born in Barletta (I), based in Berlin (DE)
AWARDS & SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2010 Acquisition of “Murat ve Ismail” by The Fund for the 21st Century of MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005 Best Artist Prize, 7th Sharjah International Biennial, United Arab Emirates (Jury: Okwui Enwezor, Rina Carvajal, Walid Sadek)
2004 Best Artist Prize, The Mulliqi Prize, The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, UNMIK
2001 Shortlisted Artist, "Premio Torino Incontra l'Arte", Turin, Italy
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2009 Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2008 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 Nosadella due, Bologna, Italy
2007 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2006 Al Ma'mal Artist-in-Residence, Jerusalem, Palestine
2005 Istanbul Artist Residency Program, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2003 Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin, Germany
2002 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2002 Internationales Atelierprogramm Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2001 Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Mishkan Omanim, Herzeliya, Israel
1999 Päätalo-Instituutti, Taivalkoski, Finland
1998 Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, the Netherlands
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (* = with catalogue)
2010 Is life fiction?* (curator: Ayşegül Sönmez), 29th International Istanbul Film Festival, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 impermanent nigeria* (curatorial text: Pelin Uran), GAS Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
2008 Murat ve Ismail (curator: Pirkko Siitari), Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
2007 Modern Mondays: Murat ve Ismail (curator: Laurence Kardish), Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2004 The Sofa of Jung* (curator: Giorgio Verzotti), MART, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2003 Art makes it happen* (curator: Boris Kremer), Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2003 smART place* (curator: Nicoletta Blacher), S-Bahn Station Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2003 Private, Galerie Heimer und Partner, Berlin, Germany
2002 Crowded loneliness*, The Flat, Milan, Italy
2002 Double Vision (curators: Liane van der Linden & Annet Zondervan), Imagine IC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2002 Drafting Moods, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2001 Seven Finnish Identities* (curators: Maija Tanninen & Erja Pusa), Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Scratches on the walls of my home, Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Ci sono le stelle nel tuo Paese?* (curator: Cristiana Perrella), Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2001 Kinderachtigeid, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, the Netherlands
2000 Woman and Man (curator: Pirkko Siitari), Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FILM FESTIVALS (* = with catalogue)
2010 e-flux video rental Rome selection* (curator: Cristiana Perrella), Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
2010 Indagini al di sopra di ogni sospetto (curator: Angelika Stepken),
Le Murate, Firenze, Italy
2009 National Taiwan University Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Rotte Metropolitane* (curator: Giacomo Bazzani),
Villa Romana, Firenze, Italy
2008
Doclisboa, VI International Documentary Film Festival*,
Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
2008 6th Taipei Biennial* (curators: Manray Hsu & Vasif Kortun),
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 13th Biennale Internazionale di Scultura: "Nothing But Sculpture"* (curator: Francesco Poli),
Centro Arti Plastiche Int. e Contemporanee, Carrara, Italy
2008 Be(com)ing Dutch* (curators: Charles Esche & Annie Fletcher),
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2008 Working Men* (curators: Paul Ardenne & Barbara Polla),
Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 Manual Creative Commons (curators: Marina Sorbello & Antje Weitzel),
uqbar projectspace, Berlin, Germany
2008 Official Program of the Berlin Film Festival*,
Berlinale Palast, Berlin, Germany
2008 Something from Nothing* (curator: Dan Cameron),
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
2007
Vidéothèque mobile (curator: Anne-Laure Riboulet),
Le Plateau/FRAC Ile de France, Paris, France
2007 Résidents* (curator: Nathalie Viot),
Espace Electra, Paris, France
2007 Redefine Identities* (curator: Giacomo Bazzani),
Officina Giovani, Prato, Italy
2007 Mondo e Terra* (curator: Elisa Del Prete),
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Castel San Pietro, Italy
2007 PAN Screening. Opere e documenti 2005|2007 (curators: Julia Draganovic & Laura Barreca),
Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, Italy
2007 4th Göteborg International Biennial: "Rethinking Dissent"* (curators: Joa Ljungberg & Edi Muka),
Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
2007 The London Palestine Film Festival 2007*,
Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
2007 This Day* (curator: Samar Martha),
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2007 World Factory* (curator: Hou Hanru),
Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2006
Intimations of the Past* (curators: Eszter Lázár & János Sturcz),
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
2006 47th October Salon: "Art, Life & Confusion"* (curators: René Block & Barbara Heinrich
The Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia
2006 videoREPORT ITALIA 2004_05* (curator: Andrea Bruciati),
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
2006 5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst (curator: René Block),
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2006 EV+A 6th Biennial Exhibition of Visual Art: "Give (a)way"* (curator: Katerina Gregos),
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2005
3rd Tirana Biennale: "Sweet taboos"* (curator: Joa Ljungberg),
Kompleksi Goldi, Tirana, Albania
2005 9th Istanbul Biennial: "Istanbul"* (curators: Charles Esche & Vasif Kortun),
Antrepo Warehouse no. 5, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 Padiglione Italia Out of Biennale* (curators: Chiara Leoni et al.),
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
2005 Identità & Nomadismo* (curator: Lorenzo Fusi),
Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
2005 7th Sharjah Biennial: "Belonging"* (curators: Lum, Persekian & Zolghadr),
Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004
The Mulliqi Prize* (curator: Gëzim Qëndro),
The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, UNMIK
2004 deLIGHTed* (curator: Vezio Tomasinelli),
Velan Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2004 We are what we are* (curators: Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer),
Minoriten Galerien, Graz, Austria
(traveling exhibition in 2005-06 to: Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenija;
Galeria Jana Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia;
City Museum, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic;
Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania; 2B Galéria, Budapest, Hungary and other art institutions)
2004 Empowerment* (curator: Marco Scotini),
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
2004 14th Sydney Biennale: "On reason and emotion"* (curator: Isabel Carlos),
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2004 On Air* (curators: Andrea Bruciati & Antonella Crippa),
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
(traveling exhibition in various Italian art institutions)
2004 Almost Real* (curators: Vincent de Boer & Marijke Hoogenboom),
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2003 Gli Altri* (curator: Luca Beatrice), GAS Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
2003
Fuoriuso 2003: "Anomalie"* (curator: Teresa Macrì),
Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
2003 2nd Tirana Biennale: "U-Topos"* (curator: Michele Robecchi),
Galeria Kombetare e Arteve, Tirana, Albania
2003 1st Prague Biennale: "Peripheries become the center"* (curators: Kontova, Politi & Beatrice),
Veletržní Palác, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 In faccia al mondo (curators: Matteo Fochessati & Sandra Solimano),
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
2002
Mystic Mountains* (curator: Ilaria Bonacossa),
Tour Fromage, Aosta, Italy
2002 Exit* (curator: Francesco Bonami),
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2002 Transportale* (curators: Nicoletta Blacher et al.),
Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
2002 A-Factor Arte* (curators: Luca Beatrice & Marco Rainò),
Galleria Borromini Arte Contemporanea, Ozzano Monferrato
2002 A-Factor Arte* (curators: Luca Beatrice & Marco Rainò), Galleria Studio Legale, Caserta, Italy
2002 C'est pas du cinéma* (curator: Michel Nuridsany),
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
2001
Printemps de Septembre: "Théâtres du Fantastique"* (curator: Val Williams),
École des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse, France
2001 Mario Rizzi - Keith Duncan - David Newman (curator: Jay Grimm),
Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Camera con vista* (curators: Maria Katia Ficociello & Emanuela Nobile Mino),
Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
2001 The Gift. Il Dono* (curators: Maraniello, Risaliti & Somaini),
Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
(traveling exhibition in 2002/ 03 to: The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
The Bronx Museum of the Arts and other US art institutions)
1997
Heaven (curators: Alanna Heiss et al.),
P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS
2010 Limina (curator: Martyna Starosta), Raumerweiterungshalle am Ostkreuz, 28 May, Berlin, Germany
2010 impermanent (curator: Lisa Glauer), arttransponder, 12 March, Berlin, Germany
2009 impermanent (curator: Petra Reichensperger), Haus der Kulturen der Welt ("Heiss oder Kalt"), 28 October, Berlin, Germany
2009 The Chicken Soup (curator: Kerry Oliver-Smith), Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 3 March, Gainesville, USA
2008 Murat ve Ismail, Fair Play Film Award 2008, Cinema Lux, 27 April, Lugano, Switzerland
2007 Double Vision (curators: Charles Esche & Annie Fletcher), Van Abbemuseum, 11 November, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2007 Murat ve Ismail (curator: November Paynter), Tate Modern, 11 August, London, UK
2006 Murat ve Ismail (curators: Jean-Marc Poinsot & Irène Bessière), Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, 18 October, Paris, France
2006 Murat ve Ismail (curator: Jack Persekian), Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, 16 June, Jerusalem, Palestine
2005 Murat ve Ismail, Beyoglu Cinema, 16 September, Istanbul, Turkey (special event of the 9th Istanbul Biennial)