Bio

Bracha L. Ettinger (b. 1948, Tel Aviv) is a painter who works in both Paris and Tel Aviv. An internationally renowned visual artis­t who has been showing in major museums of modern and contemporary art, and a distinguished thinker, Bracha L. Ettinger is also one of the world’s leading  theorists in the realm of art and philosophy of aesthetics, ethics, sexual difference and French psychoanalysis and feminism, whose writings have influenced film and literary thinking, queer studies, contemporary aesthetics and ethics, and art history.

In parallel to painting and drawing engaged in abstract questions of color and light intermingled with the subject-matter of personal and historical  trauma, Bracha developed a series of concepts for rethinking subject and object and the unconscious, including the matrixial timematrixial space and gazetransubjectivity and metramorphosis, which led to a new understanding of both the feminine and the human subject. Several monographs are devoted to her work, including Art as Compassion edited by Griselda Pollock and Catherine de Zegher. Bracha is the “Marcel Duchamp” Chair and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at the EGS (Saas-Fee), faculty  at GCAS, training psychoanalyst at TAICP, member of the Lacanian WAP and NLS, and an activist in the Physicians for Human Rights. She is the author of a long series of articles and as well as few books including Matrix,  Halal(a) – Lapsus, Notes on Painting 1985-1992 (MOMA Oxford, 1993), The Matrixial Borderspace (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006) and And My Heart Wound-space (14th Istanbul Biennia and Wild Pansy Press, Leeds, 2015).

Significant recent solo exhibitions include Radicants Paris (2022), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2021, 2023), 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India (2018), UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo (2018), Muzeum Slaskie, Katowice (2017), Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2016), 14th Biennial, Istanbul (2015) and many more in galleries, museums and biennials around the world.

Bracha L. Ettinger’s recent group exhibitions include Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, Italy (2023), Villa Tamaris, France (2021), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2021, 2023), The Rachofsky Collection, The Warehouse in Dallas, USA (2021, 2020), Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (2019), Binario 2 Gallery at OGR, Turin (2019) Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Fort Kochi, Kochi (2018), Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2018), TAP and TOUCH, Tranzitdisplay, Prague (2017), National Center for Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art and Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow (2017), MAS/KMSKA, Antwerpen (2017), Gladstone Gallery, New York (2017), and Museum of Modern Art (2014, Warsaw).

Her paintings are in important collections including Castello di Rivoli (Torino), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Haifa Museum of Art (Haifa), Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers (Angers), Israel Museum and Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv).

World Wide Exhibitions

UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Callicoon Fine Arts, New York

Gallery Exhibitions

TWO

Bracha L. E and Louise Bourgeois
Igshaan Adams, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Leandro Erlich, Olafur Eliasson, Bracha L. Ettinger, Ernesto Fernández, William Kentridge, Hendrik Krawen, Josephine Meckseper, Ugo Mulas, Haim Steinbach, Pascale Marthine Tayou Yasui Tomotaka, Sam Taylor Wood, Guy Yanai, Jiang Zhi
Anisa Ashkar, Yael Bartana, Bracha Ettinger, Sigalit Landau, Tal Mazliach, Nira Pereg, Michal Rovner, Maya Zack

Art fairs

2019
November 1-3, 2019
2019
April 23 – 26, 2019
2016
November 4 – 6, 2016
2015
November 6 – 8, 2015

Publications

Bracha L. Ettinger

The Matrixial Borderspace

Bracha L. Ettinger

Artworking 1985-1999

Bracha L. Ettinger

And My Heart Wound-Space | Artist’s-book for 14th Istanbul Biennial

Bracha L. Ettinger

Le Cabinet de Bracha

Bracha L. Ettinger

Art as Compassion

Stories

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Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydice, The Graces, Persephone, 2006-2012, oil on canvas, 50 x 43.5 cm

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Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydice 54, 2015-2016, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30.2 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydice nu descendrait, n.1, 2006-2012, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 23.5 x 23.5 cm

Brach L. Ettinger, Eurydice The Graces Demeter, 2006-2012, oil on canvas, 50 x 43.5 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Ophelia, Medusa, n.1, 2006-2013, oil paper mounted on canvas, 24.5 x 28 cm

Bracha L.Ettinger, Ophelia and Eurydice n.1, 2001-2009, oil on canvas, 51.5 x 20 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, No Title Yet, n.2 (St. Anne), 2003-2009, oil on canvas, 29 x 54 cm

29x54 cm.

Bracha L. Ettinger, No Title Yet, n.1 (St. John the Baptist), 2003-2009, Oil on canvas, 29 x 54 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, No Title Yet, n.3 (Eurydice-st. anne), 2003-2009, oil on canvas, 29 x 54 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Medusa and Owl, 2012, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Medusa, 2012, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Rachel Pieta Medusa 1, 2015 - 2018, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Rachel Pieta Medusa 3, 2015 - 2018, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Rachel Pieta Medusa 2, 2015-2018, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Mamalangue n.8, 2012-2016, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm

Bracha L Ettinger, Mamalangue n. 6, 2014-2015, oil on canvas, 25 x 25 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, No Title Yet, n.2, 2018-2019, oil on canvas, 25 x 25 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Mamalangue n.7, 2012-2016, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Work on Paper, India ink and watercolor on notebook paper, 15 x 14.5 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Means of Transport, 1986, photocopic pigment and ashes, Ink and graphite on paper, 11 x 18 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger. Lichtenberg Flower and Medusa, 2016, photocopic pigment and ashes, Ink and aquarelle on paper, 19 x 22.5 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Lichtenberg Flower and Medusa n.15, 2010-2012, india ink and wash on paper, 23 x3 5.5 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Lichtenberg Flower and Medusa n.21, 2010-2012, india ink, felt-tip pen, and xerography on paper, 23 x 35.5 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Lichtenberg Flower and Medusa, 2012, india ink, xerography, photocopic pigment and ashes on paper, 23.5 x 35.5 cm

Bracha L. Ettinger, Mamemento Fluidus/Mamedusa, 2015, single channel HD video (no sound), 25:53 min.

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