Sigalit Landau
Works
DeadSee, 2005
Video, 11:39 min
A cord of 250 meters penetrates 500 watermelons forming a six-meter spiral raft in the saline waters of the Dead Sea. The spiral turns as a whirlpool in reverse from its normal direction. I am floating locked inside the layers of the spiral, between the center and the periphery of the sweet raft. I am reaching out against the direction of the turning raft towards a small area where the fruit is wounded, red, and exposed, like me, to the sting of the salt. The salt solution of the Dead Sea enables everything to float. The spiral gradually becomes a thin green line passing from the frame.
DeadSee was first exhibited as part of The Endless Solution, an installation at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, January–May 2005.
The film was shot in mid- August 2004 in the area of Sodom, south of Masada.
Magenim, 2019
Exhibitions at Galerie Jochen Hempel
CV
Sigalit Landau, lives and works in Tel Aviv
Born in Jerusalem in 1969, Sigalit Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, photography, painting, drawing and sculpture.
Landau graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1994. After several years in Europe and in the United States, she returned to Tel Aviv, and currently lives and works in Israel. Throughout her career, Landau has received significant awards including the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship (1994), the Wolf foundation Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer (1998); the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2004); The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2016), French Republic Chevalier decoration of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017), Honorary Doctorate degree from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (2017).
Landau’s work has been exhibited globally in museums and leading venues including: MoMA, NY;
The Brooklyn Museum of Art; MAGASIN III, Stockholm; Yokohama Triennale, Japan; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Israeli Pavilion, The Venice Art Biennale (1997 & 2011); Documenta X, Kassel; MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), and many more. Landau’s works are included in major collections: The Brooklyn Museum, MACBA, MoMA, Centre George Pompidou, The Israel Museum, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art and MoCK (The Museum of Contemporary art Krakow).
Studies
1993 Cooper Union School of Art and Design, New York City (student exchange semester)
1990-4 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (B.F.A.)
Ongoing
I’ve got a feeling, Les 5 sens dans l’art contemporain,
Musées et de l’Artothèque, Angers, FR
Food, Design Museum Holon, Israel
Sigalit Landau, Yudith Levin: First part, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Tastes from Heaven Tales from the Arab kitchen, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
„Barbed Hula“, colorado_projects, Leipzig, DE
2022
‘The Burning Sea’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn
2021
‘Between Worlds’, Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘The Heart and the Fountain’, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
‘Olive to Olive’, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Carmela Rubin
‘Salt of the Earth and the Bride of the Sea’, Givat Haviva Art Gallery, Givat Haviva, Israel. Curator: Anat Lidror
2020
‘Green Scream’, Gallery Har-El, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019
‘Salt Years’, The Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria. Curators: Thorsten Sadowsky, Marijana Schneider
‘Sigalit Landau: Sea Stains’, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
‘Growth & Change’, Roe Green Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. Curator: A. Will Brown
‘Lot’s Wife’, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016
‘Miqlat’, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
‘Salt Bride’, Marlborough Contemporary, London, England
‘Sorrow Grove’, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
2015
‘Sigalit Landau’, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
‘Better Place’, cellule516, Marseille, France. Curator: Audrey Koulinsky
‘Snow in Jerusalem’, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
‘Shelter 2012’, Place des Arts, Muse’e d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
2014
‘Phoenician Sand Dance’, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. Curator: Bartomeu Marí
‘Knafeh’, Marlborough Contemporary, London, England. Curator: Andrew Renton
‘Moving to Stand Still’, Koffler Centre of Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada. Curator: Mona Filip
2013
‘The Ram in the Thicket’, Maison Hermes in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan. Curator: Reiko Setsuda
‘Margin’, Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. Curator: Lili Boros
‘Olives’, Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso, Norway. Curator: Lita Ellingsen
2012
‘Caryatid’, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba. Curator: Dalia Manor
‘Infinite Games’, Solyanaka Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Vardit Gross
‘Soil Nursing’, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France
‘Angel Laundry’, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Tsachi Hachmon
‘One Man’s Floor is Another Man’s Feelings’,SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia. Curator: Laurie Ann Farrell
2011
‘One Man’s Floor is Another Man’s Feelings’, Israeli Pavilion, 54th Biannale, Venice, Italy. Curators: Jean De Loisy, Ilan Wizgan
2008
‘Salt Sails + Suger Knots’, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France
‘Projects 87’, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA. Curator: Klaus Biesenbach
‘Salame/Herzel: Views from Tel Aviv South’, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Dalia Manor
2007
‘The Dining Hall’, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Gabriele Horn
2006
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005
‘Carcel de Amor’, Relatos culturales sobre la violencia de genero CARS, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
‘Treading Water’, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas. Curator: Fairfax Dorn
‘The Endless Solution’, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Mordechai Omer
‘Bauchaus 04’, (performance), The Armory Show, NY, USA
2002
‘The Country’, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Video and zoetrope installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England. Curator: Jonathan Watkins
2001
‚Thread Waxing Space‚, (performance), NY, USA. Curator: Lia Gangitano
2000
‘Somnambulin-Station 1’, (sonic performance piece), Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England. Curators: Zoë Sherman, Tom Trevor
1999
‘The Natives are Restless’, New Work UK, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England
1997
‘Resident Alien II’, The Israeli pavilion to the Venice Art Biennial (with Yossi Breger and Miriam Cabessa), Venice, Italy. Curator: Sarah Breitberg-Semel
‘Resident Alien I’, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany. Curator: Catherine Davide
1996
‘VoorWerk 5’, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Curator: Bartomeu Marí
1995
‘Temple Mount’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Sarit Shapira
Awards and Scholarships
2023 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
2020 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
2019 Honorary Doctorate degree from The Open University of Israel
2017 Honorary Doctorate degree from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2017 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres – Chevalier
2016 Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art
2015 Terra Summer Residency advisor Giverny, France
2011 Artis Grant Recipient
2007 Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation for Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2004 The Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artists, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2003 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Jannette and George Jaffin Scholarship
2003 ‚IASPIS‘ – Stockholm, May-September Residence
2001 Acquisition Prize, Tel Aviv Museum. Tel Aviv
2001 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Education
2000 Winner of the ArtAngel/Times commissions 2000 competition, London
1999 Artist-in-residence at the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin 1999
1998 The Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer, Wolf Foundation
1994 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship; Mary Fisher Award, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1993 The Jewish National Fund (USA) Sculpture Award
Works In Public Collections
Center George Pompidou, Paris
Generali Foundation
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Julia Stoschek collection, Düsseldorf
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
MACBA Barcelona, Barcelona
Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm
MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary, Kraków
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Museo De Arte Contemporàneo De Castilla Y Len Musak, Leòn
Museos Archivos y Bibliotecas, Madrid
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The Jewish Museum, NYC
The Brooklyn Museum, NYC