Haluk Akakçe
1970 Born in Ankara, Turkey
Lives and works in New York and Instabul
Education
1993 BFA, Bilkent University, Ankara
1995 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Merit Award, MFA Scholarship
1996 The American Institute of Architects Chicago Award – First place, AIA Chicago
1997 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003 Delfina Studio Trust Award, London
Selected Exhibitions
2015
Come Midnight, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
2012
Haluk Akakçe: Open Studio, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Love Time Garden, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
We Invite You to Fall in Love, Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, Galerist and The British Consulate, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
Istanbul Cool! What’s happening in Contemporary Turkish Art now, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York
From Istanbul They Come, Kappatos Gallery, Athens
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
The Dervish, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich (solo)
Coming Home, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (solo)
2009
Reincarnation, Galerist and Tabanlioglu, Istanbul (cat.) (solo)
Istanbul Traversee, Lille 3000, Lille
Istanbul Modern Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
In praise of Shadows, Benaki Museum, Athens
Supernova, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales)
In Praise of Shadows, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Fairy Tales Can Come True, It Can Happen to You, Galerist Tophane, Istanbul (solo)
2007 – 2008
Maison Louis Vuitton, Paris (solo)
2007
They Call It Love, I Call It Madness, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Definition, Galerist, Istanbul
The Garden, The Approach, London
Moving Through the Looking Glass, Maison Louis Vuitton, Champs-Elysées, Paris
Haluk Akakçe, Bernier/Eliades, Athens
They Call It Love, I Call It Madness, Deitch Projects, New York
2005
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2004
The Approach, London
Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Milan
Galerist, Istanbul
Nougeras/Blanchard, Barcelona
Beck’s Futures
Institute of Contemporary Art, London(catalogue)
Memory and Landscape La Casa Encendida, Madrid (catalogue)
Expander,Royal Academy, London (catalogue)
Open House
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY(catalogue)
Territories Straylight, Dublin
Mutaciones Cinematicas CAAM, Las Palmas Gran Canaria
2003
Art Now-Light Box, Tate Britain, London
Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan
The Moderns Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin(catalogue)
Art Unlimited Art Basel 34, Basel (catalogue)
Renderings Delfina Studio Trust, London
Animations Kunst-Werke, Berlin (catalogue)
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (catalogue)
Drawings Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan
Penitencier de Valere Son et Art Contemporains, Dolmen Production, Sion
Nano Fraîch’Attitude Gallery, Paris (catalogue)
Organized Conflict Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
a delicate balance – Film Installation together with Sarah Morris, Darren Almond, Paul Morrison and Craig Kalpakjian
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
The Drawing Room, London
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Cosmic Galerie, Paris
New Work Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
2002
Still Life Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
New Work Platform Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
Blood Pressure Galerist, Istanbul
The Measure of All Things The Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome
Media City Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (catalogue)
Urban Creation Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (catalogue)
25th Anniversary Selections Show The Drawing Center, New York
Out of Site New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)
Metropolitan Iconographies XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil(catalogue)
The Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structure AXA Gallery, ICI New York (catalogue)
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Fair Royal College of Art, London (catalogue)
2001
Blood Pressure Centre d’Arte Contemporain, Geneva
New Work Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
The Measure of All Things Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Blood Pressure Deitch Projects, New York
The Measure of All Things PS-1, New York
2000
Coming Soon Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
DNAid Billboards Creative Time, New York
Strange Paradises Casino/Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain (catalogue)
Dusk 1-20 Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1999
The Passion & The Wave 6th International Istanbul Biennial (catalogue)
1998
Selections The Drawing Centre, New York
La Jalousie, video installation MFA exhibition Gallery 2, Chicago
Groups Exhibitions
2015
The Art of the Turks. Modernisation as Fiction, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und
Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Screenplay: Life in an Animated World, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (cat.)
Sinthome, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
2012
Verlangsamte Performance, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Le Jardin de la Speculation Cosmique, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Encounters: Turkish Contemporary Art in Korea, ARA Art Square, Seoul
2011
Conversation Pieces, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Made in Britain: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980-2010,
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong, China
2010
Istanbul cool! What’s happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now, Leila Taghinia-
Milani Heler Gallery, New York
From Istanbul They Come…, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009
Istanbul Traversee, Lille 3000, Lille, France (cat.)
Supernova, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
In Praise of Shadows, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey (cat.)
2008
Take me there Exhibition me the way, Haunch of Venison, New York
Sammlung als Alep, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Graz, Austria
Always There, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (cat.)
2007
The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
General Issue, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Time Past – Time Present, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Cosmic Dreams, Centre Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Spain
Hatirlamalar – Hatirlatmalar. Recalls – Reminders, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstraction: Extracting From Reality, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
2006
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
EurHope 1153: Contemporary Art from the Bosphorus, Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte
Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Nature Attitudes between Fascination, Domestication and Reconstruction, Thyssen-
Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery, London; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK;
Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK; The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK;
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Abstract Art Now. Strictly geometrical?, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am
Rhein, Germany (cat.)
2005
Supernova, SMC Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Vilnius; Tallinn Kunstihoone,
Estonia; Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (cat.)
British Art Exhibition 6, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition: BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
(cat.)
Dis-Appearance, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
This Storm is What We Call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (cat.)
Centre of Gravity, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey (cat.)
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (cat.)
Art Digital Vidéo, MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
…Art For 2, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Paris – Londres: Le Voyage Intérieur, Espace Electra, Paris (cat.)
Split, The Approach, London, UK
Sener Özmen, Erkan Özgen, Nasan Tur, Haluk Akakçe, Istanbul Modern Art Museum,
Istanbul, Turkey
2004
Another Zero, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy (cat.)
Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Centre for
Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK (cat.)
Memory and Landscape, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria; La Casa
Encendida, Madrid (cat.)
Expander, Royal Academy, London, UK (cat.)
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (cat.)
Straylight – Territories, Darklight Filmfestival, Temple Bar, Dublin, UK
Mutaciones Cinematicas, CAAM – Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, Spain
Another Zero, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
2003
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (cat.)
5 Weeks, 5 Films, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Art Unlimited, Art Basel 34, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
Renderings, Delfina Studio Trust, London, UK
Animations, KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.)
Drawings, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Contemporary Art and Sound, Dolmen, former State Penitentiary of Valière, Sion, Switzerland
NANO, Galerie Fraîch’Attitude, Paris, France (cat.)
Organized Conflict, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul; Elgiz Museum of
Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey (cat.)
Hands To Work, Mind To God, Borusan Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2002
Luna’s Flow, 2nd Media City Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (cat.)
Urban Creation, 4th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (cat.)
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York (cat.)
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Regina Gouger Miller
Gallery – Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (cat.)
Out of Site, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Henry Art Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (cat.)
Metropolitan Iconographies, 25th Biennal de São Paulo, Pavilhâo Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil (cat.)
Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures,
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands; AXA Gallery, New
York; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (cat.)
Fair, Royal College of Art, London, UK (cat.)
2001
Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (cat.)
Casino 2001: Eerste Quadriennale voor Hedendaagse Kunst, S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk
Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, The Netherlands (cat.)
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (cat.)
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)
Ohne Zögern: Without Hesitation: Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2, Gesellschaft für
Aktuelle Kunst, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (cat.)
AKT 3: Teil von…?, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (cat.)
Future Bodies, The Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2000
Strange Paradises, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (cat.)
DNAid Billboards, Creative Time, New York (cat.)
Dusk, I-20 Gallery, New York (cat.)
1999
The Passion & The Wave, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Dolmabahce Cultural
Center, Istanbul, Turkey (cat.)
1998
Selections, The Drawing Center, New York
1989
Materiality, CEPA Gallery, New York
HONORS & AWARDS
2003
Delfina Studio Trust Award, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Haluk Akakçe, Cosmic Galerie, Paris
1996
Chicago Award – First place, The American Institute of Architects, Chicago, IL
1995
Trustee Merit Award, MFA Scholarship, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
COLLECTIONS
British Council Collection, UK
Daghan Özil Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Hoffman Collection, Berlin
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
MUDAM, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Whitney Museum of Art, NY