Özlem Günyol (b. 1977, Ankara) and Mustafa Kunt (b. 1978, Ankara) moved to Germany and attended the Frankfurt Art Academy – Städelschule – after graduating from Hacettepe University’s Department of Sculpture in 2001. In addition to numerous awards and scholarships, they recently won the HAP Grieshaber Preis der VG Bild-Kunst Award in 2017, which is given to an artist every year in Germany. The selected solo exhibitions of the duo, who have been thinking and producing together since 2005, include The Image Without the Image, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin (2019); Ses-li Harfler I Ses-siz Harfler, Dirimart, Istanbul (2019); Beyond the Horizon, Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, Berlin (2017); minute by minute, Dirimart, Istanbul (2015); Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, FAK, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2014); UP!UP!UP!, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, studio 16, Dublin (2011); be-cause, Basis, Frankfurt (2007); 354512 cm², Altes Hauptzollamt, Frankfurt (2003) and selected group exhibitions include 10: Abstractions, Intimations, Ruminations, İMALAT-HANE, Bursa (2023); To See a World in a Grain of Sand, Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Assenheim (2023); The 90s on Stage, Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata, Istanbul (2022); Would you still love me if I painted parrots all day?, Dirimart, Istanbul (2022); And Now the Good News: Works from the Nobel Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul (2022); WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (2022); As rights go by / On loss of rights and lack of rights, Freieraum MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (2016); New Frankfurt Internationals: Solid Signs, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2015); ars viva 12/13 – Systeme, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2013); Out of Lines (film screening), Parasol Unit, London (2012); Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2011); Hector Kunstpreis 2009, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (2009); El Dorado, About the promise of Human Rights, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2009) and Making a Scene, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2008). The artist duo currently lives and works in Frankfurt.
