Cihad Caner

Cihad Caner is an artist based in Rotterdam. 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; The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; TENT, Rotterdam; Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel; Nest, Den Haag; Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin; Blitz Malta, Valletta; EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam; 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).