Artist Yael Bartana moderated by Nanna Hjortenberg

Please join us for an artist talk with Yael Bartana on Saturday 17 May at 15:00 in connection with the exhibition Farewell. The talk will be moderated by Nanna Hjortenberg, Director of Gammel Strand. Please RSVP to rsvp@chgallery.se if you wish to attend! The talk will be in English.

Yael Bartana (b. 1970 in Israel, lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam) 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. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances, and public monuments she investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals, and collective gatherings.

Bartana’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Gammel Strand, Copenhagen (2024); Jewish Museum Berlin (2021); Fondazione Modena Artivisive (2019/2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Secession, Vienna (2012); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012); Louisiana (2012); Moderna museet, Malmö (2010), and MoMa PS1, New York (2008).

Group exhibitions include the Venice Bienniale / German Pavilion (2024); São Paulo Bienal (2014, 2010, 2006); Berlin Bienniale (2012); Venice Bienniale / Polish Pavilion (2011); Documenta 12 (2007); Istanbul Bienniale (2005), and Manifesta 4 (2002).

Bartana was awarded the Artes Mundi 4 Prize (2010) and the trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned was ranked as the 9th most important art work of the 21th century by the Guardian newspaper (2019).

Yael Bartana is represented in the collections of MoMa, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.