Lot 28: YAEL BARTANA

YAEL BARTANA ISRAELI B. 1970 PROFILE 2000 duration: 3 min. loop

Some recent solo exhibitions
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam 2010, 'If you want, we'll travel to the moon together'
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 2009, 'Short Memory'
P.S.1. MOMA, Long Island City 2008
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam 2007
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2006
Some recent group exhibitions
KW Berlin, 2010, 'Early Years'
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris 2009
Tate Modern, London 2008, 'H box'
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2006, 'Slow Motion'
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2005

Selected publications
Sergio Edelsztein [et al.], Short Memory, Tel Aviv: The Center for Contemporary Art 2008
Yilmaz Dziewior (ed.), Yael Bartana, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2007
Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Yael Bartana: videos & photographs, Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum 2006
Rutger Pontzen [et al.], Prix de Rome nl 2005, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers 2005

Selected public and corporate collections
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL • Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL • Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo/tba, Amsterdam, NL • Gemeentemuseum Helmond, NL • Tate Collection, UK • Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH • Grazer Kunstverein, AT • Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL • Museum of Modern Art, New York, US • Jewish Museum New York, US

donated by the artist
courtesy: Annet Gelink Gallery

In impressive images, Yael Bartana's video works question the constitution of Israel's national and cultural identity, especially as reflected in its rituals and representation. Bartana adopts the role of aloof, critical observer of her country in her quest for more profound meanings and links between everyday occurrences and social conventions. She expresses her interest in the mechanisms of a country that prescribes an ideology and in the individual who applies it. She calls attention to that which underlies what we see, what is hidden in images and actions.
'I do not support the politics of Israel. But my childhood and memories are there. I could not make art about anything or anywhere else.'

Yael Bartana was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2000-2001
She won the Anselm Kiefer Prize (IL) in 2003, the first prize of the Dorothea-von-Stetten-Kunstpreis (DE) 2004, the 2nd prize of the 2005 Prix de Rome (NL), the Israeli Art Prize (IL) 2006, the Prix Dazibao (CA) in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 4 (UK) 2010.

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