The practice of Nilbar GÜREŞ (b. 1977, Istanbul) spans photography, video, film, painting, performance, sculpture, installation and mixed media collage on fabric. Her works depart from biography then swirls around to address larger issues, and is particularly sound to social injustice, gender roles and cultural identity codes – she researches, documents and finds poetic ways to flout conventions in witty figurations.
Güreş received a B.A. in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Marmara University, Istanbul, and an M.A. in Painting & Graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Upon receiving her M.A., the artist studied Art and Textile Pedagogy at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has received the Outstanding Artist Award for Photography by Ministry for arts and culture Vienna, Austria in 2023, Research Grant Ministry for Arts & Culture Austria in 2023, the Hilde Goldschmidt Prize in 2013, the Otto Mauer Award of 2014, Fifth edition of the BC21 (Belvedere Contemporary) Art Award 2015 in Austria, and De'Longhi Art Projects Artist Award of London Art Fair in 2018, Prix Maud Mottier Award in 2021. In 2012, Güreş completed a residency at International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York, supported by BMUKK, Vienna.
Nilbar Güreş lives and works in Naples and Vienna.
