Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana, 2013
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Kfar Yehezkel, Israel
EducationBezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
School of Visual Arts, New York
Known forVideo art
MovementIsraeli art
Websiteyaelbartana.com

Yael Bartana (Hebrew: יעל ברתנא; born 1970) is an Israeli artist, filmmaker and photographer, whose past works have encompassed multiple mediums,[1] including photography, film, video, sound, and installation. Many of her pieces feature political or feminist themes.

Bartana's works have been exhibited around the world and been part of collections at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Her film trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned, which discusses the relationship between Judaism and Polish identity, was shown at the Polish pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale.[2] She is based in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tel Aviv.[3]

Bartana's video art has been characterized as "challenging customary categorisations that either pin artists to their country of origin, or see them as participating in an international, increasingly globalised art scene".[4] Her practice has also been described as engrained in the cultural landscape of Israel. "Thus, even though strongly resonating contemporary mobility, Bartana’s oeuvre, like that of many of her peers, is more migratory than global",[4] showing that her work is representative of "difference in transition rather than universal sameness".[4]

Career

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

Between 2006 and 2011, Bartana worked in Poland, creating the trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned,[5][6] which examines 19th- and 20th-century Europe as a historic homeland for Ashkenazi Jews. This project discusses the history of Polish-Jewish relations and its influence on the contemporary Polish identity. The trilogy represented Poland in the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011, where she was the first non-Polish citizen to represent Poland.[7] It was acquired in the permanent collection by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[8] In recent years, Bartana has increasingly staged her films, and proposed utopic narratives for new chapters of history.[9] Examples include What If Women Ruled the World? (2017), a live performance in which women politicians and professionals meet with a group of actresses playing the representatives of a fictional nation to come up with solutions to stop the approaching Doomsday.[10] In 2019, The Guardian named Bartana's And Europe Will Be Stunned as one of "the best art of the 21st century".[11]

Awards and prizes

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 50. ISBN 978-0714878775.
  2. ^ "Yael Bartana". Modern Painters. 26 (3): 27–29. 2014.
  3. ^ "Meet The Artist, Yael Bartana". Ago. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Anzi, Achia (2020). "The Other Side of Hospitality: Migratory Aesthetics in Yael Bartana's True Finn". Arts. 9 (3): 91. doi:10.3390/arts9030091. S2CID 225252639.
  5. ^ "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned" – via YouTube.
  6. ^ SEA Foundation Tilburg (27 March 2012). "Yael Bartana ...and Europe will be Stunned" – via YouTube.
  7. ^ "54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia Yael Bartana … and Europe will be stunned – Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki". zacheta.art.pl.
  8. ^ "Guggenheim and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Announce Acquisition of Yael Bartana Video". Guggenheim. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  9. ^ Smith, Roberta (18 April 2013). "Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  10. ^ Paik, Sherry (16 September 2022). "Yael Bartana".
  11. ^ "The best art of the 21st century". The Guardian. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  12. ^ "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
  13. ^ Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2012. Kunstmuseum Bonn. Accessed June 2018.
  14. ^ "Yael Bartana: And Europe Will be Stunned". Philadelphia Museum of Art. 3 March 2019.
  15. ^ "Project Gallery: Yael Bartana". Pérez Art Museum Miami. 2013.
  16. ^ Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Renzo Martens, Bjarne Melgaard, Nástio Mosquito, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Hito Steyerl, Danh Vo (2013). Bartholomew Ryan (ed.). 9 artists (First ed.). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. ISBN 978-1935963066.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Yael Bartana – ...And Europe Will Be Stunned". ago.net. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  18. ^ "Yael Bartana – Moderna Museet". Modernamuseet.se. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  19. ^ "Yael Bartana – Artes Mundi". Artesmundi.org. 31 October 2009. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  20. ^ "Special Exhibition – Mary Koszmary (Nightmares): A Film by Yael Bartana". The Jewish Museum. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

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