Ergin Çavuşoğlu

Backbench (2010), five channel synchronized (1920×1080) HD video installation, sound, Installation view Manifesta 8, Murcia, 2010. Set Design nOffice, Berlin.
Desire Lines /Duende/ (2011), six channel synchronized (1920×1080) HD video installation, three channel sound, Installation view Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, 2011.
Lundy, Louis, Barge and Troy (2014), two channel synchronized (1080×1920) HD video, sound, MDF. Duration: 6:31 min, continuous loop. Installation views the 4th International Çanakkale Biennial.
Ergin Çavuşoğlu (born in Bulgaria, 1968) studied at The National School of Fine Arts ‘Iliya Petrov’, Sofia in the early 1980s. He consequently received a BA from the University of Marmara, Istanbul, MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD from University of Portsmouth. Ergin Çavuşoğlu represented Turkey at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004, and in 2010 for Artes Mundi 4 – the UK's largest art prize. He is a Professor of Contemporary Art at Middlesex University, London.

Central to Çavuşoğlu’s conceptual art practice are themes that examine notions of place, liminality and the conditions of cultural production, which he has been exploring in a diversity of media, including narrative film, video and sound installations, painting, sculpture and drawing. The pattern of literary references in his large-scale narrative installation works unfold a series of moral parables that have a hypothetical relevance to contemporary art and furthermore comment on the creative processes at large.