About
Haci Sami Yaman (born 19 June 1973 in Siegen, Germany) is a Berlin-based self-taught visual and Outsider artist. His practice spans acrylic painting, drawing, mixed media, monumental paper works and experimental digital art. For around ten years, the Open Studio (Offenes Atelier) at the Alexianer St. Hedwig-Kliniken Berlin has provided a setting for his artistic development and exchange. Points, lines, calligraphic signs and numerical sequences accumulate into personal Codex-A systems. Colour, repetition and rhythm connect his investigations of memory, trauma, spirituality, relationships, subjective time, perception and consciousness. Alongside several hundred smaller and medium-sized works, he has created paper rolls reaching up to 25 metres. Digital images, videos and AI-involved studies extend this vocabulary into imagined spaces, circular diagrams and symbolic constellations. Nearly blind, Yaman works through close engagement with surfaces, touch, movement and an inner sense of orientation. He uses AI assistance on his own terms to support access and develop artistic possibilities while retaining authorship and artistic direction. Physical originals, documented AI transformations and generated imagery are distinguished wherever their production history is known. Selected exhibitions include Naturale Systeme with Beatrice Guder at Galerie ART CRU Berlin (2018), annual exhibitions at Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster, and the solo exhibition Trauma ReCoded at Galerie Kulturhaus Spandau (2025–2026). He received the HighTech & Kunst art prize from KRATZER AUTOMATION AG in 2019. His work was selected for the 28th Annual Art and Sales Exhibition, Kunsthaus Kannen, 25 October 2026–31 January 2027. His work has also been presented at St. Nikolai Church, Berlin-Spandau. His project series In Beziehungen (In Relationships) explores human connections. Profile photograph: Angela Kröll.
Born 1973 in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Artist statement
I build images from points, lines, signs and numbers. Repetition becomes rhythm: a way of moving through memory, time and inner experience. My Codex-A systems are a personal visual language connecting perception, consciousness and transformation. I work through proximity, touch, breathing and movement. As a nearly blind artist, I encounter the image with my whole body. The Open Studio at the Alexianer St. Hedwig-Kliniken Berlin offers a place of exchange and continuity, while my artistic choices remain my own. My work moves between the fleeting instant, the imagined nanosecond and the long duration of a paper roll. Circular and 360-degree arrangements let me explore attention as something that can turn, surround and return. Numbers become rhythms and visual relationships. Energy and atmosphere name felt intensities, while light and layered signs suggest processes that remain unseen. These are artistic and philosophical investigations of subjective experience. Digital processes and AI extend this exploration into symbolic constellations and imagined spaces. I use AI as a creative and accessibility tool under my direction. My physical originals, AI transformations with a documented source and fully generated images belong to distinct strands of the practice. Where a digital image’s exact source process has not yet been documented, its presentation says so. I want the work to create an encounter between inner and outer worlds, between different ways of sensing, and between people. Viewers are invited to take their time, follow the signs and discover their own relationships within them.
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- Based in
- Berlin, Germany
- Works in
- Painting, Drawing, Digital Art, Mixed Media, Paper Arts
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