A barred window looking out onto trees, in black and white

Umut Kambak

Ceramics · Video · Installation — Istanbul

Works

Wire-mesh house suspended in front of a projected forest, installation view

Two grid structures on tall stands in front of a wall projection

Grid structures on stands with a projected city skyline behind them

Wall installation of small grid-like ceramic house fragments

Visitor in front of a projection of ceramic forms

Exhibition room with a projection and a table of works

Tall ceramic grid sculpture photographed on a white background

Ceramic grid tower sculpture on a white background

Ceramic grid sculpture with leg-like supports on a white background

Room lined with grid patterns, a figure-like grid form at the centre

Grid structure seen from below inside a patterned room

Grid tower lit by a video projection in a dark room

Coloured city image projected over perforated ceramic blocks

Small wire house on a wall casting a long shadow

Grid sculpture standing on a black plinth

Small sculpture in front of a lit screen in a dark exhibition room

Hanging translucent sheets with projected shadows of buildings

Dark staircase with a glowing screen at its foot

Open hand with a blue projection falling across it

Beam of light in a dark space

Distorted projected text on a black background

Hand covered in dried clay against a pale wall

Shadow of a balcony and satellite dish on a warm-coloured wall

View of trees through a barred window

Window with a pale, blank view outside

Videos

Where Is My Home? What Does a Demolition Build?

Bir Yıkım Neyi İnşa Eder?

The Right to the City

Argus

Süblim Elma

Spectrum ’17

This Is My Terrible Family

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About

Shadow of a balcony and a satellite dish on a wall, in black and white

Umut Kambak (b. 1993, Istanbul) is an artist working with ceramics, video and installation. His work looks at the city, demolition and the question of belonging.

He studied Plastic Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Kemerburgaz University, before moving to the Department of Ceramics at Hacettepe University in 2012, where he graduated in 2016. In 2015 he studied in Hungary on an Erasmus exchange. He completed his MA in Ceramics in 2019 with the thesis Art Practices on City and Belonging, and received the Faruk Sade Art Fund the same year.

He is currently a PhD candidate at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.

Solo exhibitions

2019 Bilsart, Istanbul
2019 Gallery Siyah Beyaz, Ankara
2019 Museum Evliyagil, Ankara

Awards

2019 Faruk Sade Art Fund

Press & interviews

Artful Living “Çocukken Neden Duvara Bakıyordum?”
Artful Living “Elimizin Altında Ne Varsa Onunla Üretmeye Devam Etmeliyiz”
Unlimited Rag Umut İlkesi
ArtDog İstanbul Sanatçıların Karantina Günlükleri – 8: Umut Kambak
Bilsart Exhibition talk
Faruk Sade Sanat Fonu Artist page

Contact

For exhibitions, collaborations and enquiries about works:

umutkambak@gmail.com