Pınar Öğrenci is artist, filmmaker and lecturer. She used to work as guest lecturer at Master Studies of Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee Raum Strategies, HFK, University of Arts Bremen and Leuphana University in Luneburg. Her first documentary film ‘Gurbet is a home now’ produced in Berlin won Special Jury Prize of Documentarist Film Festival and selected for National Documentary Film Competition by Istanbul Film Festival in 2021. Her second documentary film Aşît is commissioned by documenta fifteen in 2022. She is nominated to Böttcher Strasse Kunst Prize 2022 in Bremen and won Villa Romana Prize for 2023.Pınar Öğrenci has a background in architecture, which informs her poetic and experientialvideo-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 migration such as war, state violence, collectivemovements, as well as industrial and urban development projects. She was one of the fellows in residence for the Villa Romana Prize 2023 in Florence.
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