Yael Bartana
Works
3D printing, stainless steel, PETG (thermoplastic polyester), PA12 (nylon polymer) with mirrored base
85 cm in length. dimensions mirroring base 21 x 58.6 cm
Neon
38 × 300 cm
One channel video and sound installation
Installation view, "Utopia Now!", 2024, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Via A. Stradella 7, Milan
Installation view, 60th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, German Pavilion, 2024
Installation view, 60th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, German Pavilion, 2024
Installation view, 60th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, German Pavilion, 2024
single channel video
Duration: 15'20''
Neon
198,4 × 185,3 cm
Neon
177 × 250 cm
Neon
170 x 150 cm
DVD/Colour/Sound
3 D Rendering for Dome Projection
Duration: 21'
One channel video, sound
Duration: 47'15''
Three channel video and sound installation
Duration: 38' 35"
Three channel video and sound installation
Duration: 38' 35"
Installation view, 2021, Jewish Museum Berlin
Color photograph, archival pigment print
57,4 × 81,7 × 4 cm framed
Color photograph, archival pigment print
57,4 × 81,7 × 4 cm framed
Color photograph, archival pigment print
57.7 × 82.1 × 4 cm framed
Single channel 2k video. Color, sound
Duration: 13'
Color photograph
45 × 67,5 cm; 57,5 × 80 cm framed
Color photograph
45 × 67,5 cm; 57,5 × 80 cm framed
Installation view, 2019, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Color photograph
45 × 30 cm; 57,5 × 42,5 × 4 cm framed
Color photograph
45 × 30 cm; 57,5 × 42,5 cm framed
9 × 59 × 122 cm; Pedestal and plexiglass case: 80h × 140 × 80 cm
Pigmented relief casting ceramic powder
Installation view at Galleria Raffaella Cortese, via Stradella 1
Color photograph, fine art print. Canson Platine FibreRag 310 g mounted on Dibond 3mm
75 × 50 cm
Color photograph, fine art print. Canson Platine FibreRag 310 g mounted on Dibond 3mm
75 × 50 cm
Color photograph, fine art print. Canson Platine FibreRag 310 g mounted on Dibond 3mm
75 × 50 cm
One channel video and sound installation
Duration: 50'
One channel video and sound installation
Duration: 7'20''
Black and white photograph
40,4 × 50,6 cm
Black and white photograph
40,4 × 50,6 cm
Black and white photograph
40,4 × 50,6 cm
Biography
Yael Bartana was born in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel, in 1970. She currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.
She works with Raffaella Cortese since 2008.
Yael Bartana is an observer of the contemporary and a pre-enactor. She employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line between the sociological and the imagination. Over the past twenty years, she has dealt with some of the dark dreams of the collective unconscious and reactivated the collective imagination, dissected group identities and (an-)aesthetic means of persuasion. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances and public monuments Yael Bartana investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals and collective gatherings.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and is represented in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Among solo exhibitions and screenings: The Shadow Cabinet, 47m Gallery, Leipzig (2024); We Are Here, IFA Gallery, Stuttgart (2024); Utopia Now!, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2024); Utopia Now!, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Germany (2024); Yael Bartana: Things to Come, GL Strand, Copenhagen (2024); Light to the Nations, The Center for Digital Art, Tel Aviv (2023); Yael Bartana Retrospective, Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, (2022); Malka Germania, University Art Gallery @ UCI, Irvine, USA (2022); Yael Bartana, Redemption Now, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin (2021); Yael Bartana. Cast Off, Fondazione Modena Arte Visive, Modena (2019); And Europe Will Be Stunned, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2018); What if Women Ruled the World, Manchester International Festival, Manchester and Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture Aarhus (2017); Trembling Times, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2017); On Cohabitation, The Banff Centre, Alberta (2016); Wenn Ihr wollt, ist es kein Traum, Secession, Vienna (2012); ...and Europe will be stunned, Moderna Museet, Malmö (2010); Trembling Time, Kings of the Hill, PS1, New York (2008).
Recent group exhibitions and presentations include The Opposite of Now: Artistic Paths to a Different Present, Jewish Museum Berlin (2026–2027); Zu den Sternen! Weltraum und Weltflucht seit der Moderne, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen (2026–2027); Utopia. The Right to Hope, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2025–2026); Poetics of Power, Kunsthaus Graz (2024–2025); Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial under the Nazis, Musée National Picasso-Paris (2025); Messengers from Above, ERES Foundation, Munich (2024–2025); Noa Eshkol – No Time to Dance, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2024); What If Women Ruled the World?, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2024); Dawn of Humanity, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2023); I Am Resisting, Museumsquartier Osnabrück / Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück (2023); Witch Hunt, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2021); The Street. Where the World Is Made, MAXXI, Rome (2018); and Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018).
Bartana has participated in major international exhibitions and biennials, including Manifesta 4 (2002), the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005), the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012), the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014), and the 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014). In 2011, she represented Poland at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2024, Bartana represented Germany at the 60th Venice Biennale.
She received the Artes Mundi 4 Prize in 2010 and in 2023 she was awarded of the Rome Prize at German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo.
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