Özlem Altın

Özlem Altın (*1977 Goch) has won the Hannah Höch Förderpreis for 2024. The artist explores the complex relations between photography, archives and the body with deep empathy. She understands the body as a vehicle of expression and a storehouse of knowledge: a “place of transfer like an interface to the outside world”. Altın’s collages transpose memories into a living present. She constructs these multi-layered constellations from her own and found photographs, overpainting them to generate new connections which resist straightforward readings and bring ambivalences to light.

The State of Berlin is awarding its Hannah Höch Förderpreis to Özlem Altın in recognition of her work to date. The artist receives a purse, an exhibition and a publication.