ARTIST TALK: HODA AFSHAR AND PINAR ÖĞRENCI

13.02.2026 / 19:00 – 21:00
With Hoda Afshar

13.02.2026 / 07:00 pm / daadgalerie

In this conversation, artists Hoda Afshar (fellow 2025/26) and Pinar Öğrenci engage in a dialogue around their artistic practices and the questions that connect them. Through their works, they explore themes of migration, displacement, friendship, and the notion of home, alongside broader concerns of social justice and community building.

Both artists work closely with communities and their stories, addressing histories shaped by violence, memory, and loss, while also considering processes of repair and care. Drawing on archival research and image-making as an evolving process, they rethink dominant narratives and develop transnational practices grounded in collaboration, attentiveness, and trust. The conversation will also reflect on the use of beauty as a means to give agency and humanize lived experience.

Moderated by Övül Durmusoğlu

daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Admission free / talk in English

Image credits:
left: Hoda Afshar, “Aura” (2020-2023), installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2023). Image by Anna Kucera., courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Australia
right: Pınar Öğrenci, “Aşît -The Avalanche” (2022), installation view, documenta fifteen, Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel