Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana | |
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 Yael Bartana, 2013 | |
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | BFA in photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (1996) MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York (1999) |
| Known for | Video art |
| Movement | Israeli art |
| Website | yaelbartana |
Yael Bartana (Hebrew: יעל ברתנא; born 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) is an Israeli artist, filmmaker and photographer, whose past works have encompassed multiple mediums,[1] including photography, film, video, sound, and installation. Many of her pieces feature political or feminist themes.
Bartana's works have been exhibited around the world and been part of collections at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Her film trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned, which discusses the relationship between Judaism and Polish identity, was shown at the Polish pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale.[2] She is based in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tel Aviv.[3]
Bartana’s video art has been characterized as “challenging customary categorisations that either pin artists to their country of origin, or see them as participating in an international, increasingly globalised art scene.”[4] Her practice has also been described as engrained in the cultural landscape of Israel. “Thus, even though strongly resonating contemporary mobility, Bartana’s oeuvre, like that of many of her peers, is more migratory than global,”[4] showing that her work is representative of “difference in transition rather than universal sameness.”[4]
Career
Between 2006 and 2011, Bartana worked in Poland, creating the trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned,[5][6] which examines 19th- and 20th-century Europe as a historic homeland for Ashkenazi Jews.This project discusses 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 (the Venice Biennale, 2011), where she was the first non-Polish citizen to ever represent Poland. It was acquired in the permanent collection by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[7] In recent years, Bartana has increasingly staged her films, and proposed utopic narratives for new chapters of history.[8]
Awards and prizes[9]
- Artes Mundi 4 of the National Museum Cardiff, Wales (2010)
- Haagendaismo, Madrid (2010)
- Principal Prize by the International Jury and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen short film festival, Germany (2010)
- Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize (2006)
- Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis of the Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2004[10]
Exhibitions
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (2018-2019)[11]
- Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA (2013-2014)[12]
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2013-2014)[13]
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2012),[1]
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2012)[14]
- Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul, Korea (2010)
- Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (2010),[15]
- Artes Mundi, Cardiff, Wales (2010),[16]
- Yael Bartana at P.S.1 (2009)[17]
- Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2008)
- Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008)
- The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2007)
- Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2006)
- Museum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2005)
- MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2004)
Notable Projects, 2010 - Present
- "The Undertaker" (2019)
- "What If Women Ruled the World" (2017)
- "Tashlikh (Cast Off)" (2017)
- "Simone The Hermetic" (2015)
- "Herzl" (2015)
- "Stalag" (2014/2015)
- "Pardes (Orchard)" (2014)
- "True Finn - Tosi suomalainen" (2014)
- "Inferno" (2013)
- JRMiP Congress (2012) A video documentation of JRMiP Congress
- And Europe Will Be Stunned / Zamach (Assassination) (2011)
- And Europe Will Be Stunned / Mur i wieza (Wall and Tower) (2009)
- And Europe Will Be Stunned / Mary Koszmary (Nightmares) (2007)
- The Recorder Player from Sheikh Jarrah (2010)
- Entartete Kunst Lebt (2010)
References
- ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0714878775.
{{cite book}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ^ "Yael Bartana". Modern Painters. 26 (3): 27–29. 2014.
- ^ "Meet The Artist, Yael Bartana". Ago. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ a b c Anzi, Achia (2020). "The Other Side of Hospitality: Migratory Aesthetics in Yael Bartana's True Finn". Arts. 9 (3): 91. doi:10.3390/arts9030091. S2CID 225252639.
- ^ "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned".
- ^ SEA Foundation Tilburg (27 March 2012). "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned" – via YouTube.
- ^ "Guggenheim and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Announce Acquisition of Yael Bartana Video". Guggenheim. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (18 April 2013). "Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "Artist Profile, Yael Bartana".
- ^ Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2012. Kunstmuseum Bonn. Accessed June 2018.
- ^ "Yael Bartana: And Europe Will be Stunned". Philadelphia Museum of Art. 3 March 2019.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "Project Gallery: Yael Bartana". Pérez Art Museum Miami. 2013.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ Vo, Edited by Bartholomew Ryan ; Texts by Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Renzo Martens, Bjarne Melgaard, Nástio Mosquito, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Hito Steyerl, Danh (2013). 9 artists (First ed.). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. ISBN 978-1935963066.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Yael Bartana - ...And Europe Will Be Stunned". ago.net. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ "Yael Bartana - Moderna Museet". Modernamuseet.se. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ "Yael Bartana - Artes Mundi". Artesmundi.org. 31 October 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ "Special Exhibition - Mary Koszmary (Nightmares): A Film by Yael Bartana". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
External links
- Yael Bartana at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Artist Talk: Yael Bartana, Guggenheim Museum, Conversations With Contemporary Artists (2012), on YouTube
