Capitain Petzel
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • Press
  • Art Fairs
  • Publications
  • Gallery
  • 中文
Cart
0 items €
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu

Artworks

Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Yael Bartana, The Undertaker, 2019 Yael Bartana, The Undertaker, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021 Photography: Joseph Hu, 2021.

Yael Bartana

The Undertaker, 2019
One channel video and sound installation, 13 min
Edition of 6 + 2 AP
B-YBARTANA-.19-0002
Yael Bartana is interested in questions of group dynamics and leadership. In politics as in messianism, faith is often placed in one person’s ability to guide their followers to a...
Read more
Yael Bartana is interested in questions of group dynamics and leadership. In politics as in messianism, faith is often placed in one person’s ability to guide their followers to a better future. The Undertaker portrays an enigmatic leader guiding a group of armed followers on a ceremonial march. Bearing firearms from various historical contexts and accompanied by people dressed in uniforms from the American Revolution, the group strides down the streets of Philadelphia, the birthplace of US democracy. The procession concludes at Laurel Hill Cemetery, where the group buries its weapons in the tradition of some North American indigenous peoples. The participants’ choreography draws on a 1953 composition by Noa Eshkol (1924–2007). Rather than a memorial to the dead, Bartana’s symbolic burial is a monument for the living, an invitation to consider our bodies as both carriers of trauma as well as vehicles for hope and resistance.
Close full details

Exhibitions

'Noa Eshkol, No Time to Dance', Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, 2024

'Yael Bartana: Redemption Now', Jewish Museum, Berlin, 2021

'Witch Hunt', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, 2021

'The Undertaker', The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2021
'Yael Bartana / The Undertakers', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, 2020

'Yael Bartana: The Graveyard', Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2019

Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
716 
of  839

Subscribe to our mailing list

Sign-up

* denotes required fields

We will process the personal data you have supplied in accordance with our privacy policy (available on request). You can unsubscribe or change your preferences at any time by clicking the link in our emails.

Capitain Petzel

Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin

Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm

+49 30 240 88 130
info@capitainpetzel.de

Galerie Gisela Capitain

St. Apern Strasse 26
50667 Cologne

Albertusstrasse 9 - 11
50667 Cologne

Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm

galeriecapitain.de
+49 221 355 70 10
info@galeriecapitain.de

Petzel

520 W 25th Street
New York, NY 10001

Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm

petzel.com
+1 212 680 9467
info@petzel.com

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Artsy, opens in a new tab.
View on Google Maps
Copyright © Capitain Petzel 2025
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Accept