Yael Bartana

Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana, 2013
Born 1970
Kfar Yehezkel, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Education Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Known for Video art
Movement Israeli art
Website yaelbartana.com

Yael Bartana (Hebrew: יעל ברתנא‎; born 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) is an Israeli artist working in film, installation and photography. Her work investigates "the imagery of identity and the politics of memory." She is perhaps best known for the film trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned, which premiered at the Polish pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale and explores notions of identity and nationalism inherent to the right of return.[1] She is based in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tel Aviv.[2]

Education

Bartana received a BFA in photography from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Academy, Jerusalem, a MFA in 1999 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and was an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beelden de Kunsten in Amsterdam for two years, ending in 2001.

Career

"...and Europe will be stunned", 2012 on the outside wall of Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art

Yael Bartana’s films, film installations and photographs challenge the national consciousness that is propagated by her native country of Israel. Bartana focuses her work on the implied meanings of terms related to "homeland", "return", and "belonging". Her photography, film, and sound works investigate questions surrounding society, spirituality, and politics.

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.

Between 2006 and 2011, she was working in Poland, creating the trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned,[3][4] which examines 19th- and 20th-century Europe as a historic homeland for Ashkenazi Jews. This is a project on 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). In recent years, she has increasingly staged her films, and proposed utopic narratives for new chapters of history.[5] She was the first non-Polish citizen to represent Poland.

As a solo exhibition, her video trilogy has been on display at museums around the world. In 2013 her film And Europe Will Be Stunned was acquired in the permanent collection by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[6]

Yael Bartana has had several solo exhibitions held at various venues including: the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, MoMA PS1 in New York City, 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.[7]

Awards and prizes

AND EUROPE WILL BE STUNNED", 2012 on the outside wall of HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

She has been nominated for and given many awards:

  • 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 Kunstpreis of the Kunstmuseum Bonn[8]
  • 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
  • 2009 Prix Dazibao, Montreal (Canada)
  • 2010 Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum Cardiff (UK)[9]
  • 2010 Häagendaismo, Madrid (Spain)
  • 2010 Principal Prize by the International Jury and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen short film festival, Germany

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Yael Bartana". Modern Painters. 26 (3): 27–29. 2014.
  2. ↑ "Meet The Artist, Yael Bartana". Ago. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned".
  4. ↑ SEA Foundation Tilburg (27 March 2012). "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned" – via YouTube.
  5. ↑ Smith, Roberta (18 April 2013). "Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Guggenheim and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Announce Acquisition of Yael Bartana Video". Guggenheim. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Israeli Yael Bartana is Artes Mundi 4 winner". BBC.co.uk. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  8. ↑ Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2012. Kunstmuseum Bonn. Accessed June 2018.
  9. ↑ "Israeli scoops Artes Mundi prize". 19 May 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "Yael Bartana - ...And Europe Will Be Stunned". ago.net. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  12. ↑ "Yael Bartana - Moderna Museet". Modernamuseet.se. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  13. ↑ "Yael Bartana - Artes Mundi". Artesmundi.org. 31 October 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  14. ↑ "Special Exhibition - Mary Koszmary (Nightmares): A Film by Yael Bartana". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
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