Der Stapel 37
175x70x80cm steel, plastic, cotton, leather, glass,
aluminum, ink, paper, cardboard, stainless steel, copper,
felt-tip pen, pencil, glue, sand, air, 2019

I started to work on “Der Stapel” in 2014. At first this process encompassed tiding all of my previous works together and then it evolved into the agglomeration of not only works of art but also several everyday objects, both meaningful and trivial. I work on these sculptures until they reach my own height and for me they present a way to visualise time.

Bio
Umut Yasat (b. 1988) lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany. Between 2009 and 2015 he studied in the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe with Gustav Kluge, Jonas Burgert and Marcel van Eeden. He started to work on Der Stapel in 2014. At first this process encompassed tiding all of the artist’s previous works together and then it evolved into the agglomeration of not only works of art but also several everyday objects – both meaningful and trivial. Yasat works on these sculptures until they reach his own height and to him they present a way to visualise time, his experience as immigrant and the question of cultural identity at large.
Some of his solo exhibitions include: “3X Sculpture”, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germay, 2018; “Abstraction & Architecture”, Abstract Room, Strasbourg, Germany, 2018; “Go Go”, 25m2 Gallery & Project Space, Den Bosch, Netherlands, 2018; “Offene”, PrimaKunst, Kiel, Germany, 2017; “Vom Tragen und Stützen”, M54, Basel, Switzerland, 2016; “Was Tun mit der Zeit”, Kunstverein, Freiburg, Germany, 2016; “Hängung #3”, Gerson Hoeger Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, 2016.