Nasan Tur

The Berlinische Galerie | Berlin, Germany

SAHA provides publication support for Nasan Tur’s solo exhibition hunted at Berlinische Galerie, 26 May 2023 – 4 January 2024. Nasan Tur deals with the political and social conditions of our time. His works are experimental arrangements that make ideologies, social norms and patterns of behavior visible and expand them with options for individual action. To do this, he examines statements, gestures and images that he finds in the media and in public space and condenses them into miniatures of current social crises and discourses. The focus is on the question of how given role models influence us and when we are ready to cross borders and actively change social patterns in the face of oppression, powerlessness and manipulation.

 New works have been created for the exhibition in the Berlinische Galerie that deal with questions of the exercise of power and its legitimacy. Why do humans kill? What violence is in us and how and under what circumstances is it activated? By arranging the works in space, Tur creates images that express an ambivalent attitude towards life and death. They range from the confrontation with one's own inner demons to questioning hunters about the act of killing to the careful staging of lifeless animals in space.

Nasan Tur (1974 in Offenbach) lives and works in Berlin. He took part in documenta14, the 10th Istanbul Biennial and the 6th Taipei Biennial, among others, and exhibited in numerous institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, the Center Pompidou Paris, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin and the Maxxi Museum Rome . In 2012 he was the winner of the Will-Grohmann Prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts and in 2014 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome.

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