Nile Yalter

Nil Yalter (* 1938 in Cairo , Egypt ) is a Turkish graphic artist, photographer, painter and installation artist.

life and work

Yalter lived in Cairo until she was four, then in Istanbul . There she received her training at Robert College , traveled from 1956 to 1958 as a pantomime artist to Iran, Pakistan and India and worked for theater companies as a set and costume designer in 1963 and 1964. In 1963 she took part in the 3rd Paris Biennale and moved to Paris in 1965. She took part in the French revolutionary movements of the late 1960s and played a pioneering role in France as a member of Collectif Femmes / Art. From 1980 to 1995 she worked at the Sorbonne University. With the advent of digital technologies, she used three-dimensional animation techniques and electronic sound processing in her work. In 2018 she was awarded the outstanding merit prize of the Prix AWARE by the Archive of Women Artists, Research and Exhibition (AWARE) for dealing with questions of feminism and migration. Yalter's works can be found in the permanent collections of Tate Modern , the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Deutsche Telekom art collection, Istanbul Modern , Center Georges-Pompidou , Fonds National Art Contemporain.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1973 ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1974 Musée de Tessé, Le Mans
1977 Maison de la Culture, Grenoble
1978 Lavuun Gallery, Gand
1988 Musée de Saint - Simon, Angoulème
2009 Academy of the Arts, Berlin
2010 Centro Cultural de Belém , Lisbon
2012 Galeria Visor, Valencia
2012 Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam
2013 SALT, Istanbul
2014 Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
2014 Kadist Art Foundation, Mumbai
2015 MOTInternational gallery, London
2016 Arter Space for Art, Istanbul
2016 Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna
2017 Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2018 Gallery Hubert Winter, Vienna
2018 gallery owner, Istanbul

literature

Yalter, Nile. Istanbul gallery owner, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Yalter, Nile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish draftsman, photographer, painter and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo , Egypt