BiographyImages

Installation view:
The Missing Planet (Visions and re-visions from the Pecci Centre’s and other collections)
curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato
exhibition design by Can Altay
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato IT
2020

Installation view:
The Missing Planet (Visions and re-visions from the Pecci Centre’s and other collections)
curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato IT
2020

Installation view:
The Missing Planet (Visions and re-visions from the Pecci Centre’s and other collections)
curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato
exhibition design by Can Altay
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato IT
2020

Installation view:
An Institute of Thresholds
curated by Marco Scotini
Yinchuan Biennale, China
2018

Installation view:
An Institute of Thresholds
curated by Marco Scotini
Yinchuan Biennale, China
2018

Installation view:
Virgolo Future Institute
ar/ge kunst, Lungomare, Bozen, IT
2016

Installation view:
Virgolo Future Institute
ar/ge kunst, Lungomare, Bozen, IT
2016

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Ahali: a journal for setting a setting
Tenderpixel, London UK
2016

Ahali: a journal for setting a setting
2007 – ongoing

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(Market Town) Loughborough Records Presents Presence
Commissioned by Radar, LU Arts, Loughborough, UK
2016

Installation view:
(Market Town) Loughborough Records Presents Presence
Commissioned by Radar, LU Arts, Loughborough, UK
2016

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Window
Arcade, London UK
2015

Window
2015
pages from satirical magazines Penguen, Uykusuz, Leman, Girgir and Bayan Yani

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You don’t Go Slumming (with Jeremiah Day)
MAXXI Foundation, Rome, IT
2015

Deposit (Spring Deficit: After Hammons, After Dubai, and after the politics of white noise)
2012
metal, glass, sand, wood, cd player, speaker, amplifier
ø 160 cm, h 48 cm

Distributed
2012
chrome door knobs
Frieze Projects East, Waltham Forest, London (YMCA)

Installation view:
Distributed
Arcade, London UK
2012

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COHAB: An Assembly of Spare Parts
CASCO – Office for Art, Design & Theory, Utrecht, NL
2011

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PARK: bir ihtimal (PARK: a possibility)
Nisantasi Maçka Dimitrie Cantimir Park, Istanbul, TK with Nils Norman, Ceren Oykut, Sinek Sekiz and the Park Collective
2010

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Another Empty Pedestal: after similar skis from recent past
Setting with concrete Lotus Leaf sculpture from the evicted Vietnamese Community Worship Centre in Warsaw.
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castel , Warsaw, PL
2010

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The Church Street Partners’ Gazette
The Showroom, London, UK
2010

Installation view:
The Church Street Partners’ Gazette
The Showroom, London, UK
2010

View from Performance by Lead to Will and Barnabas Yianni:
Ey Ahali / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go
Solo Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2007
Can Altay, b.1975, TR. Lives and works in Istanbul, TR
A recording studio. A stage. A newspaper. A mini-bar. Can Altay is an artist and designer blurring the edges of everyday and artistry to create platforms that fathom the fantastic among the familiar. His interest lies in how we inhabit urban spaces and systems, creating not just social interventions, but community contributions that reconfigure a place’s meaning and its use.
Education
1999 – 2004
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR, PhD in Art, Design and Architecture
1997 – 1999
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR, MFA in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
1993 – 1997
Bilkent University, Ankara, TR , BFA in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Solo Exhibitions
2017
The Way Beyond Art, Van Abbesmuseum, NL (with Asli Altay)
Manifaturacılar Çarsısı Plakçılık Sunar, setting and recording label at 5533, IMÇ, Istanbul, TR (with Saz Arkadasları)
2016
Virgolo Future Institute, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, IT
Loughborough Records Presents Presence as part of Market Town, RADAR, Loughborough University, Loughborouh, UK
2015
Split Horizon (Domestic Disobedience), Oktem & Aykut, Istanbul, TR
Can Altay, Arcade, London, UK
2013
Inner Space Station, Protocinema, New York, US
2012
Distributed, Arcade, London, UK
Distributed, Frieze Projects East, Waltham Forest, London, UK
2011
COHAB: an assembly of spare parts, Casco, Utrecht, NL
2010
The Church Street Partners’ Gazette, The Showroom, London, UK
2008
Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2007
Ey Ahali! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2006
No Bar, Just Bottles., The Abstract Cabinet at Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, SP
Selected Group Shows
2020
The Missing Planet (Visions and re-visions from the Pecci Centre’s and other collections),
curated by Marco Scotini and Stefano Pezzato, exhibition design by Can Altay,
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato IT
2018
Believe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, CA
Yinchuan Biennale, curated by Marco Scotini, China
2017
Gaudiopolis 2017, OFF-Biennale, Budapest, HU
2016
We are the Centre, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, US
Selfmanagement, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, IT
Ahali at Glasgow School of Art, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Ahali at Ellen De Bruijne with Jeremiah Day, Amsterdam, NL
2015
Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI Foundation, Rome, IT
Old Intersections Make it New III, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, IT
2014
The Oxymoron of Normality, Depo, Istanbul, TR
The 5th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, MA
2013
Hotspot Istanbul, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
2011
Safari, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR
That’s the Way We Do It, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, AT
Huseyn Bahri Alptekin: I am not a Studio Artist, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, TR
2010
FROM A TO B, FROM B TO P, Bielefelder Kunstverein im Waldhof, DE & Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
‘Diverçity’, Learning From Istanbul, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
Fantasy and Island, FRAC Corse, Corsica, FR
One Leading Away From Another, 303 Gallery, New York, US
Can Altay & Iman Issa, Rodeo Istanbul, TR
Open City:IABR in Istanbul, DEPO, Istanbul, TR
2009
The Columns Held Us Up, Artists Space, New York, US
4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam, NL
Fantasy For Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG
If There Is No Audience, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, SP
You don’t go slumming… (with Jeremiah Day), Arcade, London, UK
2008
New Ends Old Beginnings, The Bluecoat Liverpool, UK
Social Diagrams. Planning Reconsidered Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, DE
Representations of the Artist as an Intellectual, D21, Leipzig, DE
2007
Movement, Contingency, and Community, Gallery 27, Seoul, KR
Says the Junk in the Yard, Flowers East, London, UK
2006
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
A Tale of Two Cities: Busan Biennale, Busan, KR
2005
Day Labor, P.S.1 MoMA, New York City, US
Normalization, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, TR
2004
Common Property – Allgemeingut 6th Werkleitz Biennial, Halle, DE
Call me Istanbul, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE
2003
4D: Four dimensions, Four decades – 8th Havana Biennial, Havana, CU
Poetic Justice: 8th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Grants, residencies
2014-16
Radical Hospitality, AR/GE Kunst Galeries Museumm, Bolzano, IT
2008
Artist in Residence (IMP) at Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR
International Studio Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, GR
2007
International Artist Fellowship, production residency at Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2006
‘Artist-to-Artist’ Grant, Visiting Arts in partnership with The Henry Moore Foundation
Contemporary Projects (with British artist James Hutchinson)