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  Servet Kocyigit  
 
 
Born in Kaman, Turkey, 1971.
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Istanbul

Education
1993-97 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
1997-99 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
1999-00 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Residency, Duisburg, Germany
2006 JCVA Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts, Israel

Exhibitions
2006 27th SAO PAULO BIENNIAL, Brazil
" Fata Morgana " HAIFA MUSEUM OF ART, Haifa-Israel
" What Dutch " GUTLEUT 15, Frankfurt-Germany
" Summerise " GIVON ART GALLERY, Tel Aviv-Israel
"Voices Of Silence" HERZLIYA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART-Israel
" Crossing " Malta
" De Kleine Biennale " Utrecht-The Netherlands
2005 Solo Exhibition, GIVON GALLERY, Tel Aviv, Israel
Blue Side Up, ISTANBUL BIENNALE, Istanbul
Film Lounge, MuHKA-media, Antwerpen-Belgium
Cinema Continu, Langhous & De Stad, Als Theater Festival, Zwolle, NL
2004 Inside Out , GALLERY SAFE, Dalfsen-NL
2003 Film Lounge , Interactive Exhibition in 7 Film Theaters, NL
Short & Sharp , 291 GALLERY, London
Non-Members Only, ARTI ET AMICITIAE, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Terloops, ART WALK AMSTERDAM, NL
10 Künstler Geisterbahn , JPR Gallerie, Koln, Germany
Cinema Sculpture, Provincieplein, Den Haag, NL
Film screening, Street theater festival, Delft, NL
Chasing Dragons , Prefab 4, ARTIS, Den Bosch, NL
Film Lounge, NEDERLANDS FOTO INSTITUUT, Rotterdam, NL
Blue Print- Blauw Drunk, Site specific video installation, Delft, NL
My Pretty Sugar Sailor , HEDAH Modern Art Center, Maastricht, NL
Look Again, Proje 4L ISTANBUL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
2001 Miss Germany, PROJECT ATELIER, Leiden, NL
Poetic Accident, NEDERLANDS FOTO INSTITUUT, Rotterdam (Solo)
Unlimited. NL#4, De APPEL Amsterdam (Cat)
2000 WILHELM LEHMBRUCK MUSEUM, Duisburg, Germany (Cat.)
1999 Modern communications, Essen post office, Germany
De Ateliers Amsterdam (Solo)
1996 Secretly Watching The Tigers , WESTERGASFABRIEK, Amsterdam
1995 Netherlands Foto Museum, Sittard, NL

Permanent installations
2005 The Butterfly, GALLERY SAFE, Dalfsen-NL
1996 Room 563 , HOTEL EDEN, Amsterdam

Scholarships and prizes
2005 Nominated for The Fritschy Award 2006, City of the Sittard-Geleen, NL
2000, '01, 04 The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Various subsidies.
1999-00 Wilhelm Lehmbruck stipend and residency, Duisburg, Germany
1997-99 OC&W study scholarship from Dutch Ministry of Culture.

Lectures, workshops, and conferences
2005 Workshop and conference in Garikula and Tbilisi, Georgia, organized by European Council of Artists
2001 Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

Bibliography
2006 Fulya Erdemci " Servet Kocyigit Interview " Exhb.Guide 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo p.218-219
Sacha Bronwasser " de Kleine Biennale " de Volkskrant 1/6/2006
Mark Kramer exh.cat. " de Kleine Biennale " Utrecht-The Netherlands, Stichting Storm
2005 Reviews over the " Servet Kocyigit" exhibition at Givon art gallery Tel Aviv.
Smadar Sheffi Haaretz-Galeria 25/11/2005
Ruti Director Yediot Achronot 11/11/2005
Uzi Zur Haaretz 25/11/2005
Dana Gillerman Haaretz Galeria 3.11
Reviews and interviews over 9th Istanbul Biennale: NTV, CNN Turk, TRT
KanalD, Sweedish National Tv, Radio Forex,Milliyet Sanat, Radikal, Genis,
Aci, Zaman, Aksiyon, Time out Istanbul, Kunstbeeld,DAM No 4, BK
30 Years of De APPEL: If The Walls Had Ears Retrospective catalog
Het Panthervel van Roestaveli, Michel Krielaars NRC Handelsblad
2003 Sanat Dunyamiz, Laminart, Cumhuriyet, and Arredamento
RH+ Sanat, Various Articles about "Short & Sharp"
2002 GENIS ACI, Photo magazine-TR P.60-61, Text S.Kocyigit
SKRIEN, Film magazine-NL P.8 May 2002
NFI News, Film Lounge, May 2002
2001 Donker Oranje, Dominic van den Boogerd, HP/DE TIJD, 23.Mart.01
Unlimited NL#4, De APPEL exhibition catalogue, text V. Kortun & S.Kocyigit
2000 Arredamento , Number 8, p.65-66 Text by Necmi Sonmez.
Servet Kocyigit, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum exhibition catalogue,
Text by Dominic van den Boogerd and Christoph Brockhaus
1996 Eden Hotel Magazine, p.6 -7
1995 Rob Slooten and Bert Taken: A circle of light, p31, Photo. catalogue
   
   
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