Köken Ergun (b. 1976, Istanbul) is an artist/filmmaker from Turkey with a background in performing arts. His films often deal with communities that are not known to a greater public and the importance of ritual in such groups. He also collaborates with ethnographers, historians and sociologists as extensions to his artistic practice.
His works have been exhibited internationally at institutions including Documenta 14, Paris Triennale, Jakarta Biennial, Sydney Biennial, Kathmandu Triennale, Lahore Biennial, Martin Gropius Bau, SALT, Garage Moscow, Videobrasil, Para-Site Hong Kong, Savvy Contemporary, Artspace Sydney. His films received several awards at film festivals including the Tiger Award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival and the Special Mention Prize at the 2013 Berlinale. Ergun’s works are included in public collections of the Centre George Pompidou, Greek National Museum of Contemporary Art, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Australian War Memorial and Kadist Foundation.
Ergun holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in Performing Arts and Anthropology. He is the co-founder of After the Archive?, an Istanbul based initiative that questions the role and function of archives in public memory and KIRIK; a space for people and subjects in the cracks.