Banu Cennetoğlu

Look forward to the first solo exhibition in Denmark by the Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu. Through a series of works, the exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg moves from societal issues to more intimate spheres. Critical investigations of the daily press, the migration flows through Europe and the UN Declaration of Human Rights are brought to dialogue with an extensive private image archive, connecting the small and large events of everyday life with urgent global issues.

Cennetoğlu is interested in how the production and distribution of text- and image-based information contributes to shaping our world. Her practice often involves extensive collecting, cataloguing and archiving of materials, which subsequently manifest in carefully composed works with wide-reaching perspectives. By processing various types of textual and visual materials, she examines the function of such signs, their politics of memory, and the underlying interests or power structures they reveal.

Banu Cennetoğlu (b. 1970, Ankara) has exhibited at prestigious international shows, including Documenta 14, the Liverpool Biennial, the Gwangju Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial and the Berlin Biennial. She represented Turkey alongside Ahmet Öğüt at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.

The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and Katarina Stenbeck and presented in collaboration with CPH:DOX.