Yael Bartana
Works
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
Installation view, Panorama L'Aquila, 2023
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
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 Galleria 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.
Selected solo shows include: 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).
She has also taken part in several group exhibitions, among which: Villa Massimo visits Suttgart, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (2024); Noa Eshkol – No Time to Dance, Gerog Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany (2024); What If Women Ruled the World?, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Greece (2024); Unselfing, Kunstverein Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (2024); The World’s Library. Conversation Piece | Part IX, Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2023); Dawn of Humanity, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (2023); I am resisting, Museumsquartier Osnabrück / Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück, Germany (2023); Dance Me To The End Of Love, Performing PAC, Milan, Italy (2023); Dix and the present, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2023); #empowernment Planetarische Feminismen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2022); What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag?, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2022); Witch Hunt, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2021); Histories of Women / Feminist Histories, MASP / Casa de Povo, Sao Paulo (2019); Reality… is more absurd than any film, Marta Herford Museum, Herford (2019); The Street. Where the World is Made, MAXXI, Rome (2018); Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018); Scenes from the Collection, Jewish Museum New York (2018); Place Relations, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo (2017); The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetic, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2016); Summer guests, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa (2016); How to (…) things that don’t exist, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2015); La disparition des lucioles, La Collection Lambert, Avignon (2014); Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2013).
In 2002 she took part in the 4th Manifesta; in 2005 in the 9th Istanbul Biennial; in 2012 in the 7th Berlin Biennial; in 2014 in the 19th Biennale of Sydney and in the 31st Sao Paolo Biennial. In 2011 she represented Poland in the 54th Venice Biennale. She won the Artes Mundi 4 Prize (2010) and the trilogy …And Europe Will Be Stunned was ranked as the 9th most important art work of the 21th century by the Guardian newspaper (2019). In 2024, she participated to the 60th Venice Biennale representing Germany.
In 2023 she was awarded of the Rome Prize at German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo.
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