Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç is a Berlin-based political scientist, poet, and interdisciplinary artist. His widely acclaimed book “Muslimaniac: The Career of an Enemy Image” was published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2023. In addition to academic texts, Keskinkılıç writes essays, prose, radio plays, and poetry. In August 2022 his debut collection „Prinzenbad“ was published by Elif Verlag. His poetry is deeply rooted in early Islamic spirituality, queer futurism and cultural-linguistic hybridity. He regularly collaborates with artists from other disciplines to combine literature and poetry with sound, film and theater. His work has been presented in art galleries, various cultural spaces and museums including the Museum of Things and the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin, the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Literaturpassage in Vienna, and most recently at the Berlin ACUD Gallery. In his art, Keskinkılıç explores themes of race and religion, migration and memory as well as queerness and gender with a subversive, futuristic and often satirical approach. In 2024, he has been nominated for the Clemens-Brentano-Prize and the Dresden Poetry Prize; the jury considers the outstanding features of his writing to include “language that creates open visual and perceptual spaces, sharply contrasted with hard-hitting irony, working with clichés and attributions, humor and a high degree of variability.”

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