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Yael Bartana (Israeli, born 1970)

Timeline

1970: Born in Afula, Israel
1992–1996: BFA, The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1996: The Samuel Prize, for the video/sound installation ‘Ant-Bulb, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1999: MFA studies, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2000–2001: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003: Anselm Kiefer Prize, The Wolf Foundation, Israel
2005: Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2005: Prix de Rome, 2nd award winner, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006: Recipient of the 2006 Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Prize, Israel
2007: Winner of the Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize 2006, Israel
2009: Winner of the 2009 Prix Dazibao, Montreal
: Lives and works in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Amsterdam, Netherlands

Exhibitions

2010: “If you want, we’ll travel to the moon together.”Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2010: Modern Museum, Malmo, Sweden (solo)
2010: Artes Mundi, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2009: Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2009: Jewish Museum, New York, USA (solo)
2009: P.S. 1, New York, USA (solo)
2009: Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video, ICA, Boston, USA
2009: Hugging & Wrestling, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH, USA
2009: Pacific Meridian, Vladivostok International Film Festival for Asian Pacific Countries, Vladivostok, Russia
2009: Stranded Positions, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
2009: TICAB, Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial – first episode, Tirana, Albania
2009: Transitland. Video art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, organized by InterSpace, Sofia, transmediale, Berlin and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2009: Monument to transformation, organized by transit, Prague, Czech Republic
2009: Places To Be. New York – Shanghai – Tel Aviv – Texas – Zagreb, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009: The 11th presentation of Le Mois de la Photo a Montréal 2009, Canada
2009: Who’s afraid of the artists?, curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Francesca Zappia, Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard, France
2009: Auto. Dream and Matter, LAboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon, S and Dos De Mayo Art Centre, Madrid, Spain
2009: Promised Land, Gemak, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
2009: Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming, Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland
2009: Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
2009: The Kings of the Hill, Auto Sueno y Materia, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2009: Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2009: Contour, 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
2009: Architecture and Memory, British Film Institute, London, UK
2009: Troubles au frontières, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2009: Pop Up! , Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
2008: Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
2008: C.H.O.S.E.N., Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
2008: She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the h-bomb, Starr auditorium, Tate Modern, , London, UK
2008: We never looked better, Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008: The Hidden Trace – Jewish Paths through modernity, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabruck, Germany
2008: Another Territory, City Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russian Federation
2008: 49th October Salon, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2008: Momentum, Samuel P.Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
2008: P.S. 1, New York, USA (solo)
2008: World Tale: Mixed Narrations: A Video Parade from Different Points”, The Hacettepe University Art Museum, Ankara, Turkey (solo)
2008: EngholmEngelhorn, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2008: Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy (solo)
2008: Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
2007: Yael Bartana, In the Army I was an outstanding soldier, March, Fondazione per l’arte contemporanea, Curated by Gabi Scardi, Italy (solo)
2007: The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2007: Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007: Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
2007: Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum, Freedom Border and Trembling Time, February – June 2007
2006: Sirens’ Song, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (solo)
2006: Amateur Anthropologist Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo)
2006: Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2006: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (solo)
2006: Demolition, Engholm/Engelhorn gallery, Vienna
2006: 27th Bienal de São Paulo, A Declaration, Wild Seeds, Low Relief II (4), São Paulo, Brazil
2006: Records and Habits. The Time Machine / Images of Space, Tapies Foundaion, Low Relief II, Wild Seeds, Kings of the Hill, Barcelona, Spain
2006: Wherever We Go, Spazio Oberdan Milan, Italy
2006: 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Wild Seeds, Halle, Germany
2006: Inside-out. Contemporary Artists from Israel, Sirens’ Song, Museo de arte contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2006: Coding:Decoding, Sirens’ Song, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
2006: Kings of the Hill, David Maljkovic, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia,
2006: The Art of Living: Contemporary Works from the Israel Museum, Trembling Time, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
2005: Wild Seeds, 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
2005: Beograd Nekad I Sad, Galerija Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2005: Sirens’ Song, V Internationales Kunstfestival Magdeburg, Art Depot, Magdeburg, Germany
2005: Prix de Rome.NL, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005: a forest and a tree, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, New York, USA
2005: Trembling Time, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey
2005: Trembling Time, Low Relief II (4 channel), The Hebrews - 100 years of culture in Israel, The Israel Museum and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2005: When Adar Enters, Ad De’lo Yoda, Reunion, ByArt Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005: Trembling Time, Low Relief II (1 channel), Freedom Border, Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2005: Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Kings of the Hill, San Francisco, USA
2005: Museum St.Gallen, Wild Seeds, St.Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2005: Photographic works in projectspace The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery (solo)
2004: You Could Be Lucky, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
2004: When Adar Enters, Ad De’lo Yoda, Kings of the Hill, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (solo)
2004: Trembling Time, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2004: When Adar Enters and Blimp, Büro Friedrich, Berlin (solo)
2004: Trembling Time, Onufri 2004 Prize: Chosen Places, National Gallery of Arts Tirania, Albania
2004: Kings of the Hill, Time Zones: recent film and video, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
2004: Low Relief II (4 channel), Time Depot. Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
2004: When Adar Enters and Ad De’lo Yoda, Surfacing, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2004: Profile, Trembling Time, When Adar Enters, Ad de’lo Yoda and Blimp, Wherever I am, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain
2004: You Could Be Lucky, Liverpool Biennial, Festival for Contemporary Art, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2004: Korea When Adar Enters, Ad de’lo Yoda and Blimp, Busan Biennale, Point of Contact, Contemporary Art Exhibition
2004: Trembling Time, The 10 Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
2004: Kings of the Hill, The Mediterraneans, Museum of Modern Art Rome, Rome, Italy
2004: Lonely Planet, Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center, Ibaraki, Japan
2004: Quicksand, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004: Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Great Britain
2003: Territories, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003: Territories, Wonderyears - New Reflections on Shoah and Nazism in Israel, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, KW-Berlin, Germany
2003: Vane, After-Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2003: Wonderyears, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2003: Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck Kunstverein, Lübeck, Germany
2003: The Promise, O.K Center for Cotemporary Art, The Land Vienna, Austria
2003: Sheffield Festival of Contemporary Art, Sheffsield, United Kingdom
2003: Kaap Helder, Oude Rijkswerf Willemsoord (Kunst en Cultuur Noord-Holland), Den Helder, Netherlands
2003: Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz /Tirol, Austria
2003: M_ARS-Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2003: Kings of the Hill, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (solo)
2003: Blimp, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel (solo)
2003: Purim Spiel, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2003: Kings of the Hill, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2003: Kings of the Hill, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel (solo)
2003: Trembling Time, Kings of the Hill, Galeria comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (solo)
2002: Trembling Time, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands (solo)
2002: Variables X Y Z Digital Art Lab, Holon, Israel (solo)
2002: Rendez-Vous, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
2002: What? A tale in free images, Brugge Culture Capital of Europe, Brugge, Belgium
2002: Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, Austria
2002: Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2002: Tele-Journeys, MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge, USA
2002: The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Corea
2002: Non-linear Editing, De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands
2001: In the Meantime, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001: Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
2001: 2e Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs 2001, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands
2001: Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001: Profile, Caermersklooster, Gent, Belgium (solo)
2000: Greater New York, PS1, New York, USA
2000: Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000: Reflex Ensemble in Musical Dialoges, Center for the Arts - Tel Aviv, Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1996: B.F.A project, Bezalel academy of arts and design, Jerusalem

Literature

2008: Scenes du Sud, Mediterranee, Orientale, exhibition catalogue, Carre d’Art – Musee d’art Contemporain de Nimes
2007: Brave New Worlds, exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Center
2007: Yael Bartana, In the army I was an outstanding soldier, March, fondazione per l’arte contemporanea, 2007
2007: Regarding Fear and Hope, Exhibition Catalogue, Monash University of Art, 2007
2007: Um Atlas de Acontecimentos/An Atlas of Events, Exhibiition-Catalogue The State of the world, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007
2007: Im Auge des Zyklons/In the eye of the storm, Exhibition Catalogue Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2007
2007: Yael Bartana, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2006: Yael Bartana, exhibition catalogue, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2006: Artforum, October 2006, p.278
2006: Community Service. Frieze October 2006, pp.37-40
2006: Voorkeur beeldende kunst, NRC Handelsblad, March 2
2006: Ruimte voor frisse politieke kunst en rustige observaties, In: De Volkskrant, by Sacha Bronwasser, February 28, p.19
2006: Macho’s in four wheel drives, In: NRC Handelsblad, by Janneke Wesseling, February 24
2005: Future Greats, In: Art Review, december
2005: Lonnie van Brummelen wint Prix de Rome, in: de Volskrant, July 1
2005: Prix de Rome moet naar Bartana, in: De Volkskrant, June 4
2005: De nieuwe Prix is voor Bartana, in: Het Parool, June 11
2005: Prix de Rome.Nl 2005, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam
2005: Die Neuen Hebräer. 100 Jahre Kunst in Israel, exhibition catalogue, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, edited by Doreet LeVotte Harten and Yigal Zalmona
2004: Wherever I Am, Yael Bartana, Emily Jacir, Lee Miller, exhibition catalogue, Modern Art Oxford, Essays by Linda Grant and Galit Eilat, pp.9-27
2004: Kav/Hameorer, magazine for literature and art magazine, Nr. 16-18, winter Tel-Aviv, pp.16-20
2004: Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsche Hygienes Museum, Dresden, June 19 – December 5, 2004, p.115
2004: Quicksand, exhibition catalogue, De Appel Foundation Amsterdam
2004: Lonely Planet, exhibition catalogue, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2004: London: Tate Modern. Time Zones: Recent Filma and Video, In: Contemporary, Issue 70, pp.58-59
2004: Tussen massa en individu, In: De Volkskrant, by Marina de Vries, October 7, Kunst Bijlage, pp.10-11
2004: Was Will Europa?, In: Flash Art, July/September, Vol.XXXVII, pp.98-99
2004: What’s the difference, in: Frieze , Issue 84, May 2004, pp.72-77
2004: The six wannabees as a soccer team, in: Tubelight, Issue 32, p.09
2004: Quicksand engulfs and disorients, Amsterdam Weekly, May 5-11, 2004
2004: Vrij Nederland, April 24, 2004
2004: Plaagstootjes van jonge curatoren, De Volkskrant, April 8, 2004
2004: Click opera, March 14th, 2004, www.livejournal.com
2004: Art Review, December/January 2004 Yael Bartana, p.102
2003: Esche, Charles, Cream 3 - Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, New York pp.56-59
2003: Territories, KW- Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin
2003: Weibel, P., M_ARS, Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Hatje Cantz, Frankfurt
2003: Edlinger T., Stella Rollig and Roland Schöny, The Promise, The Land.Jewish-Israeli Artists in Relation to Politics and Society, O.K. Centrum fur Gegenwartkunst, Linz
2003: Nähe und Distanz, in: Profile, Nr 28, 7.7., p. 35
2003: Richter, Dorothee, Remapping the Region, in: Die Springerin, Summer 03, p. 34-36
2003: Holm, Peter, Knapp fromulierte Kunstkonzepte, in: Kieler Nachrichten, 22.1.
2003: Junge Kunst transkulturell, in: Lübecker Stadtzeitung, 21.1.
2003: Heimat, von außen gesehen, in: Lübecker Nachrichten, 18.1.
2003: Esche, Charles, Young, Lesley, Yael Bartana, 03
2002: Manifesta 4, Hatje Cantz Publishers, Frankfurt, pp.170-171
2002: Manifesta 4, in: Art Monthly, July/August
2002: Künstler-Portraits – Yael Bartana, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 3.6.
2002: Bush, Kate, Manifesta 4, in: Art Forum
2002: Rosenberg, Angela Spotlight—Manifesta 4, in: Flash Art, in: Flash Art, issue 225, July/September
2002: Van Voss, Sandra Heerma, Sinaasappelbron aan de Main-oever, in: NRC Handelsblad
2002: Van Elsberg, Jacquine, ‘Bibberen, beven, rillen, en sidderen in trillende tijd’, in: Skrien
2002: Kuni, Verena, Manifesta 4, in: Frieze, issue 69, September, p.104
2002: Bartana, Yael, Self portrait, in:Tema Celeste, No. 91, May/June
2001: Den Hartog Jager, Hans, Keelzangers en een dood paard in Open teliers, in: NRC Handelsblad
2001: Moukhtar, Esma, Boodschappen in een trillingslaag, in: de Volkskrant, Netherlands
2001: Mar, Alex, In the MeanTime…, in: Metropolis M, NL, Special edition Summer 2001, p .48
2001: van de Velde, Paola, Marsmuziek en een leger van naalden. Amsterdamse Rijkakademie houdt Open Ateliers, in: De Telegraaf
2001: Van de Velde, Paola, Jennifer Tee serveert taart. Rijksakademie – studenten hebben overduidelijk lol in hun werk, in: De Telegraaf
2001: De Volkskrant, Geluid, veel geluid in Open Ateliers
2001: Lamoree, Jhim, Veel installaties en een enkel schilderij of beeld, in: Het Parool
2001: De Vries, Marina, Liever een camera dan verf en kwast, in: Het Parool