Keren Cytter

Keren Cytter, (b. 1977) is an Israeli visual artist.

Biography

Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in Avni Institute for Art, Tel Aviv. After her success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers.

During this period Cytter was developing her visual language and translating it through textually based video art. Her narratives, although extremely fragmented have a tendency to embody the post-modern self awareness of the characters in her films. Through the development and execution of Cytter's unique style, she has found herself a niche in the art world which has brought her recently more critical attention. ( [http://www.faz.net/d/common/Suchergebnis.aspx?term=cytter&allchk=1 Frankfurter Allgemeine ] , [http://zoek.volkskrant.nl/zoek?text=cytter&button.x=0&button.y=0 de Volkskrant] , [http://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=200608 Artforum] , and others).

After graduating from De ateliers in Amsterdam, Cytter has made several works that have been shown internationally including "the Date Series" (2004; a series of short narratives written, filmed and produced in the period of one year), "The Victim" (2006), "Repulsion" ( 2005; after on Polanski's Repulsion), and "The Milk Man"(2003).

In addition to creating video installations for her shows, Cytter is also a critically acclaimed writer [cite web
publisher = Ram Publications
title = June 2006, Exhibition catalog (not a review!)
url = http://www.rampub.com/art+culture/1-933128-09-7?PHPSESSID=457cfe805e798c361e7dd5b78cd64d24
accessdate = 2001-11-28] , "Alexia" (2001) being her first published journal and her first novel "Yesterday's Sunset" (Shadurian, 2003). Her latest work includes "The Man who climbed the stairs of life and found out they were cinema seats", a stylistic approach to cataloguing her narrative films. In addition to novels and Journals, Cytter has published poems and written the libretto for the chamber opera "LE VOISIN" (by Thomas Myrmel).

Cytter's work has been shown in museums and galleries around Europe, such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Stedelijk Museum, (Amsterdam), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, (Vienna), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Bergamo) [cite web
publisher = Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
date = 4 April, 2006
title = GAMeCinema meeting with the artist: KEREN CYTTER
url = http://www.gamec.it/dettaglio.asp?EsposizioneId=154
accessdate = 2001-11-28] [cite web
publisher = Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
date = April, 2006
title = "Atmosphere": KEREN CYTTER "
url = http://www.gamec.it/dettaglio.asp?EsposizioneId=142
accessdate = 2001-11-28] , Kunsthalle Zurich [cite web
publisher = Kunsthalle Zurich
date = 2006
title = "Past exhibitions"
url = http://www.kunsthallezurich.ch/_site_eng/archiv_index.htm
accessdate = 2001-11-28] , and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt) [cite web
last = Coulson
first = Amanda
publisher = frieze.com
date = 2006
title = Keren Cytter at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
url = http://www.frieze.com/review_single.asp?r=2233
accessdate = 2001-11-28] , KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin [cite web
publisher = KW Institute for Contemporary Art
date = 2006
title = "I was the good and he was the bad and the ugly": KEREN CYTTER
url = http://www.kw-berlin.de/english/archiv/archiv_06_06_23_kerencytter.htm
accessdate = 2001-11-28] , Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery (Zürich).Cytter has recently been awarded the Baloise Art Prize [cite web
publisher = Baloise Holding SA
date = June 13, 2006
title = Eighth Baloise Art Prize at Art 37 Basel
url = http://www.baloise.com/website2/chbs706e.nsf/Frameset.Start?openpage&bal_url_int=website2/chbs706e.nsf/d/Portraet.Kunst.Einstieg
accessdate = 2001-11-28] at the "Art Statements" sector of Art 37 Basel. 2006.

References

External links

* [http://www.de-ateliers.nl/index.cfm?fuid=63&participant=kerencytter De Ateliers]
* [http://www.pswar.org/Public%20Space%20With%20A%20Roof/011%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20EXHIBITIONS%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20/2003%2012%2004%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Eeehh%20%20/Text Eeehh...Artists Reacting to the World (Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam)]
* [http://www.filmstad.org/pek2005/pekspecials/pek-specials.html Pek Festival]
* [http://www.elisabethkaufmann.com/site www.elisabethkaufmann.com]