Ella Littwitz
 
b.1982, Israel.
Lives and works between Tel Aviv (Israel) and Berlin (Germany).


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Ella Littwitz's comprehensive artistic research explores archeology, history, botany, culture and politics through an archival approach. By confronting us with scientific data, historical documents, (archaeological) artefacts and the behaviour of certain botanical species, Littwitz's work reveals the mechanisms behind notions, such as national identity and geographical borders, offering more nuanced perspectives of political constructs and other established narratives.
 
Recent projects include Material Imagination: Israeli Art from the Museum's Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (Israel), Red Mercury, Basis, Frankfurt (Germany), A High Degree of Certainty, CCA Tel Aviv (Israel), curated by Sergio Edelsztein, Politics in Art, MOCAK, Krakow (Poland), Statecraft (and beyond), EMST, Athens (Greece), Locus Solus, Arter, Istanbul (Turkey), and Inaspettatamente, Cloud Seven, Brussels (Belgium), co-curated by Gregory Lang and Frédéric de Goldschmidt.
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Recent acquisitions include the purchase of the installation Hora by the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

For her most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here. 

Ella Littwitz, All at Sea, 2021, Two basalt stones from the Golan Heights and two compasses, variable dimensions. Photo: Eyal Tagar

Ella Littwitz, Semiology of the Underground, 2022, Drawing of an Arabidopsis Thaliana on a minefield warning sign, 30 x 36 cm

Ella Littwitz, Red Mercury, Basis, Frankfurt, 2023

Ella Littwitz, Ahavat Hayim (the love of life), 2022, Bronze, 56 x 10 x 7 cm

Ella Littwitz, Conflux, 2019, Baptizing robes, water from the Israeli bank of the river Jordan, water from the Jordanian bank of the river Jordan, aerial photographs (courtesy: Hebrew University, The Department of Geography, the Aerial Photography Archive), Mahogany.

Ella Littwitz, This Line, 2019-2020, Fragments of the Israel-Jordan border float line and extract from the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, Dimensions variable

Ella Littwitz, Kwisatz Haderach, 2017, The Petach Tikva Museum of Art

Ella Littwitz, Installation view, The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 2017. Photo by Elad Sarig

Ella Littwitz, Yesterday, 2020, Basalt cast, 192 x 140 x 8 cm

​Solo Exhibitions
2023
Axis Mundi, Una Boccata d’Arte, Pollina, Sicily, IT
Red Mercury, Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
 
2022
If Everything That Exists Has A Place, Place Too Will Have A Place, Copperfield, London, UK
 
2021            
Ella Littwitz: I set before you today a blessing and a curse, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
A High Degree of Certainty, curated by Sergio Edelsztein, CCA Tel Aviv, Israel
Pillar of Salt, Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
And Waters Became Wormwood, BWA Wroclaw, Poland 
 
2019
The Promise, curated by Maren Brauner, Kunsthalle St Gallen, Switzerland
Facts on the ground, Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Elephant in the Room, curated by Oriol Fontdevila, La Panera Art Center, Lleida, Spain
 
2018
And Waters Became Wormwood, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland, curated by Agata Ciastoń
And a third of the waters became wormwood, Harlan Levey projects, Brussels, Belgium
 
2017
Kwisatz Haderach, curated by Drorit Gur Arie and Or Tshuva, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
Migration - Itchy Sharqiya, curated by Irit Tal, Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
No Vestige of a Beginning, No Prospect of an End, Copperfield, London, UK
Everybody Knows That the Boat is Leaking, Galeria Silvestre, Madrid, Spain 
 
2016
Divisi (Duo with Benjamin Verhoeven), De Bijloke, Gent, Belgium 
Tomograma, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
Dionysius' Ear, Duo with Klaas Vanhee, Galeria silvestre, Tarragona, Spain
 
2015
MONOLITH, Galeria Silvestre, Tarragona, Spain
Hedgehogs see everything in yellow, Galeria silvestre, Madrid, Spain
 
2014
The Most Promising Artist Award Exhibition, Fresh paint 7, Tel aviv, Israel, curated by Matan Daube
 
2012
SIRIUS, Tivon gallery, Israel
 
 

Group Exhibitions
2023
Material Imagination: Israeli Art from the Museum's Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Unexpected Universe: Traces of the Anthropocene, Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 
2022
Politics in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Statecraft (and beyond), EMST, Athens, Greece
Locus Solus, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Soil to Soil, Altefabrik, Switzerland
K60, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Correnti I – Animalia, Rita Urso artopiagallery, Milan, Italy
A Place for the Affections: Dwelling in Anguish (Torment) and Love, co-curated with DJ Hellerman, Harlan Levey Projects 1080, Brussels, Belgium
Material Imagination: Israeli Art from the Museum’s Collection, curated by Dalit Matatyahu, Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, Israel Affair, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
 
2021
K60, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
How Long Is Now?, curated by Orly Rabi, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Digging Down; Art Of The Pre-Future, curated by Shira Friedman, Bible Lands Museum, Israel
Water Affair, curated by Udi Edelman and Avital Barak, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Event Tree Analysis, Spiegelarche, Roldisleben, Thüringen, Germany
Inaspettatamente, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
Talking To The Wall, curated by Dan Orimian, The Cube, Israel
Frequently The Woods Are Pink, Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium
Groundwater, curated by Ravit Harari, Ramat Hasharon Gallery, Israel
The Effects of Crossing & Self-Aggrandization in the Human Kingdom curated by Scrum (Séamus Kealy & Tilo Schulz) Mario Mauroner contemporary art vienna, Austria
Returning to nature, curated by Hadas Maor, The botanical Gardens, Jerusalem, Israel
 
2020
Nonfinito, curated by Vardit Gross, Artport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Accrochage, Alexander Levy Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 
2019
Futur curated by Michael Hiltbrunner, Casa d'Angel, Lumbrein, Switzerland
Ax Bear Crow curated by Vardit Gross, Artport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Anecdotes on Origin, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
Buffer Zones, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK
Asi que pasen cinco anos, Galeria silvestre Madrid, Spain
Real Beauty, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Spain
Colectiva V años Galería silvestre, Madrid, Spain
The Lid, Almacén Gallery, Yafo, Isreal
The Production Of Space, II, curated by Felix Fasolt and Guy Slabbnick, Ghent, Belgium
Photo Album, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Non Non Fiction, Emuna College, Jerusalem, Israel
Seeds of the Land, curated by Tami Manor Friedman, Ticho House - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Flowers of Our Land, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Real Beauty, curated by Oriol Fontdevila, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Spain
 
2018
The State is not a Work of Art, curated by Katerina Gregos, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
The Dangerous Professor, Flatland Gallery, Houston, Texas
Je me demande pourquoi plus de fleurs n’ont pas d’épines, V2VINGT, Schaerbeek, Brussels
Mystic Properties, Art Brussels, Hôtel de la Poste, Bruxelles, Brussels
The State is not a Work of Art, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
 
2017
What Goes Around Comes Around, Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv, Israel
10a Edicio De La Biennal D’art Leandre Cristofol, Centre d’Art La Panera, Spain
ARCANA IMPERII. Art Research on Bureaucracy, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània, València, Spain
Lives Between, co-curated by Joseph del Pesco and Sergio Edelsztein, CCA Tel Aviv, Israel
Slow Revenge of the Immobile, La Gran, Valladolid, Spain
WE HAVE THE WEIGHTS, WE HAVE THE MEASURES, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
Euphoria project: 1967 Turns 50: Wartime Art, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Mementos, curated by Jens Hoffmann and Piper Marshall, Art Brussels, Belgium
SAMPLE, Zona Maco with Harlan Levey projects, Mexico City, Mexico
 
2016
Mother, I have reached the land of my dreams, ID Festival Berlin 2016 With CIRCLE1, Germany
Fragmented Time, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, USA
Regard partagés. d’Ensor à Tuymans: coup d’oeil sur une collection privée, Marthe Donas Museum, Ittre, Belgium
Do You Speak Synergy?, Harlan Levey projects, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Denis Maksimov
 
2015
Freitag, der 13., Circle 1, Berlin, Germany
And no matter that the phone is ringing, CCI Fabrika, 6th Moscow Biennale, Special Program, curated by Oleg Matrokhin, co curator Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich
Solid, Tivon gallery, Israel
Gatherer / Nonfunctional Display, Jerusalem Artists’ house, Israel, curate d by Tali Ben-Nun
 
2014
Back to Berlin, Re-view, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
ITINERARIOS, XX Becas de Artes Plásticas, Santander, Spain
The International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel      
Der Zweite Blick, Jüdisches Gemeindehaus, Berlin, Germany
 
2012
NO OK, Stadtbad Oderberger, Berlin, Germany
Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art – From Astonishment to Disenchantment, Herzliya museum of contemporary art, Israel, curated by D. Levin, G. Limon, D. Kaufmann
 
2011
12th ISTANBUL BIENNIAL, Turkey, curated by Adriano Pedrosa & Jens Hoffmann
Beauty, Florentin 45 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
METAKOM … yet the sea is not full…, a Schir project: Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh, Germany
Raumordnung, Gesellschaft für urbane Kunst und Gestaltung, Krefeld, Germany
Kunstverein Kreis Soest, Germany
Terror: Artists Respond, Industry City Gallery, New York, USA
 
2010
Selected Graduates from Fine Arts Academies, Tel Hai Museum, Upper Galilee, Israel
HomeBase V, Berlin, Germany
100 JAHRE JUNG, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
 
2009
100 Years of Dialogue through Art, Orangerie du Senate,
Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France
David and the Girls, POV: The Israeli Photography Festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel
 


Awards
2021
Artist Exhibition grant
 
2020
Artist Grant for Exceptional Work in Uncertain Times
 
2019
Artist Exhibition grant
Artport Tel Aviv, Israel
 
2018
The Lottery Grant, Israel
BINZ39 residency, Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim foundation prize, Zurich, Switzerland
Outset Studiomakers, Israel 
 
2017
The Lottery Grant, Israel
 
2015
HISK Laureate, Ghent, Belgium
 
2013
The Igal Ahouvi Art Collection Promising Artist Award, Israel
the Botin Foundation Prize, Santander, Spain
 
2012
Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
 
2010
HomeBase V, Berlin, Germany
 
2009
BFA from Bezalel, Jerusalem, Israel
Excellence scholarship granted by Rea Ben David – Photography Workshop, Tel aviv, Israel
Mitchell Presser Excellence Award granted by Bezalel Academy
 
2008(-2010)
Sharett Scholarship Program, America – Israel Cultural Foundation, Israel
 

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Collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Botin Foundation, Cantabria
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
The Vehbi Koç Foundation (Vehbi Koç Vakfı), Istanbul, Turkey
S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Private collections include Carlos Marsano (PE), Silvia Fiorucci (MC) Marguerite Steed Hoffman Collection, USA