Ahu Sahin, is an Amsterdam based contemporary visual artist. Ahu completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
She reflects on modern day society and believes in the strength of silence. She aims to make committed art without giving up poetic sophistication. Ahu is interested in the role of individuals within changing social environments, in alienation, autonomy and conformism. Her art is covers a wide range of mediums. Her installations are a combination of film and sculptural objects which have an intense colour (luminous, fluorescent) and a trace of movement.
She reflects on modern day society and believes in the strength of silence. She aims to make committed art without giving up poetic sophistication. Ahu is interested in the role of individuals within changing social environments, in alienation, autonomy and conformism. Her art is covers a wide range of mediums. Her installations are a combination of film and sculptural objects which have an intense colour (luminous, fluorescent) and a trace of movement.
“I aim to transfer emotion, because understanding the work is not enough to truly grasp it.”
- Ahu Sahin
Exhibitions
2022 Ever Emerging Mag, publication, The Body Says No, 2018, performance, video stills.
2020 Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
2020 The wrong degree show, featuring 1000+ graduates & curators of schools and univerities around the world.
2020 Hasta la vista, graduation exhibition Dogtime 2020, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
2019 Si.si.spex. #9 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
2018 Thunder high on the mountain, Vrij paleis, Amsterdam.
2017 Seeking Terrain, NDSM fuse, Amsterdam.