Solo Exhibitions and Interventions
Crit Club: Memes Edition, IMPAKT Gallery, Utrecht, 2025 (forthcoming)
Zentrum für Kritik und Memes (Center for Critique and Memes), ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2024
They don't know, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2024
Joseph Beuys Says…, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2024
I Like Art Market and Art Market Likes Me, Project Art Distribution, New York, 2023
Thank You for Your Understanding, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 2023
Theory is My Friend, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, 2023
Tack!, Parse Journal, HDK Valand, Gothenburg, 2023
Pleased to announce…, Versus Art Project, Istanbul, 2022
Hope You See Me As a Friend, Barbican Centre, London, 2022
The Party, Weserhalle, Berlin, 2021
Selected Group Exhibitions
almost, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, 2025 (ongoing)
Sichtbar, unsichtbar, unwichtig?, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2025 (ongoing)
15th Havana Biennial, University of Havana, Havana
Coding Culture – Emojis, Memes, Museum, MARKK, Hamburg, 2024-5
Duty of Care, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2024
Klima Biennale, Vienna, 2024
Timeless Curiosities, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, 2024
Seekult Festival, Friedrichshafen, 2023
After Laughter Comes Tears, MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2023
Karma Coma, Anna Laudel Gallery, Bodrum, 2023
FLUXUS S(I)EX TIES, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2023
Humor, Loved, Frowned Upon, Feared, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, 2023
Galeriefest, Grimmwelt Museum, Kassel, 2023
14. Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 2023
The Art of the Football Scarf, OOF Gallery, London, 2022
documenta fifteen, Kassel, 2022
IV. Peligros de la Amistad, CPU, Palacio Barolo, Buenos Aires, 2021
Memennial 2020, Seattle; Dallas, 2020
2024
Crit Club, Grand Snail Tour, Dortmund (forthcoming)
Crit Club, Biennial for Freiburg, Freiburg (forthcoming)
Crit Club, K21 - Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (forthcoming)
Crit Club, Bucharest (forthcoming)
Crit Club with Adelita Husni-Bey & Gary Zhexi Zheng, Lawrence Abu Hamdan & Urok Shirhan, Umer Butt & Kabir Jhala, curated by Stephanie Bailey, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai (forthcoming)
Crit Club with Özge Ersoy and Molemo Moiloa, The Couch by Het HEM, Zaandam (forthcoming)
Crit Club with Nikola Bojić, Bettina Freimann, Fette Sans, Abbas Zahedi, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb
Crit Club with Ben Davis and Mi You, The Couch by Het HEM, Zaandam
Crit Club with Farid Rakun and Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, The Couch by Het HEM, Zaandam
Crit Club with Kara Chin, Jitish Kallat, Wang Tuo and Steph Huang, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Crit Club with Kate Brown, Moshtari Hilal, Ahmet Öğüt and Abbas Zahedi, Trauma Bar, Berlin
2023
Crit Club with Lucia Pietroiusti and Nora Sternfeld, The Couch by Het HEM, Zaandam
Crit Club with Renzo Martens and Karim Sultan, The Couch by Het HEM, Zaandam
Sticker Vendor Comes to Mudam, Mudam, Luxembourg
2022
Sticker Vendor Comes to Radio Alhara, documenta fifteen, Kassel
Sticker Vendor Comes to Gudskul, documenta fifteen, Kassel
Selected Talks, Lectures and Workshops
2025
Art Dubai Digital Summit, Dubai (forthcoming)
Meme-thinking Workshop, Expanded Museum Studies, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Crit Club Workshop, The Photographers' Gallery, London
Meme-thinking Workshop, 15th Havana Biennial, University of Havana, Havana
Lecture, KASK School of Arts, Ghent
Crit Club Workshop, KASK School of Arts, Ghent
Meme-thinking Workshop with Harley Aussoleil and Frances Breden, MARKK Hamburg, Hamburg
2024
Artist talk with Brigitte Weingart, University of the Arts Berlin, Berlin
Guest Lecture, Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig
Guest Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig
Crit Club Workshop, documenta Institut, Kassel
Crit Club Workshop, Para Site, Hong Kong
Meme-thinking Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Meme-thinking Workshop series, Klima Biennale, Vienna
In Conversation with Sophie Publig, Klima Biennale, Vienna
Artist’s talk, Eaton, Hong Kong
Artist’s talk, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Meme-thinking Workshop, Non-conference, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Short course leader, HEAD Genève, Geneva
2023
Artist’s talk with Klaus Speidel, Crit Cross, Depot, Vienna
Meme-thinking Workshop, Diversity Week, University of Kassel
Artist’s talk, Brand New Art, Kraków
Lecture, Pratt Institute, New York
Meme-thinking Workshop with Frances Breden, Pop-Kultur Festival, Berlin
Panelist, Burn Out Symposium, E-WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin
Fluxus Goes Digital with @staedelschule_memes and Prof. Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
Lecture hosted by documenta Institute, University of Kassel
Lecture at Weak Signals. New Narratives in Art, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Artist’s talk with Kolja Reichert, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Artist’s talk hosted by Rokolectiv Festival, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest
Artist’s talk with Mateo Chacón Pino, Galeriefest, Grimmwelt Museum, Kassel
Artist’s talk, Art Market Society, Columbia University, New York
Artist’s talk with Sofia Asvestopoulos, The Article, Frankfurt
Panelist, Conversations: On the Form and Function of Meme Making, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
In conversation with Dorian Batycka, UVNT Art Fair, Madrid
The Politics and Poetics of Exhibiting in Art Museums, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk
Artistic contribution to How be an an Artist?, convened by Frank Wasser, NCAD Gallery, Dublin
Meme making as Artistic Practice, in dialogue with Christina Tente and Daniel Jewesbury, HDK Valand, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg
Meme-thinking Workshop series, HDK Valand, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg
Meme-thinking workshop in collaboration with Harley Aussoleil and Frances Breden, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
Artist’s talk, Rhizome Office Hours, Rhizome, New York
2022
Lecture, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
Panelist, The Future of Critique Conference, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Artist’s talk with Marijn Bril at Memes Beyond Images: Memetic Tacticality Conference, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
Artistic contribution to "A Live TV Broadcast" a series of live-edited TV programs for Offener KanalKassel, as part of Joen Vedel's contribution to documenta fifteen, Kassel
Workshop in collaboration with Harley Aussoleil and Frances Breden, documenta fifteen, Kassel
Meme-thinking Workshop in collaboration with Harley Aussoleil and Frances Breden, HeK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel
Lecture, Axis Graduate Programme, Wakefield
Artist's Talk, Stellwerk Gallery, Kassel
Meme-thinking Workshop, University of Stuttgart, Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture, Stuttgart
Artistic contribution to The Crit, curated by Frank Wasser, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
Meme-thinking Workshop with sobat-sobat, documenta fifteen, Kassel
Il Gazzettino, curated by Lukas Feireiss, Venice
Meme-thinking Workshop, Barbican Centre, London
Short Course in collaboration with Abbas Zahedi, Royal College of Art, London
2021
Lecture, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Guest Lecture in Class Öğüt, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Short Course in collaboration with Abbas Zahedi, Royal College of Art, London
Guest Lecture, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
Guest Lecture, Central Saint Martins, London
2025
Khaleej Times, April
2024
Artistic Contribution to Il Magazine, November
BE Magazine, September
Interview with The Berliner, July
Interview with QP Magazine, April
Interview with Artnet, January
Visla Magazine, January
2023
TALK (Issue 4), published by Small Night Projects, December
Le Quotidien, October
Südkurier, October
Sanat Kritik, September
Sabah Newspaper, July
Vogue Turkey, July
ARTnews, July
Wiesbadener Kurier, June
Interview with Arts of the Working Class, June
Transbordeur Photographie, 2023
Design Press, May
Naked Snail Magazine, May
Monopol Magazin, May
Artnet, April
Evening Standard, April
IDOART.DK, March
Interview with Metropolis M, February / March Issue
Forever Magazine, February
Journal of Creative Pursuit, Issue 3, January
2022
Artnet, December
Sound of Life, December
L’Officiel Art, November
Art Review Oxford, Autumn
Journal der Künste, November
Interview with Arts of the Working Class, November
Critical Meme Reader #2, November
Simulacrum Magazine, Vol. 30
Interview with TRT World, September
Flash Art, September
Artnet, September
Vogue Turkey, September
Gazete Duvar, September
PlumeMag, September
Artnet, September
Milliyet Sanat, August
Gatekeeper Magazine, July
Artnet, July
Artnet, June
Interview with Acik Radyo, June
Interview with Dazed, May
Interview with The Art Newspaper, May
Hyperallergic, April
ARTnews, April
Dazed, February
Concrete, February
Outcast Radio, January
émergent Magazine, Issue 7, January
Kunstforum, Issue 279, January
2021
Institute of Network Cultures, December
Artmagazin.hu, November
Petruse Entertainment, September
ARTE!Brasileiros, September
Artnews.lt, August
Interview with The Art Gorgeous, August
Interview with Gallerytalk.net, August
Interview with Monopol Magazin, July
OOF Magazine, June
COBO Social, May
XCity Magazine, May
Springback Magazine, May
Curator’s Radar Podcast, April (Spotify) (Apple)
Haaretz Newspaper, April
The Art Newspaper, April
The New York Times, March
Design Pataki, March
The Art Newspaper, February
Hyperallergic, January
Artribune, January
Gallerytalk.net, 2020
Frieze Magazine, Issue 211, 2020
YACI, 2020
Art Market Limited is a fictional brand satirising the art world. It has been created by Cem A.
Online orders: https://www.instagram.com/artmarketlimited
Available to purchase at:
The Meme Kit
Published by Cem A. in collaboration with Meme Studies Research Network
Writing by Mira Calix, Naomi Falk and İdil Galip; editing by İdil Galip
Design by Ines Barbosa da Costa
Accessible at:
documenta Archiv, Kassel
Istanbul Modern Library, Istanbul
Július Koller Society, Bratislava
HEAD Genève, Geneva
Para Site Library, Hong Kong
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Tai Kwun, Artists' Book Library, Hong Kong
Available to purchase at:
Residencies and Institutional Collaborations
2025
Critic-in-Residence, MGLC Švicarija, Ljubljana (forthcoming)
Artwork Showcase, Voo Store, Berlin
Artistic Contributor, Art in a Multipolar World by Mi You, published by documenta Institut and Hatje Cantz
2024
Artistic Contributor, lumbung Radio
Artistic Contributor, Symposium: Care, Who Cares?, Griffith University Art Museum
2023
Artistic Advisor, documenta Institut, Kassel
Artistic Contributor, Post-Postmodernism: A Map for the Present, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Artistic Contributor, Islands of Kinship, Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Prague
Curator-in-residence, SEA Foundation, Tilburg
Artistic contributor, the sustainable institution, E-WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin
Resident at Practitioners Program, Parse Journal, Gothenburg
2022
Embedded Critic, The Future of Critique Conference, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Harvester for documenta fifteen, Kassel
Harvester for IHK Kassel, Kassel