Keren Cytter

Born:
1977
Residence:
New York City, New York, USA
Nationality:
Israeli
Trust:
APT London
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  • The boss is back with the most comprehensive presentation of his career to date.

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  • “There is a palpable buzz in the air around EXPO this year,” gallery owner Monique Meloche reported in the run-up to the fourth edition of EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, which takes place on Navy Pier, September 17-20, 2015. EXPO CHICAGO is still a young fair by any account, but within just four years has managed to establish itself as a prominent contender within the international art fair circuit, and has catalyzed the art community of Chicago behind it. Together with the fair, Chicago’s galleries, institutions, schools, and artists join together for a knockout week in September.

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  • Chicago has long been a major player in the art world and its history is undisputed: Chicago is home to world-class institutions like the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the School of the Art Institute, and the Renaissance Society.

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  • This May, two of today’s more prominent galleries for up-and-coming artists will merge. Zach Feuer, of the eponymous Chelsea gallery and Joel Mesler o

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  • Performa, a biennial of new visual art performance, returns to New York for its third edition at venues throughout the city for three weeks in

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  • The 53rd International Art Exhibition (Venice Biennale): Making Worlds–Fare Mondi–Bantin Duniyan–??? ?–Weltenmachen–Construire des Mondes–Fazer

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  • The Generational: Younger Than Jesus sent me back to William Blake. In his Songs of Experience, he bids “Youth of delight come hither, / And see the

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • I was introduced to Keren Cytter before the opening of her solo show, "Video Art Manual." She was standing on the loading front of DiverseWorks

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  • Does Berlin need a new central museum to showcase the work of thousands of artists who have made the city home? The mayor, Klaus Wowereit, thinks so.

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  • We are pleased to announce We’ve All Got Issues: Video Art from the APT Collection the first ever online, selling exhibition of video art featuring 16 videos by an international roster of member artists from Artist Pension Trust® (APT). The show is hosted by MutualArt.com and will be up for a period of two weeks from May 29 to June 12, 2014. All works will be shown in their full-length versions and made available for purchase through the website.

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  • This week marks the third year of Frieze New York, the London fair that went head-to-head with the tradition of the Armory Show and took NADA and Pulse with it, subsequently asserting itself as a “fair” contender. This year’s fair once again transforms Randall’s Island into an enchanted island of art, featuring 190 of the art world’s top exhibitors, seven specially commissioned projects...

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  • Seriously, I can’t believe it either, but Frieze New York is just around the corner: the third edition of the fair runs on Randall’s Island May 9

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  • I was introduced to Keren Cytter before the opening of her solo show, "Video Art Manual." She was standing on the loading front of DiverseWorks

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  • Does Berlin need a new central museum to showcase the work of thousands of artists who have made the city home? The mayor, Klaus Wowereit, thinks so.

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  • Regen Projects presents a group exhibition of video works by John Bock, Keren Cytter, Paul Pfeiffer, Gillian Wearing, and Akram Zaatari.

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  • Vanity Projects is thrilled to present Girls, Girls, Girls, a video program curated by Rita de Alencar Pinto, that explores the many facets of the

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  • Keren Cytter creates short DIY films at a breakneck speed. Using only what she has to hand, the young Berlin-based Israeli writes, shoots and edits

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  • 1. The free art school is back in session. From my previous experience attending the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, it is what you make it

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  • The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation brings together eleven works by eleven artists that look to translation

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  • If the events in Keren Cytter’s video Les Ruissellements du Diable (The Devil’s Streams) (2008) have a familiar ring, it is because they are adapted

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  • Kiev’s distinguished PinchukArtCentre has announced the shortlist of this year’s Future Generation Art Prize.

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  • "Based on a True Story" at Oakville Galleries boasts the largest North American survey to date of works

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  • Kiev’s PinchukArtCentre has announced the names of 21 young artists nominated for its Future Generation Art Prize.

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  • The work of 34-year-old Israeli artist Keren Cytter draws on cinema, literature and theater to suggest a contemporary world in which identity

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  • The title of the art program to be held in the temporary art space in the Deutsche Bank Towers in Frankfurt triggers two associations: globalism

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  • PinchukArtCentre has announced 21 young artists nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize 2010. The Future Generation Art Prize established

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  • Globe. For Frankfurt and the World is a temporary art space in the Deutsche Bank Towers. Globe accompanies the opening program of Deutsche Bank

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  • “Well, it was supposed to be something heavier but it turned out to be a soap opera,” says Israeli-born artist Keren Cytter, in reference to her new

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  • Keren Cytter has just made her first horror film. What is Don't Touch Me, Psychopath! about? The artist won't say; the premiere isn't until March

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel, Keren Cytter lives and works in Berlin. Cytter is a prolific video artist and a writer. Her moving image works transform commonplace stories into vulgarized epics that seem to spin out of control. Her erratic camerawork echoes her volatile narratives, which are set in everyday contexts and shot according to the rules of various television and film genres, ranging from the soap opera to the musical, film noir via fictitious documentary through to cinema verité. Cytter’s videos record her surroundings, her friends and her family who portray characters in a Freudian universe where egocentric goals, profound frustrations, personal aspirations and intimate wishes surface for the camera. Tension is built up through the inner, psychological struggles of the actors, whose craft is often one of the works’ main subject. Cytter’s characters constantly slip in and out of alternative states of play, moving from Stanislawskian immersion to Brechtian de-composure.


Keren Cytter has recently presented solo exhibitions at Oskville Galleries, Toronto (2012), Kunstverein München, (2011), David Roberts foundation London (2011), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010), Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2010), Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin (2010), SCHAU ORT, Zürich (2010), the Hammer Museum Project Series, Los Angeles (2010) and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2010). Her work has been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions, including the 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010), “Making Worlds”, the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2009), Manifesta 7, Trento (2008), the Yokohama Triennial (2008), the 9th Biennale de Lyon (2007), and the 2nd Moscow Biennial (2007). Karen Cytter has received the Absolut Art Award (2009), the Ars Viva Prize (2008), the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel (2006) and has also been short-listed for the The Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art (2009).

Keren Cytter is represented by Pilar Corrias, London, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin and Cologne, chau ort, Zurich, and Zach Feuer, New York.


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