Keren Cytter

BIOGRAPHY
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KEREN CYTTER
1977 Born in Tel Aviv, Israel 
  Lives and works in Berlin
   
Training  
2002-2004 de Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
1997-1999 The Avni Institute, Tel-Aviv, Israel 
   
Solo Exhibitions
2011 The Hottest Day of the Year, Kunstverein München, Munich -DE 
  Avalanche, Pilar Corrias & David Roberts Art Foundation, London - UK 
2010 Moderna Museet, Stockholm – SE
  Kunsthaus Baselland - CH 
  Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin - DE 
  Morality Keren Cytter: Cross.Flowers.Rolex, SCHAU ORT, Elisabeth Kaufman + Christiane Büntgen Zürich - CH 
  Keren Cytter, Hammer Museum Project Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles – USA 
  History in the Making (with D.I.E Now), Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin - DE; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven - NL 
2009 Artspeak, Vancouver - CN 
  Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv - IL 
  Keren Cytter, Frac Il-de-France/Il Plateau, Paris - FR 
  History in the Making, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London - UK 
  Keren Cytter, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu – JP 
  Keren Cytter, X Initiative, New York - USA 
  Keren Cytter ‘Domestics’, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK 
  Keren Cytter: Les Ruissellements du Diable, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York – USA 
  History in the Making, The Kitchen, New York- USA 
2008 Keren Cytter, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam - NL 
  Keren Cytter, Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte - ES 
  Keren Cytter, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin – DE 
  Keren Cytter, CCA Center For Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu - JP 
2007 Keren Cytter, Stuk Kunstcentrum, Leuven - BE 
  The Victim, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna - AT 
  Something Happened, CUBITT Artists, London - UK 
  Keren Cytter, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh - UK 
  Dreamtalk, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York - USA 
  Something Happened, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich - CH 
2006 I was the good and he was the bad and the ugly, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin-DE
  ‘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 earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?' Lord Byron, Artis, Den Bosch-NL 
  REPULSION, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv - IL 
  Atmosphere, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo - IT 
  Contemporary Neuromythological Stories, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam - NL 
  Continuity, Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich - CH 
  The Victim, Art 37 Basel, statements, Zürich - CH 
2005 Keren Cytter, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich - CH 
  Keren Cytter, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main-DE 
2004 The friends’ series, Dolores; Ellen de Bruijne Projects (with Mark Kent), Amsterdam -NL 
  My brain is in the wall, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam -NL 
2003 Videos, Rozenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv-IL 
2002 Drawings, Rozenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv-IL 
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2011 East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy
2010 8th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Gwangju – KP 
  Tramway, Glasgow International Festival – UK 
  Paradise Lost Holidays in Hell, CCA Andratx – ES 
  Face your Demons, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm – SE 
  Not Necessarily In That Order, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver – CA 
  Epilogue (1), Maisterra Valbuena Gallery, Madrid – ES 
  Morality, Witte de With, Rotterdam – NL 
  Michael Beutler & Friends, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp – BE 
  In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan – IT 
  Tell-Tale Heart, James Cohan Gallery, New York – USA 
  Make the Most of Now, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna – AT 
  Witty, Lo-Fi Works With Knotty Thoughts, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam – NL 
  Une Exposition (du) Sensible, Centre d’Art Contemporaine La Synagogue De Delme, Delme – FR 
2009 Return to Baroque, Museo Madre, Naples - IT 
  Fare Mondi 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice - IT 
  Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art, Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin - DE 
  The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York – USA 
  ars viva 08/09 – Inszenierung/ Mise en scene, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach - DE; Augarten Contemporary, Vienna – AT 
2008 Notorious: Recent Frac Ile-de-France Acquistions, Frac Il-de-France/Il Plateau, Paris - FR 
  Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - USA 
  The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York - USA 
  Work from the Video & Film collection of Jean-Conrad & Isabelle Lemaitre, Kunsthalle zu Torino Triennale ’50 Moons of Saturn’, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; Palazzina della Societa Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin – IT 
  Kiel der Christian-Albrecht-Universität, Kiel - DE 
  Manifesta 7, Trentino - IT 
  Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama - JP 
  Berlin International Film Festival, Expended Forum, Filmhaus, Berlin - DE 
  Konzepte der Liebe, Kölnicher Kunstverein, Cologne - DE 
2007 Cut, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York - USA 
  The Lyon Biennial, The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon - FR 
  BoundLES, The Henry Street Settlement, New York - USA 
  If water crystal, crystal water…, Ingalls & Associates, Miami - USA 
  Pawnshop, e-flux, New York - USA 
  The first Hertzelia Biennial, Hertzelia - IL 
  The Second Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow - RU 
  The Floating Feather, Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne - DE 
  Self fashion show, Extra City – Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp - BE 
  On the Marriage Broker Joke, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp - BE 
  There have to be many and they do(n’t) need to be reconciled with one another, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V., Brunswick - DE 
  The Shadow Cabinet: ‘Distorted Fabric’, de Appel, Amsterdam - NL 
  Fake Movement, Campobase Gallery, Bologna - IT 
  Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession, Witte de With, Rotterdam - NL 
  House Trip, curated by Ami Barak on ArtForum Berlin - DE 
  Berlin International Film Festival, Expended Forum, BüroFriedrich, Berlin - DE 
  Zwischenbilanz II, Balôise Art Forum, Basel - CH 
  Talking Pictures, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf - DE 
  CCA/MAP Magazine/Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow – UK 
2006 Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR – Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam - NL 
  The Floating Feather, Chantal Crousel Gallery, curated by Willem de Rooij, Paris - NL 
  All Hawaii Entrees/Lunar Reggea, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin - IE 
  City Lab, curated by Friederike Nymphius, Artforum, Berlin - DE 
  Open Space, Art Cologne, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Cologne - DE 
  Across.videos, Rome - IT 
  Experiments in Pop, Sommer Akademie, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern - CH 
  Satellite of love, Witte de With, exploding television, Rotterdam - NL 
  The world state, Erik Steen Gallery, Oslo - NO 
2005 Filmblik Program, Filmhuis, Den Haag - NL 
  Dutch Open, De Balie, Amsterdam - NL 
  Fabrikaat-avond, Artis, Den Bosch - NL 
  Disclosed, de Ateliers, Amsterdam - NL 
  6th Republic, Eastarea Gallery, Amsterdam - NL 
  Short Circuit, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam - NL 
  Pilot 2, International Artforum, London - UK 
  Dash5, Gallery 291, London - UK 
  Introrespective, Pek Festival, Den Haag - NL 
2004 Videozone, Video Biennale, Tel Aviv - IL 
  F&N Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv city hall, Tel Aviv - IL 
  Interior painting after Richard Hamilton, Kav 16, Tel Aviv - IL 
  A4 – 5, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam - NL 
2003 Eeehh…, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam - NL 
  Horse Hospital, London - UK 
  Good Question, Studiokatendrechtstraat 66, Rotterdam - NL 
  Wonderyears, Kino Arsenal, Berlin - DE 
  Rahvusvaheline, Parnu Filmi - EE 
2002 videozone - Video Biennale, Israel, Tel-Aviv - IL 
  Wall Painting, Yanko Dada Museum, Ein Hod - IL 
2001 Shoes, Left Bank, Tel Aviv - IL 
1998 Nice Plant, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv – IL 
   
Awards  
Absolut Art Award, 2009 
Short-listed for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, 2009
Ars Viva Prize 2008, Kulturkeis der deutschen Wirschaft, Berlin 
Balôise Art Prize 2006, Art Basel, Switzerland