Voyage Trough Cosmos (Emigration to Vienna), each 5cm X 5cm,  2005

  UNDRESSING / SOYUNMA  Video- performance, 06:19 min. 2006  As we all know, in the last few years the European opinion on Islam and Muslim countries has changed. The reason for my performance was to question and discuss the situation of Muslim women living in Austria who are affected by the racist climate in the public space, who ...

    Stranger 00:10:20, 3 canal installation, 2004 Vicdan Azabi 00:04:20, 2005 Undressing 00:06:20, 2006 Performances; Üsküdar, Fatih, Besiktas, Kadiköy, 4  canal installation, 2008 Unknown Sports; indoor exercises  00:12:30,  2009 Open Phone Booth 00:33:46, 3 canal installation, 2011

  Performances These performances are part of the series “Unknown Sports - Public Space”. They took place in Istanbul in the summer of 2008. If a miniskirt wearing woman is being raped, according to Article 29 of the Turkish Criminal Code related to “Unfair Provocation”, she is considered an accessory to the crime or may be arrested for ...

Performances These performances are part of the series “Unknown Sports - Public Space”. They took place in Istanbul in the summer of 2008. If a miniskirt wearing woman is being raped, according to Article 29 of the Turkish Criminal Code related to “Unfair Provocation”, she is considered an accessory to the crime or may be arrested for ...

Ayse loves Fatma, 120cmX180cm, c-print, 2011

              I like wearing dresses for women, not men.  131cm x 158cm, mixed media on fabric, 2012   Artist's Home- Studio, 104cm X 234cm, mixed media on fabric, 2013     My totems and I as a totem, mixed media on paper, 130cm X 190cm, 2013       Rivers of Heaven, mixed media on fabric, 2011   Bulasik yikayan ve öpülen el & Ütügünü, dyptich each ...

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                                                                        The Village of Exception A short introduction This text was written during the summer of 2011 in collaboration with Vienna based artist Nilbar Güreş. Her new project, “Open Phone Booth” (2007-2011), has been in development for some time and is still a work in progress. The work will be shown at Frieze Frame during October 2011. Following ...

trabZONE                       Nilbar Güres' settings play a pivotal role catalyzing her reenactments. Her selected locations are embedded with different meanings from her past. The open-ended narratives she scripts are shaped by the settings which the former aim to deterritorialize. The artist investigates ways of changing the grammatical constructions of her memory and thus the collective unconscious via ...

Living Room,120cm X 180cm, photography, 2010       A Family Portrait, 120cm X 180cm, photography, 2010       Mirror, 120cm X 180cm, photography, 2010       Playing with a watergun, 120cm X 180cm, photography, 2010       Sefine, 120cm X 180cm, photography, 2010               CIRCIR (Images for 6th Berlin Biennial) Nilbar Güres¸ declares war on the prevailing relations between the sexes by playful means, her weapons ranging from sewing needles to boxing gloves. In drawings, collages, performances, ...

A young woman is exercising on uneven parallel bars while having her legs waxed by another woman, dressed as a house cleaner. A woman is performing a gymnastic balancing act atop a pommel horse, dressed inappropriately as a housewife, with her head covered, while another woman attempts to go under her skirt with a hygienic pad.