In 2022, he participated in the Walzwerk Artist Residency Program in Basel, where he developed the solo project Phase Space, later examined in an academic thesis. His exhibition Marvelous Correspondences, Subtle Resemblances was featured in Canvas Magazine (Issue 101) as part of Young Voices From Istanbul. Dal’s works are included in the collection of Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM) and in selected private, corporate, and foundation collections internationally.
Biography
Education
Exhibitions
Artist Statement
Biography
Yüksel Dal (b. 1992, Denizli, Turkey) lives and works in Istanbul. He earned his BFA in Painting as valedictorian from Marmara University in 2015 and completed his MFA at the same institution in 2017. Dal is represented by RARARES Gallery (DIFC, Dubai) and was a gallery artist at Mixer Gallery from 2018 to 2023.
In 2022, he participated in the Walzwerk Artist Residency Program in Basel, where he developed the solo project Phase Space, later examined in an academic thesis. His exhibition Marvelous Correspondences, Subtle Resemblances was featured in Canvas Magazine (Issue 101) as part of Young Voices From Istanbul. Dal’s works are included in the collection of Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM) and in selected private, corporate, and foundation collections internationally.
Education
- 2015-2017 | Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Istanbul – Turkey
- 2011-2015 | Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Valedictorian), Istanbul – Turkey
Exhibitions
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 | Phace Space, Walzwerk Artist Residency, Basel, Switzerland
- 2021 | Marvelous correspondences, subtle resemblances, Duo w/ Alp İşmen, Curator: Nergis Abıyeva,
Mixer, Istanbul - 2018 | Infinitely Small, Infinitely Large, Mixer, Istanbul
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 | Fragile. Handle With Care, Rarares Galley, DIFC, Dubai
- 2024 | Dialogues, Rarares Galley, DIFC Dubai- Fromerly Boccara Dubai Gallery
- 2023 | A Hundred Years Later: A Young Look at Pierre Loti /100 Ans Après: Un Regard Neuf Sur Pierre Loti,
Curator: Attila Güllü, French Cultural Center in Ankara - 2022 | New Grammar Of Images, Curator: Uras Kızıl, Mixer, Istanbul,
- 2021 | Istanbul Gallery Week, w/ Mixer, Istanbul,
- 2021 | Over Again, Curators: Haldun Dostoğlu, Gizem Gedik, Atatürk Cultural Centre, Modern Art Exhibition-
AKM Gallery - 2019 | Spiral Jetty, 16th Istanbul Biennial Parallel Event Program, Curator: Özgenur Geris, Istanbul Kultur
University Art Gallery, Istanbul - 2015 | Graduation Projects Exhibition, Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Exhibition Hall, Istanbul
- 2015 | Sekiz Kimlik Sekiz İz, Materials Studio Exhibition, Cumhuriyet Museum, Istanbul
ART FAIR
- 2025 | Artweeks Istanbul, The Ritz Carlton Residences
- 2025 | New:Now, 2nd Edition, CerModern, Ankara
- 2024 | EDITIONS -Dubai, Art & Design Week, Dubai Design District, Dubai
- 2022 | Artweeks Akaretler, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2022 | Swab Barcelona Contemporary Art Fair, w/ Mixer, Barcelona
- 2022 | Contemporary Istanbul, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2022 | Artweeks Akaretler, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2021 | Artweeks Akaretler, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2020 | Step Istanbul Contemporary, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2019 | Artweeks Akaretler, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2019 | Artweeks Akaretler, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2019 | Step Istanbul Contemporary, w/ Mixer, Istanbul
- 2019 | Border_Less Art Book Days, Mixer at Art Book Days, Istanbul
Artist Statement
Yüksel Dal’s artistic practice encompasses system dynamics, architecture, and hyperobjects, engaging with themes including relativity, climate change, and nuclear technologies. His work navigates inter-objectivity and space–time relations, intersecting temporality, futurism, science, philosophy, and fantasy. Working across drawing, installation, and sculptural objects, Dal focuses on shifting paradigms of perception and cognition, emphasising relationships rather than isolated objects through a restrained visual language.
The As It Is! series draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s proposition that “the world is the totality of facts, not of things.” The drawings avoid singular representations and instead reveal relationships between elements through line, forming spatial configurations shaped by void, repetition, and space–time relations.
Artworks
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