Yael Bartana: Screening: Mir Zaynen Do!
10  —  14 September 2025
  • Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a screening of Yael Bartana’s latest video work Mir Zaynen Do!, on view from 10 to 14 September, coinciding with Berlin Art Week.
  • Yael Bartana, Mir Zaynen Do! (We Are Here!), 2024

    Yael Bartana

    Mir Zaynen Do! (We Are Here!), 2024
    One channel video and sound installation, 16:9 aspect ratio, 11.35 min
    Edition of 6 + 2 AP
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  • Also on view at
    Festival d'Automne, Maison des Métallos, Paris
    September 13, 2 – 10 pm
    September 14, 2 – 7 pm
     
    Exhibition history
    Access Kafka (Group Show,) Jewish Museum Berlin, 2024 - 2025
    Yael Bartana - Midnight, 47m Contemporary, Leipzig, 2024 - 2025
    Yael Bartana, UTOPIA NOW!, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, 2024 
     
    Publication
    Stoeber, Michael. "YAEL BARTANA. Utopia Now!". Kunstforum International, 297, August 2024, p. 224-227.
  • Access Kafka, Jewish Museum Berlin, 2024 – 2025. Photo: Jens Ziehe.
  • Yael Bartana’s video and sound installation Mir Zaynen Do! (2024), commissioned by the Jewish-Brazilian art space Casa do Povo, brings...
    Yael Bartana, UTOPIA NOW!, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, 2024, video still, Photo: Tobias Hübel

    Yael Bartana’s video and sound installation Mir Zaynen Do! (2024), commissioned by the Jewish-Brazilian art space Casa do Povo, brings together diverse people, cultures, and musical traditions. At its center are Coral Tradição, a choir founded by Jewish immigrants in São Paulo in 1946, and Ilú Obá De Min, a street music ensemble descended from Maroons—rebels who escaped slavery. The two groups meet on the stage of the Teatro de Arte Israelita Brasileiro: one quiet, soulful, and meditative; the other loud, sensual, and unrestrained.

     

    The performance is guided by 97-year-old choir director Hugueta Sendacz, born in Poland, who conducts voices shaped by histories of suffering and resilience. In Bartana’s vision, their music becomes a concrete utopia made real. Seeking to forge new alliances, the video invites us to imagine collective forms that transcend fixed identities. Amid the ruins of the legendary theater, Bartana envisions a future suspended between past and present, memory and anticipation, song and communal choreography.

  • Yael Bartana, UTOPIA NOW!, 2024
    Yael Bartana – Midnight, 47m Contemporary, Leipzig, 2024. Photo: Anna Sophie Knobloch

    Yael Bartana

    UTOPIA NOW!, 2024
    Neon
    38 x 300 cm
    15 x 118.1 inches
    Edition of 5 + 2 AP
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  • Yael Bartana employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line...

    Yael Bartana employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line between the sociological and the imagination. In her films, installations, photographs, performances and public monuments the artist investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals and collective gatherings.

     

    Bartana co-represented Germany alongside theater director Ersan Mondtag at the Venice Biennale 2024. In 2025 the artist will present a solo exhibition at the North Norwegian Art Center, Lofoten, Norway. Further recent solo exhibitions took place at Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen; Gammel Strand, Copenhagen; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Center for Digital Art, Holon; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Jewish Museum Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.

     

    Bartana‘s works are part of various permanent collections, such as Jewish Museum, Berlin, Tate Modern, London; Jewish Museum, New York; Guggenheim, New York and Abu Dhabi; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others.

     

    She was awarded the Rome Prize of Villa Massimo 2023/24.

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