Paulina Akbay (*1997 in Istanbul) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and researcher currently based in Cologne, Germany. They obtained an interdisciplinary media degree (BA) covering educational media research, media education and didactics, media cultural studies, media arts and artistic research as well as media psychology from the University of Cologne (UzK) back in 2020. Since the same year they are studying the Media Arts programme (diploma) at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). They are engaging with a wide range of topics and materials there. Media covered by Akbay include photography, film, clay, drawing, painting and writing. Always open to explore new things they and their neurodivergence do not settle for only one medium or topic at the time continuously searching for their next special interest.