Sigalit Landau
22.04. – 27.05.2023
Sigalit Landau on Barbed Hula
This act of desensitization – spinning a hula-hoop of barbed wire – I performed at sunrise on a Southern beach of Tel-Aviv. The beach is the only calm and natural border Israel has. All my work relates, in one way or another, to borders and a loss of orientation. The pain here is escaped by the speed of the act, and the fact that the spikes of the barbed wire are mostly turned outwards.
At the time of planning Barbed Hula, I was living in Berlin, sleeping at an artist residency in the cellar of a contemporary art collection in Berlin, Mitte. I had never made video art before. I shot myself dancing at the end of a short visit to Israel in 1998. Due to lack of funds – I was baking bread in a restaurant in London by then – I edited this work more than a year or two after shooting it.
My Body was the only thing I felt that I [sometimes] had. The home I wished to establish was one containing subjectivity and not members and memories of my objective factual upbringing, places, family, political conflicts, history and circumstances. This assumption often made by young artists, is why the working title for Barbed Hula was “Nest”. Nest I never did, salt angels cannot. Migration, nomads, homelessness, shifting borders and identities were central terms in the discourses of the art world and the “ambiance” in the nineties.
I am not an abject artist and my art is not dealing with abject but yearning, stories and desire. There is no blood or bleeding, nor any other body fluids or substances in the work in which I use my own body. Meanings do not collapse, buildings, people and relationships do; orientation may. Barbed Hula is an act of love and desire.
Desire is life. Death is not ambiguous. Survival makes you weak and not strong. Occupying another nation does the same. If and when beauty ends and death starts to take hold, we know we are in trouble.
Sigalit Landau Born in Jerusalem 1969. Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Born in Jerusalem in 1969, Sigalit Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, photography 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.)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘The Burning Sea’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn
2021 ‘Between Worlds’, Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021 ‘The Heart and the Fountain’, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 ‘Olive to Olive’, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Carmela Rubin
2021 ‘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
2019 ‘Sigalit Landau: Sea Stains’, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
2019 ‘Growth & Change’, Roe Green Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. Curator: A. Will Brown
2019 ‘Lot’s Wife’, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 ‘Miqlat’, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
2016 ‘Salt Bride’, Marlborough Contemporary, London, England
2016 ‘Sorrow Grove’, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
2015 ‘Sigalit Landau’, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 ‘Better Place’, cellule516, Marseille, France. Curator: Audrey Koulinsky
2015 ‘Snow in Jerusalem’, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 ‘Shelter 2012’, Place des Arts, Muse’e d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
2014 ‘Phoenician Sand Dance’, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. Curator: Bartomeu Marí
2014 ‘Knafeh’, Marlborough Contemporary, London, England. Curator: Andrew Renton
2014 ‘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
2013 ‘Margin’, Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. Curator: Lili Boros
2013 ‘Olives’, Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso, Norway. Curator: Lita Ellingsen
2012 ‘Caryatid’, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba. Curator: Dalia Manor
2012 ‘Infinite Games’, Solyanaka Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Vardit Gross
2012 ‘Soil Nursing’, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France
2012 ‘Angel Laundry’, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Tsachi Hachmon
2012 ‘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
2008 ‘Projects 87’, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA. Curator: Klaus Biesenbach
2008 ‘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
2005 ‘Treading Water’, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas. Curator: Fairfax Dorn
2005 ‘The Endless Solution’, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Mordechai Omer
2005 ‘Bauchaus 04’, (performance), The Armory Show, NY, USA
2002 ‘The Country’, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2002 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
1997 ‘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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 ‘Digging Down – Art of the Pre-Future’, The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Shira Fridman
2020 ‘Returning to Nature’, The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Hadas Maor
2020 ‘Time’, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel. Curators: Eran Shavit, Shir Meller Yamaguchi
2020 ‘The Clown Spirit’, De Rossaert, Antwerp, Belgium. Curator: Joanna De Vos
2020 ‘There is a Crack in Everything’: for Dafna, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 ‘EVE/Errances Visuelles Estivales’, Festival Annecy Paysages, Annecy, France
2020 ‘Benyamini Tribe’, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Dana Gillerman
2020 ‘(Not) a Good Time for Love’, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Katia Krylova
2020 ‘Destruction and Recovery’, Kulturni Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2020 ‘Body Landscapes’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Dr. Adina Kamian Kashdan
2020 ‘JSC ON VIEW’, Julia Stoschek collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 ‘Voyage Voyages’, Mucem, Marseille, France. Curators: Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff, Christine Poullain
2019 The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Traces VII-Action Line, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Hadas Maor
2019 Zumu, Kiryat Yam, Israel. Curators: Ofra Harnam, Ruth Oppenheim
2019 ‘Seasch Line’, The Art Gallery, Beit Hankin, Israel. Curators: Nete Haber, Ayelet Herzwolf, Orna Ethkin Raviv
2019 ‘Magen Avraham’, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
2019 ‘Chronicles – Haaretz in Israeli Art’, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Efrat Livny
2019 ‘Only Broken Clocks Show The Right Time’, GCG, Gdansk, Poland. Curator: Paweł Sosnowski
2019 ‘Strong Pieces: Feminisms and Geographies’, Saarbrücken, Germany
2019 ‘Visions of Place: Contemporary Israeli Art’, Susquehanna Art Museum, Pennsylvania,USA
2019 ‘Kabbalah’, Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 ‘Evoking Reality’, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2019 ‘Mort à crédit’, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 ‘Kabbalah’, Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2018 ‘Athens in Tel Aviv’, Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Shira Friedman
2018 ‘To the End of Land’, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India. Curators: Drorit Gur Arie, Or Tshuva
2018 ‘Dionysian life’, Ilana Goor Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Nava Sevilla Sadeh
2018 ‘TAP and TOUCH’, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 ‘How Banal is Evil?’, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria. Curator: Katarzyna Uszynska
2018 ‘Je me souviens’, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 ‘What Comes Around Goes Around’, Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 ‘Ailleurs est ce rêve poche’, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2018 ‘Video Echoes: Waves from the Eastern Mediterranean’, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Australia. Curator: Victor Griss
2017 ‘Thou Shalt Not’, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 ‘Dreams and Dramas’, Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curator: Roy Brand
2017 LICHTSICHT-PROJECTION – BIENNALE’, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany
2017 ‘Shelters of Babylon’, Maribor, Slovenia. Curator: Peter Tomaž Dobrila
2017 ‘The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely’, Ostend, Belgium. Curators: Joanna De Vos, Jan Fabre
2017 ‘Israeli Contemporary Art’, The Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Ukraine
2017 ‘Intra-Action’, Harn Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2017 ‘Mondo Digitale’, Media Art Festival, Rome, Italy
2016 ‘Behold the Man |Jesus in Israeli Art’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn
2016 ‘Uncertain States – Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency’, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2016 ‘D’une Méditerranée, l’autre’, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
2015 ‘Poland – Israel – Germany: The Experience of Auschwitz’, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland.
Curators: Delfina Jałowik, Jürgen Kaumkötter
2015 ‘Flora Palaestina’, The New Gallery – Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Avi Sabag
2015 ‘Change Le Monde’, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
2015 ‘CRU (RAW): food, transformation and art’, CCBB Brasília, Brasília, Brazil. Curator: Marcello Dantas
2015 ‘Like A Prayer’, Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Curators: Richard Julin, Tessa Praun
2015 ‘Visions of Place’, The Stedman Gallery Collection, Camden, New Jersey, USA. Curators: Martin Rosenberg, J. Susan Isaacs
2015 ‘To See-To Reveal, Uses and Representations of the Unexplained’, MUSAC, León, Spain. Curator: Manuel Olveira
2015 ‘The Jerusalem Biennale’, The Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 ‘Migrantes en el arte contemporáneo’, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de la Untref – MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curator: Diana Wechsler
2015 ‘Nel Mezzo del Mezzo’, RISO – Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palermo,Palermo, Italy. Curators: Marco Bazzini, Bartomeu Marí
2015 ‘Desires and Necessities’, MACBA: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Curator: Bartomeu Marí
2015 ‘The Hinder Sea’, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod, Israel. Curator: Roni Cohen-Binyamini
2015 ‘Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture’, MoMA, NY, USA. Curator: Pedro Gadanho
2015 Sigalit Landau, Moshe Kupferman. Works from Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv Universiy Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curators: Igal Ahouvi, Matan Daube
2015 ‘Sculpture in the City’ ,London, England
2015 ‘Recurrence: Rituals, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre: NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curator: Drorit Gur Arie
2015 ‘The Body Politic’, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Malaga, Spain
2015 ‘Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen’, Paul-Löbe Haus, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Jürgen Kaumkötte
2014 ‘A Room of His Own: Masculinities in Korea and the Middle East’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea. Curator: Hyewon Lee
2014 ‘II Venice International Performance Art Week 2014 Ritual Body – Political Body, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy. Curators: Andrea Pagnes, Verena Stenke
2014 ‘Auto Body’, Giant Motors: Auto Body and Paint Shop, Miami, USA. Curators: Ximena Caminos, Tami Katz-Freiman, Brandi Reddick, Chana Sheldon
2014 ‘Waterscapes: The Politics of Water’, The Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. Curator: Hyewon Lee
2014 ‘Days of Endless Time’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, USA. Curator: Barbara Gordon
2014 ‘Compressed Household 1996-2010’, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
2014 ‘Mark The Line’, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden. Curator: Liv Stoltz
2014 ‘MASBEDO. Todestriebe’, The Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy. Curator: Olga Gambari
2014 ‘Corpus’, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. Curator: Maria Brewinska
2014 ‘Feast Your Eyes’, Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Curator: Lisa Fischmann
2014 ‘A Moving Image’, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Curator: Catherine Crowston, Josée Drouin-Brisebois
2014 ‘Dance Me’, The Wanås Foundation – Wanås Konst, Wanås, Sweden. Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
2014 ‘The expression of suffering in the art of the XX and XXI century’, Red Cross Museum, Geneva. Curator: Sandra Sunier
2014 ‘Sculpture du Sud’, Villa Datris Foundation, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France. Curator: Danièle Kapel-Marcovici
2014 ‘Carte Blanche’, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey. Curator: Nil Yalter
2014 ‘Silent Among Us’, Loft Project Etagi, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Curator: Maria Veits
2014 ’The Chicago Triangle’, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel. Curator: Ruth Direktor
2014 ’The Art Of Life – Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East’, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden. Curator: Åsa Thörnlund
2014 ‘Political, Social and Global Issues of the Body’, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea. Curator: Jeehee Kim
2014 ‘Danse Macabre’, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Dr. Eran Gilat
2014 ‘Confrontation’, Galerie Le Minotaure, Paris, France
2014 ‘Go Get Your Knife’, Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland. Curator: Jacek Sosnowski
2014 ‘9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts of Liège, Liège, Belgium
2013 ‘Zbib El-Ard’, Gallery Har-El, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Monique Har-El
2013 Zarya Centre of Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia. Curator: Katya Krylova
2013 Anti Atlas of Borders Exhibition’, Tapestry Museum, Aix-En-Provence, France. Curator: Isabelle Arvers
2013 ‘The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel’, Neuberger Museum of Art, NY, USA. Curator: Helaine Posner
2013 TempoColor Festival,Liège, Belgium
2013 ‘DIGGING UP’, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Reut Sulema-Linker
2013 ‘Unstable Territory, Borders and Identity in contemporary art’, Center of Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
Curators: Walter Guadagnini, Franziska Nori
2013 ‘Between Language and Image’ collected stories #5, Watou Art Festival, Belgium
2013 ‘Emulsion’, Oranim College, Tivon, Israel. Collaboration with David Goose
2013 ‘Six Memos for the Next’, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2013 ‘Moving images, inspired video-art’, Deventer, Netherlands
2013 ‘Suffering and Redemption’, SCHUNCK – Muziek- en dansschool, Heerlen, Netherlands
2013 ‘SKIN’, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 ‘Here, elsewhere’, Musée d’art contemporain (MAC), Marseille, France. Curator: Juliette Laffon
2013 ‘Cadavre exquis’, Musee Granet, Aix-En-Provence, France. Curators: Evelyne Artaud, Jeanne Fayard
2013 ‘Arte in Memoria’, Ostia Antica Synagogue, Rome, Italy. Curator: Adachiara Zevi
2013 ‘Flash and Blood’, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 ‘Touch’, FUTURA Gallery, Prague, Czechia. Curator: Michal Novotný
2013 ‘Alone Together’, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2013 ‘MuezzIn‘, Kayma Gallery, Jaffa, Israel. Curator: Marie Shek
2012 ‘CARNEM‘, DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts, Milan, Italy
2012 ‘Private/Corporate VII‘, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection ORS. Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel. In dialogue with the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin.
Curators: Dr. Renate Wiehager, Tal Yahas
2012 ‘Exposition Pluriel’ – Regards sur l’art conteporain Israelien, Villa Emerige – Art Gallery in Auteuil, Paris, France. Curators: Mamane Nathalie Cohen,
Nathalie Zaquin Boulakia
2012 ‘Garden of Learning’, Busan Biennale
2012 Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
2012 ‘Who is Afraid of Cylinder, the Sphere and the Cone?’, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
2012 ‘The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society’, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, New Brunswick, Canada. Curators: Judith Brodsky, Ferris Olin
2012 ‘Memories of the Sea’, The Avignon Castle, Camargue, France. Curator: Veronique Baton
2012 ‘The Absent Body’, Beit Hatfotsot, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Irena Gordon
2012 ‘Darkness at the edge of town’, exURBAN Screens Project, Frankstone Arts Center, Melbourne, Australia. Curators: Matthew Perkins, Vince Dziekan
2012 ‘EXenMOORD’, Rotterdamse Salon, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Curator: Anja Berkelaar
2012 ‘Sport in Art’, MOCAK, Krakow, Russia. Curators: Monika Kozioł, Delfina Piekarska, Maria Anna Potocka
2012 ‘Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance’, MoCP, Chicago, USA
2012 ‘Neon: who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?’ The Red House, Paris, France. Curator: David Rosenberg
2012 ‘Art and Press: Art. Truth. Reality’, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Walter Smerling
2012 ‘Unnatural’, The Bass, Miami, USA. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman
2012 La MEP museum, Paris, France. Curator: Marie Shek
2011 lichtsicht – 3. Bienniale, Bad Rothenfelde. Curator: Manfred Schneckenburger
2011 Streams of Consciousness, Salina Art Center, Salinas, USA. Curator: Christopher Cook
2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea. Curator: Jane Farver
2011 Eroi (Heroes), Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy. Curator: Danilo Eccher
2011 Echos, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, France
2011 New in the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curators: Susanne Landau, Yulla and Jacques Lipchitz
2011 Portrait, Museum of Art Ein-Harod, Ein-Harod, Israel. Curator: Galia Bar-Or
2011 ‘Yokohama Triennale’, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan. Curator: Eriko Osaka
2010 ‘Signs of life’, Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2010 ‘Thrice upon a time’, Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Curators: Richard Julin, Tessa Praun, Elisabeth Millqvist
2010 Krieg/Individuum – AZKM, Münster, Germany
2010 ‘The Calm Before The Storm’, Winzavod Art Center, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Vardit Gross
2010 ‘Family Tree’, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 ‘2009 League’, Amiad Center, Jaffa, Israel. Curator: Galia Yahav
2009 ‘Redemtion through the Gutters’, W.W.T.P, Rishon LeTsiyon, Israel. Curator: Galia Yahav
2009 ‘Art TLV’, Nehushtan Space, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Edna Moshenzon
2009 ‘Cockeye’ – Male Nude in Contemporary Israeli Art, Gal-On, Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Sagi Refael
2009 ‘History of Violence’, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. Curator: Hadas Maor
2009 ‘Reinventing Ritual’, Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life – The Jewish Museum of New York, NY, USA
2009 ‘Indomitable Women’, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Curator: Macu Morán
2008 ORIGINS, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY, USA. Curator: Marc J. Straus
2008 ‘Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008’, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curators: Amitai Mendelsohn, Efrat Natan
2008 ‘The white sport-myth’s of race’, Minshar for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Hana Froind–Shartok, Avi Pitshon
2008 ‘Youth, Young Israeli Art during the 90’s’, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Doron Rabina
2008 ‘Territorial Bodies’, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Hague, Netherlands. Curator: Ronit Eden
2007 ‘Global Feminisms’, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA.
2007 The Rear – The First Herzliya Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Joshua Simon
2007 ‘Into Me/Out of Me’, KW Institute for Conetemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
2007 ‘Memorials to Identity’, New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman
2006 ‘Figuratively Speaking: The Figure in Contemporary Video Art’, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
2006 ‘The Raft of Medusa’, The National Museum Warsaw and Kraków, Poland. Curators: Naomi Aviv, Pawel Sosnowski
2006 ‘Israel. Art and Life 1906-2006’, Palazzo Real, Milan, Italy. Curator: Amnon Barzel
2006 ‘Inside-Out’, Contemporary Artists from Israel, Museum Marco, Vigo, Spain. Curator: Octavio Zaya
2006 ‘Designing Truth’, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany. Curator: Dr. Sabina Maria Schmidt
2006 ‘In Between Places: New Art From Israel’, Vivian Horan Gallery, NY, USA. Curator: Kari Conte
2006 ‘Into me/Out of me’, P.S 1 MoMA, NY, USA. Curator: Klaus Biesenbach
2006 ‘Shared History/Decolonising the Image’, organized in collaboration with W139 and Arti & Amicitie, Amsterdam,Netherlands .Curators: Delphine Bedel,
Sophie Berrebi
2006 ‘Walking & Falling’, Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Curators: Elizabeth Millqvist, Tessa Praun
2006 ‘After’, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel. Curator: Hadas Maor
2005 ‘Leaps of Faith’, Nicosia, Cyprus. Curators: Katherina Gregos, Erden Kosova
2005 ‘L’Actualité Requalifiée’, San Sebastian, Spain. Curator: Aline Pujo
2005 ‘Wonder Women’, Frac Lorriane, Institute for Contemporary Art, Metz, France. Curator: Helena Gouinine
2005 ‘Dreaming Art/Dreaming Reality’, Natahn Gotsdinner Israeli Art Award–the First Decade, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Ellen Ginton
2005 ‘Die Hebräer’, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Dorit Levité
2005 ‘Affirmative Action’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Ellen Ginton
2005 ‘Artic 5’, Young Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel
2005 ‘Orifice’, Australian Center for Contemporary Arts, Australia. Curator: Juliana Engberg
2005 ‘Borderlines’, Theaterfestival 2003, Antwerpen, Belgium
2005 ‘35 prints’, 35 Years of Occupation, Artists‘ House, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 Young Israeli Art from the Jacques and Genia Ohana Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 ‘ArtFocus 4’, International Contemporary Art Biennial, Underground Prisoners Historical Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curators: Suzanne Landau,
Yigal Zalmona
2003 ‘Heiliger Sebastian, A splendid readiness for Death’, Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2003 ‘Attack!’, Art and War in the Media Age, Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria. Curators: Gabriele Mackert, Gerald Matt
2003 ‘Spiritus’, Magasin III – Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Curator: Richard Julin
2002 ‘Imagine’, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem, Israel
2002 ‘Video Zone’, International Biennial of Video Art, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
2002 ‘Side Effect’, Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Doron Rabina
2002 ‘Land of Shadows’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Ellen Ginton
2001 ‘Spunky’, Exit Art, NY, USA. Curators: Janet Ingberman, Papo Kolo
2001 ‘Messages to the New Millennium: Israel Art Today’, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan. Curators: Galia Bar-Or, Itaru Hirano
2001 ‘Action Express’, The Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Kalisher Art School, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Naomi Aviv
2001 ‘Four Israeli Artists’, LeQuartier, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Quimper, France. Curator: Dominique Abansur
2000 ‘Contemporary Art from Israel’, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany. Curator: Hans Gerke
2000 ‘Angel of History’, The Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Ariella Azoulay
1999 ‘Tales of the Sand’, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Curators: Graeme Murray, Sarit Shapira
1998 ‘Hebrew Work’, Museum of Art Ein Harod, Ein Harod, Israel. Curator: Galia Bar-Or
1998 ‘Ninety Years of Israeli Art’, Selected Works from the Hachmi – Israeli Phoenix Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Mordechai Omer
1998 ‘Political Art of the Nineties’, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. Curator: Ilana Tanenbaum
1997 ‘Imprisoned without Trial’, Beit Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curators: Ariella Azoulay, Haim Lusky
1996 ‘Resident Alien I’, ArtFocus 2, The Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel. Curator: Haim Lusky
1996 ‘The Event Horizon’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. Curator: Michael Tarantino
1994 ‘Transit’, ArtFocus, Tel Aviv central bus station, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Sarit Shapira
1994 ‘Export Surplus’, (ArtFocus 1), Bugrashov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Ariella Azoulay
Awards and Scholarships
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
Selected Bibliography
2019 ‘Sigalit Landau, Salt Years’, Hatje Cantz
2015 ‘Phoenician Sand Dance’, 2015, MACBA Barcelona
2012 ‘Caryatid’, 2012, The Negev Museum of Art
2011 Jean de Loisy, Ilan Wizgan, “Sigalit Landau – One man’s floor is another man’s feelings”
2011 éditions kamel mennour, Paris, 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di venezia, Israeli Pavillion
2011 Yigal Zalmona, “100 Years of Israeli Art”, 2011, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2010 ‘Signs of Life’, 2010, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2008 ‘Sigalit Landau’, 2008, Hatje Cantz
2008 ‘Eventually We’ll Die: Young Art in Israel of the 90’s’, 2008, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2007 Volker Adolphs and Phillip Norten, ‘Going Staying: Movement, Body, Space in Contemporary Art’, 2007, Hatje Cantz
2005 ‘Dreaming Art Dreaming Reality’, 2005, Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2004 ‘The Endless Solution’, 2004, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2002 ‘The Country’, 2002, Publishers: D.K. GraubArt and Spartizan
1997 ‘Friction: I-body, I-language, I+you’, 1997, The Venice Biennale/The Ministry of Education
Selected Articles
Breitberg-Semel, Sarah, “Friction: I-body, I-language, I+you”, the Israeli Pavilion, Tel Aviv
Charles LaBelle, “Sigalit Landau”, Frieze, October 2001
Jean-Fran Çois Chevrier, “Sigalit Landau”, Center for Contemporary Art, (PDF)
Leslie Camhi, “Centrifugal Force: Unraveling the art of Sigalit Landau”, Tablet Magazine, June 2008
Phillip Leider, “Report from Tel Aviv; Israel’s Guernica”, Art in America, May 2003
Richard Cork, “Anatomy of a Winner”, The London Times, 7.5.1999
Roberta Smith, “Sigalit Landau”, New York Times, 1 June 2001
Rotterdam Witte de With, October 1996
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