Keren Cytter

Keren Cytter is an Israeli visual artist and writer known for her video works, plays and performances.

born 1977Video artThe play Show Real DramaThe dance company D.I.E NOW

Born: 22 August 1977, Tel Aviv
Occupation: artist, director, screenwriter, cinematographer
Education: Avni Institute of Art and Design

Keren Cytter was born in 1977 in Tel Aviv

Keren Cytter was born on 22 August 1977. She grew up in Israel and studied visual arts at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv.

After showing in galleries in Israel, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers. There she studied with Willem de Rooij and Marlene Dumas.

Her work includes film, video installations, performance, drawing and photography, and she also writes novels, plays and poetry. Her video works include The Milk Man (2003), The Date Series (2004), Der Spiegel (2007) and Four Seasons (2009).

In 2008 she formed the dance company D.I.E NOW, made up of 5 non-professional dancers. In 2010 she founded APE, art projects era, with curator Maaike Gouwenberg, and wrote and directed the play Show Real Drama.

After six years in Berlin, she moved to New York City in 2012 and started a quarterly publication on art and poetry. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.