Kübra Su Yıldırım
About
Kübra Su Yıldırım (b. 1997, Istanbul) is an interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice brings together digital production and physical materials. Working through a stream-of-consciousness methodology, her works interrogate the individual’s experience of self via the body, representation, normative structures, and the contradictions, tensions, and non-rational dimensions inherent to human nature. Ontological and epistemological inquiries occupy a central position in her practice; concepts such as being, identity, perception, and time are explored through figurative and symbolic modes of expression. Yıldırım’s works are shaped around archetypal imagery, female and non-binary figures, cultural codes, and psycho-mythological elements.
Her works have been exhibited at institutions such as Akbank Sanat, Mamut Art Project, and Evin Art Gallery. She has also collaborated with institutions including Odunpazarı Modern Museum and MUBI Türkiye, as well as musicians such as Sertab Erener, Nova Norda, and Dilhan Şeşen. An academic article examining her work The Cave of the Body (Bedenin Mağarası) through the lens of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the mind–body dualism has been published in the Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi.
Exhibitions
2019, FAM, Group Exhibition, Bomontiada, Istanbul
2019, Girl Power, Group Exhibition, Mecra, Istanbul
2019, Songs That Made Me, Group Exhibition, FAZ-Akasya Avm, Istanbul
2020, FAM, Pulse, Group Exhibition, The Circle, Istanbul
2020, FAM, Ozmoz, Group Exhibition, Exhibition Game
2020, Songs That Made Me, Group Exhibition, Hood Base, Istanbul
2021, Dreamscapes, Group Exhibition, Mamut Art Project, Istanbul
2021, Hayatta Kalanlar, Group Exhibition, Peep Art Space, Istanbul
2022, Now In Digital Art Alternate Realities+NFT, Group Exhibition, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul
2023, Hypnos, Group Exhibition, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
2023, Estasi, Group Exhibition, Ninfa Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023, The Last Gigs Illustrated, Group Exhibition, Müze Gazhane, Istanbul
2023, Disyon Seçki 0.2, Group Exhibition, Vitruta Space, Istanbul
2024, Mamut Art Project, Bomontiada, Istanbul
2024, NFT Revolution, Asprey Gallery, Group Exhibition, London, England
2025, Women’s Collective, Group Exhibition, PPR Editions, Istanbul
2025, New:Now, Group Exhibition, CerMordern, Ankara
2025, Yeniden Doğar Gibi, Group Exhibition, Yuvakimyon Rum Kız Lisesi, Istanbul
2025, What’s Inside?, Solo Show, Büyükdere35, Istanbul
2025, EVİN’Salon II, Group Exhibition, Evin Art Gallery, Istanbul
2025, Possibility of Expections, Group Exhibition, EArt Galeri, Istanbul
2025, Cracks of Innocence, Group Exhibition, Chi Art Gallery, Istanbul
Workshop
2019, ICAF, Alice in Wonderland
2025, OMM, Cadavre Exquis
Artist Talk
2022, Peep Art Space, Hayatta Kalanlar
Press & Publications
2023, “Söyleşi: Kübra Su Yıldırım’’ / Yağmur Baki, Odunpazarı Modern Müze
2024, “Kübrasu Yıldırım’ın ‘Bedenin Mağarası’ Eserinin Platon’un Mağara Alegorisi Üzerinden Dualist Çözümlemesi” Öğr. Gör. Dr. Betül Yıldırım, Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
2024, “Tanı: Kübra Su Yıldırım’’ / StudioN2O
2025, “Kübra Su Yıldırım ile Sanatında İfade Ettikleri Üzerine’’ / Enes Kudu, The Magger
2025, “Sana Hayranım #4 / Kübra Su Yıldırım’’ / Mörç
2025, “What’s Inside?: Kübra Su Yıldırım’dan Çok Katmanlı Bir Anlatı’’ / The Art News Paper
2025, “Kübra Su Yıldırım’ın “What’s Inside” Sergisi Büyükdere35’te’’ / Artfulliving
2025, “Kübra Su Yıldırım’dan What’s Inside?: Çok Tanıdık Bir Boşluk’’ / StudioN2O
