Her artistic practice encompasses painting, collage, photography, and artists’ books. Starting from a personal archive of found and self-produced images, she develops image constellations in which fragments overlap and spaces of resonance emerge. Recurring formal and symbolic elements point to hybrid states between human and animal, body and image, presence and absence. In her work, Altın understands images as a living presence that invites listening and encounter.

Altın studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MFA, 2006). From 2020 to 2021 she held a substitute professorship in photography at the HGB Leipzig, and in 2023 she led the Visiting Artist Studio at the UMPRUM Academy in Prague. Özlem Altın lives in Berlin.

Her work has been shown, among other venues, at the Berlinische Galerie (2024), the Venice Biennale (2022), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020), the Istanbul Biennial (2019), and the Berlin Biennale (2018). In 2024 Altın received the Hannah Höch Förderpreis and the Tiemann Prize, and in 2020 the Villa Romana Prize in Florence.