{"id":118,"date":"2020-12-30T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:02:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Who"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an artist &amp; architect (Winterthur-Istanbul), I work on critical design, participatory projects, and installations from a material-driven perspective. Frequently, I use architectural elements, found materials, and different mediums to recreate a spatial experience of a place. At the core of my <a href=\"https:\/\/140journos.com\/beni-tek-\u00e7ek-cc9528164d82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical<\/a> narration, I refer to mass urbanisation and its effect on material culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an urban researcher, I am interested in social infrastructures within rural and urban contexts. My research is based on the ethnographic investigation of informal scrap collectors \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/manifold.press\/kadraj-onur-ceritoglu-kapi-yok-pencere-cok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00e7\u0131kmac\u0131s<\/a> \u2014 that salvage building components and materials from condemned buildings for reuse and recycle purposes in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Works:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>2025<\/em><\/strong>, Off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalprojects.org\/programs\/yaz-publications-book-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grid<\/a>, Sharjah Biennial; <strong><em>2024<\/em><\/strong>, Re:<a href=\"https:\/\/kunstimdepot.jimdofree.com\/produktionen\/re-formation-2024\/\">formation<\/a>,  Kunst im Depot, Winterthur <strong><em>2023<\/em><\/strong>, Climate <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/820530959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Action<\/a>, L200, Zurich; <em><strong>2022<\/strong><\/em>, Sustain <a href=\"http:\/\/berlin.apartmentproject.org\/projects\/chromatic-wednesdays-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What?<\/a>, Chromatic Wednesdays, Berlin; <em><strong>2021<\/strong><\/em>, Wir <a href=\"https:\/\/wirwir.org\/pp2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bauen<\/a> eine neue stadt, Wirwir, Berlin; <em><strong>2020<\/strong><\/em> Hier glitzern sogar Steine!, <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/villastraeuli\/docs\/vs_magazin_nr7_issuu\/76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Villa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villastraeuli.ch\/de\/past-artistsinresidence\/onur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a>Str\u00e4uli, Winterthur; <em><strong>2019<\/strong><\/em> In the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/361487926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blink<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archiv.ngbk.de\/en\/projekte\/blink-bird\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a>of a Bird, nGbk, Berlin; <em><strong>2018<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citedesartsparis.net\/en\/open-studio-days-onur-ceritoglu\">Infra<\/a>, Paris; <em><strong>2018<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.biennial.ge\/onur-ceritoglu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tbilisi<\/a> Architecture Biennial, Tbilisi; <em><strong>2018<\/strong><\/em> Large <a href=\"https:\/\/en.riverrunistanbul.org\/bc-onur-ceritoglu\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.riverrunistanbul.org\/bc-onur-ceritoglu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meadow<\/a>, Po\u015fe, Istanbul; <em><strong>2017<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/bek.com.tr\/isler\/afis\/anarchitecture-can-aytekin-onur-ceritoglu-inci-furni-sibel-horada-derya-yildiz-1549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anarchitecture<\/a>, Ariel, Istanbul; <em><strong>2016<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/saltonline.org\/en\/1363\/outside-the-sentence-there-was-a-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Outside<\/a> the Sentence There was a City, Salt Ulus, Ankara; <em><strong>2015<\/strong><\/em> Ref\u00fcj, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.depoistanbul.net\/en\/event\/publication-artist-studio-refuj-onur-ceritoglu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Depo<\/a>, Istanbul; <em><strong>2015<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sakipsabancimuzesi.org\/en\/exhibitions-and-events\/exhibition\/55\">Reunion<\/a>, Sabanc\u0131 Museum, I\u0307stanbul; <em>2014<\/em> Demolishdemount, Torun, Ankara; <em><strong>2013<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/berlin.apartmentproject.org\/projects\/kaba-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tru\u0308mmer auf Tru\u0308mmer<\/a>, Apartment Project, Berlin; <em><strong>2011<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocinema.org\/exhibitions\/thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thief<\/a>, Protocinema, Istanbul<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paris-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paris-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paris-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paris-2-973x1297.jpg 973w, https:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paris-2-508x677.jpg 508w, https:\/\/onurceritoglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/paris-2.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an artist &amp; architect (Winterthur-Istanbul), I work on critical design, participatory projects, and installations from a material-driven perspective. 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