HÜSEYİN ALPTEKİN

Born in 1957, Istanbul, Turkey, lives and works in Istanbul

Solo exhibitions

1999, April-May > "Kriz: Viva vaia," Gallery Dulcinea, Istanbul
1998, January > "Winter Depression," Gallery Nev, Istanbul
1995, March > "Karakum: Desert in the Bath," Installation in "Tšršk FŸrdš" (Turkish Bath), Budapest
1995, January > "St. Etienne Express", with M. Morris, MD Santiye Gallery, Izmir
1994, Oct.-Nov > "Soap/Coal-Hide&Trace" with M. Morris, Gallery Nev, Ankara
1994, Feb.-March > "Transversality", with M. Morris, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College,Massachusetts
1992, Oct-Nov > "Blind Potent Spot / Magneto-Radiator", with M.Morris, Gallery Nev, Istanbul
1992, April > "Heterotopia", (de)collages, with M. Morris, Ars Art Gallery, Ankara
1991, June > "Hierarchy", with M. Morris, Siyah & Beyaz Art Gallery, Ankara


Group exhibitions
1999

>"Inventing a People, Contemporary Art in the Balkans"
>National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia
>Fondation Artexpo, Bucarest
>Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki


1998-1999
>"Capacity/Capacities" in "Iskorpit: Recent Art from Istanbul"
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Badischer Kunstverein e.V., Karlsruhe


1998
>"Boredom," in "Living Room," Pi Artworks Gallery, Istanbul
>"Capacity", National Participation, S‹o Paulo Biennale
>"Life: Plastic Recycling," in "Ecologia e Periferia," Palazzo Runiccini, Florence
>"Objects of Depression + Coneckthing," with
>Arhan Kayar, Hilda Kozari, Esa Vesmanen,
>Gallery Nev, Istanbul


1997-1998
>"Briefcase filled with Gummi-Bears in Soap-Bars,"
in "Karamustafa Import-Export" a Turkish-Austrian Art Exchange Project
Café Nil, Vienna
Echoraum, Vienna
Kabataş Culture Center, Istanbul
Museum fšr Všlkerkunde Kunst, Vienna


1997
>"Donald Duck Syndrome and Artists in Autumn Depression" with A. Kayar,
>"Desiring Machines" Turkish-Macedonian Group Show,
Y. Sabanci Culture Center, Yildiz University, Istanbul
>"Global Depression and the Donald Duck Syndrome,"
Performance with A. Kayar, E. Koyuncuoglu,
3rd. International Assos Performance Art Festival, Assos


1996
>"Celebrity," "Cyprus Ikona," "Artist in Summer Depression,"
>Azinlik (Minorities) Group Show, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus
>"Artist in Depression," in "The Other," Contemporary Art Exhibition
AIAP, HABITAT II, City Summit, Antrepo, Istanbul
>"Objects Transcended," with M.Morris, Allegheny College Art Galleries,
Doane Hall of Art, Meadville, Pennsylvania
>"Unicum-Karakum" in Special Edition Portfolio,
>"Török Fürdo / Malom-To— szamot szerkesztette,"
Exhibition and the portfolio of Turkish Bath Exhibitions, Leopold Bloom Gallery, Budapest.


1995
>"Turk Truk" with M. Morris, 4th Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo, Istanbul
>"Diagnosis Divan" with M. Morris, "Globalization-State, Misery, Violence,
Group Show," in Devlet Han, Istanbul
>Project 1: "Heracleitus Promenade," Project 2: "Purification of History,"
H. Alptekin & M. Morris, in "Ephesus art Installations: "The Imagination of History" on the occasion of the
100th Anniversary of the Austrian Excavations of Ephesus, Organized by the Austrian Culture Institute of
Istanbul & Die Fabrikaten, Ephesus
>"Pop Icon," "Soap with Lifesavers" with M.Morris, USX Tower Gallery,
in conjunction with the Three River Art Festival, Pittsburgh
>"Dry Communication" with M. Morris in "Geographical Intersections"
Group Show, Ujlak Gallery, Budapest


1994
>"Fashion in Metal/Metal in Art", with M. Morris,
Bergdorf Goodman, New York
>"Little Things" Group Show, with M. Morris,
>"Art in General," New York
>"Transversality", with M. Morris, Laura Knott Gallery,
Bradford, College, Massachusetts


1993
>"A Foreigner=A Traveller / Turkije-Nederland:Een Dialoog,"
Group Show with M.Morris, Schiedam, Holland


1992
>"Popular Mythologies & Graphic Intertextuality",
with Group Grip-in, ANFA- Altinpark, Ankara