Yael Bartana

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Yael Bartana

Yael Bartana, 2013
Born 1970
Kfar Yehezkel, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Field Video art
Training Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Movement Israeli art

Yael Bartana (born 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) is an Israeli video artist, who lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv.

Work

Yael Bartana has had several solo exhibitions held at various venues including: the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, PS1 in New York and Moderna Museet Malmö. She participated in Documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007, in the São Paulo Art Biennial 2010 and won the Artes Mundi Prize in 2010.[1] Yael Bartana was Poland's choice for the 2011 Venice Biennale where she was the first non-Polish citizen to represent Poland. Her work has been featured at the 2007 Documenta 12 and the 2010 Sao Paulo Biennale. Bartana's photography, film, and sound works investigate questions surrounding society, spirituality, and politics.

Yael Bartana’s films, film installations and photographs challenge the national consciousness that is propagated by her native country of Israel. Questions of "Homeland", "Return" and "Belonging" are the central questions that she explores.

Bartana's platform for investigation includes ceremonies, public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective identity of countries. Working outside the country, she observes it from a critical distance. Her early films were primarily registrations in which aesthetic interventions, including soundtracks, slowing the image and specific camera perspectives, played a role. The Israeli artist first became interested in exploring the nation of Poland four years ago, when she began her Polish Trilogy, and Europe will be stunned,[2] a series of films that examine 19th and 20th-century Europe as a historic homeland for Ashkenazi Jews. In recent years, she has increasingly staged her films, and proposed utopic narratives for new chapters of history.

Education

Bartana has been artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beelden de Kunsten.

Awards and Prizes

She has been nominated for and given many awards - most recently she was awarded the prestigious Artes Mundi Prize - one of the UK's major art prizes.

  • 1996 Samuel Academy Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
  • 2003 Kipper Prize for the Young Artist, Wolf Fund
  • 2004 Dorothea von Stetten Art Award
  • 2005 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 2005 Prix de Rome, 2nd Award Winner, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
  • 2006 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
  • 2007 Nathan Gottsdiner Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Israeli Yael Bartana is Artes Mundi 4 winner". BBC.co.uk. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
  2. ↑ "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned". 
  3. ↑ 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 Edition. ed.). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. ISBN 1935963066. 
  4. ↑ "Yael Bartana - Moderna Museet". Modernamuseet.se. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
  5. ↑ "Yael Bartana - Artes Mundi". Artesmundi.org. 31 October 2009. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
  6. ↑ "Yael Bartana on Artabase". Artabase.net. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 
  7. ↑ "Special Exhibition - Mary Koszmary (Nightmares): A Film by Yael Bartana". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 2011-07-17. 

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