Cemile Sahin

Cemile Sahin

Cemile Sahin

Born 1990 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.

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Exhibition view: Cemile Sahin, BB – BORN TO BLOOM, 2025. Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, 2025. Photo © Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.

Introduction

Cemile Sahin's artistic practice operates between film, photography, sculpture, and literature. Freely deploying different media, without privileging one or the other, her work embodies today's synchronicity of image- and text-based communications.

Full biography

Selected works

Gallery Exhibitions

ROAD RUNNER Cemile Sahin

ROAD RUNNER

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Cemile Sahin’s ROAD RUNNER, which presents all new works. This is Sahin’s second project at the gallery after a presentation in the Niche space in 2021,...

February 1—March 5, 2025

Esther Schipper, Berlin

Summer '22 With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui

Summer '22

With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui

Esther Schipper is pleased to present Summer ’22, a group exhibition with works by Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui.

July 21—August 27, 2022

Esther Schipper, Berlin

It Would Have Taught Me Wisdom Cemile Sahin

It Would Have Taught Me Wisdom

Esther Schipper Berlin is pleased to present It Would Have Taught Me Wisdom, Cemile Sahin’s first presentation with the gallery. Part of Gallery Weekend *Discoveries.

September 17—October 30, 2021

Esther Schipper, Berlin

External Exhibitions

«BB – BORN TO BLOOM» Cemile Sahin

«BB – BORN TO BLOOM»

The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is dedicating her first solo exhibition in Switzerland to the artist Cemile Sahin (*1990 in Wiesbaden/DE, lives in Berlin/DE). Cemile Sahin is a storyteller working across a...

September 6—November 16, 2025

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

ROAD RUNNER Cemile Sahin

ROAD RUNNER

Fondazione ICA Milano presents the exhibition ROAD RUNNER, the first solo show by Cemile Sahin (Wiesbaden, Germany, 1990) in an Italian institution. The exhibition, curated by Chiara Nuzzi and set up in...

March 27—July 11, 2025

Look at the People! The New Objectivity “Type” Portrait in the Weimar Period With Cemile Sahin

Look at the People! The New Objectivity “Type” Portrait in the Weimar Period

With Cemile Sahin

The exhibition focuses on the neo-objective type portrait in the historical context of the Weimar period (1918–1933). The project makes a connection to the present with an installation by Cemile Sahin, which...

December 2, 2023—April 14, 2024

EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS

Gallery Weekend Berlin – Festival With Cemile Sahin's Four Ballads for my Father – Spring

Gallery Weekend Berlin – Festival

With Cemile Sahin's Four Ballads for my Father – Spring

On the closing weekend of Berlin Art Week (September 16 and 17), Gallery Weekend Berlin is organizing a Festival with a curated program of events and happenings. The program includes a screening...

Screenings: September 16 and 17, 4.15pm

Studio Mondial, Berlin

Exhibition view: Cemile Sahin, Gewehr im Schrank / Rifle in the Closet, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, 2023. Photo © Christian Lauer

Gewehr im Schrank / Rifle in the Closet

For the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Cemile Sahin has developed a spatial installation entitled Gewehr im Schrank - Rifle in the Closet, in which she addresses the historical development of Western societies’ militarization, with Switzerland as a case study. The title...

April 28—July 23, 2023

Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

Film premiere: Four Ballads for my Father – Spring Cemile Sahin

Film premiere: Four Ballads for my Father – Spring

Cemile Sahin's film Spring, the first part of her new project Four Ballads for my Father, will premiere at the Volksbühne on February 8th, followed by a discussion between the artist, activists and film theorists.

February 8, 2023, 8pm

Volksbühne, Berlin

A Song of Tigris and Euphrates Cemile Sahin

A Song of Tigris and Euphrates

At the center of Cemile Sahin's installation for Kunsthalle Osnabrück is the premiere of the first part of her film series Vier Balladen für meinen Vater [Four Ballads For My Father].

November 5, 2022—March 5, 2023

Kunsthalle Osnabrück

16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility With Cemile Sahin

16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility

With Cemile Sahin

At the 16th Lyon Biennale, titled manifesto of fragility, Cemile Sahin presents Drone Valley, 2022, a new video installation.

September 14—December 31, 2022

Various locations, Lyon

Arbeit am Gedächtnis – Transforming Archives With Cemile Sahin

Arbeit am Gedächtnis – Transforming Archives

With Cemile Sahin

Cemile Sahin, who is presenting a new installation at the gallery, is also presenting a film project at the Akademie der Künste.

June 17 - September 19, 2021

Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Laboratory of Contested Space / Art & Truthtelling with Cemile Sahin

Laboratory of Contested Space / Art & Truthtelling

with Cemile Sahin

In the light of the global revival of the far-right and contested spaces of interpretation in society, the laboratory addresses digitality, post-truth and historiography as well as contemporary artistic strategies against misinformation...

May 27—June 10, 2020

Akademie der Künste, Online laboratory

ars viva 2020 with Cemile Sahin

ars viva 2020

with Cemile Sahin

The Kunstverein in Hamburg is delighted to be hosting the ars viva award exhibition again this year after 2003. Since 1953, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. has been...

February 15—17, 2020

Kunstverein in Hamburg

Tell me about yesterday tomorrow with Cemile Sahin

Tell me about yesterday tomorrow

with Cemile Sahin

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” (James Baldwin) The exhibition titled Tell me about yesterday tomorrow opens up a dialogue between...

November 28, 2019—October 18, 2020

NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Munich

ars viva 2020 with Cemile Sahin

ars viva 2020

with Cemile Sahin

In the exhibition ars viva 2020, the works of the award winners of the ars viva prize will be presented parallel to the annual conference of the BDI Kulturkreis in Leipzig. At...

October 13, 2019—January 12, 2020

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

Featured stories

Autorin Cemile Sahin erhält Erich-Fried-Preis Salzburger Nachrichten

Autorin Cemile Sahin erhält Erich-Fried-Preis

Salzburger Nachrichten

Cemile Sahin at Esther Schipper ARTFORUM

Cemile Sahin at Esther Schipper

Kommando Ajax by Cemile Sahin

WIE EIN FIEBERTRAUM

Berliner Zeitung

Und was machst du am Wochenende? / Cemile Sahin

Ali oder nichts

Frankfurter Allgemeine

Monopol 100 Featuring AA Bronson, Cemile Sahin, Hito Steyerl, and Ugo Rondinone

Monopol 100

Featuring AA Bronson, Cemile Sahin, Hito Steyerl, and Ugo Rondinone

Revenge or salvation: Turin's Artissima trade fair celebrates its 30th anniversary Tagesspeigel

Revenge or salvation: Turin's Artissima trade fair celebrates its 30th anniversary

Cemile Sahin wins Circa Prize 2023, exploring hope through Kurdish-inspired storytelling Wallpaper Magazine

Cemile Sahin wins Circa Prize 2023, exploring hope through Kurdish-inspired storytelling

Wallpaper Magazine

Cemile Sahin is announced winner of the CIRCA PRIZE 2023

Cemile Sahin is announced winner of the CIRCA PRIZE 2023

Weapons of Choice – Transforming information into aesthetics, Cemile Sahin challenges state power ArtReview

Weapons of Choice – Transforming information into aesthetics, Cemile Sahin challenges state power

Cemile Sahin. Prototypen der Gewalt in Monopol

Cemile Sahin. Prototypen der Gewalt

Cemile Sahin speaks with CCMA Catalonia

Cemile Sahin speaks with CCMA Catalonia

Cemile Sahin speaks with CCMA Catalonia at Loop Barcelona (CAT/EN)

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Letter from Berlin October 2022

Letter from Berlin

Letter from Berlin

Welcome to the Letter from Berlin! This Letter from Berlin should rightfully be titled 'Letter from Paris'! We begin with projects in Paris: Etienne Chambaud's exhibitions in Paris and in Lille, as...

Summer ’22

Summer ’22

This summer Esther Schipper is pleased to present Summer '22, an exhibition of works from Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui.

July 21 – August 27, 2022

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the representation of Cemile Sahin

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the representation of Cemile Sahin

Cemile Sahin was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1990. She studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. She...

Publications

Cemile Sahin ALLE HUNDE STERBEN

Cemile Sahin

ALLE HUNDE STERBEN

Cemile Sahin tells the story of nine people who find their exile in a high-rise building in western Turkey in nine episodes. They all have experienced torture, violence and abduction by units...

Cemile Sahin TAXI

Cemile Sahin

Eine Mutter entdeckt einen Mann, der ihrem Sohn ähnelt. Ihrem Sohn, den sie an einen Krieg verloren hat. Der Krieg war natürlich sinnlos, hat aber auch der Mutter die Hoheit über ihre...

Cemile Sahin Kommando Ajax

Cemile Sahin

A novel told as quickly as Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’: a Kurdish wedding in Rotterdam. A sniper who fires a shot in the course of the evening. A group of friends between the...

Cemile Sahin All Dogs Die

Cemile Sahin

How do you live with violence and dread? How do you cope with the threat of them recurring? These are among the urgent questions posed by Cemile Sahin's second novel, and the...

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