SENER OZMEN
Contemporary Artist, Author, Art Critic
Born 1971 Idil, Sirnak, Turkey
Lives and works in Diyarbakir
Education
1998 Department of Painting in University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009- Word-Tale, Mixed Narrations: A video parade from different viewpoints. Halil Altindere, Yael Bartana, Marie-Laure Cazin, Tracey Emin, Aemont Milk, Ayse Erkmen, Feraht Ozgur, Sener Ozmen, Adrşian Paci, Anri Sala, Erzen Shkololli, Silke Witzsch, Hacettepe Art Museum, Ankara, Turkey
2009- Istanbul-Traversée, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, Curator: Caroline Naphegyi, France
2009- Dream and Reality, Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2009- Creative Destruction, OUTLET GALLERY, Istanbul, Turkey
2009- “WHO KILLED THE PAINTING?”, Works from the Block Collection at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, Curated by: René Block
2008- What about Power Relations?, Galerija Škuc/Ljubljana, Vžigalica Gallery – Gallery of City Museum of Ljubljana
2008- Held Together with Water, The Verbund Collection (Austria), Curators: Gabriele Schor & Levent Calikoglu, Istanbul Museum of Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2008- Gone City, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Esra Ersen, Hristina Ivanoska, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer, Sener Ozmen, Nasan Tur, STEALTH, Cur. Gulsen Bal, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria.
2007- Selection From 2005 Kunstfilm Bienalle Cologne, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2007- NO FUTURE, David G. Torres in collaboration with Graham Gussin and Sacha Craddock, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
2007- MODERN AND BEYOND 1950-2000, Curators: Fulya Erdemci, Selma Germaner, Orhan Koçak, Zeynep Rona, Santral Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2007- Best of KunstFilmBiennale Köln 2005, Apeejay Media Gallery, Apeejay TechnoPark, New Delhi, India
2006- RADIKAL ART, Curators: Ovul Durmusoglu/Cem Erciyes, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art, Gasworks 155 Vauxhall Street London SE11 5RH, Curated by Nav Haq and Tirdad Zolghadr, London, UK
2006- Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale Köln in Berlin, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006- ETHNIC MARKETING, Tracing the Limits of Artworld Internationalism Contemporary Art Exhibition at Av Gallery, Azad Gallery and the University of Tehran, Concept: Tirdad Zolghadr
2006- Caucasus Biennale Tbilisi 2006, Georgia
2006- Art Without Borders, Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art From Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Turkey, Curator: Sonia Balassanian, in association with David Kareyan and Eva Khachatrian, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2006- 52nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2005- Posit 9B, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Curated By Nowember Paytner, UK
2005- Kunst Film Biennale, Köln, Germany
2005- 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, Curators: Vasif Kortun, Charles Esche
2004- The Making of Istanbul Modern, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, Curated by Fulya Erdemci
2004- Reappearance, Museum of Kosova, Prishtina, Kosova, Curated By Erzen Shkololli, Soqol Beqiri, Shkelzen Maliqi
2004- Merry Ramadan, Gallery Exit, EXIT Institute for Contemporary Art, Peja, Kosova, Curated By Erzen Shkololli
2004- Mediterraneans, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy, Curated By Vasif Kortun
2004- Love It or Leave It/Cetinje Biennial V, Cetinje-Dubrovnik-Tirana, National Museum of Cetinje, Montenegro
2004- I Need a Radical Change, Gallery Nova Teslina Zagreb, Curated By WHW
2004- I International Biennial of Contemporary Art Of Seville, Spain, Curated By Harald Szeemann
2004- ETHNIC MARKETING – Le Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
2004- “Art For “, Garanti Platform Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, Curated By Vasif Kortun
2003- U-Topos, Tirana Biennale-2, National Museum of History, Tirana, Albania
2003- In Den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Curated By René Block
2003- I Am Too Sad To Kill You!, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey, Cur:Halil Altindere
2001- Short Stories, La Fabbrica Del Vapore, Milan, Italy
2001- Look Again, Proje4L, Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey, by Vasif Kortun
2000- AIAP Youth Action-3 at Ankara, Cagdas Sanatlar Merkezi, Ankara, Turkey, Curated by Vasif Kortun
1999- One Special Day, ICAP Office, Istanbul, Turkey, Curated by Vasif Kortun
Prize
2005- “Prix Meuly”, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Solo Exhibition
2005- Vidéo Surveillance_002:, [Solo Exhibition],Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris, France