Nil Yalter

Solo Exhibition

8 November 2024 - 31 January 2025

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce Nil Yalter’s first solo exhibition in Ireland. 

Nil Yalter was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1938.  She has spent most of her life between her native Turkey and Paris. Widely appraised as the first Turkish female video artist, Yalter’s work is partly defined by the perspective of being a female immigrant.  Throughout her career, Yalter has created an extensive body of work that seeks to shed light on cultural identity, ethnicity, immigration and feminism. Characterised by her use of tools such as photography, video, drawing, interactive media and text, her work challenges conventional historical narratives and pushes the boundaries of storytelling in contemporary art. 

Originally a painter and educated at Robert College in Istanbul, Nil Yalter first moved to Paris in 1965 where she lives and works still.  Immersed in circles of counter-artworld activists and feminists throughout her youth, Yalter is considered the author of the first interactive art work from Turkey and a pioneer of the French feminist art movement of the 1970s.

Her work has been exhibited and celebrated worldwide by major institutions and biennali. ( Also in November '24 see :  https://www.ntmofa.gov.tw/en/News_Content.aspx?n=1618&s=226137 )  It gives a platform to marginalised communities such as immigrant workers, female labourers and former prisoners.

For a lifetime of original and groundbreaking art Nil Yalter has been awarded this year the Venice Biannale Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award.

Exile is a hard job is currently centre stage in Room 1 of the Gardini's Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024.  The Venice Biennale closes on Sunday 24th of November 2024.   ( See :  https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/nucleo-contemporaneo/nil-yalter )
 

Come and see the exhibition at the Green On Red Gallery, from May 16th to July 5th 2024. You can find us at Park Lane, Spencer Dock, North Wall, Dublin 1.

Nil Yalter  Circular rituals 1992  Wall text and video with sound