Mochu & Merve Ertufan

Mochu and Merve Ertufan are authors and artists who often work with and through text. Across their oeuvres, both Mochu and Merve gravitate towards a concept-based practice that gives form to otherwise free-floating ideas such as anxiety, futurity, and subjectivity in the circulatory system of economy. Together, Mochu and Merve developed the recent collaboration Ion Drift, exploring unorthodox ideas of political economy that emerged in conjunction with ancient philosophy in the region once known as Ionia (8th-6th century BC), now spread over Turkey and Greece.

Mochu’s work has been featured in exhibitions held at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2024), 9th Asian Art Biennial (2024), Whitechapel Gallery (2023), 9th Asia-Pacific Triennial (2018), 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018), 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017) and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (2022).

Merve’s works have been featured in institutions such as Liquid Architecture, Arter, Tanas, Zilberman Gallery, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Bahar, the Istanbul off-site project of Sharjah Biennial 13, SPOT Production Fund, Corridor Project Space, with two solo exhibitions - at Depo (2020), and Bilsart (2022).

Ion Drift Postscripts on the Move (2025) - Merve Ertufan

 

8 (2023)  -  Merve Ertufan

 

Compliments (2012)  - Merve Ertufan

 

Can an Answer Be Surprising  (2017 19) -  Merve Ertufan 

 

Groteskkbasiliskk Mineral Mixtape!, Video, 26 Mins, Mochu, 2024   the Mochu

 

Painted Diagram of a Future Voyage (who Believes the Lens ), Video, 5 Mins, Mochu, 2012   the Mochu

 

Toy Volcano, Lecture Performance With Video, 45 Mins, Mochu, 2019   the Mochu

 

A Gathering at the Carnival Shop, Video, 35 Mins, Moch, 2015   the Mochu

 

Cool Memories, Video, 14.48 Mins, Mochu, 2017   the Mochu