Michal Rovner (born 1957) lives and works in Israel and New
York City, where she has had a studio since 1988.
The artist’s prolific work in video and
film, as well as on paper and canvas, has been the subject of over forty solo
exhibitions. This fall, Rovner will be the subject of her first museum show in France. Fields
will be on view at the Jeu de Paume, Paris
from October 3 to December 31, 2005. At the same time the 2005 Festival
d'Automne, the annual citywide arts celebration, will feature Fields of Fire,
a new collaboration, specifically commissioned for the event, between Michal
Rovner and German composer Heiner Goebbels.
Rovner’s other major
solo exhibitions include Michal
Rovner: In Stone in 2004 at PaceWildenstein, New
York; Against
Order? Against Disorder? an acclaimed exhibition featured at the
Israeli Pavilion at the 50th International Art Exhibition at the Venice
Biennale, 2003; and Michal Rovner: The
Space Between, a 2002 mid-career retrospective at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York.
Some of Michal Rovner's site specific video
installations include Living Landscape (2005), a permanent twelve meter
high video wall at Yad Vashem; The Holocaust Martyr's and Heroes' Remembrance
Authority, Jerusalem; Overhang
(2000), a site-specific installation at the Chase Manhattan Bank on Park Avenue
in New York City; Overhanging
(1999) at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Further video installations include Untitled
Paris 2003 (2004) LVMH Headquarters, Paris; Mutual Interest (1997) at the Tate Gallery, London; the
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and P.S.1, New York (1999).
Rovner’s films have been screened
internationally at several museums. Notes
(2001), collaboration with composer Philip Glass, was screened at the Lincoln
Center Festival 2001, New York, and the
Barbican Theater, London.
Rovner's film Border (1997)
premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and received over a dozen
subsequent screenings at major international venues including the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art; the Tate Gallery, London; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.
Michal Rovner's work is in several permanent
collections worldwide including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC; Fine Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM; The Jewish Museum, New
York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; The Brooklyn Museum; Paris
Audiovisuel (Collection de la Ville de Paris); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris;
Museo d'arte contemporanea Roma (Al Mattatoio), Rome; Musee de l'Elysee,
Lausanne, Switzerland; International Museum of Photography at the George
Eastman House, Rochester, NY; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Tel Aviv
Museum; Polaroid Collection, Boston, MA; Bohen Foundation, New York; Reader's
Digest Collection, New York; Agfa Collection; Lambert Art Collection, Geneva;
Duma Lutie, Brussels; Musee des Beaux Arts, Calais, France; and the Phoenix Art
Museum among others.