Özlem Altın

Place: Goch

Born: 1977

Biography:

Özlem Altın (born 1977) is a German and Turkish visual artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arhnhem and holds an MA degree from Piet Zwart Institute , both in the Netherlands. Upon completing her studies, she was the recipient of the Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture for work and publishing, which helped Altin found the independent publishing platform Orient Press to publish and distribute artist books. In 2020 her work was included in the New Photography 2020 online exhibition at MoMA . Özlem Altın has served as a guest professor for photography at HBG Leipzig in 2020-2021 and a guest professor at UMPRUM Prague in 2023. Her work constitutes an archive of her own photographs and found images, including other artists’ works and material from museum collections, the Internet and mass media, she then selectively activates imagery from this archive through collages, photographs and painting, creating multilayered constellations.