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What is fascinating about Nilbar Güreş’s art is the unique poetic and humorous inventiveness that always also has a critical and political undertone. In her photographs, collages, objects and videos, Güreş explores clichés of the social visibility of women in different cultural fields, whether in Turkey, her country of origin, or in Brazil. She sketches out and stages humorously challenging counter-images and -figures, in which she subverts conventional role attributions. At the same time, she subtly brings into play the defensive attitude of western society toward the traditional dress codes of cultures influenced by religion. Her Pictures and objects evince a high degree of sensuous materiality, are strangely puzzling, often charged with eroticism, and lead into a multifaceted, contradictory reality that prompts reflection.

Nilbar Güreş was born in 1977 in Istanbul, studied at the Department of Fine Arts at the Marmara University in Istanbul and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She lives in Vienna and Istanbul.

Curator: Silvia Eiblmayr

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1
4020 Linz
Austria
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Art, Vienna,

Selection of further exhibitions in: Austria

29.01.2016 - 26.06.2026
Albertina Museum Wien
Albertinaplatz 1
Wien

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NILBAR GÜREŞOverhead Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Main address: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 4020 Linz, Austria Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 4020 Linz, Austria What is fascinating about Nilbar Güreş’s art is the unique poetic and humorous inventiveness that always also has a critical and political undertone. In her photographs, collages, objects and videos, Güreş explores clichés of the social visibility of women in different cultural fields, whether in Turkey, her country of origin, or in Brazil. She sketches out and stages humorously challenging counter-images and -figures, in which she subverts conventional role attributions. At the same time, she subtly brings into play the defensive attitude of western society toward the traditional dress codes of cultures influenced by religion. Her Pictures and objects evince a high degree of sensuous materiality, are strangely puzzling, often charged with eroticism, and lead into a multifaceted, contradictory reality that prompts reflection.

Nilbar Güreş was born in 1977 in Istanbul, studied at the Department of Fine Arts at the Marmara University in Istanbul and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She lives in Vienna and Istanbul.

Curator: Silvia Eiblmayr
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