Exhibition
free access
gnration
Gnration
Free access
Praça Conde de Agrolongo n° 123 4700-312 Braga
Mon to Fri 09:30-18:30
Sat 10:00-18:30
This exhibition can be visited until August 8th.
©Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
©Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
©Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
©Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
In “BB — Born to Bloom” (2025), Sahin continues her research on the intersection of war and nature. She examines how nature becomes not only a stage for armed conflict but also a tool of military strategy: landscapes turn into barriers, natural resources become causes of war, and forests serve as camouflage. At the same time, nature carries a collective identity, making it a target of psychological warfare. In this body of work, Sahin brings together two historically connected geographies—Switzerland and Kurdistan. Through bold, almost poster-like images, she reveals contrasting yet entangled realities: the Swiss Alps appear as a militarized terrain marked by bunkers and training grounds, while the Kurdish mountain ranges emerge as a site of life, cultural heritage, and long-awaited freedom.
Cemile Sahin
Cemile Sahin was born in Germany in 1990. She studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her works are part of the collections of the Museum Ludwig (Cologne), the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin/Düsseldorf), the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (Turin), among others. In dialogue with her exhibition work, Cemile Sahin has published three novels: Taxi (2019), which earned her the German Alfred Döblin Literary Prize; All Dogs Die (2020) and Kommando Ajax (2024), the latter being shortlisted for the Vienna Literature Prize.