Yehudit Sasportas
1969
born in Ashdod, Israel
lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv.
1988 - 89
College for Visual Art, Beersheva, Israel1989 - 93
B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel1997 - 99
M.F.A., Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem in Zusammenarbeit mit der Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel1993
Academy of Art and Science, Cooper Union Academy of Art, New York, USAseit 1993
teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, IsraelAwards and Fellowships
2003-2005
The chosen Artist, Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation (IcExcellence)2004
International studioprogramm of Künstlerhauses Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2003
Artist-in-residence, Binz Foundation, Nairs, Switzerland2001
Arthur Goldreich Foundation, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel1999
The Israeli Art Prize, Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel1994-1998
Israel-America Fund for Culture, Helena Rubinstein Award for SculptureGotsy Reder Prize for Sculpture
1997
Ingeborg Bachmann Stipendium, Anselm-Kiefer-Preis, Stiftung Wolf, Herzliya, Israel1996
Kadishman Prize for Sculpture, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, IsraelYoung Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Education, Israel
1993
Robert Steinmann Prize for Sculpture, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, IsraelEhud Elhanani Prize, Fine Art Department, Bezalel Aademy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2020
Archäologie des Unsichtbaren, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2017
Rifts of Absence, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
2016
HAMAKOM / Films 2008 – 2015, Kunstforeningen Gistrand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Vertical Swamp - Raw Material, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013
Seven Winters, The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
Films, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Leipzig, Berlin
2010
Hazipur, Herbert-Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
2009
The clearing of the unseen, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2008
The Laboratory, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Galerie EIGEN + ART, frieze art fair, London, UK
2007
The Guardians of the Threshold, 52. Venedig Biennale, Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the present Tense, Israelischer Pavillon, Venice, Italy
2006
The Guardian of the Pearl’ Shadow, Sint-Lukas Galerij Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2005
The Cave Light, Leonhardi Museum, Dresden, Germany
The Pomegranate Orchard, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2004
The Guardian of the Pearl´s Shadow 1, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003
The Swamp and the Magnetic Ants, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2002
By the River, Matrix 200, The Berkely Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA
2001
How did it ever come so far ..., Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2000
The Carpenter and the Seamstress, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Gezwitscher. Kunst aus der Vogelperspektive, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
HOME IS WHERE YOU’RE HAPPY, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany
Work on Paper, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
2022
MEDIUM ZEICHNUNG. Zeitgenössische Positionen zur Zeichenkunst, Kunstsammlung Gera. Orangerie, Gera
Locus Solus, Arter Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2021
Israelische Künstler:innen in Deutschland, eka Kunsthalle Trier, Germany
2020
25 Jahre Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Brandenburg, Germany
Skulptur & Natur, Skulpturenpark, Schlossgut Schwante, Germany
2019
Gifts for you, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin
2018
Body Talk, Circle1Gallery, Berlin, Germany
No More Reality, Loushy | Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017
Jetzt Druck machen – Druckgrafik aus Leipzig, Museum Angerlehner, Talheim bei Wels, Germany
2016
Wie es uns gefällt - 15 Jahre Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
2015
Paperworld. Kinder- und Jugendzeichnungen zeitgenössischer Künstler, Museum Buchheim, Bernried am Starnberger See, Germany
Harmonie und Umbruch, Marta Herford Museum (Gehry-Galerien), Herford, Germany
Walk the Line / Neue Wege der Zeichnung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2013
on paper, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kalte Rinden – Seltene Erden, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
2012
Kalte Rinden - Seltene Erden, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany / Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany
Berlin zeichnet!, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Inner Motion, Kunstmuseum unserer lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
2011
Berlin zeichnet!, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany
2010
Berlin zeichnet!, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
Künstler der Galerie, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Everybody learns from Disaster, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany
2009
Site of Silence, Ausstellungshalle für zeitgenössischer Kunst, Münster
Wallworks, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Ornament and Pride, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
2008
Sommer bei EIGEN + ART, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
Access to Israel I & II, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Back to black, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover. Germany
2007
Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Gegen den Strich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Ausgezeichnet!, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
2006
Raft of the Medusa, National Museum Warschau & Krakow, Poland
Gal Weinstein. Huleh Valley, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
All the best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum
Mini Israel: 70 Models, 45 Artists, One Space, The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Far and away: The Fantasy of Japan in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
The phoenix Collection, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
Dreaming Art Dreaming realitiy, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Portrait, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Die Neuen Hebräer – 100 Jahre Kunst in Israel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2004
Drawing today, Centro de Arte Contemoráneo de Málaga, Spain
A European Portrait #2, Rohkunstbau, Groß Leuthen, Germany
Point of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Romantica, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003
Sommer bei EIGEN + ART, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Chilufim, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Gemany / Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany / Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2002
Chilufim, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; The Israel Museum, 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, Leipzig, Germany
2001
Las pasiones, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2000
Ladies and Gentleman, Contemporary Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999
The Passion and The Wave, 6th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Young International Art, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
Bamot. The building, destruction and restoration of high places. Israel `48 - `98, Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
1997
Biennale of the Mediterranean, Turin, Italy