Nil Yalter
1938 (Cairo)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's gallery
Born in Cairo to a Turkish family, Nil Yalter grew up in Istanbul before moving to Paris in 1965 to learn more about Western modern art. A self-taught painter, she turned in the early 1970s toward a multidisciplinary practice and became one of the pioneers of feminist video art in France. A committed communist, she focuses her work on issues of identity and minority discrimination, always approaching these topics from a social, anthropological, and ethnological perspective. She gained recognition in 1973 with her yurt Topak Ev, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, which explored the living conditions of nomadic groups in Anatolia. In 1974, Nil Yalter participated in France’s first video art exhibition with La Femme sans tête.
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's gallery
Born in Cairo to a Turkish family, Nil Yalter grew up in Istanbul before moving to Paris in 1965 to learn more about Western modern art. A self-taught painter, she turned in the early 1970s toward a multidisciplinary practice and became one of the pioneers of feminist video art in France. A committed communist, she focuses her work on issues of identity and minority discrimination, always approaching these topics from a social, anthropological, and ethnological perspective. She gained recognition in 1973 with her yurt Topak Ev, exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, which explored the living conditions of nomadic groups in Anatolia. In 1974, Nil Yalter participated in France’s first video art exhibition with La Femme sans tête.