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15/12/2025

This year I had the honor of being a jury member for the 5th edition of the Premio Osvaldo Licini by Fainplast, an award that highlights the most current research in the field of contemporary painting. The winner is Paola Angelini, featuring her solo exhibition “L’anno del serpente” (The Year of the Snake),

The inspiration for the exhibition stems from a decisive biographical moment for the artist: the loss of her father, a constant presence in her journey with whom she always discussed painting. The exhibition becomes the space to confront absence and to comprehend the turning point between a “before” and an “after”.

The exhibition is open to the public at the Galleria d’arte contemporanea Osvaldo Licini in Ascoli Piceno. Organized by Associazione Arte Contemporanea Picena and curated by Alessandro Zecchini.

10/12/2025

The successful solo show by Ahmet Öğüt

Neither artificial nor intelligent at A plus A gallery is featured on Espoarte!

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https://www.espoarte.net/arte/ahmet-ogut-lerrore-umano-come-nuova-forma-dintelligenza/

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26/11/2025

The successful solo show by Ahmet Öğüt

Neither artificial nor intelligent at A plus A gallery is featured by the Giornale dell'arte between the show to visit in November

L’artista turco https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/Venezia-le-mostre-che-inaugurano-a-novembre-in-galleria

Venezia, le mostre che inaugurano a novembre in galleria

23/11/2025

A very successful exhibition at A plus A gallery by Ahmet Öğüt: Neither artificial nor intelligent

A new review by Cecilia Larese on ATP diary.

https://atpdiary.com/neither-artificial-nor-intelligent-ahmet-ogut-aplusa-venezia/

Dopo aver rappresentato la Turchia alla Biennale del 2009, Ahmet Öğüt torna a Venezia con una nuova mostra personale che intreccia intelligenza artificiale e pratica pittorica.

21/11/2025

Today and tomorrow, the gallery is open 11am - 6pm and by appointment.

If you are in Venice for the closing weekend of the Architecture Biennale, don’t miss the chance to visit the solo exhibition by

Ahmet Öğüt, from the series neither artificial nor intelligent (2023–2025), oil on canvas, 70 × 70 cm, Private collection

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Conceived as a site-specific installation, the exhibition unfolds through translucent architectural screens that partially veil each painting. As visitors navigate the space and shift their perspectives, the portraits gradually reveal themselves in their entirety, offering a viewing experience that can only happen on site, authentic and free from digital mediation.
 
Each portrayed figure embodies a distinct practice and comes from a different city, forming a diverse community of fictional, semi-fictional, and real artists who should have received more institutional recognition:
 
a performance artist based in Accra
a florist based in Kigali
a data artist based in Ramallah
a graffiti artist based in Bucharest
a video artist based in Yerevan
a net artist based in Tokyo
a painter based in Berlin
Luchezar Boyadjiev
Sanja Iveković
Mladen Stilinović

14/11/2025

“Through this series, visible exclusively at the gallery, Ahmet Öğüt revisits the genre of portraiture, traditionally understood as the “representation of a figure” and stereotypically a visual depiction of an individual, yet he transforms it into a narrative device with a completely different purpose.

In his portraits, Öğüt does not tell a story, or rather, he tells the story of “no one.” It is impossible to know whether the subject is real or fictional, and the identity of the figure remains undisclosed. The inherent reliability long associated with painting and portraiture simply vanishes in neither artificial nor intelligent.

Viewers are confronted with the image of someone unknown, facing a painting that seems immediately comprehensible yet cannot even be photographed because of traslucent panels that filter the view. Öğüt stages a challenge of recognition, provoking a form of voyeurism that allows the image to be seen only in that precise moment.“

An excerpt from Rebecca Canavesi’s review for .ca

Full article available in the stories.

Ahmet Öğüt
neither artificial nor intelligent
Oil on can as, 70x70 cm, 28x28”

6th November 2025 - 8th February 2026
wed-sat, 2-6 pm and by appointment

Please contact the gallery via DM or at [email protected] for more information.

Ph: Clelia Cadamuro

14/11/2025

Happy to share the new review about the exhibition by Ahmet Öğüt. neither artificial nor interlligent, at the A plus A - Venezia

https://artuu.it/la-pittura-non-e-morta-ahmet-ogut-a-venezia-sfida-lia-e-il-mito-della-riproducibilita/

Dal 6 novembre 2025 all’8 febbraio 2026 in mostra presso la galleria A plus A di Venezia neither artificial nor interlligent, una personale di Ahmet Öğüt. Dieci tele a olio stimolano una riflessione sull’interpretazione dell’immagine nell’epoca contemporanea.

09/11/2025

More reviews about the exhibition by Ahmet Öğüt. neither artificial nor interlligent, at the A plus A - Venezia

https://libreriamo.it/arte/ahmet-ogut-a-venezia-arte-mostra/

Scopri come la pittura di Ahmet Öğüt a Venezia sfida le convenzioni artistiche e invita alla riflessione. Un artista contemporaneo da scoprire.

08/11/2025

“Öğüt takes the portrait—traditionally a symbol of power, celebration, and identity—and strips it of all certainty: we don’t know who the subjects are, whether they truly exist, we can’t search for them online, nor can we archive them.

What remains is the encounter itself, free from any superstructure. It’s a gaze that questions, unsettles, and compels the viewer to pause—to confront their own prejudices and linger in uncertainty. A productive, even necessary doubt, reminding us how easily we reduce others to labels, and how difficult, yet urgent, it is to learn how to unlearn.”

An excerpt from Alessia Alfonsi’s review for

Full article available in the stories.

05/11/2025

Tomorrow at 6pm!

Ahmet Öğüt neither artificial nor intelligent preview 6th November, 6pm6th November 2025 - 8th February 2026A plus A Gallery, Venice

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05/11/2025

On the Agenda of Elledecor the exhibition to visit in Italy in November also the solo sho by Ahmet Öğüt. neither artificial nor interlligent, at the A plus A - Venezia

https://www.elledecor.com/it/arte/a69213923/mostre-da-vedere-novembre/

03/11/2025

Opening Thursday 6th November

Ahmet Öğüt neither artificial nor intelligent preview 6th November, 6pm6th November 2025 - 8th February 2026A plus A Gallery, Venice

— text in the comments —Ahmet Öğüt, widely recognized for his participatory and socially engaged projects, returns to Venice after representing Turkey at the Venice Biennale in 2009 with a new body of work that brings to light his rarely explored painting practice. Titled “neither artificial nor intelligent”, the exhibition features a previously unseen selection of ten oil portraits from a larger series of fifty, created over the past three years. The works will be on view exclusively on-site at A plus A Gallery from November 6, 2025, to February 8, 2026. Images of the artworks will be made available online only once they are no longer in the artist’s possession. Until then, the show offers a fully in-person viewing experience, genuine and free from digital mediation.

The 70x70cm canvases depict both fictional and real artists, each with diverse practices and from various cities that are not disclosed to the viewer. Why do we associate a particular face with a specific place or type of art? What biases influence our interpretation of an image? “Neither artificial nor intelligent” invites an offline and individual encounter with the portrayed artists, figures who rarely receive institutional recognition due to their political status and origins, within a western classificatory system also deeply rooted in the filtering structures of artificial intelligence.