Pınar Öğrenci

Artist, filmmaker and lecturer Pınar Öğrenci (1973, Van, Turkey) lives in Berlin. Öğrenci has a background in architecture, which informs her poetic and experiential video-based work and installations that accumulate traces of ‘material culture’ related to forced displacement across geographies. Her works are decolonial and feminist readings from the intersections of social, political and anthropological research, everyday practices, and human stories that follow agents of displacement, migration, survival and resistance. She is nominated to Böttcher Strasse Kunst Prize 2022 in Bremen and won Villa Romana Prize for 2023. Her works have been exhibited widely at museums and art institutions including at documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022), 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018), 6th Athens Biennial (2018), Tensta Konsthall Stockholm (2018), Kunst Haus Wien - Hundertwasser Museum (2017), the Istanbul off-site project for Sharjah Biennial13 (2017), MAXXI Museum, Rome (2015- 6) and SALT Galata, Istanbul (2015-6). Her first solo exhibition abroad was realized at Kunst Haus-Hundertwasser Museum in Vienna in 2017. Her films are shown and nominated by many film festivals including Visions du Reel (Aşît, 2022) and İstanbul Film Festival (Gurbet is a home now, 2020 and Turkish Delight 2023) and her first documentary film 'Gurbet is a home now' won special Jury Award of Documentarist Film Festival, İstanbul in 2021.