Born in Istanbul, 1980, Nur Gürel graduated from Istanbul Anatolian Fine Arts High School and proceeded with her undergraduate studies in Department of Arts at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, before completing her postgraduate studies in the same department.
Gürel is interested in all impositions that render the society into a consumption society and their results. Her biggest instrument on this subject is manipulation. While she uses landscape picture wallpapers as material in decoration in previous work, she includes photographs, magazines, posters and billboard advertisings to her already visual images in her later works. Gürel aims to create tension in her work by using contrasts, such as: inside-outside, photo-painting, digital printing-painting, town-forest, thin-fat, and life-death. This intervenes the image with a primitive sensitivity and hands rather than digitally. In this way, sterilized advertising language is broken and becomes natural. Subjects vary according to what is desired to be manipulated. Gürel, describing her art as a manipulation on visual image, lives in Istanbul and continues to create.
Selected Events
Exhibitions:
2016
- 2016 “Unexpected Territories / Partes Extra Partes” – International Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2016 “Contemporary Istanbul” – Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2016 “Tell Me the Truth, Please” – Vis Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2016 “Dirty” – Toz Artist Run Space, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2016 “Fear” – Bozlu Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2016 “Alter Hero” – Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2015 “Contemporary Istanbul” – Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2015 “Space Atelier II” – Cermodern Gallery, Ankara, Turkey.
- 2015 “On Paper” – Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2015 Mamut Art Project – Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2014 “Me Always a Less More” – Muse Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2013 “Hacked Me in Intimacy”- Ark Kultur, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2014 METU Art 14 Exhibition – Ankara, Turkey.
- 2012 “Contemporary Istanbul” – Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2012 “Apocalypse” – Nişantaşı Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2011 “Contemporary Istanbul” – Contemporary Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2011 “Istanbul Summer Exhibition” – Beyaz Art, Art Port, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2011 “Dream Night” – Hotel Swissôtel, Izmir, Turkey.
- 2010 “Connection” – Nişantaşı Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2010 “Spring of Artists” – Od’A Ouvroir d’Art, Saint Pulcherie, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2010 “Young Masters / 100 Young Painters Exhibition – Mecidiyeköy Cultural Centre, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 “System Failure / 216 Thinking And Production Zone” – Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 “My Name is Casper / Gelenkültür Exhibition” – HYLT ve Karşı Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 “Memory Book: Hasanpaşa / 216 Thinking And Production Zone” – Hasanpaşa Gazhanesi, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 “Memory Book: Moda / 216 Thinking And Production Zone” – The Art Studio, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 Art Show – Terakki Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 33rd DYO Juried Exhibition
- 2009 Workshop – Mi-Ge Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey.
- 2009 “Teneffüs” – Kadıköy Moda, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2009 “Metropol / Joint Exhibition” – Selçuk Yaşar Art Gallery, Izmir, Turkey.
- 2009 Joint Exhibition – Doruk Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2007 2nd International Open Stone Sculpture and Painting Symposium – Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 2006 Chisinau Painter’s Campus, Moldova.
- 2006 1st International Open Stone Sculpture and Painting Symposium – Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 2006 “Young Comments in Figurative Expressions” – Ortaköy Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2006 “35 Ages” – Terakki Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2005 International Contemporary Art Exposition – Mi-Ge Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2004 14th Istanbul Art Fair TUYAP – Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2004 Joint Exibition – Koşuyolu Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2004 “Want to See What I See?” – Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2003 Bordum / Aspat Workshop – Toyan Art Gallery, Bodrum, Turkey.
- 2002 Kunstakademie Münster / Workshop – Almanya.
- 2001 Değirmendere 2nd Painting Symposium – Değirmendere, Turkey.
- 2001 Dz.KK . Juried Exhibition
- 2001 TJK 5. Juried Exhibition
- 2001 İpek – Ahmet Merey Juried Exhibition
- 2001 13th KalpVakfı Juried Exhibition
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