Pınar Öğrenci – Fellowship Program „Weltoffenes Berlin“

Pınar Öğrenci, A Gentle Breeze Passed Over Us, video still, 2017

We are pleased to introduce our Fellow Pınar Öğrenci. At District Berlin, she participates in the series Revolt she said – decolonial and feminist perspectives on 68 with her lecture performance Purple Panic: 43. She is also part of the Caring for Conflict project.

Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973, Van, Turkey) is an artist and a writer based in Istanbul and Berlin. Öğrenci uses various media in her artistic practice, including photography, video, performance and installation. Her works address subjects such as migration, war, forced displacement, collective movements, nationalism and urban transformation. Using video as a tool to record her daily life practices, she benefits from her personal video archive and ready-made footages.

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