Yael BartanaIf you will it, it is not a dream: Rämistrasse 33, ZurichOpening: Friday, November 21, 6-8 pm
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, in collaboration with Sommer Contemporary, is glad to announce the solo exhibition by Yael Bartana at the Rämistrasse 33 premises.
Vernissage: Friday, November 21, from 6 to 8 pm. The exhibition runs until December 19, 2025.
Yael Bartana 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 imaginary. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances, and public monuments, Bartana investigates questions of national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, and collective rituals. Her work has been exhibited widely in major institutions, including 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 numerous international biennials, such as the Venice Biennial (2024, 2011), the São Paulo Biennial (2014, 2010, 2006), and Documenta 12 (2007).
Bartana was awarded the Artes Mundi 4 Prize in 2010, and her trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned was ranked among the most significant artworks of the 21st century by The Guardian. Her works are held in the collections of major museums, 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 2023/24 and lives between Berlin and Amsterdam.