• Home
  • Programming

    Exhibitions

    Events & Tours

    Publications

    Digital Projects

  • Collections and Research

    Search Collections

    Artworks

    Outdoor Art

    Archives

    Research Projects

  • The Gallery

    About

    Visit

    News

    Support

    Contact

    Online Bookstore

  • Subscribe
Menu
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Search Results

← Bookstore

Esther Shalev-Gerz: Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne catalogue

2013 / ISBN 978-3-03764-276-4
160 pages, colour, paperback, published by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne/JRP Ringier

$50
Add to cart

Exhibition catalogue from Esther Shalev-Gerz’s exhibition at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (22 September 2012-6 January 2013), curated and edited by Nicole Schweizer with essays by Nora Alter, Georges Didi-Huberman, James E. Young and Annika Wik. This monograph gives a comprehensive overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Esther Shalev-Gerz over the past 20 years in her films, video-installations, photographs, and site-specific works (among them numerous projects for memorials and community-based schemes). The book aims to highlight the specific ways in which the artist deals with issues of knowledge, memory, history, and testimony through the space of the installation. As Shalev-Gerz states, “My terrain of investigation is the construction of memory. My aim is to challenge and disturb normalized expectations of memoires, and of historiography, by disrupting the various forms of official histories, including anthropology, ethnology, and museology.”

 

  • Nora Alter

    Writer
  • Georges Didi-Huberman

    Writer
  • Esther Shalev-Gerz

    Esther Shalev-Gerz (née Gilinksy) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1948. Her family moved to Jerusalem in 1957, where she graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Since 1984, she shares her time between Paris and Cortes Island, BC. Internationally recognized for her significant contributions in the field of public art, photography and video, Shalev-Gerz investigates questions of memory, history, trauma, cultural identity and ethics in the contemporary world through her practice. Working in multiple media, from photographs and video installations to large-scale public commissions that merge architecture with landscape design, Shalev-Gerz’s monuments, installations and public sculptures are developed through active dialogue and consultation with people whose participation provides an emphasis on their individual and collective memories, accounts, opinions and experiences. In 2010 and 2012, two major retrospective exhibitions respectively displayed ten and fifteen of her installations, first in Jeu de Paume, Paris then in Musée des Beaux Arts de Lausanne. Space Between Time, her solo exhibition at Wasserman Projects, Detroit presented nine of her installations between April and July 2016. In 2017, a survey exhibition of her work was presented at the Serlachius Museum, Mantta, Finland. She has exhibited internationally in, amongst other places, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Vancouver, Geneva, Guangzhou and New York. From the beginning of her career with landmark monuments such as Oil on Stone (1983) and The Monument Against Fascism (1986), Shalev-Gerz has designed and realized permanent installations in public space in Hamburg, Israel, Stockholm, Wanas, Geneva, Glasgow and now Vancouver. Her work has been represented in over twenty-five monographs. For more information about the artist, visit www.shalev-gerz.net

    Read More

  • Annika Wik

    Writer
  • James E. Young

    Writer

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

University of British Columbia

1825 Main Mall

Vancouver, British Columbia,

Canada V6T 1Z2 Map

xʷməθkʷəy̍əm | Musqueam Territory

Contact

Telephone: +1 (604) 822-2759

Email: belkin.gallery@ubc.ca

Admission is free

Tours are available

  • Tue 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Wed 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Thu 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Fri 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Sat 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Sun 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Monday & Holidays Closed

Programming

  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • Publications

Research and Study

  • Collection and Archives
  • Study

The Gallery

  • About
  • Visit
  • Online Bookstore
  • Accessibility
  • News
  • Support
  • Artist Submissions
  • Contact

Terms of Use

Enter your email to subscribe to our newsletter

Subscribe