Yasmin Alt

Yasmin Alt

*1965 in Bad Schwalbach, DE. Lives and works in Berlin, DE.

Yasmin Alt studied Fine Arts (sculpture) and communication design at the academies of Dresden and Mainz. Her work has been exhibited in multiple group shows. Exhibition venues, such as Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, Kiosk24, Herford, Kunstverein Paderborn und Kunstverein Trier staged solo exhibitions of this versatile artist.

Her works are part of the collection of the cultural foundation of the free state of Saxony as well as in private collections. Alt has received several residencies and grants from different cultural foundations and the German Institute for International Cultural Relations.

Yasmin Alt is interested in the ephemeral, fragmentary and little noticed. She is quoting architecture – building sculptures with pieces of repurposed wood with a history. In her work, she creates legacies that resemble diaries as well as positioning systems of personal and universal histories. A central aspect of Alt’s work is the examination of cultural residues. Her mainly sculptural works are both playful and futuristic objects, whose inspirations are drawn from architecture, interior design and ritual objects of past eras and cultures. Seemingly archaic structures of early industrial architecture and brutalist concrete building are as well an inspiration as antique ruins are. In her work, Yasmin Alt utilizes fundamental architectural principles and construction techniques, fragments them and imposes the question of sense and function to her objects.

The heterogenic objects – made of wood, fiber glass, concrete and various resins – are arranged into three-dimensional collages that describe the pattern of human civilization. In her very own arrangement system, objects are placed in relation to others and stay in this constellation like a key frame for the duration of the exhibition.

“The simultaneity of the multicultural quotes questions the linearity of history and proposes an alternative cultural report where past and future merge. Her object constellations embody notions of repeating history. Small repair sites on the objects raise the question of the temporal assignment of the objects. Like an archaeological site the arrangement gives us an insight into a world, where modes of conduct and rites are unknown to us.” (© Roeckelmann&)