BANU CENNETOGLU
1970-Ankara
bcennetoglu@yahoo.com
www.banucennetoglu.com

Education

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2002-2003
Speos, Paris photographic institute, FR, 1994-1995
School of Visual Arts, New York, US, 1993
Bogazici University, BA in Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989-1994

Residencies/fellowship/stipends

2005 Office for Contemporary Art Oslo, Norway
2003 Supported by Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO/IC, NL
2003 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/ Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL
2002 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/ Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL
1996 International Festival of Photography, ‘Personal Research Award’ Biarritz, FR
1995 Speos, Polaroid Scholarship Paris, FR

Selected exhibitions

2007 Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, NL, 'Ver-Huising'

2006 Vooruit, Gent, BE, 'Rejection Episodes
2006 Villa Manin, Udine, IT, 'EurHope 1153 Contemporary Art from the Bosphorus'
2006 Spazio Oberdan, Milano, IT, 'Where Ever We Go'
2006 PSWAR, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Pixels of Reality’
2006 Anspach Center, Brussels by Mira Sanders

2005 Office for Contemporary Art Oslo, Norway
2005 National Gallery for Arts, 3rd Tirana Biennale, AL,‘ Sweet Taboos’
2005 BAS, Istanbul, TR , ‘ In a tall distance with Mr. Reis’
2005 Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE, ‘Information / Transformation’
2005 De Appel, Amsterdam, NL, ‘ On Mobility’
2005 Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam, NL, ‘ Telegram’

2004 Galerist,Istanbul, TR, ‘ Visitors’
2004 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE, ’Brothers, Sisters and Birds’
2004 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, DE, 3rd Berlin Biennale, 'False Witness'

2003 Istiklal Caddesi 459, Istanbul, TR, ‘False Witness' a book launch
2003 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 'False Witness'
2003 Centre Soleil d’Afrique, Bamako, ML, ‘Bogo dia’
2003 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Into the Breach’
2003 Moscow House of Photography, RU, Visions 01
2003 Australian Center For Photography, Sydney, AUST, ‘No More Than I Know’
2003 NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaf, Duesseldorf, GER, ‘Chic Clicks’

2002 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Corridor’
2002 Fotomuseum, Winterthur, CH, ‘Chic Clicks’
2002 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US, ‘Chic Clicks’

2001 Photoforum Pasquart, Journee photographique de Bienne, CH, ‘Nature dominante, d’autre paysage’
2001 Art/Process, Paris, FR, ‘Nature dominante, d’autre paysage’
2001 Conciergerie, Paris, FR, ‘Visions 01’
2001 Le Petit Palais, Paris, FR, ‘Images de la Turquie’

1998 Alleged Gallery, New York, US, ‘9 Women Photographers’
1998 Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
1997 The Deep, Tokyo, JP, ‘French Photography?’
1997 Void, New York, US, ‘Landscape’

Projects

2007 The List

2006-2007 BAS is a new project space in Istanbul initiated by Banu Cennetoglu.
With a primary focus is on artist books and publications It collects, displays and will produce printed matter

1998 –2000 Monthly TV program for Manhattan Public Access, New York City
Conceived and realized with Judy Elkan as series of 29mn video work.

Workshops / Lectures

2006 Citizens Without Boundaries with Ola Nelson
2006 Lecture ‘BAS and Artists’ Books’ Sabanci University, Istanbul
2005 Artist Talk Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo
2005 Lecture ‘Information/ Transformation’ ExtraCity, Antwerp
2004 Lecture ‘The symposium Who's to follow?’ De Appel, Amsterdam

2006 Istanbul, Turkey:
A group workshop with students from Yildiz Teknik University about art and politics
2005 Oslo, Norway
A group workshop with students from Oslo Art Academy about printed matter and artist publications
2003 Bamako, Mali:
A group workshop with Narcisse Tordoir based on bogolan and photography
2002 Chamarande, France:
A group workshop with Hamish Fulton and Christine Quoiraud based on Butoh

Articles

Camera Austria, 93/2006 by Basak Senova
Cultures&Conflits by Antonia Garcia Castro and Miriam Perier http://www.conflits.org/document1865.html
Tirana Biennale, 2005 Terra Vague “Determined Barbara” by Pelin Tan

Professional Experiences

1993- 2003 Published series of photographs in several international publications and printed matters such as:
Liberation (Fr), Purple (Fr), Crash (Fr), Big (Fr), Wired (USA), Vibe (USA), Raygun (USA), C Magazine (Be),
Kilimanjaro (UK), Independent (UK), Composite (Jp)

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