Özlem Altin (born 1977) is a German and Turkish visual artist living and working in Berlin, Germany Born in 1977 in Goch, Germany, Özlem Altin studied at the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arhnhem and holds an MA degree from Piet Zwart Institute, both in the Netherlands.
[4] Özlem Altin 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.
[9] In a critical text, Vanessa Müller elaborates on this idea in contrast to "the spectactular": "a repertoire of frozen poses, mute gestures and inert people evolves, presenting themselves to the discriminating gaze as objects while noneteless slipping away again and again".
[8] Özlem Altin was the recipient of the Villa Romana Prize, Florence, in 2020 and the Hannah-Hoch-Förderpreis from the State of Berlin in 2024.
Özlem Altin's work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions such as "Geometric Portrait", Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (2008); "No story, no", Witte de With, Rotterdam, curated by Defne Ayas and Samuel Saelemakers (2015);[10] "Untitled (touch or melancholy)", Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2016) and "Processing" at Camera Austria, Graz (2017).