Suat Ögüt Suat Ögüt
Suat Öğüt (Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1986) is an artist based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. His interdisciplinary practice explores how recent history shapes the present through personal and collective narrative-building. By engaging with monuments, archives, and everyday structures, Öğüt challenges dominant ideologies and reframes heritage as a living, culturally embedded practice. His work also explores non-linear perceptions of time, emphasising the urgency of the present.
Öğüt studied at Marmara University and completed a postgraduate program at HISK in Ghent. He was nominated for the Young Art Support Amsterdam Awards (2020) and received the Akbank Contemporary Artist Prize (2013). From 2015 to 2022, he co-founded Corridor Project Space, an independent art initiative based in Amsterdam.
In 2018 his work was part of Framer Framed’s outdoor exhibition Monuments to the Unsung. From 21 June until 30 September the work The First Turk Immigrant or The Nameless Heroes of The Revolution was on show on the IJ-river bank. Suat Ögüt shows nine bronze busts of Turkish migrants. They are an ode to migrants who had to leave Turkey because of their political ideals. Most recently, his works features in Framer Framed’s exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and And Deltas After Modernity (2026) on the inextricable links between water, colonial expansion and territorial exploitation.
- AFK Uitgelicht: Suat Ögüts ode aan de herinnering
- Corridor Project Space - Amsterdam
- Personal website of Suat Ögüt
Links
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Wild Waters
Curated by Àngels Miralda, the exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power
Project: Do It Together - DIT
DIT is a kitchen / a tent / a learning playground / a workshop...................
Exhibitions Werkplaats Molenwijk: Marie Hudelot, Suat Ögüt and Şengül Köker
Current exhibitions and programme
