On Wednesday 26 March Fondazione ICA Milano opens to the public its Spring exhibition program, designed to intersect the city's two major thematic weeks, with three new projects, presented for the first time in Italy.

Cemile Sahin's exhibition ROAD RUNNER continues the program of the institution's project room with a project that addresses urgent political issues of our present.

Fondazione ICA Milano project room is dedicated to the exhibition ROAD RUNNER by Cemile Sahin (Germany, 1990), curated by Chiara Nuzzi. ROAD RUNNER is the title of Sahin’s latest film, a fast-paced sci-fi thriller which tells the story of two sisters trapped in between physical and virtual realities. As is typical of Sahin’s practice, the film seamlessly uses text within the imagery, and jumps between styles including action films, video games, commercials, and animation. In her signature, poppy style Sahin addresses the overlap between war and game technologies and the casual presence of violence and surveillance in everyday life. 

ROAD RUNNER is presented in collaboration with CIRCA and funded by the #CIRCAECONOMY.

The exhibition is realized thanks to the contribution of Esther Schipper Berlin / Paris / Seoul.


Cemile Sahin

Cemile Sahin (Wiesbaden, 1990) is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin. Her practice spans film, photography, sculpture and literature, exploring the relationship between images and texts in a fragmentary narrative language inspired by contemporary media. She studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her novels TAXI (2019) and ALLE HUNDE STERBEN (2020) are integral parts of her artistic practice. She received prestigious awards, including the Alfred Döblin Medaille, the ars viva Prize 2020 for Visual Arts and the CIRCA Prize (2023). Her works have been exhibited in international institutions and are part of collections such as Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunsthaus Zürich and Castello di Rivoli, Turin.