SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haus Wittgenstein: The View from Above, Danielle Arnauld Gallery, London (forthcoming)
Ergin Çavuşoğlu / Palma Giovane, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK

2022
The journey down the current of all those who were adrift, Ci Contemporary Istanbul, TR

2021
Ergin Cavusoglu, class = “carousel – control – prev”, Evliyagil Dolapdere, TR

2020
"Artists' Film International", Ergin Cavusoglu, Desire Lines /Tarot&Chess/, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, AR
"Artists' Film International", Ergin Cavusoglu, Desire Lines /Tarot&Chess/, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
"Artists' Film International" on Language, Ergin Cavusoglu, Desire Lines /Tarot&Chess/, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, TR

2019    
Tahtakale, Mebusan 25/BüroSarigedik, Istanbul, TR

2017    
Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/, BüroSarigedik/Bilsart, Istanbul, TR

2016    
Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Cinefication (Tarot and Chess), in The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, BE 

2015   
 Liquid Breeding, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ

2014  
Ergin Cavusoglu – Liminal Crossing, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, BG
Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, LOOP 2014, Barcelona, ES                     
Adaptation – Cinefication, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, TR

2011 
 
Ergin Cavusoglu - Alterity, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Ergin Cavusoglu - Dust Breeding, The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, UAE
Ergin Cavusoglu, Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Ergin Cavusoglu / Art in the Auditorium3/, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, AR 

2010               
Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, PEER, London, UK
Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, UK
Better Bankside, London, UK, UK

2009                
Ergin Cavusoglu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DE      
Voyage of no Return, Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Perth, Scotland, UK
Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Ergin Cavusoglu, Galerist at Rental Gallery, Cologne, DE

2008  
Quintet Without Borders, Best of Discovery, ShContemporary, Shanghai, CN
Ergin Cavusoglu - Place After Place, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, DE

2007
Quintet Without Borders, Eibank Gallery, Sofia, BG
Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, CH

2006    
Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

2004    Poised in the Infinite Ocean and Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK

2002                
Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul, TR

2001                
Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt, DE

2000                
Vitrine, Transit Space, London, UK

1998                
Ergin Cavusoglu – New Works, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London, UK

1997                
Haunting Presence, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London, UK

1996                
Ergin Cavusoglu, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, TR

1993                
Ergin Cavusoglu, Yapi Kredi Bank Gallery, Istanbul, TR

SELECTED AWARDS

2014    
The Jarman Award, nomination, UK 

2012    
Future of Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, nomination, DE

2010                
Artes Mundi Prize 2010, shortlist, UK


2008                
MTEL, Sofia, shortlist (special prize), BG

2004                
Beck’s Futures, ICA, London, shortlist, UK

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York

Arts Council England Collection

La collection du Frac Alsace (FRAC Alsace Collection)

Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Haus der Kunst, München, and Neues Museum, Nürnberg Collection

Sammlung Goetz, Munich

The Ludwig Collection

DD Collection (Dimitris Daskalopoulos)

Leeds City Art Gallery Collection

Vehbi Koç Foundation Collection 

Istanbul Modern Museum

Borusan Contemporary Collection

MTEL, Sofia

The Pinault Collection

Soho House Collection

The Elgiz Museum Collection

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme, MATHAF, Doha QTAR (forthcoming)
Shared Memory, CerModern, Ankara, TR

2023
The Image Generator, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, BE
Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, ICP International Center of Photography, New York, US
Universo Italo Calvino, AFASS and CulturaLAB in collaboration with Instituciones y profesionales de la Gestión Cultural, Seville, ES
I am the bridge between what is and what could be. What am I?, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, TR

2022
Alterity at the 29th International Adana Golden Ball Film Festival 2022
The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East, Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG), Medford MA, US
The Landscape in Video, Cocoon, Istanbul, TR

2021
Cosmic Algorithm, Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, BR
The Cling, Yapı Kredi bomontiada/BüroSarigedik, Istanbul, TR
Artists' Film International: Language, Tromsø Kunstforening, NO
Artists’ Film International, Part V, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE

2020
The Futureless Memory, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE
Artists' Film International, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, IE
Artists’ Film International 2020, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, US
Collection Exhibition, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul TR
When You Touch About Me, I Think Myself, SIGNS, Istanbul, TR

2019    
Voyage through a Country: 1 day to 5, Art, Kyrenia, CR
Endless!, Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Notes and Footnotes, Open Arts Foundation, Plovdiv, BG
Speaking Power to (Post) Truth, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, US

2018    
Punk Orientalism, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada, CA
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Galerie, Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, Sofia, BG
Travelling in the Woods: Artist/Storyteller, BüroSarigedik, Istanbul, TR
What are Dreams Made of?, FIAC Cinéphémère Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
Places: One After Another, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, RU
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano (GAM). Presented by Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano (GAM), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and UBS, IT 
The First Round, Banu - Hakan Çarmıklı Collection exhibition Galata Greek Primary School, Istanbul, TR

2017    
On Anam? Where are we going?, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, ES
BüroSarigedik - Collectorspace, Istanbul, TR
Your Story! Geschichten von Flucht und Migration, Kunsthalle Emden, DE
A Theory of The Present, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, TR

2016   
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Do Boomerangs Always Come Back, Castle Oud-Rekem, BE

2015               
Wishful Thinking; In Retrospect, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Apricots From Damascus (An apexart franchise exhibition), SALT, Istanbul, TR
1 day to 5, freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna, AT
Crossing Lines, Open Space Istanbul at Gallery on the Corner, London, UK
Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul, TR
Video Screening Program: Illusion, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul, TR
films4peace, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, ZA
Back to The Future, Cube Cinema, Bristol (screening), UK

2014                
Other Waters, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, NZ
4th International Canakkale Biennial, Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War (Plato), Canakkale, Turkey, TR
Plurivocality, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul, TR
The 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, CN   
this secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa Istanbul, TR

2013               
Home/s, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
Artists’ Film International, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul, TR 
A selection from the Elgiz Collection, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, TR
Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, at Kino der Kunst, Munich, DE
And I Awoke at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Selection by SALT, DE

2012    
films4peace, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary art (for full list of exhibitions and screening see http://films4peace.com/screenings), PR
The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor, Presented by Universal Studio, The Artist's Institute, New York, US
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Arsenale, Kiev, UA
Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE

2011                
Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, Berlin, DE

Pop-Up. Veure és afegir, Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, ES

How We Move - Ergin Cavusoglu - Empire (after Andy Warhol) 2008, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, TR
Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, TR
Babel Festival, Bellinzona, CH
Elgiz 10 Istanbul, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, TR
Art in the Auditorium 3, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, US
Art in the Auditorium, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway, NO
Art in the Auditorium, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, VN
Art in the Auditorium, 3rd Edition, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, IT 
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, TR
Midnight in the city, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES

2010         
Manifesta 8, Murcia, ES
Midnight in the city, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, ES
Itinéraires de l'élégance entre l'Orient et l'Occident, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, BE
Port Izmir 2 - Silence_Storm, Izmir, TR
Divercity. Learning from Istanbul, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
fast forward 2 The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, DE
ID’s please!, Cer Modern, Ankara, TR
Journey's with no return, Kurt-Kurt, Berlin, DE 
Indefinite Destinations, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, BG
Artes Mundi 4, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Distance and Sensibility, Calvert22, London, UK                             
The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa, IL
Journey's with no return, A Foundation, London, UK    
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, IL
Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul, TR 

2009                
Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern CH
Atlantis – Reflections of Tomorrow, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, BG
There is no Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, ES
The Temptation of CHALGA - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, BG

2008                
wie du mir, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, AT
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 'Fresh Moves' tank.tv screening, Guangzhou, China, CN
Still Cinema 6: Light-speed travel, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK        
ZERO GRAVITY the architecture of social space, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, BG
Peace And Agriculture In A Pre-Romantic Idea Landscape Without Sublime Terrors, Haunch of Venison Berlin, DE                 
The Morning After. Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen, DE
Gone City, Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, AT          
M-tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, BG 
Night A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK Screenings, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
The Temporary Zones, Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Vienna, AT
Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester, UK

2007                
CASZ – Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam, NL
Rencontres Internationales, Le laboratoire, Paris, FR
Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), ICA, London, UK            
Imagine There is an Art Work, BM-Suma Center for Visual Art, Istanbul, TR
Every Wind That Blows, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
Between Borders, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, MARCO, Vigo, ES

2006                
British Art Show 6, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
British Art Show 6, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, UK
Forest Man, The New Gallery, Jerusalem, IL
Strangers With Angelic Faces, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul, TR
British Art Show 6, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

2005                            
Something of the Night 1875-2005, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Video London, Espai Ubú, Barcelona, ES
Radiance - Glasgow Festival of Light, Merchant City, Glasgow, UK
British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
Der Knochen der Zunge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, AT
Contaging With Nature, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul, TR
On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL

2004    
Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, UK
Public Media Space, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, AM
The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London, UK
Whitstable Biennale 2004, Kent, UK
Britannia Works, organised by The British Council, Xippas Gallery, Athens, GR
Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow, UK
3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin, DE

2003    
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
La Biennale di Venezia 50th International Art Exhibition, The Turkish Pavilion, Venice, IT
SPACE Open 2003, The Triangle, London, UK

2002                
Look Again, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, TR
FAIR, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions I: Nisantasi. Personal Geographies, Global Maps, Istanbul, TR
60 Years 60 Artists, Eczacibasi Virtual Museum, Istanbul, TR

2001                
Look Away, Platform Gallery, ARCO Madrid, ES

1999               
Medway Open, Royal Engineers Museum Gallery, Gillingham, UK
Multiples, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul, TR
Evil Eye, True Gaze, Pamukbank Photography Gallery, Istanbul, TR

1998               
Roundtrip, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul, TR
Minus, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London, UK
The Whitechapel Open, London, UK

1997                
Big Popas – Ten Deep, Coins, London, UK

1996               
Future Vision, The Photographers' Gallery,