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Nil Yalter

March 03, 2023

Nil Yalter (born 1938) is a Turkish contemporary feminist artist. She attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives and works in Paris. Her work, which is included in many collections and museums, includes not only drawings and photographs, but also videos and performance art.[3] In fact she is the first Turkish female video artist.[1]

Nil Yalter
Born
Nil Yalter

(1938-01-15) January 15, 1938 (age 85) [1]
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityTurkish and French[2]
Alma materRutgers University Institute for Women and Art
Known forcontemporary feminist artist
MovementFrench counterculture and revolutionary movements

Early life

Nil Yalter was born in 1938 in Cairo, Egypt where she lived until the age of four.[4] She is Turkish and later in her life became also a French national. She received her education from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey.[3] She started painting at an early age and took dance and ballet classes. In 1956, she traveled to India on foot while practicing pantomime. She had her first exhibition of paintings inspired by this travel at the French Cultural Institute in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1957. Between 1963 and 1964 she worked as stage and costume designer for theatre companies in Istanbul. In 1963, she participated at the 3rd Paris Biennale with abstract compositions under the curatorship of Nurullah Berk.[4][5] She moved to Paris in 1965, after she became politically involved with sociological topics, specifically focusing migration and women. Her poster exhibition, that has been hung around the world, was subject to criticism.[6] The poster writes ″Şu Gurbetlik Zor Zaanat Zor″ in Turkish which has been translated as ″Exile is hard work″, aims to raise awareness of the situation of people in exile. However, "gurbetlik" does not mean "exile", but rather someone living in a different country than their own.[7]

Early career

Yalter moved to Paris in 1965 and took part in the French counterculture and revolutionary movements which prompted her to move away from abstract constructivist painting to start working with the medium of video and to use her own body.[8] In the 1970s, she led the beginning of the French feminist art movement.[3] In 1973, Yalter created an installation inspired by the temporary dwelling structures of Turkic nomads titled Topak Ev, a nomad's tent as a study of private, public and feminine spaces at A.R.C. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.[9] Topak Ev marked the beginning of Yalter's use of sociological and ethnographic methods in her work. While the installation was based on research conducted around Niğde on nomadic tents, the exhibition also included panels gathering drawings, collages, photographs and handwritten descriptions on the structure and dimensions of nomadic tents, materials used in their making and decorative elements.[4] In 1974, she created a video titled The Headless Woman (The Belly Dance), a piece that stands out in French contemporary art history as one of the early feminist-art classics.[10] The video frames the artist's belly as she writes a text on around her navel. The text is an excerpt from René Nelli's Erotique et Civilisations (1972) and states that "a woman's sexuality is both convex and concave", emphasizing the vaginal and clitoral orgasmic potentials of women. Yalter then "activates" the text by belly dancing, the gyrations of her belly animate the letters.[8] The work is emblematic of some of the formal gestures and critical strategies Yalter developed in the coming years: creating a reversal of the male gaze by objectifying her own body through the camera, Yalter refers to women's sexual liberation from patriarchal control, while at the same time commenting on the Orientalist eroticization of Middle Eastern women in Western art.[4][8]

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Yalter created a series of works combining her interest in gender issues and feminism with a focus on marginalized communities such as migrant workers in Europe and former prisoners. Temporary Dwellings, first exhibited in Grenoble, France, in 1977 investigates the living conditions and experiences of migrant workers as told by women.[11][12] A video installation created in collaboration with Judy Blum and Nicole Croizet in 1974, La Roquette, Prison de Femmes reconstructs the living conditions in the Roquette women's prison in Paris with a video and series of photographs and drawings based on former inmate Mimi's memories related to daily rites and objects describing the experience of a panoptical space.[13]

Yalter was a member of several collectives of female artists in Paris in the 1970s, such as Femmes en Lutte and Femmes/Art which gathered around socially engaged practices and the women's struggle for visibility in the arts.[14] From 1980 to 1995, Yalter acted as an associate at Sorbonne University.[5]

Later career

In the 1990s, with the advent of digital technologies, Nil Yalter developed her video practice by using 3D animation techniques and electronic sound editing. Multiplying the image and its surface by way of geometrical shapes, this use of digital techniques operates interruptions within the image and opens up a space for intertextuality in her video works. Most emblematic of this process is Pixellismus (1996) which took the form of an interactive CD-ROM. The work is an investigation of the relationship between Byzantine mosaics and pixels, inspired by the writings of Malevitch on modernism.[4]

In 2007 Nil Yalter participated at the traveling survey exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution organized by Cornelia Butler with La Roquette, Prison de Femmes.[15] The exhibition brought wider international exposure to Yalter's work, and she has enjoyed a large number of solo exhibitions since then.[16] In 2016, she had two retrospectives, "Off The Record" at Arter, Istanbul[17] and "Nil Yalter", Frac Lorraine, Metz,[18] and a monographic exhibition at La Verriere - Fondation Hermes,[19] Brussels, followed by "D'apres Stimmung" in 2017 at Ludwig Museum, Cologne.[20] In 2018, she was the recipient of "Outstanding Merit Award" AWARE 2018.[21]

Her most recent works produced between 2015 and 2018 were exhibited at her solo exhibition Kara Kum at Galerist, Istanbul in March–April 2018.[22]

Collections

Nil Yalter's works are held in the permanent collections of Tate Modern,[12] İstanbul Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Fonds national d'art contemporain,[23] Ludwig Museum,[24] Long Beach Museum, Aksanat, Koç Contemporary, Reydan Weiss Collection,[25] Deutsche Telekom Art Collection,[26] Foto Colectania Foundation, Coleccion Olorvisual and Sammlung Verbund.[3][5]

Exhibitions

Nil Yalter has participated at the 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), the 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013),[27] 10th Paris Biennale (1977) and traveling survey exhibitions such as WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; PS1 MoMa New York; Contemporary Art Center Vancouver 2007-2008), elles@centrepompidou (Centre Pompidou Paris; Centro Cultural Banco de Brazil, Rio de Janeiro; Seattle Art Museum 2013) and Desire for Freedom (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin;[28] Palazzo Reale, Milano; Eesti Kunstimuuseum – Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn; Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczesnej MOCAK, Krakau 2013).

In recent years her work has been shown at:[5] Clark House Initiative / Kadist Art Foundation, Mumbai (2014); Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (2014); SALT Istanbul (2013); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam (2012); Centro Cultural Belem Lisbon (2010); Akademie der Kunst Berlin (2009).

In 2019, Fabienne Dumont co-curated a retrospective at the MAC VAL and edited two books: Nil Yalter - Where the memories of migrants, feminists and workers meet mythology (Vitry-sur-Seine, MAC VAL, 2019)[29] and Nil Yalter - Interview with Fabienne Dumont (Paris, Manuella Editions, 2019).[30]

References

  1. ^ a b "İstanbul Kadın Müzesi - Nil Yalter". www.istanbulkadinmuzesi.org.
  2. ^ "Politics of Writing Art Histories in Turkey: Nil Yalter and The Round House". University of Leeds. 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d "Nil Yalter". The Fertile Crescent. Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e Yücel, Derya (2013). Nil Yalter. Istanbul / Berlin: Revolver. ISBN 9783868953305.
  5. ^ a b c d Tezkan, Melis. "Biography". Nil Yalter. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Nil Yalter: Turkish-French art pioneer emerges from exile | DW | 06.03.2019". DW.COM.
  7. ^ "expatriate noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced American Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com". www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com.
  8. ^ a b c Schor, Gabriele (2016). Feminist Avant-Garde: art of the 1970s: The Sammlung Verbund Collection. Vienna: Prestel. pp. 152–155. ISBN 9783791354460.
  9. ^ "Nil Yalter works 1970/1979". Nil Yalter. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  10. ^ Ersen, Leyla. "Criticism of Orientalism by Contemporary Turkish Feminist Artists; Nil Yalter, Aakran Moral and Galsan Karamustafa". Turkish Art History Conference, Paris, 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  11. ^ Dumont, Fabienne. "Nil Yalter : memory, migrants and workers in 1970s-1980s France". Nil Yalter. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  12. ^ a b Tate. "'Temporary Dwellings', Nil Yalter, 1974-7 | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  13. ^ Noble, Kathy. "Nil Yalter". Nil Yalter. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  14. ^ Dallier, Aline (1978). "Le Mouvement des Femmes dans l'Art". Les Cahiers du GRIF. 23: 140–145. doi:10.3406/grif.1978.2147. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  15. ^ (PDF). moca.org. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  16. ^ Kortun, Vasif. "Nil Yalter Book Launch and Artist Talk with Vasif Kortun". Youtube. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  17. ^ "ARTER - space for art". ARTER - space for art. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  18. ^ "Nil Yalter". www.fraclorraine.org. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  19. ^ "Welcome". en-fondation.digital.hermes.com. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  20. ^ "Museum Ludwig - Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst". gesellschaft-museum-ludwig.de. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  21. ^ "Nil Yalter Awarded Prix Aware's Outstanding Merit Prize". Art Forum. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  22. ^ "Matter and meaning through black holes and universes". DailySabah. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  23. ^ "Collection en ligne | Centre national des arts plastiques". www.cnap.fr (in French). 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  24. ^ "Museum Ludwig - Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst". gesellschaft-museum-ludwig.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  25. ^ "Weserburg: I Prefer Life". www.weserburg.de. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  26. ^ . art-collection-telekom.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-22.
  27. ^ . 13b.iksv.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  28. ^ "Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin – The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945 - Exhibition". www.dhm.de. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  29. ^ Dumont, Fabienne (2019). Nil Yalter : à la confluence des mémoires migrantes, féministes, ouvrières et des mythologies. Charles Penwarden, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Vitry-sur-Seine. ISBN 978-2-900450-05-5. OCLC 1128025006.
  30. ^ "Launch of Interview with Nil Yalter - e-flux Agenda". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-01-24.

External links

  • Nil Yalter

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yalter, born, 1938, turkish, contemporary, feminist, artist, attended, robert, college, istanbul, turkey, currently, lives, works, paris, work, which, included, many, collections, museums, includes, only, drawings, photographs, also, videos, performance, fact,. Nil Yalter born 1938 is a Turkish contemporary feminist artist She attended Robert College in Istanbul Turkey and currently lives and works in Paris Her work which is included in many collections and museums includes not only drawings and photographs but also videos and performance art 3 In fact she is the first Turkish female video artist 1 Nil YalterBornNil Yalter 1938 01 15 January 15 1938 age 85 1 Cairo EgyptNationalityTurkish and French 2 Alma materRutgers University Institute for Women and ArtKnown forcontemporary feminist artistMovementFrench counterculture and revolutionary movements Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Later career 4 Collections 5 Exhibitions 6 References 7 External linksEarly life EditNil Yalter was born in 1938 in Cairo Egypt where she lived until the age of four 4 She is Turkish and later in her life became also a French national She received her education from Robert College in Istanbul Turkey 3 She started painting at an early age and took dance and ballet classes In 1956 she traveled to India on foot while practicing pantomime She had her first exhibition of paintings inspired by this travel at the French Cultural Institute in Mumbai Bombay in 1957 Between 1963 and 1964 she worked as stage and costume designer for theatre companies in Istanbul In 1963 she participated at the 3rd Paris Biennale with abstract compositions under the curatorship of Nurullah Berk 4 5 She moved to Paris in 1965 after she became politically involved with sociological topics specifically focusing migration and women Her poster exhibition that has been hung around the world was subject to criticism 6 The poster writes Su Gurbetlik Zor Zaanat Zor in Turkish which has been translated as Exile is hard work aims to raise awareness of the situation of people in exile However gurbetlik does not mean exile but rather someone living in a different country than their own 7 Early career EditYalter moved to Paris in 1965 and took part in the French counterculture and revolutionary movements which prompted her to move away from abstract constructivist painting to start working with the medium of video and to use her own body 8 In the 1970s she led the beginning of the French feminist art movement 3 In 1973 Yalter created an installation inspired by the temporary dwelling structures of Turkic nomads titled Topak Ev a nomad s tent as a study of private public and feminine spaces at A R C Musee d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 9 Topak Ev marked the beginning of Yalter s use of sociological and ethnographic methods in her work While the installation was based on research conducted around Nigde on nomadic tents the exhibition also included panels gathering drawings collages photographs and handwritten descriptions on the structure and dimensions of nomadic tents materials used in their making and decorative elements 4 In 1974 she created a video titled The Headless Woman The Belly Dance a piece that stands out in French contemporary art history as one of the early feminist art classics 10 The video frames the artist s belly as she writes a text on around her navel The text is an excerpt from Rene Nelli s Erotique et Civilisations 1972 and states that a woman s sexuality is both convex and concave emphasizing the vaginal and clitoral orgasmic potentials of women Yalter then activates the text by belly dancing the gyrations of her belly animate the letters 8 The work is emblematic of some of the formal gestures and critical strategies Yalter developed in the coming years creating a reversal of the male gaze by objectifying her own body through the camera Yalter refers to women s sexual liberation from patriarchal control while at the same time commenting on the Orientalist eroticization of Middle Eastern women in Western art 4 8 Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Yalter created a series of works combining her interest in gender issues and feminism with a focus on marginalized communities such as migrant workers in Europe and former prisoners Temporary Dwellings first exhibited in Grenoble France in 1977 investigates the living conditions and experiences of migrant workers as told by women 11 12 A video installation created in collaboration with Judy Blum and Nicole Croizet in 1974 La Roquette Prison de Femmes reconstructs the living conditions in the Roquette women s prison in Paris with a video and series of photographs and drawings based on former inmate Mimi s memories related to daily rites and objects describing the experience of a panoptical space 13 Yalter was a member of several collectives of female artists in Paris in the 1970s such as Femmes en Lutte and Femmes Art which gathered around socially engaged practices and the women s struggle for visibility in the arts 14 From 1980 to 1995 Yalter acted as an associate at Sorbonne University 5 Later career EditIn the 1990s with the advent of digital technologies Nil Yalter developed her video practice by using 3D animation techniques and electronic sound editing Multiplying the image and its surface by way of geometrical shapes this use of digital techniques operates interruptions within the image and opens up a space for intertextuality in her video works Most emblematic of this process is Pixellismus 1996 which took the form of an interactive CD ROM The work is an investigation of the relationship between Byzantine mosaics and pixels inspired by the writings of Malevitch on modernism 4 In 2007 Nil Yalter participated at the traveling survey exhibition WACK Art and the Feminist Revolution organized by Cornelia Butler with La Roquette Prison de Femmes 15 The exhibition brought wider international exposure to Yalter s work and she has enjoyed a large number of solo exhibitions since then 16 In 2016 she had two retrospectives Off The Record at Arter Istanbul 17 and Nil Yalter Frac Lorraine Metz 18 and a monographic exhibition at La Verriere Fondation Hermes 19 Brussels followed by D apres Stimmung in 2017 at Ludwig Museum Cologne 20 In 2018 she was the recipient of Outstanding Merit Award AWARE 2018 21 Her most recent works produced between 2015 and 2018 were exhibited at her solo exhibition Kara Kum at Galerist Istanbul in March April 2018 22 Collections EditNil Yalter s works are held in the permanent collections of Tate Modern 12 Istanbul Modern Centre Georges Pompidou Fonds national d art contemporain 23 Ludwig Museum 24 Long Beach Museum Aksanat Koc Contemporary Reydan Weiss Collection 25 Deutsche Telekom Art Collection 26 Foto Colectania Foundation Coleccion Olorvisual and Sammlung Verbund 3 5 Exhibitions EditNil Yalter has participated at the 10th Gwangju Biennale 2014 the 13th Istanbul Biennale 2013 27 10th Paris Biennale 1977 and traveling survey exhibitions such as WACK Art and the Feminist Revolution Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art PS1 MoMa New York Contemporary Art Center Vancouver 2007 2008 elles centrepompidou Centre Pompidou Paris Centro Cultural Banco de Brazil Rio de Janeiro Seattle Art Museum 2013 and Desire for Freedom Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin 28 Palazzo Reale Milano Eesti Kunstimuuseum Kumu Kunstimuuseum Tallinn Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesnej MOCAK Krakau 2013 In recent years her work has been shown at 5 Clark House Initiative Kadist Art Foundation Mumbai 2014 Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro 2014 SALT Istanbul 2013 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 2012 Centro Cultural Belem Lisbon 2010 Akademie der Kunst Berlin 2009 In 2019 Fabienne Dumont co curated a retrospective at the MAC VAL and edited two books Nil Yalter Where the memories of migrants feminists and workers meet mythology Vitry sur Seine MAC VAL 2019 29 and Nil Yalter Interview with Fabienne Dumont Paris Manuella Editions 2019 30 References Edit a b Istanbul Kadin Muzesi Nil Yalter www istanbulkadinmuzesi org Politics of Writing Art Histories in Turkey Nil Yalter and The Round House University of Leeds 2017 Retrieved 24 September 2017 a b c d Nil Yalter The Fertile Crescent Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art Retrieved 28 October 2014 a b c d e Yucel Derya 2013 Nil Yalter Istanbul Berlin Revolver ISBN 9783868953305 a b c d Tezkan Melis Biography Nil Yalter Retrieved 28 October 2014 Nil Yalter Turkish French art pioneer emerges from exile DW 06 03 2019 DW COM expatriate noun Definition pictures pronunciation and usage notes Oxford Advanced American Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries com www oxfordlearnersdictionaries com a b c Schor Gabriele 2016 Feminist Avant Garde art of the 1970s The Sammlung Verbund Collection Vienna Prestel pp 152 155 ISBN 9783791354460 Nil Yalter works 1970 1979 Nil Yalter Retrieved 28 March 2018 Ersen Leyla Criticism of Orientalism by Contemporary Turkish Feminist Artists Nil Yalter Aakran Moral and Galsan Karamustafa Turkish Art History Conference Paris 2011 Retrieved 28 October 2014 Dumont Fabienne Nil Yalter memory migrants and workers in 1970s 1980s France Nil Yalter Retrieved 28 March 2018 a b Tate Temporary Dwellings Nil Yalter 1974 7 Tate Tate Retrieved 2018 03 30 Noble Kathy Nil Yalter Nil Yalter Retrieved 29 March 2018 Dallier Aline 1978 Le Mouvement des Femmes dans l Art Les Cahiers du GRIF 23 140 145 doi 10 3406 grif 1978 2147 Retrieved 29 March 2018 WACK Art and the Feminist Revolution PDF moca org Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Archived from the original PDF on 7 July 2010 Retrieved 28 October 2014 Kortun Vasif Nil Yalter Book Launch and Artist Talk with Vasif Kortun Youtube Retrieved 29 March 2018 ARTER space for art ARTER space for art Retrieved 2018 11 02 Nil Yalter www fraclorraine org Retrieved 2018 11 02 Welcome en fondation digital hermes com Retrieved 2018 11 02 Museum Ludwig Gesellschaft fur Moderne Kunst gesellschaft museum ludwig de Retrieved 2018 11 02 Nil Yalter Awarded Prix Aware s Outstanding Merit Prize Art Forum Retrieved 29 March 2018 Matter and meaning through black holes and universes DailySabah Retrieved 2018 03 31 Collection en ligne Centre national des arts plastiques www cnap fr in French 2018 01 16 Retrieved 2018 03 30 Museum Ludwig Gesellschaft fur Moderne Kunst gesellschaft museum ludwig de in German Retrieved 2018 03 30 Weserburg I Prefer Life www weserburg de Retrieved 2018 03 31 Explore ACT Art Collection Telekom art collection telekom com Archived from the original on 2013 10 22 13th Istanbul biennial 13b iksv org Archived from the original on 2016 05 02 Retrieved 2018 11 02 Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin The Desire for Freedom Art in Europe since 1945 Exhibition www dhm de Retrieved 2018 11 02 Dumont Fabienne 2019 Nil Yalter a la confluence des memoires migrantes feministes ouvrieres et des mythologies Charles Penwarden Musee d art contemporain du Val de Marne Vitry sur Seine ISBN 978 2 900450 05 5 OCLC 1128025006 Launch of Interview with Nil Yalter e flux Agenda www e flux com Retrieved 2023 01 24 External links EditNil Yalter Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nil Yalter amp oldid 1136847022, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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