Keren Cytter

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Biographical Notes

born in Israel in 1977
lives and works in Berlin

Education

2002-2004 de Ateliers, Stichting 63, Amsterdam
1999 Art studies with Aram Gershuni and with Jacob Mishori, Tel-Aviv
1997-1998 Art studies, Avni institute, Tel Aviv


Solo Exhibitions

2009 Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2008 The Victim, MUMOK, Vienna
2007 Keren Cytter , Cubitt artists - London
2007 Keren Cyter , STUK - Leuven –Belgium
2007 Something Happened, Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Zurich
2007 Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, curated by Beatrix Ruf
2007 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2007 The Victim, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
2006 I was the good and he was the bad and the ugly, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2006 'I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous arthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?' Lord Byron, Artis, den Bosch
2006 Repulsion, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 Art Statements, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Art Basel
2006 Atmosphere, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
2006 Ellen de bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2006 Continuity, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich
2005 Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2005 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
2004 The friends’ series, Dolores; Ellen de Bruijne Projects (with Mark Kent), Amsterdam
2004 My brain is in the wall, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
2003 Videos, Rozenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 Drawings, Rozenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions

2008 5th Art Focus Biennial, Jerusalem, curators: Ami Barak and Bernard Blistene
2008 Open Plan Living, Art TLV 08, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, curator: Andrew Renton
2008 If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution. Edition III: The Masquerade, De Appel, Amsterdam
2008 If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution. Edition III: The Masquerade, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
2008 Yokohama Triennale 2008, Yokohama
2008 MANIFESTA7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, South Tyrol, Italy
2008 Television Delivers People, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008 Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporaneo, Huarte (Navarra), curator Octavio Zaya
2008 STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2008 Cubitt, London
2007 On The Marriage Broker Joke, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
2007 The Floating Feather, Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris
2007 Birds in a Park, Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne
2007 Moscow Biennial, Moscow
2007 Lyon Biennial, Lyon
2007 1st Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2006 All Hawaii Entrees/Lunar Reggea, IMMA, Irish museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2006 City Lab, Artforum, Berlin
2006 Open Space, Art Cologne, Cologne
2006 The world state, Erik Steen Gallery, Oslo
2006 Experiments in Pop, Bern
2005 Filmblik Program, Filmhuis, Den Haag
2005 Dutch Open, De Balie, Amsterdam
2005 Fabrikaat-avond, Artis, Den Bosch
2005 Disclosed, de Ateliers, Amsterdam
2005 6th Republic, Eastarea Gallery, Amsterdam
2005 Short Circuit, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam
2005 Pilot 2, International Artforum, London
2005 Dash5, Gallery 291, London
2005 Introrespective, Pek Festival, Den Haag
2004 Videozone, Video Biennale, Tel Aviv
2004 F&N Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv city hall, Tel Aviv
2004 Interior painting after Richard Hamilton, Kav 16, Tel Aviv
2004 A4 – 5, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
2003 Eeehh...Overtoom 301, Amsterdam
2003 Horse Hospital, London
2003 Good Question, Studiokatendrechtstraat 66, Rotterdam
2003 Wonderyears, Kino Arsenal, Berlin
2003 Rshvusvaheline, Parnu Filmi, Estonia
2002 videozone - Video Biennale Israel, Tel-Aviv
2002 Wall painting, Yanko Dada Museum, Ein Hod
2001 Shoes, Left Bank, Tel Aviv
1998 Nice plant, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv

Grants and Awards

Baloise-Art Prize 2006, Art Basel, Switzerland

Filmography

2001 Brush, 85 min, Digital Video, B/W
2001 The Friends Series: Tal and Naamah, 10 min, Digital Video, Color Natalie and Raz, 10 min, Digital Video, Color Hillel, 10 min, Digital Video, B/W, Color Keren and Ruthi, 10 min, Digital Video, B/W
2001 Shoes, 13 min (Animation), Digital Video, Color
2002 Documenta Y, 50 min (Documentary), Digital Video, Color
2002 War and Peace, 16 min, Digital Video, B/W
2002 The Postman, 15 min, Digital Video, Color
2002 Experimental Film, 7 min, Digital Video, B/W
2002 Family, 6 min, Digital Video - B/W
2002 DVideodance, 13 min, Digital Video, Color
2002 French film – 12 min, Digital Video, Color-B/W
2002 German film. 16 min, Digital Video, Color
2003 Silent Movie, 5 min, Digital Video, Sepia
2003 MF Pig. 20 min, Digital Video, Color
2003 Nothing, 8 min, Digital video/8 mm, Color-B/W
2003 The Milkman, 10 min, Digital video, Color
2003 Disillusioned love, 13 min, Digital Video , Color
2003 Stupid City, 39 min, Digital video, Color
2003 Disillusioned love 2, 11 min, Digital Video, Color
2003 Empty Cans of Tuna, 4 min (3 screens), Digital Video, Color
2003 15th of Dec. 11 min (7 screens), Digital Video, Color-B/W
2003 My Brain is in the Wall 2. 6 min, Digital Video, Color
2004 Continuity, 4 min (16 mm), Digital video - Color
2004 The Dates series: 21/4/04. 6 min, Digital Video, B/W 21/5/04. 5 min, Digital Video, B/W 2/6/04. 6 min, Digital Video, B/W 1/7/04. 7 min, Digital Video, B/W 21/7/04. 6 min, Digital Video, B/W 17/8/04. 7 min, Digital Video, B/W 17/10/04. 7 min, Digital Video, B/W
2005 Atmosphere, 11 min, Digital Video, Color
2005 Time, 20 min, Digital Video, Color
2005 Dreamtalk, 11 min, Digital Video, Color
2006 The Victim, 5 min loop, Digital Video, Color
2006 Repulsion, 5 min loop, Digital Video, Color
2007 Nightmare, 6 min loop, Digital Video, B/W
2007 Der Spiegel, 4’30” min loop, Digital Video, Color
2007 Something Happened, 7’ min loop, Digital Video, Color
2008 Les Ruissellements Du Diable, 10’45’’, loop, Digital Video, Color
2008 In Search for Brothers, 6’38”, loop, Digital Video, Color