GNYP Gallery has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of the solo exhibition Cold in My Mouth, presenting new work by Berlin based artist Umut Yasat. The vernissage will take place on Saturday May 17 from 5 pm till 8 pm, the artist will be present and give an introduction at 6.30 pm.

Umut Yasat’s (b. 1988; Germany) name is inseparable from his main project, an ongoing work-in-progress known as ‘Der Stapel’, which he started in 2014. ‘Der Stapel’ are configured by the agglomeration of materials that somehow become part of the artist's life: trivia and meaningful objects are compressed until they reach the artist’s height, configuring a way to visualize time — Yasat’s and our own, given the presence of everyday objects that populate our world. To him they present a way to visualise time, his experience as immigrant and the question of cultural identity at large, a development of ideas concerning time and progress, mortality, identity and banality.

Yasat's project has been featured in numerous institutional solo and group exhibitions at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig; Kunstverein Trier; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Museum Arnhem; Kunstverein Freiburg; Kunstverein Reutlingen among others.

Between 2009 and 2015 he studied in the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe with Gustav Kluge, Jonas Burgert and Marcel van Eeden.

Artists: Umut Yasat