The exhibition 'Lovers' by Nilbar Güreş (*1977 in Istanbul) is the largest presentation in Germany to date featuring works at Badischer Kunstverein produced between 2006 and the present. Güreş consistently interrogates conventional gender roles and relationships, as well as alluding to opportunities for empowering feminine and queer identities. Her artistic praxis is based on subtle moments of resistance, quietly radical in their enactment along the margins of everyday life. At the same time, she relies upon a characteristic humor, a playful irony, and poetry that – at least initially – offers the possibility of immediate accessibility. Only a second look reveals a consistent critique of sociopolitical conventions…”
