Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana
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Born 1970 in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel
Lives and works in Berlin and AmsterdamYael Bartana 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.
Under the title Thresholds, Bartana co-represented Germany alongside theatre director Ersan Mondtag at the Venice Biennale 2024. This is the second time Bartana is representing a country other than Israel in the Biennale, following the exhibition of …and Europe will be stunned as the official Polish participation at the 54th Biennale in 2011. Bartana was also awarded the Rome Prize of the Villa Massimo in 2023/24, where she was in residency in 2023/24.
In 2025 Bartana will present a solo exhibition at the North Norwegian Art Center, Lofoten, Norway. In 2024 the artist held solo exhibitions in Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen and Gammel Strand, Copenhagen as well as in the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. Further recent solo exhibitions include Center for Digital Art (CDA) in Holon (2023), Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021/ 2018), Jewish Museum Berlin (2021), Fondazione Modena Arte Visive in Modena (2019), Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne (2017), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2014), Secession in Vienna (2012) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark (2012).
Yael Bartana‘s works are part of various permanent collections, such as Jewish Museum, Berlin, Tate Modern, London, Jewish Museum, New York, Guggenheim, New York and Abu Dhabi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm and The German Federal Collection of Contemporary Art.
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Artworks
Yael Bartana
The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb, 2024Marble, resin, protective varnish
65 x 40 x 35 cm
25.6 x 15.7 x 13.8 inches
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Artworks
Yael Bartana
Ascending, 2023Inkjet print on paper
Paper dimensions:
75 x 60 cm / 29.5 x 23.6 inches
Framed dimensions:
109.5 x 84 cm / 43.1 x 33.1 inches
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Artworks
Yael Bartana
UTOPIA NOW!, 2024Neon
38 x 300 cm
15 x 118.1 inches
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News
Yael Bartana
'Expected: Its Not A Joke' (Group Show), Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
April 1 – September 14, 2025 1 April 2025When you watch the news these days, laughter may be the furthest thing from your mind. But humour can be crucial, especially in tough times....Read moreYael Bartana
'Frey Seyen und Wöllen Sein' MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen
February 22 – October 5, 2025 22 February 2025For a short period of time and with great vehemence, the dream of freedom and justice flared up in Memmingen in the spring of 1525,...Read moreYael Bartana
'Degenerate art. Modern art on trial under the Nazis' (Group Show), Musée Picasso Paris
February 18 – May 25, 2025 18 February 2025From February 18 to May 25, 2025, the Musée national Picasso Paris presents its new temporary exhibition: '‘Degenerate’' art. Modern art on trial under the...Read moreYael Bartana
'Lucid Dreams' (Group Show), Israel Museum, Jerusalem
December 17, 2024 – June 7, 2025 17 December 2024We sleep. Images appear in our mind’s eye. Scenes and sensations are seen, heard, felt: dreams, a creation of sleep. The unconscious speaks in symbols...Read moreYael Bartana, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig
'Access Kafka' (Group Show), Jewish Museum Berlin
December 13, 2024 – May 4, 2025 13 December 2024One hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, the exhibition puts key aspects of his legacy – still relevant today – into dialogue with works of...Read moreYael Bartana
'Messengers From Above' (Group Show), ERES Foundation, Munich
December 5, 2024 – May 11, 2025 5 December 2024Will the sky fall on our heads one day? Meteorites have a magical attraction, but at the same time they stir up ancient fears. In...Read moreYael Bartana
'Poetics of Power' (Group Show), Kunsthaus Graz
November 15, 2024 – May 25, 2025 November 15, 2024The exhibition Poetics of Power aims to reveal certain power manifestations hidden in symbols, gestures and existing unquestioned relations or systems. It asserts the intricate...Read moreYael Bartana
'ECCENTRIC–Aesthetics of Freedom', Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
October 25, 2024 – April 27, 2025 25 October 2024Bold and free, funny, touching, disturbing – exhibits by 50 international artists show that eccentricity involves far more than outrageousness or decadence. Rejecting all forms...Read moreYael Bartana
'Empowerment' (Group Show), Goethe Institut India
October 5, 2024 – December, 2025 5 October 2024Presented at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2022-23, with roughly 100 artistic positions from some fifty countries on all continents, Empowerment offered for the first time a...Read more
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The imagery of identity and the politics of memory are the themes which form the core of Yael Bartana‘s artistic practice. Constantly seeking to create alternative fictional realities in commentary to existing narratives, Yael Bartana stages speculative situations and introduces fictive moments and futures in her works. Though known for her films and collective performances, the artist works across many various media, including sculpture, light ojects, installation and photography.
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Works
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Exhibitions
25 for 2025
11 January — 15 February 2025ExploreSweet Sixteen
Celebrating 16 years of Capitain Petzel7 June — 3 August 2024On the occasion of Capitain Petzel’s sixteenth anniversary, the gallery is excited to present Sweet Sixteen, a group exhibition celebrating the artists who have been integral to its program since...ExploreStudio Exhibition: Yael Bartana
Abracadabra5 December 2020 — 7 February 2021Capitain Petzel is pleased to present an installation by Yael Bartana, consisting of her new typographic work Abracadabra and the ever-relevant neon TREMBLING TIMES. The new poster series Abracadabra...ExploreRHIZOME 7/7 IRL
21 June — 1 August 2020'A rhizome is characterized by ceaselessly established connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles.' -Excerpt from A Thousand Plateaus by...ExploreYael Bartana
The Graveyard14 September — 9 November 2019Taking her performances What If Women Ruled the World (2017-2018) and Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies! (2018) as points of departure, Yael Bartana’s second solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel...ExploreYael Bartana
23 January — 28 February 2015Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce the first exhibition with Israeli artist Yael Bartana. The show will mark the Berlin debut of her film True Finn, which is presented together...Explore
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External Exhibitions
Thresholds, 2024
German Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
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Press
Monopol: "Monopol Top 100. Das sind die wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten der Kunstwelt" (Yael Bartana)
28 November 2024Monopol: "Leni Riefenstahl und die Kunst Wir knicken immer noch vor ihr ein" (Yael Bartana)
Jens Hinrichsen, 4 November 2024Monopol: "Neuer Kunstverein 47m in Leipzig 'Wir wollen Positionen zeigen, die Reibung erzeugen' " (Yael Bartana)
Sarah Alberti, 24 October 2024artline: "Yael Bartana, Two Minutes to Midnight: Versuchsanordung für eine andere Politik"
Roberta De Righi, 11 October 2024Kunstforum International: "Yael Bartana. Utopia Now!"
Michael Stoeber, 1 August 2024Kunstforum International: "Das Potenzial des Textilen in Skulptur und Architektur" (Yael Bartana)
Uta M. Reindl, 1 August 2024ArtReview: "Yael Bartana: Overcoming the Future"
Nathaniel Budzinski, 10 July 2024Tagesspiegel: "Interview mit der Künstlerin Yael Bartana"
Nicola Kuhn, 18 June 2024Spike: "Yael Bartana: “The Idea of Utopia in the Wrong Hands Can Be Very Dangerous”
Hanno Hauenstein, 9 June 2024taz: "Ein bisschen Trost gibt’s doch" (Yael Bartana)
27 May 2024Forbes: "Venice Art Biennale 2024: 8 Must-See Pavilions"
Nel-Olivia Waga, 25 April 2024The New York Times: "At the Venice Biennale, the German Pavilion Undergoes a Transformation"
A.J. Goldmann, 18 April 2024Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Wir Heimatlosen"
Jörg Häntzschel, 17 April 2024Tagesspiegel: "Ein Raumschiff landet in Venedig"
Nicola Kuhn, 17 April 2024ARTnews: "A Creepy, Entrancing German Pavilion Is This Venice Biennale’s Big Hit"
Alex Greenberger, 17 April 2024THE ART NEWSPAPER: "Venice Biennale 2024: the must-see pavilions in the Giardini"
Lee Cheshire, José da Silva, Gareth Harris, Kabir Jhala, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison, 16 April 2024Monopol: "Das Raumschiff ist gelandet"
Daniel Völzke, 16 April 2024Der Spiegel: "Apocalypse Wow"
Frank Hornig, 16 April 2024Die Zeit: "Yael Bartana: Raumschiffkapitänin"
Tobias Timm, 12 April 2024WELT: "Alle schauen jetzt auf Deutschland" (Yael Bartana)
Marcus Woeller, 23 January 2024Tagesspiegel: "Coup für deutschen Pavillon in Venedig: Yael Bartana und Ersan Mondtag sollen die Biennale rocken"
Nicola Kuhn, 19 January 2024LA Weekly: "A Haunting Film at UC Irvine is Not for the Faint of Heart" (Yael Bartana)
Liz Goldner, 25 March 2022LA Times: "Review: Ex-President Trump claims to be a witch hunt target. These feminist artists beg to differ" (Bartana)
Christopher Knight, 10 November 2021Spike: "Faithful Narratives" (YAEL BARTANA)
Eva Scharrer, 4 October 2021Stern: "Mahnmal erinnert an Kindertransporte in der NS-Zeit" (YAEL BARTANA)
2 September 2021Frankfurt Live: "Denkmal The Orphan Carousel" (YAEL BARTANA)
31 August 2021Frankfurt Live: "Kinderemigration aus Frankfurt" (YAEL BARTANA)
26 August 2021Frankfurter Allgemeine: "Die Macht des Wildbachs" (YAEL BARTANA)
11 August 2021Nytimes: "Five Things We Recommend This Week" (YAEL BARTANA)
5 August 2021Kunstforum: "Yael Bartana, Redemption Now"
Claudia Wahjudi, 3 August 2021Haaretz: "Yael Bartana: Israeli Artist Who Filmed IDF Soldiers Occupying Berlin Can't Imagine Living in Israel"
Shany Littman, 27 July 2021Frieze: "Yael Bartana on the Politics of Collective Redemption"
Boaz Levin, 21 July 2021Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Yael Bartana. Und erlöse uns von der Geschichte"
Sonja Zekri, 1 July 2021Artforum: "Yael Bartana on messianic myth, redemption, and the “Jewish question”"
Daniel Horn, 30 June 2021Gallerytalk.net: "Die Sehnsucht nach Erlösung. Yael Bartana im Jüdischen Museum Berlin"
Alexandra Karg, 23 June 2021Jüdische Allgemeine: "Yael Bartana: Die Erlöserin spricht Hebräisch"
Johannes Becke, 10 June 2021Deutsche Welle: "Jüdisches Museum: Die Suche nach Erlösung"
Torsten Landsberg, 8 June 2021rbb Info Radio: "Yael Bartana: "Redemption Now" im Jüdischen Museum"
Silke Hennig, 5 June 2021Monopol: "Yael Bartana: Wohin am Wochenende?"
4 June 2021Deutschlandfunk Kultur: "Yael Bartana im Jüdischen Museum Berlin: Die Ästhetik der Propaganda"
Simone Reber, 4 June 2021Tagesspiegel: "Yael Bartana: Zur Eröffnung kommt der Messias"
Nicola Kuhn, 4 June 2021Berliner Zeitung: "Erlösung durch Kunst: Yael Bartanas „Malka Germania“ im Jüdischen Museum Berlin"
Itamar Gov, Hanno Hauenstein, 3 June 2021Jüdische Allgemeine: "Yael Bartana: »Malka Germania« als Messiasgestalt"
2 June 2021Berlin.de: "Befreiung Berlins durch Israel: Kunst im Jüdischen Museum"
1 June 2021Monopol: "Yael Bartana: Mit dem Strom"
Monopol, 1 June 2021Kunstforum International: "Yael Bartana im Jüdischen Museum Berlin"
Kunstforum, 28 May 2021Kulturnews: "Yael Bartana. Redemption Now"
Janka Burtzlaff, 21 May 2021Badische Tageszeitung: "Yael Bartana: Suche nach dem neuen Kunstansatz"
Christiane Lenhardt, 11 May 2021Migazin: "Yael Bartana: Das leere Museum schmerzt mich sehr"
Markus Geiler, 11 May 2021Missy Magazine: "Yael Bartana: Ich, auf einem Esel"
Ina Holev, 1 May 2021Monopol: "Portrait. Yael Bartana: Erlöse uns!"
Elke Buhr, 1 May 2021The Guardian: "From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works"
Barbara London, Skye Sherwin, Oliver Basciano, 17 October 2020Carousel in The Art Newspaper: "Yael Bartana: Frankfurt to recall the Kindertransport that saved thousands of children f
Catherine Hickley, 14 February 2020Welt: "Yael Bartana: Abrüstung mit magischem Realismus"
Emeli Glaser, 19 October 2019Spike: "Yael Bartana 'The Graveyard'"
Chloe Stead, 1 October 2019Artforum: "Hannah Stamler on Yael Bartana"
Hannah Stamler, 1 January 2019The New York Times: "Yael Bartana: Imagining a World Ruled by Women"
A.J. Goldmann, 24 May 2018Berliner Morgenpost: "Yael Bartana: Wenn Frauen die Macht haben"
Volker Blech, 11 April 2018Monopol: "'Ich spüre die Dringlichkeit einer nicht von Männern dominierten Welt': Yael Bartana an der Volksbühne Berl
Anna-Lena Werner, 4 April 2018Deutsche Welle: "Yael Bartana: Neuer Videoloop für Homosexuellen-Denkmal in Berlin"
12 January 2018
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Publications
Yael Bartana
The Book of Malka Germania, 2021 2021Clothbound hardcover, 200 pagesRead more
Publisher: DCV Books
ISBN: 978-3-96912-036-1
Dimensions: 24 x 34 cmYael Bartana
Conditions of Political Choreography, 2018 2018Soft cover, 200 pagesRead more
Publisher: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
ISBN: 978-3-89424-966-3
Dimensions: 16,0 x 11,0 cmYael Bartana
JRP Ringier with the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 2017 2017Softcover, 160 pagesRead more
Publisher: JRP Ringier with the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
ISBN: 978-3-03764-492-8
Dimensions: 24 x 28 cmYael Bartana
We need to talk... Artists and the public respond to the present conditions in America, 2017 2017Soft-fold, 40, including 10 poster reproductions of works in the exhibition pagesRead more
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Berlin and Petzel, New York
ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-7757-4339-6
Dimensions: 50 x 38 cmYael Bartana
Inferno, Petzel Gallery, New York, 2015 2015Hardcover, 52 pagesRead more
Publisher: Petzel Gallery, New York and Capitain Petzel, Berlin
ISBN: 9780986323003Yael Bartana
Affekte / Emoties / Gemengde Gevoelens, 2015 Claudia Emmert, Frank Hoenjet, Koen Leemans, 2015Read moreYael Bartana
Two Minutes of Standstill, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2014 2014Softcover, 82 pagesRead more
Publisher: Sternberg Press, Berlin
ISBN: 978-3-95679-061-4
Dimensions: 21 x 28 cmYael Bartana
IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki, 2014 2014Softcover, 151 pagesRead more
Publisher: aidesäätiö Pro Arte Foundation FinlandYael Bartana
A Cookbook for Political Imagination, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2011 2011Hardcover, 388 pagesRead more
Publisher: Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
ISBN: 978-1-934105-53-5
Dimensions: 14 x 24 cmYael Bartana
And Europe Will Be Stunned, Artangel, London, 2011 2011Read moreYael Bartana
And Europe Will be Stunned, Revolver, Berlin, 2010 2010Paperback, 196 pagesRead more
Publisher: Revolver, Berlin
ISBN: 9783868950694
Dimensions: 28 x 22 cmYael Bartana
Short Memory, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2008 2008Paperback, 188 pagesRead more
Publisher: The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
ISBN: 9789657463000Yael Bartana
Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2007 2007Paperback, 104 pagesRead more
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Kunstverein HamburgYael Bartana
Videos & Photographs, 2006 2006Read moreYael Bartana
If You Will it, it is Not a Dream, Secession, Vienna, 2006 2006Softcover, 56 pagesRead more
Publisher: Secession
ISBN: 978-9-08690-003-9
Dimensions: 16.5 x 20 cmYael Bartana
Wherever I am, 2004 Yael Bartana, Emily Jacir, Lee Miller, Andrew Nairne, Modern Art Oxford, 2004Softback, 96 pagesRead more
Publisher: Modern Art Oxford
ISBN: 9781901352214
Dimensions: 27.1 x 0.9 x 19.3 cm
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Video
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Artist Yael Bartana: Imagine Something Different | Louisiana Channel, 2024
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Artist Talk Yael Bartana: Redemption Now | Jewish Museum Berlin, 2021
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