Elli Kuruş is a Leipzig-based collective artist, 44% complete. Her practice spans artistic research and speculative fabulations that converge into installations, videos, workshops and performances. Investigating the agency of the things around her, she critically examines the development of media and technology, reading the present as material history.

Collaborators:
Asya Volodina
Liquid Dependency Theory
Katie Vida
Sonja Pregrad, Pavle Heidler, Silvia Marchig, Marko Gutić Mižimakov
Digitalsalon Leipzig

Exhibitions/showings:
2024 시선: 인식의 시작 / Gaze: The Beginning of perception, Gwangju Museum of Art Young Artist Support Center, Gwangju
2024 Art from regional soil, new sculpture for Freiluftgalerie Künstlerhaus Schaddelmühle, Schaddel
2024. Бükü Ten, presentation of artistic postcard edition, Bükü, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig
2024 MISSING TAPES: Digital Salon screening, GfZK Leipzig
2024 Everyone but Caspar, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2023 You are warmly invited, Performing Arts Plattform #9, TWIKX, Leipzig
2023 Beheading Binaries. A communally curated bestiary of sunken feelings. Solo exhibition and Larp in cooperation with Asya Volodina, Künstlerhaus Schaddelmühle, Schaddel
2023 Unruly Kinships with Liquid Dependencies Theory x Elli Kuruş, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
2022 ISEA 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Barcelona
2022 Eine kleine Sache, Hostel Blauer Stern, Lindenow-Festival, Leipzig
2022 WIN/WIN: Kunstankäufe der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Halle 14, Leipzig
2022 Zones of Kinship, Love and Playbour, with Liquid Dependencies Theory x Elli Kuruş Shedhalle Zürich
2021 The Value of Care, Yin Aiwen in cooperation with ReUnion x Elli Kuruş, GfZK, Leipzig, Germany
2021 (Re)produktion, FeminismenFestival, Halle (Saale), Germany
2021 A game of sorts. A game of sorting. A sorting game. Digital one on one performance with Katie Vida, HotDock Project space, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 H_st_rical Narratives, Suoja Shelter Festival Finland, Online
2018 It’s Worth It! ISBN Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018, be 2 Galerie b2, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Based on these new dependencies, we define five normal forms, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (parallel program of 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art)
2017 Rosebuds: Hidden Stories of Things, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
2017 To bi mogla biti zajednica, Pogon, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 It could be a community, KV, Leipzig, Germany
2017 PUSH, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2017 Open Studios, ISCP, New York, USA
2016 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LA, USA
2016 Semantic Riots, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Invisible Hand, The Great Book of..., Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
2015 Best Evidence Rule, KV, Leipzig, Germany
2015 25 Jahre, Künstlerhaus am Acker, Berlin, Germany

Grants & Residencies:
2024 Residency, Exchange Program Gwangju - Leipzig 2024 (Cooperation of Gwangju Museum of Art & HALLE 14 - Centre of Contemporary Art, funded by City of Leipzig), Gwangju, South Korea
2022 Fellowship, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Germany
2018 Travel grant, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa)
2017 Residency, International Studio and Curatorial Programm, New York, USA
2016 Residency and artist exchange Intercity/Switchcity, Goethe Institute, Pogon, Zagreb, Croatia & KKW, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Production grant. Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Germany

Collections:
Elli Kurus A game of sorts. A game of sorting. A sorting game. (dependency, edition 0x01/0x03) Kunstfonds, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Förderankauf der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen 2022

Publications
Francis Hunger: Data Workers of All Countries, End It! In: Isabella Kohlhuber/Oliver Leistert (eds.): Hamburg Maschine – Digitalität, Kunst und urbane Öffentlichkeiten. 2022
Michael Heidt & Elli Kuruş: Splitting Defense: A Methodological Journey into the Material Basis of Practice-Based Research, ISEA 2022
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás: Machinic Leviathan, 3/4 magazine 2020
Elli Kuruş: "Chroma Keying", in Anne Krönker, Glossar, 2019, Westfälischer Kunstverein 2019
Elli Kuruş: "Milk in the fridge problem", in Datatopia, Arch+ 234 2019
Elli Kuruş: "History of Political Operating Systems: Interview with Dr. L. Godord", in "Artist Re:Thinking the Blockchain". Edited by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, and Sam Skinner, published by Furtherfield & Torque 2017
Elli Kuruş: "For better or worse. Zeitstempel: 1412508657", in: Rosebuds: Hidden Stories of Things, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig 2018
Tarot of collective intelligence, eds. Lea Vene, Kristina Semonova, Pogon 2017
Push, eds. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, 2017
The Third Space, eds. Kristina Semonova, Olga Vostretsova, Bükü 2015

Elli Kuruş
Georg Schwarz Str. 7
04177 Leipzig
ellikurush-at-protonmail.com