Cihad Caner

Background Evening

Background evening

19/06/2025

19:00

Cihad Caner is coming to The Hague to share a range of references that inspired him with creating Parroting The Parrot. In conversation with Ulya Soley and by showing clips from historical Turkish TV series and inspirational books, the artist will elaborate on the development of the exhibition which will provide a different angle.

Each Background Evening offers a different lens through which to engage with the exhibition — no Background Evening is the same. True to its name, the evening also provides space to explore the artist’s work and ideas in greater depth, opening up new conversations and connections.

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About Cihad Caner (b. 1990) is an artist based in Rotterdam and Brussels. His practice explores the politics of the image through the mediums of video, photography, music, motion-capture, and CGI. Caner’s research-driven practice revolves around (re)presentation, language, marginalisation and alterity. His fictional CGI characters are often multi-lingual protagonists in non-linear, metaphorical narratives that employ humour, absurdity, and poetry to critique the status quo. Recently he has exhibited at Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; TENT, Rotterdam; Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel; Nest, Den Haag; Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Július Koller Society, Bratislava; Kunsthal Mechelen, Mechelen; Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, and İstanbul Modern, İstanbul, among others. Caner was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2021-2023).