Emine ŞAhinaz AkalıN

Emine Şahinaz Akalın
Dipl.-Des. | artist | curator | publisher
paintings | drawings | objects

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

since 1996 freelance artist

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 curtor and publisher

Since 1996 she has been working as a freelance artist with exhibitions at locations including Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Istanbul, Tokyo, Marseille.

Selected Exhibitions and Publications
2008 „the influence of gender politics in contemporary art“
Chiellerie Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 „Gegenliebe II - uudelleen rakastaa“, Muu Galerie, Helsinki, Finnland
2010 „Floating Volumes #1/#2 – FRISE, Hamburg and „5533“, Istanbul,Turkey
2011 „Hamburg, ortsgebunden“, Galerie Pluto, Berlin, DE
2011 „Floating Volumes #3 – FRISE, Hamburg and „5533“, Istanbul,Turkey 2011 Publication „Floating Volumes #1/#2. City and Identity within Ar tistic
Research. ISBN: 978-3-941613-65-2, Emine Şahinaz Akalın, Nancy Atakan, Erich Pick (Hrsg. /Eds.)
2011 „Kristal Şehir - Crystal City“, MARS, Istanbul,Turkey 2011 „Ach so!?“, Makii Masaru Fine Arts Galerie,Tokyo, Japan
2013 „Niveau de la mer – Meeresspiegel“ AtelieRnaTional, Marseille
2014 „ABOVE US ONLY SKY“, Bremer Kunstfrühling, Bremen
2014 „Floating Volumes #4 – Layering DiverCity“, FRISE, and HfbK-University
of fine Arts, Hamburg
2015 Publication „Floating Volumes #4 - Layering DiverCity.
ISBN: 978-3-86485-098-1, Emine Şahinaz Akalın, Arne Bunk, Erich Pick, Gustav Mechlenburg (Hrsg. /...