Artists

Yael Bartana

Press release

Opening: Friday, November 21, 6–8 pm. On view through December 19, 2025.

Yael Bartana examines the structures of power and the collective imagination that shape contemporary society. Through her films, installations, photographs, performances, and public monuments, she explores issues of national identity, collective memory, and displacement—often through the lens of rituals, commemorations, and social narratives.

Her work has been shown in major institutions such as GL Strand, Copenhagen (2024); the Jewish Museum Berlin (2021); Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2019/2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Secession, Vienna (2012); and MoMA PS1, New York (2008). She has participated in the Venice Biennale (2024, 2011), the São Paulo Biennial (2014, 2010, 2006), and Documenta 12 (2007).

Bartana received the Artes Mundi 4 Prize (2010), and her trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned was named by The Guardian among the most significant artworks of the 21st century. Her works are held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. She was awarded the Rome Prize of Villa Massimo for 2023/24 and lives between Berlin and Amsterdam.