Photo of artist Yael Bartana at work by Daniel Meir
Award-winning Israeli-born artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana, who has shown at the 2011 Venice Biennale, among other venues, participated in the Canadian Art Foundation International Speakers Series on January 26, 2012, at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
During the event, Bartana was in conversation about her work with Slawomir Sierakowski, founder and chief editor of Krytyka Polityczna magazine. The conversation was moderated by Chen Tamir, at the time an independent curator and arts writer based in New York, Toronto and Tel Aviv, as well as Program & Operations Manager at Artis.
The lecture is now available for free listening via the following link:
Yael Bartana Lecture at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Yael Bartana is an Israeli-born artist and filmmaker now based in Amsterdam, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Her film trilogy And Europe will be Stunned (2007–11) was shown as part of the Polish Pavilion at the 54th International Venice Biennale in 2011. The films revolve around a political movement—the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland—invented by Bartana. As the artist says, “This is a very universal story; as in previous works, I have treated Israel as a sort of a social laboratory, always looking at it from the outside.” In 2010, she won the Artes Mundi prize for work that stimulates thinking about the human condition.
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