Sigalit Landau
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Sigalit Landau is an Israeli sculptor, video and installation art
ist. She exhibited at MoMA
in 2008. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
ist. She exhibited at MoMA
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in 2008. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Education
- 1991-1994 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
- 1993 First semester of 4th year at the Cooper Union, New York, student exchange
- 1995 Postgraduate extended studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Awards and prizes
- 1993 The Jewish National Fund Sculpture Award
- 1994 America-Israel Cultural Fund
- 1994 Mary Fisher Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
- 1996 The Ineborg Bachman Scholarship
- 1998 Artist in Residence at the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin
- 1999 First Prize in the British Competition by ArtAngel and London newspaper "The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
" - 2001 Acquisition Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of ArtTel Aviv Museum of ArtThe Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. The museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in...
, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with... - 2001 Prize for a Young Artist, Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
- 2003 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Janet and George Jaffin Scholarship Prize
- 2003 Residency, IASPIS - The International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm
- 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
- 2004 The Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artist, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 2007 The Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Recent exhibitions
- 1995 - Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, Jerusalem (With Gay Bar Amoz) - 1997 - DocumentaDocumentadocumenta is an exhibition of modern and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau which took place in Kassel at that time...
10, KasselKasselKassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :... - 1997 - Israeli Pavilion, Venice BiennaleVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
(With Miriam Cabessa and Yossi Breger) - 2008 — Salt sails+Suger knots, Kamel Mennour Gallery, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- 2008 — Projects 87, The Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... - 2007 — The Dining Hall, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary ArtKunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary ArtThe Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art institution in Berlin’s Mitte District. It is located at - Auguststrasse 69 D-10117 Berlin....
, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... - 2011 — One Man's Floor is Another Man's Feeling, Israeli Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Works
- 1994 - "Compressed Household"
- 1996 - "Resident Alien"
- 2000 - "Barbed Hula"
- 2000 - "Three Man Hula"
- 2001 - "Arab Snow"
- 2003 - "Rose bleed"
- 2005 - "DeadSee"
- 2006 - "Scales of injustice"
- 2007 - "Vomitus Narcissus"
- 2009 - "Stranded on a Water Melon in the Dead Sea"
- 2001 - "Salted Lake"
- 2011 - "Azkelon"
External links
- Official site of Sigalit Landau
- Sigalit Landau from the collections of the Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
- Sigalit Landau from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli ArtInformation Center for Israeli ArtThe Information Center for Israeli Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the Israeli Art in Israel. More than 12,000 artists files are housed in the Center in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem....
at the Israel MuseumIsrael MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.... - Sigalit Landau at the Europeana