Artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci has a background in architecture, which informs her poetic and experiential video-based work and installations that accumulate traces of ‘material culture’ related to forced displacement. Her works are decolonial and feminist readings from the intersections of social and political research, everyday practices, and human stories that follow agents of forced migration. Öğrenci engages with place, site and architecture as the materialisation of violence. Her practice serves as a response to a collective past often left in silence and urging her audience to imagine a future built on justice, equality, and collective healing. By delving into local archives, she initiates a process of collaborative memory, engaging communities in questioning what has been remembered, erased, or overlooked. Her works invites us to witness the rich, multifaceted layers of survival, resistance, resilience.

Her works have been exhibited widely at museums, art institutions including HKW (2025), Venice Biennial (2024), Harward Museum (2024), documenta fifteen (2022), 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018), 6th Athens Biennial (2018), Sharjah Biennial13 (2017), Survival Kit (2019), Tensta Konsthall Stockholm (2018), MAXXI Museum, Rome ( 2016), SALT Galata, Istanbul (2015-6). She had solo exhibitions at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG, 2025), Frac Bretagne (2024), Berlinische Galerie (2023), Kunst Haus-Hundertwasser Museum in Vienna (2017) and Depo İstanbul (2017). Her works included private and public collections such as Neue Galerie Kassel, Fraq Bretain France, Harward Museum, Stadt Museum Berlin and İstanbul Modern Museum. Besides receiving prestigious inherit scholarship from Humboldt University for 2026, she will have a solo exhibition at Harward Museum and participating group exhibitions at Neu Galerie Kassel and Martin Gropius Bau Berlin in 2026.