Yael Bartana

Yael Bartana (Hebrew יעל ברתנא ;) ( * 1970 in Afula, Israel) is an Israeli multi-media artist who lives in Israel and Berlin. She works with videos and video installations, sound installations and other multimedia technologies.

Work

Yael Bartana is considered the protagonist of the video art, with its own very special form of expression. It combines documentary aspects with poetic alienation in their art. Her films often address the social rituals of everyday life in Israel, which is characterized by states of emergency and danger of war.

Life

Yael Bartana studied art in Jerusalem with a focus on photography. She had to study in Toronto, where she joined the artistic medium and since then primarily works with movies. In Jerusalem, she attended classes at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and made degree at the Art Academy in Jerusalem. Then Bartana went for two and a half years in the United States and worked in the advertising film industry. After staying in the U.S., she moved to Amsterdam and returned to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam art back. In Amsterdam she turned in 2000, "Profile ", an artistic representation of a course of fire by Israeli soldiers.

Her art is recognized by international exhibitions among others in New York City, St. Gallen, Warsaw and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and participated in many biennials and group exhibitions. In 2004 she was awarded the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize. In 2007 she took part in documenta 12 in Kassel with the video and sound installation Summer Camp ( 2007), which documents an action build upon when people from different countries a Palestinian house again, which had been demolished by the Israeli authorities.

Important exhibitions

• 2012 If you want, it is no dream, Secession, Vienna
• 2011 Polish Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia
• 2011 Mary Koszmary, 2007 1,357 Study Gallery, Goethe- University, Frankfurt am Main
• 2010 Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden,
• 2008 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland / Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2007 LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL, Jeu de Paume, Paris / Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London / LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL 2007 Kino Babylon, Berlin -Mitte / documenta 12, Kassel / New Asian Art. Thermocline of Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe / In the Eye of the Storm Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / Twenty- two thousand five hundred, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere / LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL 2007 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid / e-flux VIDEO RENTAL Centre culturel suisse, Paris / Spring Exhibitions CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale -on-Hudson / INSERT 2: Israeli Center for Digital Art Holon Kunstverein Hamburg / a forest and a tree art Exnergasse, Vienna / Dateline Israel Jewish Museum - New York / Fiona Banner Yael Bartana The Power Plant, Toronto / REXISTROS e hábitos CGAC Santiago de Compostela / This Place is My Place Kunstverein Hamburg

• 2006 Liminal SPACES Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig / Maskharat Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / Wherever we go SPAZIO OBERDAN Milan / STRAY (G ) Para / Site, Hong Kong, Hong Kong / São Paulo Biennial / Yael Bartana Fridericianum, Kassel / 7 Werkleitz Biennale, Halle / Coding: Decoding Kunsthalle Nikolaj, Copenhagen / e-flux VIDEO RENTAL Mucsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest / Art 37 Basel / TERRITORY Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver / Yael Bartana / THREE STORES Kunstverein Hamburg / e-flux VIDEO RENTAL FILM FESTIVAL extra City, Antwerp / People land State Israeli Digital Art Lab, Holon / 52 International Short film Festival Oberhausen / It is hard to touch the real KunstvereinGRAZ / under.ctrl Forum Stadtpark, Graz / Bartana, Perjovschi, Sasnal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

• 2005 Dream and Trauma House of World Cultures, Berlin / Irreducible Bronx Museum of the Arts / Yael Bartana Catherine Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / Why do not you say it? Herzliya Museum of Art / 9th Istanbul Biennial / ISTANBUL Platform Garanti, Istanbul / Irreducible Miami Art Central / That from a long way off look like flies Platform Garanti, Istanbul / PRIXDEROME.NL 2005 De Appel, Amsterdam / The New Hebrews, Martin -Gropius -Bau, Berlin / WRO 05 Media Art Biennale WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw / Hilchos Shchenim Chapter C Israeli Digital Art Lab, Holon / Montevideo Dorottya Gallery, Budapest / transmediale.05 Transmediale Berlin / Dorothea von Stetten Art prize 2004 Kunstmuseum Bonn / Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video CCA Wattis, San Francisco / Onufri PRIZE, 2004 / CHOSEN PLACES National Gallery of Arts Tirana

• 2004 PLAY Stadsgalerij Heerlen / Due to recent events Johann König, Berlin / Smile away the parties ... Gemeentemuseum Helmond / The second picture / video screening Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin / Yael Bartana: Three Works MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (MA) / Time Zones: Recent film and Video, Tate Modern, London / Liverpool Biennial 2004 / Who if not we ... Ludwig Museum Budapest / The second picture thirteen two, Vienna / Wherever I Am Museum of Modern Art, Oxford / 5th Cetinje Biennial - Love It or Leave It / éblouissement / Guy Bourdin Jeu de Paume, Paris / The Ten Commandments Deutsches Hygiene- Museum, Dresden / Mediterraneans - Arte Contemporanea MACRO Rome / TERRITORIES Malmö Konsthall / Busan Biennale 2004 / lonelyplanet Art Tower Mito / Quicksand de Appel, Amsterdam / transmediale.04 Transmediale Berlin / TERRITORIES Witte de With, Rotterdam

• 2003 BIENNIAL Prague PRAGUE 1 / TERRITORIES KW Berlin / Berlin NGBK / Wonder Years art space Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin / Young art: transcultural Overbeck -Gesellschaft, Lübeck / M_ARS - Art and War Neue Galerie, Graz

• 2002 Cowboys en kroegtijgers Gemeentemuseum Helmond / Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt am Main 2002 International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam

• 2001 New World Kunstverein Frankfurt / in the mean time ... De Appel, Amsterdam

Works (selection)

• Degenerate Art lives (2010)
• Mur i wieża (2009)
• Mary Koszmary (2008)
• Summer Camp (2007)
• A Declaration ( 2006)
• Odds and Ends (2005)
• Wild Seeds ( 2005)
• Low Relief II ( 2004)
• Kings of the Hill (2003)
• Trembling Time (2001)
• Profile (2000)

Literature and sources

• Yael Bartana, and Europe will be stunned, Catalogue / Catalogue, 2010, Moderna Museet Malmö, ISBN 978-3-86895-069-4.
• Documenta 12 Catalogue / Catalogue, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-1677-6.
• Documenta 12 Picture Book, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-1694-3.