The israeli video artist Yael Bartana was notified to a wider crowd first after solo exhibitions at the Museum of St. Gallen (2006) and in the Fridericianum in Kassel (2006). Since then, her attention in the international exhibition scene has soared. In addition to numerous group exhibitions - so at documenta 12 - her quite extensive body of work was shown in the CCA Tel Aviv, Power Plant, Toronto and at PS1 in New York. At present their work in the gallery Anette Gelink in Amsterdam as well as at 27.2. seen in the Tate Modern in London.
Yael Bartana, A Declaration, 2006, © courtesy the artist
The israeli artist Yael Bartana (born 1970) is compared to their home country, the position of a distanced observer-critical one. Your interest is - as the artist - on the mechanisms of a state, an ideology and lays down the individual, this applies. Bartanas video works in stunning photography question the constitution of the national and cultural identity of Israel, especially through its rituals and representations, such as the pervasive militarization as part of the self-understanding of the country and reveal deeper meanings of everyday events, religious or social origin, related to the Israeli context, but also transferable to other contexts. (Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel)
