Yael Bartana

Yael Bartana

BornNationalityBased In
1970IsraeliBerlin, Amsterdam
Biography

Yael Bartana (born Israel, 1970) is an observer of the contemporary and a pre-enactor. She employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line between the sociological and the imagination. Over the past twenty years, she has dealt with some of the dark dreams of the collective unconscious and reactivated the collective imagination, dissected group identities and (an-) aesthetic means of persuasion. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances and public monuments Yael Bartana investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals and collective gatherings. ...

Selected Artworks
we shall be strong in our weakness (BIG)
Yael Bartana
we shall be strong in our weakness (BIG), 2012
190 x 50cm
Awards
Artes Mundi2010
Artes Mundi2010
Biennals
Belgrade Biennale2011 - Belgrade
Belgrade Biennale2008 - Belgrade
Istanbul Biennial2005 - Istanbul
Busan Biennial2004 - Busan
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