Here and Now, and After?

İz Öztat

İz Öztat (b. 1981, Istanbul; lives and works in Berlin) is an artist whose practice spans moving image, installation, writing, and research. She studied Fine Arts and Visual Communication Design (MA) at Sabancı University, Istanbul, and Studio Art (BA, with honors) at Oberlin College, Ohio. She was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme (2024–25). Recent and selected exhibitions include the 6th Kyiv Biennial at MSN, Warsaw (2025), OFF-Biennale Budapest (2025), the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2023, collection), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), and the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015). Öztat has held residencies with Swiss Institute SAHA (2025), the Istanbul–Berlin Residency Program (2022), and SAHA Studio (2021).