Ali Kazma
Ali Kazma was born in 1971, Istanbul, and he completed his undergraduate studies in the United States in 1993. After briefly studying photography in London, he returned to the US to study film in 1995. He received his MA from The New School University in New York City where he worked as a teaching assistant.
The video–artist, best known for his series documenting human activity, and labor that explores the meaning of production and social organisation.
Ali Kazma was granted the 2001 UNESCO Award for the Promotion of the Arts and received the 2010 Nam June Paik Award for his ‘Obstructions’ series, which he has been working on since 2005. Kazma’s video works question and explore the different rhythms and states of human existence and its relationship to contemporary conditions. He has exhibited his works at the Istanbul Biennial (2001, 2007, 2011), Tokyo Opera City (2001), Platform Garanti Istanbul (2004), Istanbul Modern (2004), 9th Havana Biennial (2006), San Fransisco Art Institute (2006), Lyon Biennial (2007), Francesca Minini, Milan (2008, 2012, 2015), 55° Venice Biennale, Pavilion of Turkey (2013), Jeu de Paume Paris (2017).
Ali Kazma was born in 1971, Istanbul, and he completed his undergraduate studies in the United States in 1993. After briefly studying photography in London, he returned to the US to study film in 1995. He received his MA from The New School University in New York City where he worked as a teaching assistant.
The video–artist, best known for his series documenting human activity, and labor that explores the meaning of production and social organisation.
Ali Kazma was granted the 2001 UNESCO Award for the Promotion of the Arts and received the 2010 Nam June Paik Award for his ‘Obstructions’ series, which he has been working on since 2005. Kazma’s video works question and explore the different rhythms and states of human existence and its relationship to contemporary conditions. He has exhibited his works at the Istanbul Biennial (2001, 2007, 2011), Tokyo Opera City (2001), Platform Garanti Istanbul (2004), Istanbul Modern (2004), 9th Havana Biennial (2006), San Fransisco Art Institute (2006), Lyon Biennial (2007), Francesca Minini, Milan (2008, 2012, 2015), 55° Venice Biennale, Pavilion of Turkey (2013), Jeu de Paume Paris (2017).
- Installation View, Albergo Diurno, Milano, 2017Mine, 2017, single channel video, 4 min
- Safe (Resistance), 2015single channel video, 3'
- Crystal, 2015single-channel video, 11'
Edition 2/5 - Play, 2015single channel video
7'20"
Edition 4/5 - Eye (Resistance), 2015single channel video, 4'34"
- Resistance – Calligraphy, 2013Single channel video, 5'50''
- Resistance – Tattoo, 2013Single channel video, 7'52"
- Anatomy (Resistance), 2013single channel video, 4'
- Bodybuilding (Resistance), 2013single channel video, 6'16"
- Prison (Resistance), 2013single channel video, 5'
- Cryonics (Resistance), 2013single channel video, 5'
- School (Resistance), 2013Single channel video
4' 29" - Resistance – Robot, 2013Single channel video, 5'32"
- Automobile factory, 2012Single channel video
10' - Film (Resistance), 2012single channel video, 7'30"
- Printing Studio (Obstructions), 2012single channel video, 10'26"
- Clerk, 2011PAL Digital Video
Single channel video with sound, 3' 09''
AP1 - Absence, 2011Double channel video
Video, 9' - Kinbaku (Resistance), 2013Single channel video, 5'17"
- O.K., 20107 channel video
Endless loop - Cuisine, 2010Video
ed. 4/5
5/5 ptbc - Casa di Moda, 2010Video, 10'
Edition sold out (AP1) - Dancer, 2010Video
10' - The Butcher, 2009Video
- Dance Company, 2009Single channel video
10' - Studio Ceramist, 2007Video, 17'
- Slaughterhouse, 2007Video
10' - Brain Surgeon, 2006Video
14' - Clock Master, 2006Video, 15'
Edition 5/5