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Galerist is proud to announce that Nil Yalter is invited as participating artist for the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 'Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.The Biennale Arte 2024 will be held at the Arsenale and Giardini from 20 April to 24 November 2024. Yalter received the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement Award by La Biennale; The Awards Ceremony and inauguration will be held on Saturday 20 April 2024 at Ca’ Giustinian.
A pioneer in the French feminist art movement of the 1970s, Nil Yalter (b. 1938) was educated at Robert College, the prestigious American secondary educational institution in Istanbul. While she was engaged in dance, theatre and painting during this time, she also practiced pantomime and travelled by foot to India as a pantomime artist. Yalter has lived in Paris since 1965. She participated in the French counter culture and revolutionary political movement of the late 1960s, immersing herself in the debates around gender, migrant workers from Turkey, and other issues of the time. These social movements and ethnographic science have influenced the artist’s videos, performances and installations from the 1970s in the form of an idiosyncratic, pluralistic aesthetics. The influence of abstract traditions, especially that of Russian constructivism can be observed in her paintings and digital works since her early years. Nil Yalter’s works reflect a style that blends together all these influences along with autobiographical elements where the personal and the political intertwine.
A pioneer in the French feminist art movement of the 1970s, Nil Yalter (b. 1938) was educated at Robert College, the prestigious American secondary educational institution in Istanbul. While she was engaged in dance, theatre and painting during this time, she also practiced pantomime and travelled by foot to India as a pantomime artist. Yalter has lived in Paris since 1965. She participated in the French counter culture and revolutionary political movement of the late 1960s, immersing herself in the debates around gender, migrant workers from Turkey, and other issues of the time. These social movements and ethnographic science have influenced the artist’s videos, performances and installations from the 1970s in the form of an idiosyncratic, pluralistic aesthetics. The influence of abstract traditions, especially that of Russian constructivism can be observed in her paintings and digital works since her early years. Nil Yalter’s works reflect a style that blends together all these influences along with autobiographical elements where the personal and the political intertwine.
February 5, 2024