REPULSION

The artist Keren Cytter (*1977 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Berlin) is by now familiar in Switzerland. For years she has been represented by Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery (now in co-operation with Christiane Büntgen), and her first Swiss solo exhibition in 2005 took place at Kunsthalle Zurich. The following year Cytter won the Art Statement Award. In addition, her works were shown in solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005), Kunst-Werke Berlin (2006), MUMOK Vienna (2007), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008) and at Le Plateau Paris (2009), as well as in numerous group exhibitions worldwide. Last year, the artist was nominated for the prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in Berlin. Cytter studied art in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. She is best known for her experimental video works that illuminate the interpersonal and the private, works that are often based on templates of literary or cinematic classics, simultaneously reflecting the influence of the media. The artist is also concerned with drawing, theater production, performance, dance, and even writes screenplays and novels. The exhibition Repulsion at Kunsthaus Baselland, named after one of her works, presents a selection of videos that have not yet been seen in the Swiss institutional framework.

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