Sigalit Landau facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Sigalit Ethel Landau
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Jerusalem, Israel
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| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Sculptor, Video artist |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
Sigalit Landau (born 1969) is a famous artist from Israel. She creates many different kinds of art, including sculptures, videos, and large art setups called installations.
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About Sigalit Landau
Sigalit Ethel Landau was born in Jerusalem, Israel. Her father, Simcha Landau, moved to Israel from Bukovina. Her mother, Maya Sonntag, moved from London.
When she was young, her family lived in Philadelphia (1974-1975) and London (1978-1979). Sigalit grew up in Jerusalem, with views of the Judean Desert. She went to high school at the Rubin Academy of Music, where she studied dance.
From 1990 to 1995, she studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She also spent a semester studying in New York City at Cooper Union.
Her Art and What It Means
Sigalit Landau is an artist who works in many ways. She makes drawings, sculptures, videos, and performance art. Sometimes her art stands alone, and sometimes it fills an entire room or space.
Her artworks often explore important ideas. These include how people live together, how history affects us, and how we treat our planet. She also looks at topics like being without a home or how things can change from old to new.
Sigalit often uses the human body in her art, sometimes even her own. She uses materials like salt, sugar, paper, and everyday objects. She creates large art setups that completely change the places where they are shown.
Salt Works: Art from the Dead Sea
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One of Sigalit Landau's most famous projects is called Salt Works. For this, she puts metal sculptures into the Dead Sea. Over time, salt crystals from the water grow on the metal, turning them into unique salt sculptures.
In another salt project, she placed a black dress from the early 1900s into the Dead Sea for two months. She filmed how the salt crystals covered the fabric and made the dress turn white.
Important Exhibitions
Sigalit Landau has shown her art in many places around the world.
Exhibitions in the 1990s
In 1994, Sigalit showed her art in two group exhibitions in Tel Aviv. One show was in an old bus station, and the other was on the beach. These early shows explored ideas about travel and different places.
In 1995, she showed her work Iron Door Tent at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
She represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and again in 2011. The Venice Biennale is a very important art show that happens every two years in Italy. She also showed her art at Documenta X in 1997, another big art event.
In 1999, Sigalit Landau had exhibitions in London and Exeter. The next year, she won a special award to turn a concrete mixer into a music box. She even thought about living in it and traveling with it!
Exhibitions in the 2000s
In 2001, for her New York City exhibition, Sigalit turned a space into a "cotton candy crater." She spun sweet fibers around herself and the audience while music played.
When she returned to Israel during a difficult time, she started using the front pages of the Haaretz newspaper. She turned them into sculptures of fruit. She would dry these "fruit balls" on her studio roof. These balls were a main part of her "The Country" Installation in 2002.
In 2004, she opened "The Endless Solution" at the Tel Aviv Museum.
In 2007, for "The Dining Hall" in Berlin, Germany, she created art about food and eating. This included a large sculpture of bloody doner kebabs, dedicated to the people who carve them in Germany.
In 2008, her art was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Exhibitions in the 2010s
In 2012, she showed her work Caryatid at The Negev Museum of Art in Israel. In 2015, a museum in Barcelona showed many of her past works. In 2019, she showed her work Salt Years at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in Austria.
- 2012 – Soil. Nur.sing, kamel mennour, Paris.
- 2013 – ‘The Ram in the Thicket’ Maison Hermes in Ginza, Tokyo.
- 2013 – ‘ZBIB EL-ARD’ Har-El Printers & Publishers, Jaffa.
Where You Can See Her Art Permanently
Sigalit Landau's art is part of the permanent collections in many museums. This means you can always go and see her work there!
Some of these museums include:
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Centre Pompidou in Paris
- Jewish Museum in New York
- Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
- Israel Museum
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Awards and Recognition
Sigalit Landau has received many awards for her amazing art. Some of them are:
- 1993 Jewish National Fund Sculpture Award
- 1994 Mary Fisher Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
- 1999 First Prize in the British Competition by ArtAngel and "The Times" newspaper
- 2001 Acquisition Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2001 Prize for a Young Artist, Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
- 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2007 The Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2016 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum
- 2017 Honorary Doctoral Degree, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Gallery
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Rose Bleed, 2003
Israel Museum, Jerusalem -
The Dining Hall (Installation view), 2007
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
See also
In Spanish: Sigalit Landau para niños
- Visual arts in Israel
