Suat Öğüt

Framer Framed | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SAHA supports Framer Framed within the scope of Suat Öğüt’s new project. Curated by Àngels Miralda, the group exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity is on view between 19 June - 30 August 2026.

The Dutch landscape is interwoven with water: a vast network of rivers, canals, aquifers and engineered waterways flowing above and beneath the ground. For centuries, inland water has been both a source of life and a persistent threat to Dutch society. In response, engineers constructed dikes, canals and storm surge barriers to protect land that lies below sea level. These infrastructures produced not only safety, but also a national mythology of mastery over a resource that doesn’t always flow in such abundance.

The exhibition Wild Waters traces the entanglements between water, colonial expansion and territorial exploitation through works by artists Jumana Emil Abboud, Suzette Bousema, Ewa Ciepielewska & Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Giovanni Giaretta, Adelita Husni-Bey, Anna Moreno, Suat Öğüt, Eunice Pais, Ashfika Rahman, Morteza Soorani, and Abdo Zin Eldin. Across their practices, ancient myths and contemporary struggles converge in the deltaic cultures of Bangladesh and the Ebro Delta, as well as along the Meuse, Vistula, Tajo and Tigris.

Suat Öğüt (Diyarbakır, 1986) is an artist based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. His interdisciplinary practice explores how recent history shapes the present through personal and collective narrative-building. By engaging with monuments, archives, and everyday structures, Öğüt challenges dominant ideologies and reframes heritage as a living, culturally embedded practice. His work also explores non-linear perceptions of time, emphasising the urgency of the present.

About Framer Framed

Framer Framed is a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory and practice. Each year the organisation presents a variety of exhibitions alongside diverse cultural and educational programmes at its main location in Amsterdam Oost, as well as its project space Framer Framed Noord in Amsterdam Noord.