Ella Littwitz

Ella Littwitz investigates political, social, and cultural landscapes by appropriating and shifting specific elements connected to the land. Pivotal to her practice is the constant desire of humans to create sovereign ideologies by drawing limits, borders, and frontiers, sometimes even controlling nature and moving soil. Littwitz’s interest in a specific stretch of land - namely Israel and Palestinian territories - stems from its status as a crossroads of religions, geography, and politics; water, soil, and sky; mythologies, beliefs, and momentous transitions. Her works echo its biblical and modern narratives, presenting us with diverse examples of transition, transfiguration, and the formation of political constructs through acts of belief.

Ella Littwitz is a laureate of the HISK- Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent (BE) in 2015 and received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem, IL) in 2009. Her work has been acquired by The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, IL), Kunsthaus Zürich (CH), Vehbi Koç Foundation (Istanbul, TR), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (IL), S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art - Ghent (BE) and the Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR).

Littwitz’s solo exhibitions include those at CCA Tel Aviv (IL), Kunsthalle St Gallen (CH), La Panera Art Center (Lleida, ES), MWW Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław (PL), Basis (Frankfurt, DE), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (IL), and the most recent For Chaos They Yearn at Haifa Museum of Art (IL). Her works have also featured in exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zürich (CH), EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EL), MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (PL), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TR), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, IL), Tel Aviv Museum (IL), Tallinn Kunsthal (EE), Haus am Lützowplatz (DE), Haifa Museum of Art (IL), Jaffa Museum (Tel Aviv, IL), and Arter Istanbul (TR).

Littwitz received grants and prizes from the Plumas Foundation (2023), the Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Prize (2018), the Botin Foundation Prize (2012), the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection Promising Artist Award (2013), the Artis Grant for Exceptional Work in Uncertain Times (2020), and the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2012).

Littwitz lives and works in Tel Aviv - Yafo, Israel.