Ahmet Öğüt (b. 1981, Diyarbakır, Turkey) is an artist, socio-cultural initiator, and lecturer. Working across a variety of media, including photography, video, and installation, Öğüt often uses humour and small gestures to comment on pressing social and political issues. He regularly collaborates with people from outside the art world to create shifts in perception. He has exhibited widely, more recently with solo presentations at MoCA Skopje – Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia; Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2009) and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2008); the New Museum Triennial, New York, US (2009); the 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); the 7th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2012); the 13th Biennale de Lyon, France (2015); the British Art Show 8, UK (2015–17); Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan (2018); Zero Gravity at Nam SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2019); In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands (2020); Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone, New York, US (2021); Survival Kit 13 – Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (2022) and FRONT International – Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US (2022). Öğüt has been a guest professor, mentor, tutor, advisor and research teacher at several schools and was awarded the Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft, Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany (2010); the De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2011, Netherlands (2011); the special prize of the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine (2012) and the Visible Award for the Silent University (2013).