Cities Can Altay - Talk

Can Altay (b. 1975, Ankara, Turkey) is an artist living in Istanbul, Turkey. His installations of videos, mappings, books and photographs incorporate different forms of research of the urban environment. Altay studies improvised architectures, as well as hidden structures of support, unauthorised systems of organisation and models of co-habitation. He further investigates the production of ideas and notions of public space through “setting a setting,” a body of works where he proposes spaces and constructs for gatherings.

Solo exhibitions include We are the center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York State (2016); The Church Street Partners’ Gazette, The Showroom, London (2010); Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008), Ey Ahali! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go, Spike Island, Bristol (2007) and No Bar, Just Bottles, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2006). His work has been included in biennials in Istanbul (2003), Havana (2003), Gwangju (2008), Taipei (2010); and in museums and galleries such as the Walker Art Center (USA), VanAbbe Museum (Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), P.S.1 MoMA (USA), and Platform Garanti (Turkey).

His publication project Ahali will be presented at Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 19 Nov – 16 Dec 2016.

Organised in collaboration with MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art), jointly run by The Glasgow School of Art and The University of Glasgow.