Poster for the Nudes of Istanbul exhibition at Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona, 20 November to 4 December 2026

Collective photography exhibition · Barcelona

Nudes of Istanbul

  • Uxval Gochez Gallery
    Carrer de Sicília 382, 08025 Barcelona
  • Opening: Friday 20 November, 19:30 · Free admission
  • Book presentation: Saturday 21 November, 12:00
  • LOOP City Screen: screening of the documentary Nudes of Istanbul: The Body and the Room by Meryem Aydın · 20 and 21 November
  • Hours: Monday to Friday, 11:00 to 14:00 · Other times by appointment
  • 14 photographers and 3 model-authors from Istanbul · Curated by Burak Bulut Yıldırım

About the exhibition Press kit

Berlin · Fine Art Photography

Burak Bulut Yıldırım

For more than two decades, I have photographed the body through light, time, and material.

My work returns to the moment a body begins to dissolve into what surrounds it, whether a room, a landscape, light, or movement, and to the inner states it carries: emptiness, melancholy, desire.

The image begins in front of the camera: with a body, a surface, a source of light, and the time required for them to meet. Digital tools belong to the final stage; the photograph comes from a physical encounter.

Bio & Statement · CV · Editions · Texts & Press

Projects

UnNude, a crouching figure in silhouette read as sculptural form

UnNude

The Architecture of the Body

Chimera, two reflected faces folded into a ring by a curved mirror

Chimera

The Body as Optical Rupture

Motus, a red-haired figure dissolving into a long-exposure blur

Motus

The Body as Duration

Ecotone, a figure among reeds at the edge of a lake

Ecotone

The Body as Transitional Zone

Elsewhere, a figure in a pastel alley under hanging laundry

Elsewhere

The Nude in Public Space

Niche, a figure on a red velvet sofa beside a window

Niche

The Body in Domestic Space

Antemortem, a figure holding a ram's skull in a dark barn

Antemortem

The Body Before Silence

Melancholia, a figure leaning on a piano in warm low light

Melancholia

The Body in the Weight of Slow Light

Lucida, a face and hand glowing with fluorescent pigment under ultraviolet light

Lucida

The Body as Light

Crave, two silhouetted faces close together in smoke

Crave

The Body Between Heat and Distance

Sub-series

Dysmorphia, a woman facing her warped reflection in a bent mirror sheet

Chimera

Dysmorphia

The Body in Altered Reality

In Haste, a dancer performing in a crowded Istanbul market street

Motus

In Haste

The Watching Body as Spectacle

Stills, five dancers responding to the photograph of a suspended fish

Motus

Stills

The Body as Imagined Object

Only You Are Close, When Everything Is Far Away, a figure crouching among dark foliage

Ecotone

Only You Are Close, When Everything Is Far Away

The Body at the Water’s Edge

Curatorial Projects

Group exhibitions and collective projects developed alongside the personal practice, bringing Istanbul-based photographers onto international platforms.

Nudes of Istanbul, collective photography exhibition curated by Burak Bulut Yıldırım
2026 · Berlin, Barcelona

Nudes of Istanbul

Die Akt Galerie, Berlin, July 2026. Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona, 20 November to 4 December 2026. 14 photographers and 3 model-authors from Istanbul. Sole curator.
LandsNude exhibition
2015

LandsNude

Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki. 8 photographers. Curator & participant.
  • Berlin-based photographer and curator, working since 2005
  • Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador since 2018
  • Member, German Portrait Photography Society (BPP)
  • Member, Royal Photographic Society (RPS)
  • Holder, International Artist Card, IGBK
Enquiries: info@burakbulut.info · Print sales: print@burakbulut.org