Helin Özdemir is a visual artist, curator, researcher and writer based between The Hague and Vienna. Her practice is grounded in the intersections of public art and critical studies, postcolonial theory and the politics of visibility — exploring how images, materials and archives carry the weight of displacement, memory and belonging.
Central to her work is an investigation into the rhetoric of invasion and nativeness — in landscapes, bodies and borders. Through fieldwork, material experimentation and critical writing, she builds an artistic discourse that is as much analytical as it is sensory.
Education
Master of Arts University of Applied Arts Vienna - Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
Bachelor of Fine Arts Bilkent University - Communication Design
Guest Student Tilburg University - Online Culture: Art, Media and Society
Selected Exhibitions
Dark skies (The Hague, 2025)
After Confusion (Vienna, 2025)
Puzzle Tiles (Vienna, 2024)
Booster Club Lonely City (Vienna, 2024)
Subliminal Realms (Vienna, 2024)
COMD EYE (Ankara, 2023)
Salzburg Art Academy Group Show (Salzburg, 2023)
BASE Istanbul (Istanbul, 2023)
Istanbul Design Week - Our Universe: Illustrators Platform (Istanbul, 2021)
Fellowships and Residencies
Het Lage Noorden - 2025
Arts of Change - Change of Arts - 2024
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg - 2023
Illustrator's Platform Turkey - 2020 - 2021
Publications
Chronicles of a one big fat summer (2024)
A wild patience has taken me this far (2023)