I am Nurgül Ergün, visual artist exploring the relationship between inner experience, nature, human connection, and the state of creative flow.

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My relationship with art began during my university years, when I started studying painting and art history alongside my academic education. Over time, what began as curiosity grew into a deeper need to understand the creative process and my own relationship with it.​There was a moment while painting when I experienced a profound sense of immersion, as if the boundaries between myself, the work, and time had temporarily disappeared. I later came to understand this experience through the idea of flow. That moment became an important part of my artistic journey and continues to shape the questions behind my work.

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For me, art is not simply a way of expressing what I already know. It is a way of discovering what I cannot yet fully articulate. Through the process of making, I explore questions, emotions, memories, and inner states that often resist language.Nature, human relationships, and my own inner world are recurring sources of inspiration. I also find guidance in the practices of artists who approached art as a lifelong search: in Vincent van Gogh’s dialogue between drawing, painting, and thought; in Leonardo da Vinci’s boundless curiosity and observation; and in Alberto Giacometti’s persistent search for an artistic language of his own.

 

My work exists within this continuing search, somewhere between observation and intuition, presence and disappearance, control and flow.