AKIS @Apartmen Project Berlin. Join us for the opening! Akis is a narrative audiovisual installation, that explores the multi-layered emotional accumulation of migrants from Turkey. Always caught in the mental space between the two geographies, generations have shaped multiple memories and narratives. These have unfolded their feelings, reflections, and puzzles between the two identifications. This exhibition will try to put together, jointly conceived, and produce feelings of belonging to the contemporary diaspora in the city of Berlin, with diverse backgrounds in music and new media.
@Apartmen Project Berlin

HIER&JETZT:Connections (HUJ:C) extends its art space to the streets of Berlin with the group exhibition hey Universum. The show features posters designed by 20 cross-cultural artists displayed throughout the city’s urban spaces.
@Berlin

Before moving to Germany in 2017 Özlem Sarıyıldız produced several films that focused on memory, gender, commons, and justice movements and relied on an aesthetics that was fed by genres such as documentary, interview, and oral history. Her recent practice in Berlin traces the lives experiences of people who migrated from Turkey to Germany with different motivations in different historical contexts. The video ‘Welcomed in Germany?’(2018) was based on the intersectional dynamics that have shaped the lives of the people who moved to Berlin within the last decade, along with the so-called ‘new wave’. Her ongoing research on earlier generations, particularly women who migrated as determined individuals and workers, has evolved along with some video pieces shown in the contemporary art context. In our conversation, we will hear from Özlem Sarıyıldız about these recent practices, the way in which they inform about her own living experience and changing subjectivity in the city of Berlin.
@Apartment Project

I am happy to be part of the Thorn Shelter Exhibition curated by Erden Kosova, Marina Papazyan and Mert Sarısu. You might see my films 'Welcomed to Germany?' and 'Look, Listen Carefully' till december 19th.
@DEPO ISTANBUL

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD ins in Brussels this October.
@Brussels

Istanbul Notes will be Berlin Mondiale Dammweg Campus as part of 'Music Beyond Borders' Screening Series of POC Art Collective.
@Mondiale

Join us for the artist talk at B.L.O Ateliers, Berlin.
@B.L.O. Atelliers

Inquiring healing across screen cultures: Recuperating narratives, mediums, and creativities - My film 'Zahir' will be part of the workshop too.
@recuperativescreen

The catalog has arrived! Happy to be one of the 125 contemporary artists worldwide included in the Future Now Catalog of Aesthetica Art Prize 2021.
@Aesthetica Art Prize

DDS: The interdisciplinary performance project 'DDS! Discipline, Dominance, Submission' by Derya Durmaz is at Performing Arts Festival Berlin.
@Performing Arts Festival

INTERSECTIONALITY OR VELHASILIKELAM by Özlem Sarıyıldız is online as part of 4th International Women Filmmakers Festival. Turkish with English Subtitles.We will have a Q&A session afterwards.
@INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL

KIYI KIYI / THERE AND BACK by Özlem Sarıyıldız & Bilge Demirtaş is online as part of the 4th International Women Filmmakers Festival. Turkish with English Subtitles. REGISTER AND ENJOY!
@INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL

Intersectionality or Velhasılıkelam by Özlem Sarıyıldız will be @University of East Anglia, UK - as part of International Women Filmmakers Festival. We will also have a Q&A afterwards.
@INTERNATIONAL WOMEN FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL

de te fabula narratur – a site specific installation by Özlem Sarıyıldız is exhibited as part of Kindred Chronicles Exhibition by HIER & JETZT: CONNECTIONS, on Museum Lichtenberg’s Facade.
@Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus

Welcomed to Germany? by Özlem Sarıyıldız will be online with German and English subtitles between 23–26 February, as part of 'Testimonies Beyond Margins' curated by Can Sungu and Malve Lippmann (Bi Bak) organized by Galerie Nord I Kunstverein Tiergarten.
@Galerie Nord I Kunstverein Tiergarten

HIER & JETZT: Connections (HUJ:C) is an exchange and residency program organized by artists for artists. The project calls upon international artists in exile who live in Berlin and seek a place for artistic production. The initiative, HIER & JETZT: Connections, defines exile as the involuntary loss of one’s social context and working environment in their country of origin for an uncertain period of time.

THE FEMALE SIDE OF THE MOON PHOTO EXHIBITION curated by Özlem Sarıyıldız launches at Galerie Z22, Berlin.
@Galerie Z22

SocialDistanceLess by Özlem Sarıyıldız is online via MING Studios. A new year surprise!
In March, 2020, artist Özlem Sarıyıldız created SocialDistanceLess, 'a video-sketch made while passing through COVID19. It is a personal manifestation reflecting on the toxification of the body, and the basic desire to -again- touch the human body.' Watch online for 24 hours at
@ Ming Studios

YOUR BODY MUST BE HEARD by Özlem Sarıyıldız is
@ Armenia Art Fair

We had a joyful conversation with Begüm Başdaş in her insightful program “On the Road with Begüm Başdaş”. Thanks!
@online

Goethe Documentary-Film Prize of DOK Leipzig goes to Die Wächterin by Martina Priessner!
@DOK Leipzig

AARC II GROUP EXHIBITION
@Errant Sound

FOUND FOOTAGE VIDEO-COLLAGES
&
INTERSECTIONALITY OR VEHASILIKELAM
@LANGE NACHT DER BILDER - 2020

20 | 20 - 100 Jahre Großberlin Exhibition @Schoeler Kunsthaus

The three HIER&JETZT: Connections residents of 2020 will present work in progress – including painting, video, and installation. Accompanying them is HUJ alumni and now artistic director, ÖZLEM SARIYILDIZ, who will also be opening her studio to the public.

SODA FEST @ArrivalRoom is covered by Saarbrücker Zeitung. SocialDistanceLess is there too.

@AARC#1 – TORTU Exhibition

SocialDistenceLess
by Özlem Sarıyıldız featured @Arte as part of the SODA-Festival.

WELCOMED TO GERMANY? will be online today as part of Labour Film Festival, Turkey.
An online chat will follow.

ISTANBUL NOTES will be online
for 48 hours as part of CONNECTIONS: SCREENINGS Series of HUJ:C and MING STUDIOS

WATER SALT FLOUR
will be online today as part of
International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival.

THERE AND BACK
will be online today as part of
International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival.