Nilbar Güreş builds her work on a performative approach and cultural observation. Her works are molded around gender, composition of conceptual space and narrative presentation. She works in photography, collage, drawing and video. When looking retrospectively at Güreş’s practice, it is clear that she is interested in developing a gender-specific critical perspective on the perception of identity and culture. Güreş deals with gender issues and narrative possibilities as well as marginalized communities and patriarchal systems. Her work has an autobiographical layer in terms of the materials, settings, casting and objects, which she reconstructs in her practice. She conceptualizes settings as forms of open scripts while bringing in real stories, and people she knows well.

Nilbar Güreş (born 1977, İstanbul, Turkey) holds a BA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Marmara University, İstanbul and a MA in Painting & Graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Güreş has participated in: What is Waiting Out There, 6th Berlin Biennial (2010); Where Do We Go From Here?, Secession Vienna (2010), What Keeps Human Kind Alive, 11th International İstanbul Biennial (2009) and the travelling exhibition, Tactics of Invisibility, which was previously exhibited at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2010), Tanas, Berlin (2010-2011) and After, İstanbul (2011). She has had three solo shows; Nilbar Güreş at Rampa (2011), Nilbar Güreş: Window Commision 2010, Rivington Place, London (2010), Unknown Sports; Indoor Exercises, Salzbuger Kunstverein (2009) and Self-Defloration, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2011).