Emine Şahinaz Akalın
Dipl.-Des. | artist | curator | publisher
paintings | drawings | objects | installations
"My artwork concern is to expand interpretive spaces with my formal language. The graphic examination of the visible and invisible and the sayable and the unsayable, the sensual and the rational, is my method, which is at the same time a
critical self-positioning."
Emine Şahinaz Akalın
1987–1994 Academy for Design Hamburg. Studies with Friedrich Einhoff (painting / drawing), Siegfried Jonas (painting) and Sigrid Sigurdsson (drawing)
1988 Summer academy „Pentiment” Hamburg, studies with Christa Biederbick-Tewes (sculpture and installation)
1996 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship
1995-1996 Seminar „Direction and production in film and television“ in Studio Hamburg
2001-2005 University of Hamburg, philosophy and art history
2008 Member of artists' collective and art space, Künstlerhaus Hamburg FRISE e.V.
2008 Grant, Office of Culture Hamburg
2008 Member, Association of Visual Artists (Berufsverband bildender Künstler e.V.)
2009 Lecturer, Film and Editing at the Hamburg Media School
since 2010 working as a curator and publisher
Since 1996 she has been working as a freelance artist with exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Istanbul, Tokyo and Marseille, among other places.