Yael Bartana

Born:
1970
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
Israeli
Trust:
APT London
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  • The auditorium used to fit some 2,000 Freemasons.

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  • As 2017 opens there is a sense that all bets are off—that it is time to roll the dice and keep a hand open to all possibilities.

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  • Petzel Gallery, New York, is hosting an exhibition, titled 'We Need To Talk...' on view through February 11, 2017.

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  • On October 21st the Artes Mundi 7 Exhibition and Prize in Cardiff opened its doors to the British public, presenting a major exhibition of work from six of the world’s most innovative contemporary artists.

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  • After perusing “Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a big exhibition featuring works by many famous artists of the last 50 years, including Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter — a visitor might wonder, “What about the great female artists?”

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • To mark the 50th anniversary of German-Israeli diplomatic relations, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art allowed some of its most precious works to visit Berlin. A bold metaphor for the ties between the countries.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • Out of Place features recent works by six artists whose videos, photographs, drawings and sculptures reflect on the psychological toll

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • The work of eight artists competing for the UK's richest visual arts prize went on display in Wales today– and none could be accused of triviality.

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  • There was nothing wrong with her health; in her own way she was almost content. But she thought it would be out of accord with Party principles

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  • Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, from Kyrgyzstan, bring to light another alien environment: the barren trails which criss-cross their little

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  • “It’s not that I have concrete solutions to the problems … I’m constantly mirroring human conditions and political situations. Is it possible

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  • Three years in the making, Walker Art Center’s ambitious new “9 Artists” show is a perplexing, uneven conundrum. Still, if you have the patience

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  • There are lots of exhibitions to check out over the holiday break across Canada. Here are our best bets.

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  • Absolut Vodka has announced the nominees for its 2015 Art Award, given every two years to one leading contemporary artist and one art critic.

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  • The 31st edition of the São Paulo Bienal filled the mammoth Oscar Niemeyer-designed pavilion that is its home with installations, murals and socially

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  • The 31st Bienal de São Paulo "Things that don’t exist” is a poetic invocation of art’s ability to create new objects, thoughts and possibilities. The sentence has a variable formula that constantly changes, anticipating the actions that might make present in contemporary life the things that don’t exist, are not recognized, or have not yet been invented. With 81 projects and more than 100 participants from 34 countries, totaling around 250 artworks on display, the exhibition has been conceived as journey through the Pavilion divided into three different areas: park area, ramp area and columns area.

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  • The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage's newest exhibit will not just be hanging on the walls. Beginning Friday, the museum will be screening a rare

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  • The artistic director of the Sydney Biennale (“You Imagine What You Desire”, until 9 June), says that the recent controversy over sponsorship of the

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  • The 19th Biennale of Sydney has opened once again in locations across the city, from smaller venues to established museums. This year’s biennale, curated by Juliana Engberg of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, is entitled “You Imagine What You Desire,” and celebrates the creative language of an artist’s imagination. Engberg has chosen a full-bodied selection of artists...

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  • "The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium" by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott, is the new quintessential volume that illustrates the importance of female artists in visual culture. The book focuses on the work of 24 hand-picked female artists, born after 1960, that have pushed beyond the stereotype of 1970s “feminist art” and have asserted themselves as influencers in the modern art world. With approachably written chapters on each of the women, the authors define these artists’ important roles in the shaping of contemporary culture and art.

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  • To say that Yael Bartana’s latest film Inferno opens in epic fashion would be a bit of an understatement. Accompanied by a dramatic score, the initial

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  • ‘Dieter Roth. Björn Roth’ at Hauser & Wirth It featured the late Dieter Roth’s collaborators, his son, Björn, and grandsons, Oddur and Einar,

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  • The work of eight artists competing for the UK's richest visual arts prize went on display in Wales today– and none could be accused of triviality.

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  • Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, from Kyrgyzstan, bring to light another alien environment: the barren trails which criss-cross their little

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  • Three years in the making, Walker Art Center’s ambitious new “9 Artists” show is a perplexing, uneven conundrum. Still, if you have the patience

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BIOGRAPHY
Yael Bartana’s films, installations and photographs explore the imagery of identity and the politics of memory. Her starting point is the national consciousness propagated by her native country, Israel. Central to the work are meanings implied by terms like “homeland”, “return” and “belonging”. Bartana investigates these through the ceremonies, public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective identity of the nation state.
 
In her Israeli projects, Bartana dealt with the impact of war, military rituals and a sense of threat on every-day life. Between 2006 and 2011, she has been working in Poland, creating the trilogy 'And Europe Will Be Stunned', a project on the history of Polish-Jewish relations and its influence on the contemporary Polish identity. The trilogy represented Poland in the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice (2011).
 
In recent years Bartana has been experimenting and expanding her work within the cinematic world, presenting projects such as 'Inferno' (2013), a “pre-enactment” of the destruction of the Third Temple, 'True Finn' (2014), that came into being within the framework of the IHME Festival in Finland, and 'Pardes' (2015) which was shot during a spiritual journey in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Her latest work, 'Simone The Hermetic', is a site-based sound installation that takes place in future Jerusalem.
 

Based in Berlin, Bartana is represented by Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Petzel Gallery, New York, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Capitain Petzel, Berlin.


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