Sigalit Landau facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sigalit Ethel Landau
Born	1969 (age 55–56) Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Known for	Sculptor, Video artist
Movement	Contemporary art

Sigalit Landau, born in 1969, is a famous Israeli artist. She creates many different kinds of art. This includes drawings, sculptures, videos, and performance art. Her art is shown in big museums. Some of these are the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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.

Her family lived in Philadelphia from 1974 to 1975. They also lived in London in 1978 and 1979. Sigalit grew up in Jerusalem, looking out at the Judean Desert. She went to high school at the Rubin Academy of Music. There, she focused on dance.

From 1990 to 1995, she studied art. She attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She also spent a semester studying in New York City. This was at Cooper Union.

Her Art Career

An art display by Sigalit Landau in 2001.

Sigalit Landau is an artist who works in many ways. Her art includes drawings, sculptures, and videos. She also does performance art. Sometimes, her art pieces stand alone. Other times, they create a whole new environment.

Her art often explores important topics. These include social issues and history. She also looks at politics and the environment. She talks about being homeless or feeling left out. She also explores how victims and those who cause harm relate. Her art shows how things can decay and also grow.

The human body is a key part of her work. She often uses her own body in her art. Landau uses materials like salt, sugar, and paper. She also uses everyday objects. With these, she creates large art displays. These displays completely change the spaces they are in.

One of her most famous works is called Salt Works. For this, she puts metal sculptures into the Dead Sea. The salt crystals from the sea then cover the sculptures.

In another salt art piece, she put a black dress into the Dead Sea. It stayed there for two months. She recorded how salt crystals covered the fabric. The dress turned completely white.

Art Shows and Exhibitions

Early Exhibitions (1990s)

In 1994, Sigalit Landau showed her art in two group shows. One was called 'Tranzit'. It was in an old part of the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. The other was 'Export Surplus'. This show was on the street near Bugrashov beach. Both shows were about travel and places.

In 1995, she showed her work Iron Door Tent. This was at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Landau showed her art at the Venice Biennale in 1997. She also showed her work there again in 2011. She also exhibited at Documenta X in 1997.

In 1999, Landau's art was shown in London. The next year, she won a special award. She turned a concrete mixer into a music box. She wanted to travel with it and perform stories.

Exhibitions in the 2000s

In 2001, Sigalit Landau had a show in New York City. She turned the art space into a cotton candy crater. She spun sweet fibers around herself and the audience. This was set to music.

When she returned to Israel, she started working with newspaper front pages. She turned them into sculptures of fruit every day. She dried these "fruit balls" on her studio roof. These balls were a main part of her 2002 art display. It was called "The Country".

In 2004, she opened "The Endless Solution" at the Tel Aviv Museum.

In 2007, she created "The Dining Hall" in Berlin, Germany. This was a series of art displays. They explored ideas about food and eating. It ended with a large sculpture of doner kebabs. This was a tribute to the kebab carvers in Germany.

In 2008, her art was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Also in 2008, her work Salt sails+Sugar knots was shown in Paris.

Exhibitions in the 2010s

In 2012, she showed her work Caryatid in Beersheva, Israel. In 2015, a museum in Barcelona showed many of her past works. In 2019, she showed her work Salt Years in Salzburg, Austria.

• 2012 – Soil. Nur.sing, Paris.
• 2013 – ‘The Ram in the Thicket’ in Tokyo.
• 2013 – ‘ZBIB EL-ARD’ in Jaffa.

Where Her Art Is Kept

Sigalit Landau's art is part of many important collections. These include:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Centre Pompidou
• Magasin III, Stockholm
• Jewish Museum, New York
• Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
• Israel Museum
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Pomeranz Collection
• Tiroch DeLeon Collection
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Awards and Special Recognition

Sigalit Landau has received many awards for her art:

• 1993 Jewish National Fund Sculpture Award
• 1994 America-Israel Cultural Fund
• 1994 Mary Fisher Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
• 1996 Ineborg Bachman Scholarship
• 1998 Artist in Residence at the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany
• 1999 First Prize in the British Competition by ArtAngel and London newspaper "The Times"
• 2001 Acquisition Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
• 2001 Prize for a Young Artist, Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
• 2003 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Janet and George Jaffin Scholarship Prize
• 2003 Residency, IASPIS – The International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm
• 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
• 2004 Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 2007 The Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 2012 'Artis' Grant Recipient
• 2016 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 2017 Honorary Doctoral Degree, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba

Gallery

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  Rose Bleed, 2003
  Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  B06.0207

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  The Dining Hall (Installation view), 2007
  KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

See also

In Spanish: Sigalit Landau para niños

• Visual arts in Israel