Cemile Sahin

Born in Wiesbaden, Germany (1990), lives and works in Berlin.

Cemile Sahin’s artistic practice operates between film, photography, sculpture, and literature. In her nonhierarchical use of media, her work embodies today’s synchronicity of image- and text-based communications. Integrating images into her writing and text in her image-world, Sahin moves with agility between words and pictures, between still and moving image, between text as form, sign, and symbol. Deliberately elliptical and fragmentary, her work’s narrative strategies draw on an episodic format of narration established by TV series and online videos.

The artist’s projects include: Cemile Sahin, Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2022); 16e Biennale de Lyon (2022); Identität nicht nachgewiesen, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2022); Transforming Archives, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2021); ars viva 2020, Kunstverein, Hamburg (2020); Where the Story Unfolds, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2020); ars viva 2020, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2019); Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich (2019).