Biography

Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in Avni
Institute for Art, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel 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...

. 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

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 world which has brought her recently more critical attention. (Frankfurter Allgemeine , de Volkskrant, 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

Repulsion

Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, based on a scenario by Gérard Brach and Roman Polanski. It was Polanski's first English language film, and was shot in Britain, as such being his second film made outside his native Poland. The cast includes...

), and "The Milk Man"(2003).

In addition to creating video installations for her shows, Cytter is also a critically acclaimed writer, "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

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 "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

Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Irish Museum of Modern Art also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. The museum opened in May 1991 and is located in Royal Hospital Kilmainham, a 17th-century building near Heuston Station to the west of Dublin's city...

, Dublin Stedelijk Museum

Stedelijk Museum

Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for classic modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has been housed on the Paulus Potterstraat, next to Museum Square Museumplein and to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam Zuid...

, (Amsterdam), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), Moderna Museet

Moderna Museet

Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...

 (Stockholm), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Bergamo), Kunsthalle Zurich

Kunsthalle Zürich

The Kunsthalle Zürich is a contemporary art exhibition centre in Zurich, Switzerland. It is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. The current director is Beatrix Ruf.A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year...

, and Frankfurter Kunstverein

Frankfurter Kunstverein

The Frankfurt Art Association is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizen of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which was an important center of trade and business...

 (Frankfurt), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery (Zürich).
Cytter has recently been awarded the Baloise Art Prize at the "Art Statements" sector of Art 37 Basel, 2006.

External links

• 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/TextEeehh...Artists Reacting to the World (Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam)]
• Pek Festival
• Pilar Corrias / London
• www.elisabethkaufmann.com
• Galerie Christian Nagel Cologne/Berlin/Antwerp
• Critique de l'exposition Keren Cytter au Plateau Frac Île-de-France, paris-art.com, in French
• http://www.modernamuseet.se/sv/Stockholm/Utstallningar/2010/Keren-Cytter/
• An interview with Keren Cytter / spike art quarterly
• Brush, a melodrama in six parts on Triple Canopy (online magazine)
  Triple Canopy (online magazine)
  Triple Canopy is an online magazine, which was first published in 2008. In an effort to "slow down the Internet," the magazine curates and facilitates new media projects, which engage with the formal possibilities of the web. Its content ranges from art and literature to essays and critical theory...