EXTRASTRUGGLE
Extrastruggle is a big project which had started in 1997. Works on imaginary orders. Same as a graphic designer designing signs for his client, Extrastruggle designs signs for all groups which are under pressure. Makes pictures suitable for their imaginary wishes. Recent group exhibitions include White Out, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 2010; Istanbul Cool!, LTHM Gallery, New York, 2010; états d’âmes, ENSBA, Paris, 2010; Extrastruggle vs Tanja Nellemann Poulsen, Danske, Copenhagen, 2010; 10 years of Rotor, Graz, 2009; The 13th Biennial of Art “Pure Expression”, Pancevo, 2009; E-flux video rental, Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2008; 10th International Istanbul Biennial, 2007; E-flux Video Rental – Centre culturel Suisse, Paris, 2007; e-flux video rental – Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 2007; The Free Will, bunkers of Treptow/Arena, Berlin, 2005; False World, Rathausgalerie, Munich, 2004; “Notes From Quarantine”, ZKM | Karlsruhe “Call Me Istanbul“ exhibition, Karlsruhe, 2004; “Walking Istanbul, Notes from the Quarantine” The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, 2004; “Istanbul, Daydreaming in Quarantine”, Balkan Konsulat, Contemporary art from South-Eastern Europe – Belgrad, Prag, Budapest, Sarajevo, and St. Petersburg <rotor> Gallery, Graz, 2003; “Istanbul” film programme, Balkan Konsulat, Mediathek der Stadt Graz, Graz, 2003. Extrastruggle’s first solo exhibition “I didn’t do this, you did.” is hosting by NON between September 21 – November 13, 2010. Extrastruggle’s works were included in the book Vitamin D/New Perspectives In Drawing (2005) by Phaidon.
