aybars yücel
@aybars_yucel
Aybars Yücel (Devak / Artakalan) is a multidisciplinary artist working across public art, ceramics, sculpture, and site-specific interventions.
Over the last decade, he has created more than 300 murals across six countries and over fifty cities. His recent practice increasingly focuses on ceramic works that bring together the permanence of clay and the immediacy of public space.
Working through the complementary identities of Artakalan and Devak, he develops ceramic spray cans, tile sets, individual tiles, and small-scale sculptures. Artakalan explores public memory, language, power structures, justice, and the traces left by contemporary society. Devak focuses on hope, belonging, childhood, imagination, and the quiet narratives that shape personal experience.
His work examines how messages move through people, places, and systems, transforming everyday objects into vessels for memory, reflection, and conversation.
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Artakalan – Ceramic Interventions in Public Space
Artakalan is an ongoing body of work developed through ceramic tiles, tile sets, ceramic spray cans, small sculptures, and public space interventions. The project explores memory, language, power structures, justice, and the traces left behind by contemporary society. By placing ceramic works both inside and outside traditional exhibition spaces, Artakalan investigates how messages circulate through public life and how systems shape what becomes visible, forgotten, accepted, or excluded. Combining ceramic permanence with the visual language of the street, the works transform everyday symbols, fragments of text, and collective experiences into physical objects that remain long after the original moment has passed.
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Devak – Murals, Communities & Public Space
Devak is an ongoing public art practice developed through murals, community projects, workshops, and site-specific interventions. Over the past decade, the work has expanded across more than 300 walls in 6 countries and over 50 cities. Projects range from large-scale mural festivals and public commissions to village schools, public squares, and community-based collaborations. Themes such as childhood, memory, hope, belonging, and human connection run throughout the practice. The work seeks to create encounters between people and places, transforming everyday environments through color, storytelling, and participation. Alongside mural production, the practice includes educational workshops, village art initiatives, collaborations with municipalities, schools, universities, and cultural organizations, as well as exhibitions and multidisciplinary projects that connect public art with illustration and ceramics.
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Artakalan – Ceramic Interventions & Public Space
Artakalan is an ongoing body of work developed through ceramic tiles, tile sets, ceramic spray cans, small sculptures, and public space interventions. The project explores the relationship between personal experience, social structures, memory, and public space. Works often appear unexpectedly on streets, walls, abandoned surfaces, and everyday environments, creating encounters outside traditional exhibition spaces. Through ceramics and site-specific installations, Artakalan investigates what remains after systems, ideologies, and collective habits leave their marks on individuals. The practice combines sculpture, installation, drawing, and public intervention, allowing the same visual language to move between galleries and the street.
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