Keren Cytter
Keren Cytter (* 1977 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli artist .
biography
Keren Cytter studied fine arts at the Avni Institute for Art in Tel Aviv and received a scholarship to the De Ateliers art school in Amsterdam . She lived in Berlin from 2005 until she moved to New York City in 2012 .
She became known for her experimental video works, in which she deals with the question of the influence media culture has on interpersonal relationships. In her videos she combines different narrative threads, time levels and role assignments. Cytter refers to experimental and classical cinema, to literature, theater and YouTube fragments and combines elements of documentary and fictional origin.
Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunsthalle Zürich (2005), Kunst-Werke Berlin (2006), MUMOK Vienna (2007), Witte de With Rotterdam (2008), Le Plateau Paris (2009), Kunsthaus Baselland Mutend and Moderna Museet Stockholm (2010), David Roberts Art Fundation London, Kunstverein Munich and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2011). She has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon (2007), Manifests 7 Trentino (2008), New Museum of Contemporary Art New York City and Biennale di Venezia (2009), Gwangju Biennale (2010) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City (2011).
In 2009 Cytter founded the dance-performance-theater company DIE Now and went on an international tour with the self-written and choreographed productions History in the Making and The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Content . The pieces have been shown at Tate Modern London, The Kitchen New York, Tramway Glasgow, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and Hebbel am Ufer Berlin , among others .
In 2010, together with the curators Maaike Gouwenberg and Kathy Noble, she founded the APE (Art Projects Era) foundation, under whose name she staged her plays Show Real Drama and Anke is Gone / I Eat Pickels at Your Funeral , which have since been guest productions in Berlin, London, New York City, Canada and Asia were invited.
Cytter is the author of the novels The Man who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats (2006), The Seven Most Exciting Hours of Mr. Trier's Life in Twenty-Four Chapters, and The Amazing True Story of Moshe Klinberg (2009 ). In 2010, excerpts from her diary were published under the title White Diaries .
For her work, she received the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2006 , the ars viva Prize in 2008 and the first Absolut Vodka Art Award, which was presented in Stockholm in 2009. In addition, she was nominated for the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art Berlin and the Future Generation Art Prize in 2009.
In the 2014/2015 winter semester, she was appointed professor for “Free Art” at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
Filmography
- 2000: The Mysterious Series
- 2000: Brush
- 2001: The friends series
- 2002: War and Peace
- 2002: Documenta Y
- 2002: video dance
- 2002: Disillusioned love
- 2002: Experimental film
- 2002: French Film
- 2003: Family
- 2003: Disillusioned love 2
- 2003: MFPig
- 2003: Nothing
- 2004: Date series
- 2005: Time
- 2005: Continuity
- 2005: Dreamtalk
- 2005: Atmosphere
- 2006: Repulsion
- 2006: The Victim
- 2007: Nightmare
- 2007: Something happened
- 2007: New Age
- 2008: the mirror
- 2008: Les Ruissellements du diable
- 2008: In Search for Brothers / A voice from the past
- 2009: Four Seasons
- 2009: Peacocks
- 2009: Untitled
- 2009: Cross.Flowers.Rolex
- 2010: The coat
- 2010: The hottest day of the year
- 2010: construction
- 2011: Avalanche
- 2011: Video Art Manual
- 2011: Open House 3D
Web links
- Keren Cytter - Official Website
- Keren Cytter - Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin
- Keren Cytter - Show location Zurich
- Keren Cytter - Zach Fire New York City
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keren Cytter ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Look place Zurich
- ↑ Keren Cytter Art Aspects
- ↑ On Tour: DIE Now / Keren Cytter ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Production details and tour schedule
- ↑ The True Story of John Webber and his Endless Struggle with the Table of Content Texts on Art Performance Criticism
- ↑ APE (Art Projects Era) Official Website
- ↑ SHOW REAL DRAMA ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Taking the stage over
- ↑ SHOW REAL DRAMA ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Global Times Interview
- ↑ Anke is Gone / I Eat Pickles at your Funeral Photo Archive
- ↑ Keren Cytter UCCA Center for Contemporary Arts
- ↑ Future Generation Art Prize ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Keren Cytter
- ↑ Semester professorships in the winter semester 2014/2015 ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de, accessed on March 28, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cytter, Keren |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |