Ögüt works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing and printed media. His work often borrows from the experience of everyday life, which he observes and then amplifies and alters to expose its many contradictions. Mind the Gap, which is also Ögüt’s first solo presentation in Italy, is developed by the artist using the entire exhibition space to create three different zones. While using different approaches and scales, the three zones deal with the representation of power, authority and control through a reflection on “function” and the effects of its changing.

Ahmet Ögüt was born in Diyarbakir (Turkey) in 1981, lives and works in Amsterdam. He received his BA from the Fine Arts Faculty of Hacettepe University in 2003, and his MFA from the Art and Design Faculty of Yildiz Technical University in 2006. Ögüt has been a guest artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2007-2008.
Solo exhibitions since 2005 include Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2009; Kunsthalle Basel, 2008; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2008; Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul, 2006; Galerija / The Museum of Modern Art of Ljubljana, 2005. Group exhibitions include 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2009; The Generational: Younger than Jesus, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2009; 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, 2008; 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, 2008; 15th Sidney Biennial, Sidney, 2008; Be[com]ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2008; Stalking with Stories, Apexart, New York, 2007.

Ahmet Ögüt’s show is supported by Royal Netherlands Embassy in Rome.