Amos Gitaï
Born in 1950, and best known to the public for his film Kippur, shown at Cannes in 2000, the Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai bases his work to a large extent on personal experience, including the Yom Kippur war and other historic events in Israel.
Today, Gitai’s art – not just his films – has attained a profound maturity as he continues to explore themes that have accompanied his rich career as a director in other disciplines such as photography. His images oscillate between personal and collective memory. Taken in the moment, and with all its emotions, they are like an improvised autobiography, becoming, with hindsight, testimony to a shared reality.
The coherence and evolution of his work are now manifest through the diversity of the media he uses, constituting a complex mosaic whose guiding thread is essentially biographical.
Major retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York and the British Film Institute in London.
Photo ©Dan Bronfeld
Awards
Docteur honoris causa of Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in 2011
Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 2011
Distinction for Excellence, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2011
Président du Jury du Festival de Deauville 2011
Membre du Jury du Festival international du film de Moscou 2011
Membre du Jury du Festival international du film de Shanghai 2010
Léopard d'honneur du 61e Festival de Locarno, 2008
Prix Roberto Rossellini pour Désengagement, 2007
Membre du Jury de la Mostra de Venise 2007
Distinction for Excellence, Berkeley University of California, School of Envrironment and Design, 2005
Prix Roberto Rossellini pour l’ensemble de son oeuvre, 2005
Kedma reçoit le grand prix du festival international du film de Sao Paulo, 2002
Chevalier des Arts et Lettres 2000
Solo exhibitions
2016
Chronicle of an Assassination Foretold, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Chronique d'un assassinat annoncé, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France.
2015
Architecte de la mémoire - rétrospective, Cinéma Galeries, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Architecte de la mémoire, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
Biographies, Reina Sofia, Madrid
Army Day Horizontal. Army Day Vertical, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin
Architecte de la mémoire, Cinémathèque française, Paris
2013
Intervention in Gitai Weinraub's installation, MoMA, New York
2012
Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, Eglise des Frères Prêcheurs, 2012
2011
Correspondence, Efrati Gitai – Letters, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel,
Traces - Munio Gitai – Weinraub, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel,
Traces, an installation at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris,
Architetture della memoria, Musée du Cinéma, Turin
2010
Lullaby for my father, a video presentation in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, Israel
2009
The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, (with Jeanne Moreau), Festival d'Avignon, France,
Traces - Evento, Bordeaux,
2008-2009
Munio Weinraub / Amos Gitai - Architecture und Film in Israel, Pinakothek der Moderne, ArchitekturMuseum, Munich,
Munio Weinraub / Amos Gitai - Architecture and Film in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2008
Amos Gitai: Non-Fiction, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) New York,
Exhibition in memory of his father Munia Gitai – Weinraub - Amos Gitai,
2006
Olivier Cinqualbre and Lionel Richard, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Public Housing - long video presentation screens, Ein Harod Museum,
News from House News from Home, Kunstwerke, Berlin
2003
Parcours, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2000
Herzliya Museum, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan,
1998
Open Shen Zen - Performance, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel - Aviv
1994
Exhibition in memory to his father - Munio Gitai – Weinraub, Jerusalem Museum, Israel
Group exhibitions
2017
Ficciones y territorios, Arte para pensar la nueva razón del mundo, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
2014
The Disasters of War: 1800-2014, Musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens, France.
2013
Disaster, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France.
Public and private collections
Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY