving exhibitions and a book.

 

3.D Curatorial Practices

2004. “Manyfacture” exhibition at the Living Art Museum. Co-Curated with the Manyfacture Group. Reykjavik, Iceland.

 

2001. “LoveStateMadnessHappiness” Film Screenings at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Bilkent University. Co-Curated with Egemen Özkan. Ankara, Turkey.

 

3.E Video Compilations, Special Screenings

2005. 2 video works were included in “e-flux video rental (EVR)” a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda. Composed of Accessible Video Archives and Special Screenings, the EVR took place in the following art centers and galleries: Extra City, Antwerp; Insa Art Space, Seoul; Portikus, Frankfurt; The Moore Space, Miami, FL; Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; E-Flux, New York, NY.

 

4. BIBLIOGRAPHY

4.A Articles, Interviews, and Essays in Periodicals

“Makulleştirme, Kaybolma ve Bellek Yitimi” interview by Özgür Tek. İSTANBUL April 2005, issue 53. pp: 80-85. Quarterly Publication of the History Foundation. (Turkish)

 

“Spots and Stains: The unerasable vs. self-effacing Traces of Malevolence”. Text for Ariane Müller exhibition pamphlet at KunstBank, Berlin. (English, German)

 

T. Erman, B. Altay and C. Altay “Architects and the Architectural Profession in the Turkish Context” Journal of Architectural Education. 58:2 November 2004. M.I.T. Press. U.S.A. pp: 46-53. (English)

 

“Sanatçıdaki Açık Ufuk Korkusu” interview by Vasıf Kortun. İSTANBUL July 2004, issue 50. pp: 81-83. Quarterly Publication of the History Foundation. (Turkish)

 

“Kent Mekanının Yeniden Üretimine bir Örnek: Minibarlar” interview by Tevfik Gürsu. XXI September 2003, issue 15. pp. 58-63. Architectural and Urban Periodical. (Turkish)

 

“Minibar, Big Phenomena” interview by November Paynter. Timeout İstanbul June 2003, issue 29. p.16 (English)

 

“Duvarlardan Sek, Çatılardan Uç: Kaplan ve Ejderha’da Mekan ve Üretimi” Geceyarısı Sineması, Fall 2001, issue 11. pp: 38-40. Essay in Alternative Cinema Journal. (Turkish)

 

4.B Reviews and Features in Periodicals (visual if noted)

Lang, P. and S.Özkaya “Art Guide – İstanbul: Can Altay” Spike: Art Quarterly, issue 06. Wien, Winter 2005. p: 83. (German, English)

 

Bradley, W. “Can Altay” Frieze, issue 92. June/July/August 2005. Page 148. (English)

 

Altay, C. “Active Unemployment” Starship magazine issue 8. June, 2005. (Visual)

 

Paynter, N. “The Secret of Kindness” Timeout İstanbul, June, 2005. (English)

 

Altay, C. “Untitled” Starship magazine issue 6. June, 2004. (Visual)

 

Özkaya, S. “Bunu Ben De Yaparım!” Radikal newspaper 12 April 2005. (Turkish)

 

Yardımcı, Ö. “Beriki Mecra: Can Altay” Geniş Açı photography journal issue 30. July 2003. (Turkish)

 

Kürklü, D. “Genç Yetenek: Can Altay” Home Art  design magazine issue 63. January, 2001. (Turkish)

 

4.C Articles and Features in Books

Altay, C. “Küresellik Yerellik Ekseninde Çağdaş Sanat Sergileri / Contemporary Art Exhibitions on the Global Local Axis”. 4.Öğrenci Trienali - International Symposium Proceedings. İstanbul: Marmara Üniversitesi and Pera Müzesi, 2006. pp: 37 – 45 and 257 – 266 (Turkish and English).

Altay, C. and Ş.Özmen “Çağdaş Sanatta Hayatın Sanat Olma Hali” in Çalıkoğlu,L. (ed.) Çağdaş Sanat Konuşmaları. İstanbul: YKY, 2005. pp: 45-88. (Turkish)

 

“Can Altay” in Pietromarchi, B. (ed.) the [un]common place: art, public space and urban aesthetics in europe. Barcelona: ACTAR, 2005. pp: 178-183. (English)

 

“Can Altay” in Malmö Art Academy, The First Ten Years. Malmö, 2005. p: 11. (Visual)

 

Altay,C. and D. Altay. “Minibar: Mimarlığın İhlali ve Sosyal Mekan”. Mimarlar Derneği 1927 Etkinlikleri 2002-2004. Bi-annual Book Publication of Architects’ Association 1927, 2004. pp: 141-158. (Turkish)

 

“Minibar” interview by Erden Kosova in Kortun,V. and Ö.Açıkkol (eds.) Becoming a Place – Yerleşmek. Proje 4L-İstanbul Museum of Contemporary Art Publication, 2001. pp: 272-274, 282-284. (Turkish, English)

 

4.D Exhibition Catalogues

2005, “EINDHOVENISTANBUL” VanAbbe Museum, Eindhoven. Text by Kerryn Greenberg.

 

2004, “Allgemeingut - Werkleitz Biennale 6” Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle. Text by Ariane Müller.

 

2004, “Call me İstanbul ist Meine Name” ZKM, Karlsruhe. Text by E.Öncüoğlu and D. Altay.

 

2003, “8 Bienal De La Habana” Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana. Text by Florian Zeyfang.

 

2003, “Poetic Justice: Şiirsel Adalet” 8^th İstanbul Biennial. İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı. Text by November Paynter.

 

2003, “How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.  Text by Aimee Chang.

 

2000, “Ankara’da Genç Sanat-3”. a+A Unesco AIAP.

 

1998, “Designer’s Odyssey: Catalogue of Product Designers in Turkey”, ETMK.

 

5. SPEECH (Talks, Lectures, and Panels invited)

06 July 2006. “Some Questions About Urban Space, Collective Action and Neighbourhood” Panel with Huseyin Alptekin and Ozge Acikkol from Oda Projesi. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao.

 

22 May 2006. Artist’s Talk. Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department. Bilbao.

 

11 April 2006. “Yeniden Anlamlandırma ve Tasarım”. Bilkent University.

25 March 2006. Artist’s Talk. Bureau Gallery, Manchester.

 

24 March 2006. “Artist-to-Artist International Scheme, Award Recipients Seminar”. Organized by Visiting Arts at the Senior Common Room, Royal College of Art, London.

 

25 May 2005. “Artık Mekanlar ve Yeniden Anlamlandırma” Gerçek Seminerleri, Seminar Series at Babil Bookstore, Ankara.

 

21 April 2005. “Çağdaş Sanatta Hayatın Sanat Olma Hali” Contemporary Art Talk Series No.3, Yapı Kredi Art & Culture Publishing, İstanbul. (Panel with Levent Çalıkoğlu and Şener Özmen)

 

02 March 2005. “Artık Mekanlar ve Yeniden Anlamlandırma” Başkent University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design, and Architecture, Ankara. 

 

02 October 2004. “Normalization – Makulleştirme” Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, İstanbul. (Panel with Phil Collins and Solmaz Shahbazi)

 

13 March 2004. “The Real McCoy” MicroCinema in Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden. (Panel with Serkan Özkaya and Nicolas Trembley)

 

10 November 2003. “Periferi Bienalleri: Tirana ve Havana” LOFT Art Center, İstanbul. art-ist magazine talk series (Panel with Halil Altındere, Özge Açıkkol, and Minna Henriksson)

 

06 November 2003. “Neighborhood: Proximity and Tolerance” Pabellon Cuba. 8th Havana Biennial Panel Series.

 

25 June 2003. “Minibar: Mimarlığın İhlali ve Sosyal Mekan” Mimarlar Derneği 1927, Architectural Association Ankara. (with Deniz Altay)

 

12 March 2003. “Minibar: Mimarlığın İhlali, Şehir, ve Sosyal Mekan” LOFT Art Center, İstanbul. art-ist magazine talk series.

 

10 December 2002. “The Building Process; Actor Groups and Value Systems. The Earthquake; as a Cross Section and a Full Stop”. Bilkent University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Talk Series.