about

The media in Cos Ahmet’s practice spans across sculpture and installation, video, audio-text, and performance. He often collaborates with other artists and makers, and views this interaction and exchange of ideas and thinking, as an important way of broadening his practice. His recent works concerned body-material interventions, questioning materiality in relation to the encounter with the bodily and the sculptural. His object and sculptural works often evoke fragmented bodies - body parts without a body, where attention is drawn to the spaces between elements and an encounter between the material and the immaterial.

In his video works, sequences become part of multi-channel video installations, a screen work, or integrated into a live performance. Within this, sound has become very important, whether derived from the materials that enter his practice;  from the spoken words and awkward languages and text that Ahmet creates, to sounds composed by a collaborator.

As new works emerge, the body’s physical bearing is beginning to be less visible, making way for the invisible, or otherwise unseen activities and actions that the body enacts — for example, the indexical, or haptic gestures, are expressed, generating other methods of working, thinking and considering the body in connection to the materials in his practice, to establish a new position or meaning.

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Cos Ahmet b. 1973, London. Currently lives and works in the Liverpool City Region.

Cos holds an MA in Fine Art (with distinction), from John Moores Liverpool School of Art, studying under Dr. Imogen Stidworthy, Bedwyr Williams, Rory Macbeth & Chris Evans; a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Textiles, from Middlesex University, London, and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, from The Hyde Institute, London. Cos recently completed a year long mentor-led programme with the Conditions (a studio programme for artists), led by Matthew Noel-Tod, receiving mentorship from Conditions Associate & Vienna-based artist, James Lewis.

2025

Un Billet Pour Le Balcon, part of The Right Map: Unstable Series, Ghost Art School X IB2025, The Stables, Port Sunlight, Wirral (screening)

Artists’ Drawings Issue #1: ‘Drawing Sculpture’. Inaugural issue selected and edited by Matt Page, Artists’ Drawings Magazine (publication)

Slipstream, curated by Phoebe Thomas, part of The Right Map, Ghost Art School X Independents Biennial, CBS Gallery, Liverpool, (group)

Holes, part of The Right Map: Unstable Series, Ghost Art School X Independents Biennial, The Stables, Port Sunlight Village, Wirral (group)

Sluice Seyðisfjörður: Infrastructural Futures: A durational radio broadcast, Sluice X Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, Iceland (sluice radio)

Sluice Spring / Summer 2025 Issue: World-Building, to coincide with Sluice Seyðisfjörður: World-Building Expo, Iceland (publication)

Sluice Seyðisfjörður: World-Building Expo, Sluice X Seyðisfjörður Community Radio X LungA School, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (sluice expo)

2024

Condition Online Programme 2024 - 2025, under mentorship of Conditions Associate & Vienna-based artist, James Lewis (conditions artist)

Good Luck, Mysterious Stranger! Publication, a collaborative exchange project with Ghost Art School Artists X BSHAD, UK & Russia (publication)

Good Luck, Mysterious Stranger!, a collaborative exchange project with Ghost Art School Artists X BHSAD, UK & Russia (group / online)

Contemporary Art Practice & Process: Materials, to BA History of Art & Museum Studies, Liverpool School of Art & Design (artist talk / lecture)

The Dazzling Edge Of Darkness, Ghost Art School X The Rock Room X UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, Surrey (group)

The End of Glory, curator, Rory Macbeth, Ghost Art School X Blip Blip Blip, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (group)


2023

Biennial 23, to coincide with Liverpool Biennial 2023, presentation of ‘Post Factum’, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (duo / group)

dust of traces faint, into fading blurring, a video-text work selected by Lulu Nunn, HOAX Publication, London (online feature)

Artists' Moving Image Works Edition Nº 31, nominated by Nick Smith, curated by Mirelle Borra, 6x6 project, Berlin (online)

Two Queens Two Screens 2, selected by Daniel Sean Kelly, Two Queens Gallery & Studios, Leicester (group / screening)

M0323: Art Talk / Sgwrs Celf, compiled and curated by Linda Jane James, Mid Wales Art Centre, Powys, Wales (group)

DOCUMENTS, curated by Jon Carritt, Gallery DODO, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton (group / screening)

The Next Thing: Moving Image Award 2022 - 23, Finalists’ Showcase, Bury Art Museum + Sculpture Centre, Bury (group / screening)


2022

The Next Thing: Moving Image Award 2022 - 23, selected by Susan Lord, Bury Art Museum + Sculpture Centre, Bury (selected finalist)

TRS Studio Members Shows, presenting ‘They Say Everyone Has To Start Somewhere’, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (duo)

Space Is The Place: Act 2 - A Transfigured Movement in Time, a project by Material Matters, Williamson Art Gallery, Wirral (group)

A Life Plagued with Novelty, text by Stephen Sheehan, for ‘We Are All Going To Die’, Existential House (publication text)

We Are All Going To Die, curated by Stephen Sheehan, artist & director of Existential House, Birkenhead, Wirral (group)

CLEARANCE!, A group exhibition showcasing LSAD MA Fine Art Alumni, The Lewis’s Building (former Dept. Store), Liverpool (group)

This Is Not A Test, STATIC Masters Graduate Residency presentation, Static Complex, Liverpool (residency / group)

STATIC Masters Graduate Residency Recipient, Static Complex, Liverpool (residency award) 


2021

MA Fine Art Prize for Best Presentation, awarded by guest critic, Judith Carlton, Director, Southwark Park Galleries, London (award)

Masters Graduate Showcase, presenting a collaborative film ‘Transmitting’, Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool (group)

MA Collaboration with Liverpool Biennial, presented at the Masters Graduate Show, Liverpool School of Art & Design (group)

MA Degree Show, presentation & live performance of ‘A Meniscus (Between)’, Atrium Gallery, Liverpool School of Art & Design (solo)

From Skin To Page and Back Again: Digesting Life Systems Online Lecture Series, Enzyme X Liverpool Biennial 2021(symposium)

Porosities, text by Sarah Kristin Happersberger, co-editor for Enzyme 2: Life Systems, Enzyme Magazine (publication text)

Enzyme 2: Life Systems, in collaboration with Jorgge Menna Barreto, Enzyme Magazine X Liverpool Biennial 2021 (publication)

11th Edition, Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach & The Port, curated by Manuela Moscoso, various venues (group)

Output Video Open, selected by Gabrielle de la Puente, curated by Michael Lacey, Output Gallery, Liverpool (group)

Provocations: IB21 X Avoid Collective, to coincide with Liverpool Biennial 2021, Independents Biennial (online)

Uncanny, co-curated by Cos Ahmet & Gary Finnegan, Avoid Collective X Earth Gallery, Liverpool (group / curatorial)

(IN) SIGHT: Avoid Collective Open Exhibition, Bridewell Studios & Gallery, Liverpool (group)


2020

Transmitting, live performance, part of another untitled show #2, MAKE. North Docks, Liverpool (group / collaboration)

Please Add To And Return To: Mail Art Homage to Ray Johnson, Ray Johnson Estate X Performa, New York, US (online)

NeoHaha Editions Nº 6, presenting ‘Curious Being’, a live performance, supported by Avoid Collective, Liverpool (performance)

Sensing The In-Between, live collaborative performance, Atrium Gallery, Liverpool School of Art & Design (performance)

Gaada Issue #4, Online Zine Artist Feature, Gaada Projects, Burra Isle, Shetland (publication / online)

vol.one.vol.two., ERL Masters Residency two-part show, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool (group)

ERL Masters Residency Recipient, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool (residency)

another untitled show #2, MA Interim Show, MAKE. North Docks Liverpool (group)

MAKE. MA Fine Art Residency Recipient, MAKE. North Docks, Liverpool (residency)


2019

another untitled show #1, MA Interim Show, MAKE. North Docks, Liverpool (group)

MAKE. MA Fine Art Residency Recipient, MAKE. North Docks, Liverpool (residency)


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