Sigalit Landau explores personal themes through universal exploration, at times using both her own body and site-specific installations to reflect geopolitical struggle or ecological disaster.
Background
Ethnicity:
Landau was born to parents of Romanian and British/ Austrian descent.
Sigalit Landau was born and raised in Jerusalem. In 1974-1975 she lived in Philadelphia, 1978-1979 she lived in London.
She was three years old during the Yom Kippur War (1972), and twelve when Israel invaded Lebanon (1981). During the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993) she "had to do and undo the Israeli army".
Landau spent several years in the US and the UK. In 1993, she spent a year as an exchange student at Cooper Union School of Art and Design in New York.
By the end of the 1990s, Landau began to create video art works.
Career
Solo Exhibitions:
2013 ‘The Ram in the Thicket’ Maison Hermes in Ginza, Tokyo. Curator: Reiko Setsuda
2013 ‘Margin’, Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest. Curator: Lili Boros
2013 ‘Olives’, Tromso Kunstforening, Norway. Curator: Lita Ellingsen
2012 ‘Caryatid’, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba. Curator: Dalia Manor
2012 ‘Infnite Games’, Solyanaka Gallery, Moscow . Curator: Vardit Gross
2012 ‘Soil Nursing’, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris
2012 ‘Angel Laundry’, Givon Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Tsachi Hachmon
2011 ‘One man’s foor is another man’s feelings’, Israeli pavilion, 54th Biannale, Venice.
Curator: Jean De Loisy, Ilan Wizgan
2008 ‘Salt sails + Suger knots’, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris
2008 ‘Projects 87’, MoMA- The museum of Modern Art, New York. Curator: Klaus Biesenbach
2007 ‘The Dining Hall’, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. Director :Gabriele Horn
2006 Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 ‘Carcel de Amor’, Relatos culturales sobre la violencia de genero CARS, Museo Reina Sofa, Madrid
2005 ‘Treading Water’, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas. Curator: Fairfax Dorn
2005 ‘The Endless Solution’, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Curator: Mordechai Omer
2005 ‘Bauchaus 04’, (performance), The Armory Show, New York City
2002 The Country’, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 Video and zoetrope installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Curator: Jonathan Watkins
2001 Installation at the 'Thread Waxing Space', New York City. Curator: Lia Gangitano
2000 ‘Somnambulin-Station 1’, (sonic performance piece), Spacex Gallery, Exeter. Curators: Zoë Sherman, Tom Trevor
1999 ‘The Natives are Restless’, New Work UK, Chisenhale Gallery, London
1997 Resident Alien II, the Israeli pavilion to the Venice Art Biennial (with Yossi Breger and Miriam Cabessa).
Curator: Sarah Breitberg-Semel
1997 Resident Alien I, Documenta X, Kassel. Curator: Catherine Davide
1996 ‘VoorWerk 5’, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Curator: Bartomeu Mari
1995 ‘Temple Mount’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Sarit Shapira