GNYP Gallery is pleased to present new works by the artist Iva Lulashi (1988, Tirana). In her paintings, Lulashi explores universal themes of love, desire, impulse, and sexuality, particularly from a feminine perspective. Her work often draws inspiration from obscure film and video stills, which she transforms into paintings featuring female bodies in intimate or suggestive scenarios, without explicitly depicting eroticism.

The paintings have a "photographic" quality but reveal a strong, painterly style, marked by vivid, fluid brushstrokes and unresolved, almost abstract elements. Lulashi's art serves as a celebration of feminine desire, encompassing emotions like strength, fear, hope, and freedom, all while reflecting on global political issues and the complexities of the present world. Iva Lulashi will represented Albania at the 60th edition of the International Art Biennale in Venice in 2024.

GNYP Gallery is pleased to present recent and new work by Berlin based artist Umut Yasat. Yasat’s name is inseparable from his main project, an ongoing work-in-progress known as ‘Der Stapel’, which he started in 2014. A development of ideas concerning time and progress, mortality and banality, ‘Der Stapel’ first came into being when Yasat was finishing his studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, where he was born in 1988. There, he had classes with Gustav Kluge, Jonas Burgert and Marcel van Eeden.

Formally, ‘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.

GNYP Gallery is a gallery founded in Berlin specialized in contemporary art, representing artists of different nationalities at different stages of their artistic development. What unites all the artists in the gallery is their global orientation and extensive research into questions of identity.