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Yehudit Sasportas
Yehudit Sasportas (2013)
Born1969
Ashdod, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
Known forSculptor, video artist
MovementIsraeli art
SpouseThomas Hübl

Yehudit Sasportas (Hebrew: יהודית סספורטס, born 1969) is an Israeli artist. She is active in Israel and Germany. In 1997 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship for her work and in 1999 the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation prize.

Biography

Yehudit Sasportas was born in Ashdod in 1969. In her early works, for example, "Cradle" (1991) and "Trash Can Scale" (1996), she created three-dimensional structures based on images of household objects. Her work, "The Carpenter and the Seamstress" (2000), focuses on the architectural project of her parents apartment in housing project in Ashdod. In it she created a large installation from dimensions that combined sculpture and drawing. In the 2000s, her works began to include images from nature, mainly forests and swamps, and concrete and metaphorical dimensions. In addition, she began to work in the field of video. In 2007, she was the representative of Israel in The Guardians of the Threshold, 52 which took place at the Venice Biennale, Italy.

Education

  • 1988–1989 College of Visual Art, Beersheva
  • 1989–1993 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
  • 1993 Academy of Art and Science, Cooper Union Academy of Art, New York
  • 1997–1999 M.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

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