biography
Keren Cytter was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1977. She lives and works in New York.
Cytter has developed a large body of works including, in particular, films and video suites that adopt a nonlinear narrative. The artist remarkably plays with the notion of the real and the fictitious, using non-professional actors and handheld camera techniques. Her films attempt to deconstruct the modern principles of cinema, balancing between performance and theatre. Language plays a central role, with plot lines and structures that become influenced by the formal devices of poetry. Her filmic representations add up to paint a surrealistic picture riddled with existentialist concerns about love, hate and the human condition. They are at once a dark and comical reflections on today’s society.
Keren Cytter was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1977. She lives and works in New York.
Cytter has developed a large body of works including, in particular, films and video suites that adopt a nonlinear narrative. The artist remarkably plays with the notion of the real and the fictitious, using non-professional actors and handheld camera techniques. Her films attempt to deconstruct the modern principles of cinema, balancing between performance and theatre. Language plays a central role, with plot lines and structures that become influenced by the formal devices of poetry. Her filmic representations add up to paint a surrealistic picture riddled with existentialist concerns about love, hate and the human condition. They are at once a dark and comical reflections on today’s society.
Solo exhibitions and performances of Cytter’s work include: Mature content, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (2019); Keren Cytter: Sponsored Content, CCA, Tel-Aviv (2019); Middle of Beyond, EMAF European Media Art Festival No. 31, Osnabruck, Germany (2018); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2014), traveling to MCA, Chicago (2015); Video Art Manual, State of Concept, Athens (2014); Show Real Drama, Tate Modern Oil Tanks, London (2012); The Hottest Day of the Year, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich (2011); David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2011); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); Project Series: Keren Cytter, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010); Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2010); History in the Making, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London (2009); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2005); My brain is in the wall, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2004).
Cytter has taken part in a number of group shows, such as: MOMENTUM 10, Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway (2019); (X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2017); Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2015); Turn On: Time-Based Art from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2015); Der Stachel des Skorpions, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2014); Institute Mathildeonhohe, Darmstadt (2014); Where are we Now, 5th Marrakesh Biennial (2014); A Theatre Cycle, NOMAS Foundation at Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome (2013); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009); People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008).
gallery exhibitions
In Full Bloom
may 12 – july 30, 2010
via a. stradella 7, brown project space, kaleidoscope, luigi presicce studio
images
Video Works
Cytter Schultz
public exhibitions
publications
video
Mature Content
2019
Solo exhibition at Museion, Bolzano. Video by Roberta Segata.
Everybody Likes Revolution
2009
TateShots
