Yehudit Sasportas

born 1969, Ashdod, Israel
since 1993 she teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv

Education
1988-89 College for Visual Art, Beersheva, Israel
1989-93 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1993 Academy of Art and Science, Cooper Union Academy of Art, New York, USA
1997-99 M.F.A., Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Fellowships and prizes
2004-2005 Artist-in-residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2003-2005 The chosen Artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence)
2004 International studioprogram of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2003 Artist-in-residence, Binz Foundation, Nairs, Switzerland
2001 Arthur Goldreich Foundation, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1999 The Israeli Art Prize, Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994-2000 Sculpture Scholarship of the Sharet Scholarship Program, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, New York, USA
1994-98 AICF Helena Rubinstein Prize for Sculpture
1997 Ingeborg Bachmann Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer, Wolf Foundation, Herzliya, Israel
1996 Kadishman Prize for Sculpture, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel
Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Education, Israel
1993 Robert Steinmann Prize for Sculpture, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
Ehud Elhanani Prize, Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

Solo exhibitions

2008

The Laboratory, Kunstverein Braunschweig

2007

"The Guardians of the Threshold", 52nd Venice Biennale, "Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense", Israeli Pavillion, Venice, Italy

2006

Sint-Lukas Galerij Brüssel, Belgium

2005

„The Cave Light“, Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
„The Pomegranate Orchard“, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin

2004

„Locher“, Muellerhaus, Literatur und Sprache, Lenzburg, Switzerland
„The Guardian of the Pearl’s Shadow 1“, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
„The Guardian of the Pearl’s Shadow 2“, Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2003

„The Swamp and the Magnetic Ants“, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig

2002

„By the River“, Matrix 200, The Berkley Museum Of Art, San Francisco, USA
„The Archive“, Artist`s Statement, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Art Cologne

2001

"How did it ever come so far...", Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
"The Carpenter and the Seamstress II", Deitch Projects, New York, USA

2000

"The Carpenter and the Seamstress", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1999

"PVC 1999", Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1996

"Trash-can Scale. Work 1995-96", Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel

1995

"Mapping", Office in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

1994

"Drawings", Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel

Selected group exhibitions

2008                                   

Sommer bei EIGEN + ART, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin
Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection ORS Ltd., Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Eventually We’ll Die. Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Gegen den Strich, bielefelder kunstverein
Access to Israel I & II, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt/Main
Back to black, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

2007

Dialogues Méditerranéens à Saint-Tropez, France
Ornament, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Digital Landscapes, The Genia Schreiber Universitiy Art gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Gegen den Strich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Ausgezeichnet!, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg

2006

„Raft of the Medusa“, National Museum Warschau, Poland; Tel Aviv, Israel

2005

„The Phoenix Collection“, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
„Japonism“, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
„Dreaming Art dreaming reality“, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
„25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank“, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
„Temporary Import“, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
„Portrait“, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
"Die Neuen Hebräer - 100 Jahre Kunst in Israel", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004

„Drawing today“, CAC Màlaga, Spain
„A European Portrait #2“, Rohkunstbau, Groß Leuthen
„Sommer Show“, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
„Guardian of the Pearl’s Shadow“, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2003

„Sommer bei EIGEN + ART“, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
„Chilufim“, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld; Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund

2002

„Chilufim“, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
„Personal Plans“, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
„Recent Acquisitions“, the Uzi Zucker Fund for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
„Sommer bei EIGEN + ART“, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig

2001

"Total Object Complete with Missing Parts“, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Gallery Barbara Davis, Houston, USA
„Las pasiones“, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
"Walkabout", The Ramat Gan Museum, Ramat Gan, Israel; Galerie Kampnagel, Hamburg

2000

"Platforma", Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Liste` 00", The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

1999

„The passion and The Wave“, 6th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
"Young International Art", Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
"Art Focus", Sultan’s Pool, Jerusalem, Israel
"Bad kids, good kids", The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
"The Biennial of the Mediterranean", Rome, Italy

1998

"Four Israeli Women Artists", Art Triennale, New Delhi, India
"Women Artists in Israel", Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
"90 Years of Israeli Art - Works of the Joseph Hachmi-Israel Phoenix Collection“, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"12 x 12", The Bezalel Graduant Program of Young Artists, The Maurice Louis Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
"Barnot. The building, destruction and restoration of high places. Israel `48 - `98", Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria

1997

"Biennale of the Mediterranean", Turin, Italy
"Home", Anadiel Gallery, New Gate, Jerusalem, Israel

1996

"Balanced", The Israeli Painters and Sculptors Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Yehudit Sasportas and Smadar Eliassaf – Drawings", Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1995

L.A. Biennial Invitational, Posner Art Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
"Eight Artists", America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tally Hall, New York, USA
"Autumn Salon", Abandoned House Exhibition, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Drawing No. 1", Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
"Michael Kasos, Yehudit Sasportas, Daphna Ron", The Tel Aviv Artists Studio, Tel Aviv, Israel

1994

„Home - Works", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Haifa; Yavneh Art Workshop, Yavneh; Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
"Seperate World", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Back", Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
"Labyrinth", Pat Studio, Jerusalem, IsraelSelected

Selected bibliography

catalogues

2008                                   

Back to black, exh. cat. Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover 2008.

Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, exh. cat. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2008.

Eventually We’ll Die. Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, exh. cat. Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya 2008.
                                   
Access to Israel I & II, exh. cat. Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt/Main 2008.

2007                       

Frieze Art Fair. Yearbook 2007–8, London 2007.

Neue Heimat (New Home), International art in the new Berlin, exh. cat. Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin 2007.

Think with the Senses—Feel with the Mind. Art in the present Tense. Participating countries, exh. cat. La Biennale di Venezia 2007.

Gegen den Strich, exh. cat. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007.
                       
Yehudit Sasportas. Guardians of the Treshold. Israeli Pavillon, La Biennale di Venezia. 52nd International Art Exhibition, DuMont 2007.

Idylle. Traum und Trugschluss, exh. cat. Phoenix Kulturstiftung/Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg/Salamanca 2007.

Ausgezeichnet!, exh. cat. Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg 2007.

2006          

All the best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, exh. cat. Singapore Art Museum 2006.

Berlin Art Now, ed. by Ulf Meyer zu Küingdorf, Munich 2006.

Mini Israel—50 Models, 45 Artists, One Space, exh. cat. Israel Museum of Art 2006.

2005                

The Cave Light, exh. cat. Leonhardi-Museum Dresden 2006.

Dreaming Art / Dreaming Reality, exh. cat. Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2005.

The New Hebrews, exh. cat. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 2005.

Japan is here, exh. cat. Israel Museum of Art 2005.

2004                

Rohkunstbau, exh. cat. Wasserschloß Groß Leuthen, Berlin 2004.

2003                

Yehudit Sasportas, exh. cat. University of California, Berkley Art Museum 2003.

Personal Plans, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Basel 2003.

2001                

Recent Acquisitions: Purchased by the Uzi Zucker Fund for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2001.

1999                           

Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation—The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1999.
                                   
The Passion and the Wave, exh. cat. 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul 1999.
                                   
1998                                   

Israeli Art, The Phoenix Collection, exh. cat. Tel Aviv Museum 1998.

1997                                   

Biennale of the Mediterranean, exh. cat. Turin 1997.
                                   
Four Israeli  Women Artists, 9th Triennale Neu Delhi, exh. cat. New Dehli 1997.
                                   
Bamot, exh. cat. Jüdisches Museum Wien 1997.

1996                                 

Trash-Can Scale, exh. cat. Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod 1996.
                                   
1994                                   

Home Works, exh. cat. Herzliya Museum of Art 1994.

press

2008                

Unruh, Rainer: Back to Black, Kunstforum, July/August 2008, p. 294-296
Tilmann, Christina: Die Schwarzmaler, Tagesspiegel, July 30, 2008, p. 21
Stöckmann, Jochen: Das Labor der Lichtung, June 7, 2008, http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/fazit/797743/
Gärtner, Barbara: Yehudit Sasportas öffnet in Braunschweig ihr Labor der Seelen, Monopol, 6/2008, June 2008, p. 116
Pschak, Evelyn: Apokalyptische Bilder, Artinvestor, 2/2008, S. 58-59
Anonym: Träume im Gelobten Land, art, May 2005, p. 54

2007                     

Tilmann, Christina: Wanderer zwischen zwei Welten, Tagesspiegel, September 21, 2007, p. B. 8
Marie Shek: dans la caverne de Yehudit Sasportas, art press 335. Venice biennale 2007, p. 40-43.
Detheridge, Anna: Cento artisti per Venezia, Domenica. Il sole 24 ore, June 3, 2007, No. 151
Bucci, Stefano: Tra gli ‚scandali’ una Madonna in chador, corriere della sera, June 6, 2007
Bonami, Francesco: Pillole di Biennale (Dimenticando Sgarbi), vanity fair italia, June 7, 2007, p. 60
Anonymous: I Guardini della soglia,
www.mosaico cem.it/article.php?section=scena&id=37, June 19, 2007
Cherubini, Laura: Biennale. Ritorno alla pittura ma con poca figura, il giornale, June 7, 2007, p. 32-33
Anonymous: Länderpavillons der Venedig Biennale, art, No. 6 / June 2007, p. 52
Ziegler, Yvonne: Linie mit Perspektive, Regioartline. Kunstmagazin, http://regioartline.org/ral/index.php?&id=4&backPID=6&swords=sasportas&tt_news=1746, 20.04.2007

2006          

Pinakothek der Moderne München: Pin. Let’s party for a piece of art, booklet
Rakete, Jim: Yehudit Sasportas – Die Hierarchie der Dinge, Modernica, no. 1, 16 Sept. 06
Luyckx, Filip: Yehudit Sasportas. The Guardian of the Pearl’s Shadow, exhibition-agenda Sint-Lukas Gallery, June-August 2006, p. 6-9
Klein, Samuel: Secrets of the forest and river, Jewish Quaterly, spring 2006, p.  43-48
Soltau, Walter: Zwei Wälder in Dresden, Jüdische Zeitung, January 2006

2005                

Daniels, Corinna: Landschaft als Bühne: Zeichnungen von Sasportas, Die Welt, 12.08.2005, No.187-32, p. 34
Thiels, Gabriele: Mein Geist ist ein Garten, Welt am Sonntag, 7.08.2005, p. 50
Ruthe, Ingeborg: Sintflut überm Hochgebirge, Berliner Zeitung, 30.07.2005, p. 29
Boeker, Carmen: Tannenwald im Tuschemeer, Berliner Zeitung, 21.07.2005, p. K09
Lutz, Cosima: Beschriebene Blätter, Die Welt, 18.05.2005

2004                

Cacmalaga, Spain Centro de Arte Dibujos Hoy, Article, p. 11-15, Art Work, p. 65-67

2003                

Georg Imdahl: Im Licht des Terrors, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 05.04.2003
Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation has chosen Yehudit Sasportas, Studio Art Magazine 144, July, p. 8-10
Schwabsky, Barry: Yehudit Sasportas, Berkley Art Museum, Art Forum, Febuary, p. 144

2002                

Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi/ Yehudit Sasportas: Matrix 200: By The River, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, September-October

2001                

Karpik-Marcus, Michal: Down the Paths of Wonderland, Muse – Art Quaterly 3, January 2001, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, p. 44-45
Mahoney, Elizabeth: Total Object Complete with missing parts. Tramway Glasgow, Art Monthly, no. 250, October, p. 73-74

2000                                   

Hunt, David: The sixth International Istanbul Biennial, Artext, February-April, p. 94
Volk, Gregolry: Dispaches – The Passion and the Wave, The sixth Istanbul Biennial, Sculpture, vol. 19, no. 1, January-February, p. 70-72

1999                

Konig, Kasper: Yehudit Sasportas: The Balloon, 1999, Art Focus 3 International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, p. 26-27
Efal, Adi: Yehudit Sasporta’s PVC, Studio Art Magazine 104, July 1999, p. 67

1996                                 

Yahav, Galia: Yehudit Sasportas: Polemic Discussion, Studio Art Magazine 77, November-December 1996, p. 26-30
Miron, Aya: His Map-Her Map, Mishkafayim 27, October 1996, p. 50-51

1995                

Michael Gedalyovich, Nir Hod, Iris Binor, Sigalit Landau, Ohad Meromi, Yehudit Sasportas: Discussions, Journal of Contemporary Art, vol. 7, Winter 1995, p. 96-117