Ella Littwitz

Ella Littwitz (b. 1982) lives and works in Tel Aviv - Yafo, Israel.

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 the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as CCA: Tel Aviv - Yafo (IL), the Haifa Museum of Art (IL), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (CH), Centre d’Art La Panera (Lleida, ES), Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław – MWW (PL), basis (Frankfurt, DE), petach tikva museum of art (IL), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg, AT), and many others. 

Littwitz has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Kunsthaus Zürich (CH), Stiftung BINZ39 (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 (Berlin, DE), Haifa Museum of Art (IL), The Jaffa Museum (Tel Aviv, IL), Arter Istanbul (TR), The Center for Digital Art (Holon, IL), and many others.