Meriç Algün

Turkish | 1983

Meriç Algün is a Turkish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1983. Numerous key galleries and museums such as LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art have featured Meriç Algün 's work in the past.Meriç Algün has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Contemporary AND and H A P P E N I N G. The most recent article is Meriç Algün: The Patient Cries written for e-flux in August 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Meriç Algün Ringborg

Past Exhibitions

Meriç Algün: The Patient Cries

Lunds Konsthall

Lund | Sweden

Sep 14,2024 - Dec 01,2024

Elmgreen & Dragset: READ

Kunsthalle Praha

Prague | Czech Republic

Nov 16,2023 - Apr 22,2024

Meriç Algün: A Glossary of Distance and Desire

Magasin III Stockholm

Stockholm | Sweden

Apr 01,2023 - Dec 17,2023

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Articles

Meriç Algün: The Patient Cries

e-flux 29/08/2024

There are artists for whom writing is an essential part of their practice. Meriç Algün is one of those artists: an artist/writer.

RIBOCA3 Launches INTERMEZZO in Collaboration with 44Möen

ArtDaily 27/06/2023

Beginning RIBOCA3’s exhibition programme, INTERMEZZO is a celebration of art, respect, and coexistence across and in spite of the conflicted waters of the Baltic Sea.

BEHOLD, WE ARE HERE – Group Show

Contemporary AND 10/09/2022

BEHOLD, WE ARE HERE is shaped around artistic practices that reflect on the position of the subject in contemporary society through a critical rereading of historical narratives.

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Coverage

“ ..Through the appropriation of methodologies that include collecting, systematizing and list making, much of Algün Ringborg’s practice centres on notions of cultural identity, language, belonging and the... ”
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CAG Contemporary Art Gallery

“ ..Algün juxtaposes the chair with a wall text that is a short passage from a novel she is currently working on... ”
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Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

“ ..Working with a variety of media, from video and text to installation, Algün often works in context-specific ways and according to set parameters, using ordering systems to suggest that meaning is never... ”
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Spike Island

“ ..Facing such questions as ‘Are you and your partner living in a genuine and stable relationship?’ Algün asks how these normative systems and restrictions are influencing what is possible for us to say and... ”
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Spike Island

“ ..Using only selected definitions of specific words, this ambitious commission appears as a series of inter-related sentences notionally composing mini-narratives and realized in a way that seems to incorporate... ”
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CAG Contemporary Art Gallery