Nura Qureshi is a photographer and mixed media artist whose work explores themes related to identity, collective memory and people’s relationships to their shared past. Nura is of Turkish origin and grew up in a multicultural household raised by a Pakistani father and a German mother. The experience of navigating two competing value systems continues to influence her photography and are the source of the central question motivating her work around race & collective history.
After studying photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Qureshi moved to New York City to continue her practice, staying in the United States for fourteen years. Throughout this time, she continued to return to Germany to explore her questions of identity and history, which culminated in a project documenting the lives of her birth mother & family living in Germany. Meanwhile, she followed these questions across continents and time spans, investigating the complex reach into the present of some of humanity’s darkest histories through projects in Cambodia, Tajikistan and Kenya.
Her work about colonisation in Kenya “Are You Calling Me a Dog?” is part of the OFF Biennale Dakar 2024, has been exhibited at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, Germany 2021/2022 and has been shortlisted for the ICP / GOST First Photo Book Award 2020 as well as the 2018 Contemporary African Photography Prize.
Contact: nuraqureshi@gmail.com +49 15227708970
