Keren Cytter

Biography

Keren Cytter was born in Tel Aviv (Israel) in 1977. She studied visual arts at the Avni Institute for Art in Tel Aviv and received a scholarship to the art academy De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She lived in Berlin starting in 2005 and relocated to New York City in 2012. She became known through her experimental video works. Cytter makes reference to experimental and classical cinema, to literature, theatre, and YouTube fragments, combining documentary and fictional material. Her works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunsthalle in  Zurich (2005), Kunst-Werke in Berlin (2006), MUMOK in Vienna (2007), Le Plateau in Paris (2009), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2010) and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2011) among others. In addition, she has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon (2007), the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and the Biennale di Venezia (2009), the Gwangju Biennale (2010) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City (2011).
 

In 2009 Cytter founded the company D.I.E Now and toured internationally with her self-composed and choreographed productions “History in the Making” and “The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Content”. The pieces were shown at the Tate Modern in London, at The Kitchen in New York, and at HAU Hebber am Ufer in Berlin. In 2010 she co-founded the foundation A.P.E. (Art Projects Era) with the curators Maaike Gouwenberg and Kathy Noble, under the name of which she has staged her plays “Show Real Drama” and “Anke is Gone/I Eat Pickles at Your Funeral.” Cytter is also the author of various novels. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Baloise Art Statement Award at Art Basel and the Ars Viva Award 2008. Additionally, she was nominated in 2009 for the award from the Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst Berlin and the Future Generation Art Prize.