Ali Osman Yanak is a Kurdish painter and musician based in Beşiktaş, Turkey. His artistic practice moves between visual art, music, memory, and cultural identity, with Kurdish culture forming a central presence in his work. Yanak began drawing at a young age and developed a long-standing painting practice shaped by family, community, and the visual languages of Kurdish life.

His work often reflects questions of transformation, belonging, self-expression, and the emotional weight of cultural memory. In the context of Korsi, Yanak’s work speaks to the importance of art as a living archive: a way of carrying histories, textures, and identities into public space. His practice brings together personal expression and collective cultural presence, offering images and sounds that connect individual experience with wider narratives of displacement, resilience, and continuity.