Helin Özdemir (she/her) is a Vienna based visual artist specializing in graphic art, printmaking and textile art. The relationship between visual culture and philosophy intrigues and inspires her art and as an artist, her artistic paradigm centers around activism. Embracing design as a tool of dialogue, she works around the themes of memory, lived experiences and feelings of belonging and detachment.
While taking her undergraduate degree, she witnessed her artistic paradigm becoming a predominantly conceptualistic and argumentative discourse that often utilises theoretical writing and discourse around graphic arts as a framework for culture. Throughout this journey, her art has opened up and owned a political imagery. By intertwining her self-portraits, handwritten elements, print imagery, and organic materials, she creates art that evolves through concepts, spaces, patterns, and objects, resulting in a captivating interplay revolve and embrace into politics.
She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at University of Applied Arts Vienna, having also attended Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Education
Master of Arts University of Applied Arts Vienna - Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
Bachelor of Fine Arts Bilkent University - Communication Design
Minor of Fine Arts Bilkent University - Graphic Design
Guest Student Tilburg University - Online Culture: Art, Media and Society
Guest Student Design Academy Eindhoven - Contextual Design
Selected Exhibitions
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
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)
Film Projects
Detached (2023), Director
Until your last breath (2023), 2nd Art Assistant
Birthday Complex (2021), Production Designer
Soul Train (2021), Sound Designer
Ankara Film Festival Documentary (2021), Sound Designer