Sigalit Landau - The Dining Hall

The Dining Hall was a new and site-specific installation by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau in KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Ten years after participating in Documenta X, this was her first large solo exhibition in Germany. Landau's works relate to her Jewish identity, centering on questions of place and borders, foreignness and migration, individual and collective, reality and utopia. Using highly diverse techniques, she combines sculpture, installation, video, and performance at different formal and narrative levels. In her new work for The Dining Hall, Landau focused on food and feeding places, alchemy, and the preparation of food, which she discussed as a frictional condition of survival while also taking into account the bitter taste these themes have in times of global capitalism. Sigalit Landau integrated historic aspects into her site-specific project, where lack and abundance, community and the individual, periphery and center, East and West, as well as past and present met. A catalogue of the past ten years of projects by Sigalit Landau was published in January 2008.

Artistic directors: Gabriele Horn
Artist: Sigalit Landau (IL)
Venue:
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin: 18 Nov. 2007 - 17 Feb. 2008