top of page
IMG_2905.jpg

Nejbir Erkol (b. 1995, Nusaybin/Mardin)  completed her undergraduate degree at Mardin Artuklu University and obtained her master’s from the Hacettepe University Fine Arts Institute’s Painting Department. Erkol participated in numerous international group exhibitions and research programmes. As an artist working on the notion of the precariat, her practice spans painting, installation, performance and video. It is possible to observe concepts of fragility, vulnerability, pain and trauma in her works due to the proximity of her hometown to border regions. Erkol, who participated in Flux I bell sRTUcTURs (Germany 2024), Spaces of Culture (Paris, 2023), Festival SACRe – Gaîte-Lyrique (Paris, 2023) and the 5th Mardin Biennial (Mardin, 2022), was also one of the winners of the 2023 Prince Claus Seed Award. Erkol recently opened a solo exhibition titled Making A Land at the Goethe Institute Galeri Vitrin in Ankara.

Anchor 1

EDUCATION 

2019-2021    Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Hacettepe University, Ankara, TR

                     Thesis title: “Art Practices On The Concept Of Precarity”

2014-2018    Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting, Mardin Artuklu University, Mardin, TR

2009-2013    Nusaybin Süleyman Bölünmez Anadolu High School, Mardin, TR

​

AWARDS

2024             Akbank 42nd Contemporary Artists Award, Istanbul, TR

2023             Prince Claus Fund Seed Awards, Amsterdam, NL

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2024             Making a Land, Galeri Vitrin, Goethe-Institut Ankara, TR

 

PERFORMANCE PRACTICE 

2024             Being upside down, Performance, Flux I bell sTRUcTURs, Berlin, Germany

2024             Imagining an Eternity, Performance Ecologies, British Council, TR

2024             YaÅŸanabilir dünya için açık uçlu toplaÅŸmalar, Neither Here Nor There, Culture Civic,                            Mardin, TR

2023             Enterrer la robe, with Nilufer Gros, Chambre Sonore, Festival SACRe,

                     Gaîte-Lyrique, Paris, FR

2023             Enterrer la robe, Co-writer with Nilufer Gros, CNSAD, Paris, FR 

2022             Ne orada ne burada (Neither there nor here), Performance, Stage at the Museum 

                    “The World is a 419 PPM Stage”, Sakıp Sabancı Museum,  Istanbul, TR 

2022             Walking on the Water, with Alper Aydın, Ordu, TR

2022             Ne orada ne burada 1 (Neither there nor here 1),  5th Mardin Biennial,       

                     (The Promise of Grass),  Performance, German Headquarters, Mardin, TR 

2020             GeçmiÅŸten önceki zamanlar (Times before the past), 

                     Performance, Joint Works Project, A4 Atölye, Diyarbakır, TR 

2019             Art, Body, Space, Performance Workshop, Nesin Art Village, Izmir, TR 2018                                        Performative Bodies, Merkezkaç Art Collective, Diyarbakır, TR 

 

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH CREATION PROGRAMS 

2025               SAHA Studio, Residency Program, Istanbul, TR

2023              International Mobility Program (Spaces of Culture), Paris, FR

2020-2021     Arter Research Program (Arter AraÅŸtırma Programı, AAP), Istanbul, TR

2019-2020     The Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme (ÇAP), Istanbul, TR 

2014-2017     Crossing Theatre Company, Research and devising in Contemplating Her theatre    

                       project funded by US Embassy in Ankara, Mardin, TR 

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS 

2024               Sabiha Artist Residency, Alanya, TR

2022               SÄ°S Art Residency, Ordu, TR 

2020               Daire Açık Atölye Sanatçı Programı, Istanbul, TR

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025              Narrative Power Alliance: Exhibition, Barın Han, Istanbul, TR

2024              Yıkıntılar Arasında, Culture CIVIC Culture and Arts Support Program, Barın Han,

                      Istanbul, TR

2024              Akbank 42nd Contemporary Artists Exhibition, Istanbul, TR

2022              The Promise of Grass, 5th Mardin Biennial, Mardin, TR 

2022              Forgetting the Past is a Gilded Lie,nKarşı Sanat Çalışmaları, Istanbul, TR 

2022              Sound installation, Spam Collective “On afternoons, Babybelle and look, what a    

                      nice view!,” Ä°stanbul, TR 

2022              Dalga, Zülfü Livaneli Cultural Center, Ankara, TR

2021              Performance, “Temporary Dialects; Bridges Through My Window,” Germany

2018              Performance, “Sit, Stand, Walk,” Artnivo Gallery, Istanbul, TR 

2019              Oradaydı, Daire Sanat, Istanbul, TR

2019              Base Art Project II, Istanbul, TR

2019              Base, Istanbul, TR

2018              Performance, “Artist Experience,” TÜYAP, Istanbul, TR 

2018              Mixer Sessions III, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul, TR

2017              Photobook Exhibition: Again, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, TR

​

PUBLICATIONS

2022              Hevesle Beraberlik Arasında Bir Åžey , Mitos Boyut

2021              ARTER, Re: [aap_2020] 

2019              Women Mobilizing Memory

​

SPEECHES AND PANELS 

2024           Creating Space with Contemporary Art: 

                   New Dynamics of Art Environments in and around Armenia, Tütün                                                         Deposu/Istanbul

                   Speakers: Nairi Khatchadourian, Banu Karaca, Nejbir Erkol

2024           Dreaming of an Infinite:

                   Participants: Eylem Ejder and Nejbir Erkol, Online

2021           Temporary Dialects; Bridges from my Window, Online/Germany

                   Speakers: Ece Gurleyik, Nejbir Erkol

​

INTERVIEWS

 

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/kurdish-artists-in-turkey-repression/

https://tiyatroylailgilihersey.com/iki-otobiyografik-performans/

https://vimeo.com/541039858

https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/29092/toprakla-bulusan-hayalet-bedenler

https://hidireliguzel.wordpress.com/2019/06/02/ozne-arayisi-odaginda-oradaydi-sergisi/

​​

CONTACT

​

nejbirerkol@gmail.com

  • Vimeo Black Round

Thanks for submitting!

  • Vimeo Black Round
bottom of page