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Ahmet Öğüt is a highly acclaimed Turkish visual artist who lives and works in Istanbul, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Working across a variety of media, including installation, performance, sculpture, video, drawings, and texts, Öğüt has gained international acclaim for his subtle references to complex topics, such as religion, social and rural customs, and the spectre of war, often offset by an edge of humour. He defines three main objectives within his work as "the politics of distance, the notion of time, and the conception of speed." Öğüt recently completed a year-long residency at Tate and the Delfina Foundation in London, resulting in the major ongoing project The Silent University (2012), as well as a month-long residency in Finland with Checkpoint Helsinki producing the installation/performance Fahrenheit 451: Reprinting. Öğüt has had solo exhibitions at Kunsterhaus, Stuffgart; SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney; and Kunsthalle Basel. Selected group exhibitions include the 7th Liverpool Biennial, the 12th Istanbul Biennial, the 4th Moscow Biennial, Performa 09 in New York, the 5th Berlin Biennial, and the 19th Sydney Biennale. He is winner of the 2010 Europas Zukuft prize from the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK Leipzig), the 2011 Volkskrant Art Prize, The Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2012), and The Visible Award for his project The Silent University (2013). In 2009, Öğüt co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale.