Esther Shalev-Gerz www.shalev-gerz.net
Based in Paris, Esther Shalev-Gerz is internationally recognized for her seminal contributions to the field of art in the public realm and her consistent investigation into the construction of memory, history, the natural world, democracy and cultural identities. Her works challenge the notion and practice of portraiture and consider how its qualities may contribute to contemporary discourse about the politics of representation.
Her monuments, installations, photography, video and public sculpture are developed through active dialogue, consultation and negotiation with people whose participation provides an emphasis to their individual and collective memories, accounts, opinions and experiences which then become both represented and considered.
Constantly inquiring into transitional qualities of time and space and the correlative transformation of identities, locales and (hi)stories, Esther Shalev-Gerz has produced a body of work that simultaneously records, critiques, and contributes to our understandings of the societal roles and value of artistic practice.
Esther Shalev-Gerz, born Gilinsky, was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. She graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. She had received grants and generous support from, among others, the DAAD, Berlin in 1990, from IASPIS Stockholm in 2002, from The Wolfsonian, FIU, Miami in 2011, from the QoG Institute, Göteborg University, Sweden in 2011 and from the Swedish Research Council in 2010-2013. From 2003 to 2015 she was a Professor in the MA at Valand Art School, Göteborg University Sweden. Since 1984 she lives and works in Paris.
She has exhibited internationally in, amongst other places, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Vancouver, Finland, Geneva, Guangzhou and New York. Significant retrospective exhibitions were presented at the Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland (2017), Wasserman Projects, Detroit (2016), the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (2012) and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2010).
She created permanent projects in public spaces in Hamburg, Galilee, Stockholm, Knislinge, Geneva, Glasgow and Vancouver. She has recently inaugurated her latest permanent art work, The Shadow, 2018 in the largest plaza of campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Her work can be found in major international public and private collections, more than 25 monographic publications have been published about her work.
Shalev-Gerz is represented by WASSERMAN PROJECTS, Detroit, Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts, jsvcPROJECTS/London, SPROVIERI, London and GALLERI SUSANNE OTTESEN, Copenhagen.
Shalev-Gerz is represented by Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts, jsvcPROJECTS/London, Sprovieri Gallery, London and Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen.
Shows & works in public space (selection)
2022
Inseparable Angels. An Imaginary House for Walther Benjamin, one-woman exhibition, Bauhaus-Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany, March 12th – May 16th
The Crown Letter, group exhibition, French Institute, Kyoto, Japan, April – May
Iconoclash, group exhibition, in connection with the collaborative project BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of the Virtual Reality, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, starting June
2021
The Crown Letter, Photo Days, group exhibition, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, France, October 15th – November 28th
The Last Click, one-woman exhibition, Out of Sight, curated by Dušica Dražic, Antwerp, Belgium, October 9th – November 21st
Nuit Blanche, one-woman exhibition, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France, October 2nd – October 3rd
The Crown Letter, Environmental Awareness – Chapter 4: The Crown Letter, Bienalsur, group exhibition, Centro Cultural Córdoba, Argentina, Sept 30th – February 15th 2022
Philosophie et Art à l’UNESCO, group exhibition, celebrating the tenth anniversary of Les Nuits de la Philosophie organized by Mériam Korichi, UNESCO, Paris, France, September 17th – September 18th
The Crown Letter, Photo Days, group exhibition, Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris, August 1st – August 22nd, Jardin Villemin, Paris, France, August 1st – August 31st
La cité sous le ciel – 93 artistes, CNEAI, group exhibition, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, France, June 16th – August 29th
WEFRAC 2021, Road Trip: Quand les projets rhabillent le FRAC, group exhibition in the public space, FRAC Bretagne, France, April 17th – April 18th
2020
Reflecting Pool, winter group exhibition, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA, January 31st – February 22nd
Takes part in Prefiguration Mission, Report to the French Prime Minister, future construction of the Museum-Memorial for Societies Facing Terrorism, France, March
The Crown Letter, group exhibition, “AUCIEL”, weekly from April 21st
Selection of works from Ritrovare Volterra, 1998 & Dead Wood, 2016, solo exhibition, POLPIS Capital, LLC, New York, USA, from July
Nicht Museum, group exhibition, Neumarkt, Dresden, Germany, July 25th
2019
Sortir, group exhibition, Cité scolaire Beaumont, Works from the FRAC Bretagne collection, Redon, France, January 11th – February 6th
Esther Shalev-Gerz: Selections from the Gold Room, one-woman exhibition, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA, January 25th – March 23rd
love in the time of social media, group exhibition, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland, March 16th – April 6th
Persona Grata?, group exhibition, Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, March 30th – January 5th 2020
2018
Between Listening and Telling, projection during the 11th Ceremony to the Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, UNESCO, Paris, France, January 25th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, one-woman exhibition, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada, April 5th – June 3rd
ON I OFF Muestra de Video, group exhibition, La Havana, Cuba, May 31st – June 22nd
The Shadow, permanent installation in public space, University Plaza, UBC, Vancouver Canada
Persona Grata, group-exhibition, Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, October 16th– January 20th2019
Regards d’artistes, group-exhibition, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, December 12th– February 10th 2019
2017
Les Inséparables, 2000, displayed in Facing Away From That Which Is Coming, by Andréa de Keijzer and Erin Robinsong, in Idéations Ludiques, March 16th– 19th
Sharing a World, in Contagious Concern and Courage, group exhibition in 12 cities of the Gothenburg region, Sweden, February – May
Esther Shalev-Gerz – The Factory is Outside, one-woman exhibition, Serlachius Museum Gustaf, Mänttä, Finland, April 1st – April 2018
Les Parenthèses, proposition for an artistic intervention in Plateforme 10, Lausanne, Switzerland
Movimenta Biennale #1, group exhibition, Nice, France, November 9th– 11th
Nessuno Escluso, group exhibition, Monaco, November 10th
2016
Our Work, group exhibition, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, January 23rd – April 10th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, one-woman exhibition, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 29th – February 27th
The Morphology of Archive, group exhibition, Museum of Goa, India, February 12th – May 2nd
Esther Shalev-Gerz, One-woman exhibition, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, USA, April 29th – July 9th
Esther Shalev-Gerz – The Last Click, one-woman exhibition, JSVCprojects/London and Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK, May 12th – June 18th
Les Inséparables, inauguration of the permanent installation in public space, Geneva, Switzerland, May 20th
Anges Inséparables – La Maison éphémère pour Walter Benjamin, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland, May 21st – September 4th
Bois mort, one-woman exhibition, La Halle-Centre d’art, Pont-en-Royans, France, June 3rd – September 4th
The Gold Room, a new commission, in the group exhibition « History Unfolds », Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, November 18th – November 19th 2017
2015
Beyond the Monument, group exhibition, HEAD/PIMPA, Le Commun, BAC, Geneva, Switzerland, January 16th – February 15th
The Garden of Forking Paths, group exhibition, Sobering Galerie, Paris, France, January 29th – February 28th
I remember the Armenian genocide…, group exhibition, Sobering Galerie, Paris, France, April 16th – May 5th
Laughter and Forgetting, Bucharest Art Week 2015, group exhibition, Bucharest, Romania, October 9th – 16th
Holding Ground, group exhibition, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, USA, October 16th – November 20th
Asia Time: 1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, December 11th – April 10th, 2016
2014
Codex, group show, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA, January 23rd – March 29th
Un espace, des espaces, group exhibition, works from the FRAC BRETAGNE collection, Lycée Chateaubriand, Rennes, France, February 7th – 27th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, one-woman exhibition, four installations, video, sound, photography, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada, March 7th – April 12th
D’eux/On Two, video projection and sound, La nuit de la philosophie, Institut Français, Berlin, Germany, June 13th
2013
Esther Shalev-Gerz, one-woman show, five installations, video, sound, photography, Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada, January 11th – April 7th
As if Silence(s), group show, Tjolöholm Castle, Sweden, May 4th – June 2nd
Ulysses, L’autre Mer, group show, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Saint-Brieuc, France, June 15th – August 25th
Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa the team of Shalev-Gerz among the 6 finalists to develop design concept for the monument, October 24th
2012
Esther Shalev-Gerz, one-woman show, video, photography, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada, March 24th – June 16th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Entre l’écoute et la parole, one-woman show, survey retrospective exhibition, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland, September 21st – January 6th 2013
Imagine – Art and Process at Wanas, collective exhibition, Skissernas Museum | Museum of Public Art, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden, October 26th – April 1st 2013
MenschenDinge, in the group show Newtopia, The State of Human Rights, video installation, Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen, Belgium, November 26th – March 31st 2013
Describing Labor, one-woman show, video, sound, photography installation, The Wolfsonian- Florida International University, Miami Beach, USA, December 3rd – April 20th 2013
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain de Bretagne, Rennes (France)
Skissernas Museum, Lund (Sweden)
Sprengel Museum, Hannover (Germany)
MacVal, Vitry-sur-Seine (France)
Kulturbehörde, Hambourg (Germany)
Fond d’Art Public, Stockholm (Sweden)
UNO park, Geneva (Switzerland)
City of Marl (Germany)
Wanas Foundation, Östra Göinge, Knislinge (Sweden)
Collection d’art contemporain de la Ville de Marseille (France)
Musée Henri Martin, Cahors (France)
Musée Municipale de La Roche-sur-Yon (France)
Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris (France)
Buchenwald Memorial (Germany)
Fondation Cartier, Paris (France)
Environment Trust, Glasgow (UK)
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (France)
Collection de la Fondation Hippocrène, Paris (France)
Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (Switzerland)
The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach (USA)
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Israel)
Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (Switzerland)
The Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg (Sweden)
The Serlachius Museums, Mänttä (Finland)
The Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris (France)
2021
Conference: “Between The Shadow and the Monument against Fascism”, for the 50 Years of the Kunsthalle Tübingen and the Berghof Foundation, Tübingen, Germany, December 2nd https://kunsthalle-tuebingen.de/kalender/
2020
Artist Talk: “Between the Shadow and The Monument Against Fascism”, Invited and Organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art at the Freud Museum, London, February 25th
Conference: “Dealing with the Trauma of an Undigested Past”, organized by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 5-6th
Virtual Conference: 9th Litvak Days “A Memory Parks. Contemporary Art and Litvak Story.”, May 29th
Virtual Conference: “Talking Diplomacy Podcast, The Footprints of Historical Traumas in Personal Stories and Monuments” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_nViJUUEpw , June 12th
Conference: “Testimony Cycles”, in conversation with Isabelle Choko at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France https://cdn.streamlike.com/uc/getCode?swfskin=26&colorskin=189&player=3&code=1&controlbar=over&med_id=4ab4281e5ef79a8f&t=5.725668&autostart=1 , October 1st
Jury panel: Jury member for the Vilnius Monument for Lithuanian residents who saved Jews during the War, Lithuania https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1302493/vilnius-to-build-monument-for-people-who-saved-jews-during-war-photos , December
2019
Lecture: Regards d’artistes, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France, January 23rd
Lecture: Rencontre avec l’artiste Esther Shalev-Gerz, séminaire d’histoire culturelle et sociale du contemporain, Centre Mahler, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, March 27th
Artist Talk: The Place of Art, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia, April 10th
Artist Talk: The Place of Art, International Academic Conference: “Theories and Practices of Art and Design: Sociocultural, Economic and Political Contexts”, HSE Doctoral School of Art and Design, Moscow, Russia, April 11th
Panel discussion: New Territories in Drawings, DRAW ART FAIR London, Saatchi Gallery, May 19th
Artist Talk: “De-centering the Gaze: Artistic Strategies for a Decolonial Future”, Explorative Workshop: “Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European Perspectivations”, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany, September 23rd
2018
Artist Talk: The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada, April 8th
Conference: Between Listening and Telling – Installation art and soundscapes in the colloquium Curating Sound for Difficult Histories, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, May 15th
Lecture: Ecole Special d’Architecture, Paris, October 1st
Round Table: Architecture et Mémoire, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, October 12th
Conference: Decolinizing Nature, in the international conference The Politics of Nature, Saint Gallen University, Switzerland, October 13th
Round Table: Representativeness, image, documentation and transmission, in the international conference Trialogues – City and Memory, Monument, Power, Community, El Born CCM and Barcelona University, Spain, November 22nd
2017
Talk: Between Listening and Telling, A conversation between Esther Shalev-Gerz and Elvira Dyangani Ose, JW3, London, UK, May 16th
Keynote: in the international conference Where Photography Belongs, arranged by the Copenhagen Photo Festival and Art Historian Charlotte Praestegaard Shwartz, The National Museum for Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8th
Speaker: mainstage session: Living History: Memorials, Monuments And Civic Identity, in CityLab Paris 2017, organized by The Atlantic, The Aspen Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies, Paris, France, October 24th
Public Lecture: The Shadow, A presentation of the artist new commission on the campus of UBC and part of the Outdoor Art Collection, The Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, November 14th
Keynote: in the conference Sense of Space in Leprosy and other Segregation Settlements: Memory-art, Disability and Segregation in a World Perspective, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, November 22nd
Keynote: in the conference Genocide Memorialization: Political Imaginaries and Public Materialities, Valand Academy, School of Global Studies, Center for Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, December 1st
Talk: in the seminar The Life of Stories, The filmed Witness, conversation with Emmanuel Alloa, EUROM, University of Barcelona, Spain, December 13th
2016
Talk: Esther Shalev-Gerz on Sharing the World in Flying Carpet #27, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, October 27th
Conference: Las materialidades de la violencia – de restos y nombres, in Materia Oscura, MUNAL, Mexico City, Mexico, November 3rd
2015
Symposium: Mass Violence, Memorialisation and Art Practices, HEAD/PIMPA, Le Commun, BAC, Geneva, Switzerland, January 22nd – 23rd
Seminar: IN EXTENSO-Boiler Room: Quelles pratiques curatoriales à l’ère du nomadisme et de la dématérialisation?, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France, April 13th
Lecture: Esther Shalev-Gerz in Conversation with Hans Ruin and Johan Redin, The Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, April 17th
Talk: Esther Shalev-Gerz, Stockholm Art Book Fair, Sweden, April 19th
Symposium: Trust and Dialogue, international symposium to mark the conclusion of Prof. Shalev-Gerz’s three-year artistic research project Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue, Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 3rd-4th
Talk: Esther Shalev-Gerz, in Speak Easy, GIBCA 2015, Folkteatrn, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 8th
Keynote: Reading, telling, singing. On memorizing and remembering, in The Ethos of History, Time, Memory, Representation, Histcon Research Project, Södertöns University, Sweden, September 10th
2014
Book Launch: The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogue, Le Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, January 16th
Conference: The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues, Institut supérieur des arts, Toulouse, France, January 22nd
Conference: Passages entre art et philosophie, Institut supérieur des arts, Toulouse, France, January 23rd
Conference: Esther Shalev-Gerz, Facultés des arts, Ecoles des arts visuels et médiatiques, UQAM, Montreal, Canada, March 5th
Conference: Esther Shalev-Gerz in the symposium Europe. The City Is Burning, Stadtkuratorin, Hamburg, Germany, May 24th
Conference: Esther Shalev-Gerz in Forums 2014, Espaces Partagés, Espaces de Traductions, études de cas, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée, Marseille, France, May 28th
Ellen Johanne Roed, who was accompanied by Esther Shalev-Gerz in her research in the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme, presented the artistic outcomes of her research in her exhibition « Skyvaelere », gallery 3,14, Bergen, Norway, from June to August and her critical Reflection on Artistic Results of a Fellowship Project in Artistic Research was approved in August.
Conference: Memory and Monumentality, in the workshop Aesthetics of Memory, Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Moderne Culture, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October 21st
Conference: Describing Labor, neon, Valand Academy Research Day, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, December 8th
Monographs
2018
Esther Shalev-Gerz, with text by Anouchka Freybe, The Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Canada, 2018
Esther shalev-Gerz, The Shadow, texts by Scott Watson and the artist, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC, Canada, 2018
2017
Esther Shalev-Gerz, The Factory is Outside, with texts by Matthew Biro, Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts and Tomas Seppa, and an interview of the artist by Timo Valjakka, in English and Finnish, Serlachius Museum and Parvs, Finland, 2017
2013
Esther Shalev-Gerz, The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues, edited by Jason E. Bowman, with texts by Esther Shalev-Gerz, Jason E. Bowman, Jacques Rancière, Lisa Le Feuvre, James E. Young, Georges Didi-Huberman, Stefanie Baumann, Annika Wik and Andrea Phillips and a conversation between Jacqueline Rose and the artist, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg and Art and Theory Publishings, Sweden, 2013
Esther Shalev-Gerz, text by Georges Didi-Huberman, foreword by Scott Watson, in English and French, The Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 2013
2012
Esther Shalev-Gerz – Describing Labor, texts by Cathy Leff, Marianne Lamonaca and Jacques Rancière and an interview of the artist and Matthew Abess, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, USA, 2012
Esther Shalev-Gerz, texts by Nicole Schweizer, Georges Didi-Huberman, Annika Wik, James E. Young and Nora Alter, in English and French, MCBA/Lausanne and JRP|Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland, 2012
Esther Shalev-Gerz, texts by Jann LM Bailey, Fanny Söderbäck, Elizabeth Matheson and Ian Wallace, in English and French, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada, 2012
2010
Esther Shalev-Gerz, texts by Jacques Rancière, Stefanie Baumann and Lisa Le Feuvre and an interview of the artist and Marta Gili, in French and English, Jeu de Paume and Fage Editions, Paris, France, 2010
2010
Still/Film, texts by Raminta Jurenaite, Pascal Hanse and Rasa Antanaviciute, in Lithuanian, French and English, Vilnius Academy of Art, Lithuania, 2009
2008
Konstens plats / The Place of Art, texts by L. Crone Jensen, B. Hakansson, J. Öberg, S. Arrhenius, A. Riestola, F. Yngström, and S. Baumann, in Swedish and English, Art Monitor, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 2008
A Thread, texts by Stefanie Baumann, Jason E. Bowman and Doreen Massey and an interview of the artist with Moira Jeffrey, in English, Aje-Aje, in association with CCA, Glasgow, UK, 2008
2006
MenschenDinge – The Human Aspect of Objects, text by Jacques Rancière and an interview of the artist with Ulrich Krempel, in English and German, Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Germany, 2006
First Generation, with the transcriptions of the words of the participants in five languages, Swedish, English, German, Russian and French, a text by Kim West and an interview of the artist, in English, Multicultural Center, Fittja, Botkyrka, Sweden, 2006
2005
Daedal(us), text by Lisa Le Feuvre and an interview of the artist and Jason Oakley, in English, Firestation Artists’ studios, Dublin, Ireland, 2005
Esther Shalev-Gerz, text by Lisa Le Feuvre and an interview of the artist and Jason Oakley, in German, Künstler, Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Ausgabe 70, Heft 12, 2. Quartal 2005, Zeitverlag Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, 2005
Entre l’écoute et la parole : Derniers Témoins, Auschwitz-Birkenau 1945/2005 / Between Listening and Telling: The Last Witnesses, Auschwitz-Birkenau 1945/2005, Mairie de Paris, France, 2005
2002
Geht dein Bild Mich an? / Does Your Image Reflect Me?, text by Ulrich Krempel and Esther Shalev-Gerz, in German, French and English, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, 2002
Två installationer / Two Installations, texts by Kerstin Smeds and esther Shalev-Gerz and an interview of the artist with Ingela Lind, in Swedish and English, History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002
2000
Les portraits des histoires – Aubervilliers, texts by Claude Gintz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, and an interview of the artist with J-C Royoux, in French, Editions ENSBA, Paris, France, 2000
Station Weimar II, text by Anja Bücherl, in German, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Weimar, Germany, 2000
Les portraits des histoires – Belsunce, texts by Michel Enrici, Brice Matthieussent and Esther Shalev-Gerz, in French, Editions Images en manoeuvre, Marseille, France, 2000 – Out of print
1998
Die Berliner Ermittlung / The Berlin Inquiry, with Jochen Gerz, in German, Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany, 1998 – Out of print
1997
Raisons de sourire / Reasons for Smiles, with Jochen Gerz, interview of the artists with Olivier Kaeppelin, in French, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 1997
1996
Irréparable, text by Laurence Imbernon and an interview of the artist with Doris von Drathen, in French and English, Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon, France, 1996 – Out of Print
Das 20. Jahrhundert / The 20th Century, with Jochen Gerz, Klartext Verlag, Essen, Germany, 1996
1994
Das Harburger Mahnmal gegen Faschismus / The Harburg Monument against Fascism, with Jochen Gerz, texts by Karl Weber, Marcia Tucker, Jean-Pierre Salgas, James E. Young, Thomas Wagner and an interview of the artists with Achim Könneke, in German and English, Hatte Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, 1994
1991
Erase the Past, text by M. Rutschky, in German, DAAD, Berlin, Germany, 1991
1990
Copan, in French, Gallery Giovanna Minelli, Paris, France, 1990 – Out of Print
Articles and Interviews
2021
Nora Sternfeld, “Counter-Memorials and Para-Monuments”, p. 25-30, in “Lerchenfeld, Ausgabe 04/2021”, HFBK Hamburg
Marie Estripeaut-Bourjac, Nicole Pelletier, Patricia Paillot, “Vivre avec la mémoire des conflits. D’un continent l’autre”, pp.17&267-281, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, March
Julio Velasco, “L’artiste comme stratège – Topographie et création plastique contemporaine”, pp.239-255, CTHS, March
2020
Isabelle Mandraud, “A Vilnius, thérapie de groupe sur le “passé non digéré””, Le Monde, France, March 8th
Takes part in the Preparatory Assignment, Report to the French Prime Minister for the future construction of the Museum-Memorial for Societies Facing Terrorism, France, March
Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Dealing with the Trauma of an Undigested Past – International Conference Overview”, “Special Address”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, https://issuu.com/ltmfa/docs/dealing_with_the_trauma_of_undigested_past_confere pp.107-112, Lithuania, June 11th
2019
Julia Livage, “Insolite – L’art contemporain pour le devoir de mémoire”, Télématin, France 2, https://www.france.tv/france-2/telematin/893191-insolite-l-art-contemporain-pour-le-devoir-de-memoire.html France, January 25th
Devorah Lauter, “In Paris, Challenging How We Remember the Holocaust”, BlouinArtInfo, https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3508142/in-paris-challenging-how-we-remember-the-holocaust USA, January 26th
Marie-Laure Desjardins, “Mémoires sensibles”, ArtsHebdoMédias, http://artshebdomedias.com/article/memoires-sensibles/ France, Janvier 28th
Yamina Benaï, “Mémorial de la Shoah : Comprendre pour ne jamais oublier”, L’Officiel Art, https://www.lofficiel.com/art/Mémorial%20de%20la%20Shoah%20:%20comprendre%20pour%20ne%20jamais%20oublier France, January 30th
Emmanuelle Lequeux, “L’art après la Shoah”, Beaux-Arts Magazine, N°416, France, February 1st
Lorraine Rossignol, “Quand la mémoire de la Shoah inspire l’art contemporain”, Télérama, https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/quand-la-memoire-de-la-shoah-inspire-lart-contemporain,n6118782.php France, February 4th
“Henry Rousso, Président de la mission de préfiguration”, Ministère de la Justice, http://www.justice.gouv.fr/delegation-interministerielle-daide-aux-victimes-12894/henry-rousso-president-de-la-mission-de-prefiguration-32263.html , Paris, France, April 1st
Andrea Soto Calderon & Jacques Rancière, « Le travail des images, Conversations avec Andrea Soto Calderon« p.11-13, 23, 26-32, Les Presses du Réel, April
Erin Robinsong, « Liquidity », p.13&15, House House Press, Spring
C. Thi Nguyen, « Monuments as Commitments: How Art Speaks to Groups and How Groups Think in Art », Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12279, University of Southern California and John Wiley & Son Ltd., United States, June 26th
Volkhard Knigge & Axel Doßmann,« Geschichte als Verunsicherung, Konzeptionen für ein historisches Begreifen des 20. Jahrhunderts », pp.169-179, June
Lars Kleberg, « Words, Bodies, Memory : A Festschrift in honor of Irina Sandomirskaja », pp.83-87, Sodertorn University, August
Colin Browne & Esther Shalev-Gerz, « In Conversation: The Shadow » p.69 in « The Capilano Review », 3.36, The Capilano Review Contemporary Arts Society, October
Fabien Théofilakis, “Esther Shalev-Gerz, Entretien”, Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains n°276, La France en guerre dans le second XXe siècle : Représentations et mémoires contemporaines, 2000-2017, pp.53-62, October
Petra Bopp, “Parler, écouter, voir. L’image du silence dans l’œuvre d’Esther Shalev-Gerz”, Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains n°276, La France en guerre dans le second XXe siècle : Représentations et mémoires contemporaines, 2000-2017, pp.47-52, October
2018
Les Inséparables in “Fonds d’art contemporains de la Ville de Genève FMAC Collection 2004-2016”, Ville de Genève and Art et Fictions Publications, January
Stephanie Bailey & Mark Woytiuk, « Remembering What Is Not Gone // Towards a Feminist Counter Monument », Site, Volume.38, April
Anouchka Freybe, “In The Image We Hear Your Voice”, in Esther Shalev-Gerz, Koffler Center of the Arts, http://kofflerarts.org/publication/2018/05/08/esther-shalev-gerz-2/, Toronto, April
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, “Engaged History”, in The Ethos of History, Time and Responsibility, Berghahn, New York-Oxford, June
Bill Weaver and Linda Solomon Wood, “Esther Shalev-Gerz talks with Linda Solomon Wood about climate change, trees and The Shadow”, The National Observer,https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/09/09/features/exclusive-video-esther-shalev-gerz-talks-linda-solomon-wood-about-smoke-trees, Canada, September 9th
“Colin Browne and Esther Shalev-Gerz in conversation: The Shadow”, The Capilano Review, https://thecapilanoreview.com/esther-shalev-gerz-in-tcr-3-36/, Canada, November 3rd
2017
Peter Cornell, “History Unfolds på Historiska museet”, konsten.net, http://konsten.net/history-unfolds-pa-historiska-museet/, Sweden, January 10th
Kristina Maria Mezei, “History Unfolds, Att göra det förflutna synligt”, omkonst, http://www.omkonst.com/17-history-unfolds-historiska-museet.shtml, Sweden, January 31st
Katrin Niklasson, “Konstprojekt belyser rädsla och mod”, Alingsås Tidning, http://paper.opoint.com/?id_site=87543&id_article=57020&code=65, Sweden, January 31st
“Serlachius-museon näyttelyssä Esther Shalev-Gerz kuvaa identiteetin ja työn käsitteen muutoksia”, Amusa Kultuuritori, http://amusa.fi/fin/foorumi/?nid=4076, Finalnd, April 1st
Hans Ruin, “Esther-Shalev-Gerz, The Gold Room”, in History Unfolds, Historiska Museet and Art and Theory Publishings, Sweden, April 20th
Annina Vaino, “Koneet eivät pelasta, vaan mielikuvitus”, Helsingin Sanomat Lauataina, Helsinki, Finland, June 3rd
Kevin Griffin, “ART SEEN: The Shadow that came for a visit to the University of B.C.”, Vancouver Sun, https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/art-seen-the-shadow-that-came-for-a-visit-to-the-university-of-b-c, October 14th
Zak Vescera, “Esther Shalev-Gerz: The artist behind The Shadow”, The Ubyssey, Vancouver, November 7th
Zak Vescera, “Not funded by tuition, $365,000 art project to move forward with month-long installation period”, The Ubyssey, Vancouver, November 7th
Kristian Vistrup Madsen, “Against Tidy Memory: Anti-Facist Memorials and the Horror of Kitsch”, MOMUS, http://momus.ca/tidy-memory-anti-fascist-memorials-horror-kitsch/ , Canada, November 28th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin, Diaphanes, Switzerland, December
Aldo Milohnic, “How to Do Things with Names and Signatures”, Performance Research, December 19th
2016
Zuzanna Dziuba, “Countermonument in Europe: Spatial Politics of Artistic Memory-Work”, in “The Art of the Multitude: Jochen Gerz – Participation and the European Experience”, p. -57-80, eds. Manus, M., Vickery J. (Campus), Universität Konstanz, Germany
Asa Nacking, Emil Larsson, « Vart Arbete/Our Work », Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden, January 23rd
Linda Fagerström, « Värdet av arbetet », Sydsvenskan, Sweden, January 26th
Dan Jönsson, » ‘Vart arbete’ pa Lunds konsthall och ‘Massa i rörelse’ pa Kalmar konstmuseum », Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, January 28th
Lisa Movius, « Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame China’s transformation », The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom, February 4th
Robert Clark, « Esther Shalev-Gerz », The Guardian, guide, United-Kingdom, May 7th – 13th
Delphine Palma, “Installation des Inséparables”, in Le Journal, TV show, Léman Bleu, http://www.lemanbleu.ch/replay/video.html?VideoID=29521, Geneva, Switzerland, May 9th
Colin Gleadell, « Art Sales: London celebrates photography », The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/art-sales-london-celebrates-photography/ , United Kingdom, May 10th
« [Genève] Art contemporain: la Ville chie deux pendules », Renversé.ch, https://renverse.ch/Geneve-Art-contemporain-la-ville-chie-deux-pendules-619 , Switzerland, May 16th
Irène Languin, « La Nuit genevoise des musées a cartonné », Tribune de Genève, http://www.tdg.ch/culture/petits-grands-joue-sorciers/story/21973506 , Switzerland, May, 23rd
Josiane Guilloud-Cavat, “Lionel Bovier revisite la collection du MAMCO”, Espaces Contemporains, http://espacescontemporains.ch/art/lionel-bovier-revisite-la-collection- du-mamco , Switzerland, May 23rd
Delphine Palma, “Interviews de l’artiste Esther Shalev-Gerz et de la repsonsable du Fonds d’art contemporain Michèle Freiburghaus-Lens”, Le Journal de la Culture, TV show, Léman Bleu, http://www.lemanbleu.ch/Scripts/Modules/CustomView/List.aspx?idn=9993&name=R eplaySearch&VideoID=29623&EmissionID=17477, Geneva, Switzerland, May 23rd
Emmanuel Grandjean, « Une nouvelle ère s’ouvre au MAMCO », Le Temps, Switzerland, May 28th
Delphine Volokhine-Petro, « Horloge infinie », Les Nouvelles du Pâquis, www.nouvelles-ge.ch , Geneva, Switzerland, June 1st
Etienne Dumont, « MAMCO/Lionel Bovier, l’art contemporain et le temps selon Fernand Braudel », Bilan, www.bilan.ch , Switzerland, June 1st
Suzanne Chessler, « Moments of Humanity », Detroit Jewish News, USA, June 2nd
Samuel Schellenberg, « Cinquante ans pour un récit », Le Courrier, http://www.lecourrier.ch/139633/cinquante_ans_pour_un_recit , Geneva, Switzerland, June 3rd
Françoise Daudeville, « Anniversaire de La Halle: trente ans d’accès à la culture en milieu rural », Le Mémorial de l’Isère, Saint Marcellin, France, June 10th
Françoise Daudeville, » ‘Bois mort’ de Esther Shalev-Gerz à La halle de Pont-en-Royans », Le Mémorial de l’Isère, Saint Marcellin, France, June 10th
Sarah Rose Sharp, ‘Registering the Moment of Remembrance », HYPERALLERGIC, http://hyperallergic.com/308804/registering-the-moment-of-remembrance/ , USA, July 1st
Matthew Biro, “Esther Shalev-Gerz”, Art Forum, USA, October
Sebastian Johans, “Hisnande upplevelse pa Historiska”, Upsala Nya Tidning, http://www.unt.se/kultur-noje/konst/hisnande-upplevelse-pa-historiska-4449515.aspx , Sweden, November 16th
Marten Arndtzén, “Konst och normkritik pa Historiska”, Kulturnytt, Sveriges Radio, http://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=478&grupp=18639&artikel=6566589 , Sweden, November 19th
Mans Hirschfeldt, “History Unfolds – ett kritiksamtal med Maja Hagerman och Marten Arndtzén”, P1 Kultur, Sveriges Radio, http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/824354?programid=767&playepisode=824354 , Sweden, November 21st
Ingela Lind, “Historisk konst i “världsklass””, SVT NYHETER, http://www.svt.se/kultur/konst/om-ett-nystan-av-kontakter-och-referenser , Sweden, November 22nd
Brigitta Rubin, “History unfolds pa Historiska museet”, Dagens Nyheter, http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konstrecensioner/history-unfolds-pa-historiska-museet/ , Sweden, November 30th
Eva Bäckstedt, “History Unfolds/En reflection”, Svenska Dagbladet, http://www.svd.se/respektlost-och-tankvart-pa-historiska, Sweden, December 4th
Elisabeth Chardon, “21 artistes en lice pour créer l’emblème de Plateforme 10”, Le Temps, https://www.letemps.ch/culture/2016/12/09/21-artistes-lice-creer-lembleme-plateforme-10 , Switzerland, December 9th
Niclas Östlind, “Esther Shalev-Gerz – On trust, dialogue and the potential in art”, Artistic Research Yearbook 2016, Swedish Research Council, Sweden
Sebastian Johans, Grenar av samma kultur, HBL, https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/grenar-av- samma-kultur-2/, Finland, December, 17th
2015
Jacob Lund, “Acts of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz – From Embodied to Mediated Memory”, in “The Holocaust and its Contexts Series”, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, p. 28-42, Macmillan Publishers Limited, Basingstoke, England
Mats Burström, « Skrävor av 1900-tal », Nordic Academic Press, Lund, Sweden
Elisabeth Millqvist, « Doubling », The Wanas Foundation, Wanas, Sweden
Les matinales d’Espace 2, “Au-delà du monument”, RTS, Geneva, Switzerland, January 14th
Elisabeth Chardon, “La mémoire du tragique, Au-delà du monument”, Le Temps, Geneva, Switzerland, January 16th
Samuel Schellenberg, “Exercice de stèle”, Le Mag, rendez-vous culturel du Courrier, Geneva, Switzerland, January 17th
Catherine Radosa, « micro monument(s) », published with the support of Galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris, March
Jean-Marc Cerino, « L’écoute – Entretien avec Esther Shalev-Gerz », in « Temps exposés. Histoire et mémoire dans l’art récent », esban, Nîmes, March
Boris Ivanov, « In the Monument », online documentary, Interfilm Productions, http://www.inthemonument.com, Canada, April
« Je me souviens du génocide arménien… 1915-2015″, catalogue of the exhibition, Sobering Gallery, Paris, France, April
« Public Safety, Skoghall (SE) », edited by Jörgen Svensson, Konstnärsnämnden, eddy.se ab, Sweden, May
Ingela Lind, « Esther Shalev-Gerz: The Portrait of Stories », in « Public Safety, Skoghall (SE) », edited by Jörgen Svensson, Konstnärsnämnden, eddy.se ab, Sweden, May
« Esther Shalev-Gerz, The Last Click », Exit 59, Spain, July
Aaron Rosen, « The 10 Best Monuments », The Guardian, London, United Kingdom, October 15th
« Asia Time », catalogue of the 1st Asia Biennial and 5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, December
2014
Carys Mills, « National Holocaust Monument finalists unveiled », Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Canada, February 20th
Janice Arnold, “About Town-Israeli Artist at UQAM”, The Canadian Jewish News, Concord, Canada, March 4th
Philip Stevens, “national holocaust monument schemes by daniel libeskind + david adjaye”, design boom, Milan, Italy, March 4th
CJN Staff, “National Holocaust Monument, Design ideas unveiled for Ottawa landmark”, The Canadian Jewish News, Concord, Canada, March 6th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Conference, ICI | Programme de conferences UQAM, Montreal, Canada, March 12th
Anne-Marie Yvon, “La mémoire en mouvement”, RCI, Montreal, Canada, March 13th
Eric Clément, “Esther Shalev-Gerz: heritage, créativité et paix”, La Presse.ca Montreal, Canada, March 18th
Heather Solomon, “International artist sees Holocaust through a new prism”, The Canadian Jewish News, Toronto, Canada, March 27th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, “Describing Labor”, Neon Installation, in Arton (24), Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, May
Jacqueline Rose, “Women in Dark Times”, Bloomsbury, London, UK, September
2013
Shawn Corner, « Works Plumb the Meaning of memory », Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, Canada, January 10th
Robin Laurence, « Esther Shalev-Gerz Exhibition Shifts and Drifts Across Time and Place », Straight.com, Vancouver, Canada, January 15th
Anne Tschida, « 20th Century Movements », The Miami Herald, Miami, USA, January 27th
Olga Livshin, « Memory and Identity Merge », The Jewish Independent, Vancouver, canada, February 15th
Georges Didi-Huberman, « Blancs-Soucis », Les Editions de Minuit, Paris France, March
Jérémy André, « Lier intimement l’art et la mémoire », La Source – The Source, Vancouver, Canada, March 4th
Kimberly Phillips, « Esther Shalev-Gerz », ARTFORUM International Magazine, Critics’ Picks, New York, USA, March 19th
Nathaniel Sandler, « Describing Labor », ARTSlant, Miami, USA, April 8th
Esther Shalev-Gerz, « Artist lecture: Esther Shalev-Gerz », at the Detroit Institute of Arts, YouTube, April 27th
« Haupt Collection, Thirty Pieces of Silver – Art and Money », Edition Braus Berlin GmbH, Germany, September
Hedwig Brenner, « Jüdische Frauen in der bildenden Kunst V, Ein biographisches Verzeichnis », Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Germany, November