Anat Ratzabi
Anat Ratzabi is an internationally reputed and established contemporary artist.
She lives and works in the Hague, the Netherlands and has participated in many exhibitions at various museums and galleries in the Netherlands and other venues in Europe such as Belgium, Italy, England and Scotland. She has realized private and public significant commissions as well as projects for the municipality of the Hague, NL. from re-designing a city park (tromptuin) to the great Holocaust memorial monument at the center of the city/ Rabbijn Maarsenplein.
Internationally she has exhibited in places like Pune/India, New york, Miami and Buenos Aires, To name just a few.
Her work is published in different books and generously in the media.
Anat creates a complex and intricate visual works using a variety of technics, which she combines in an authenticate manner. From theater, video art, to installations and surrealistic bronze en stone sculptures. from ethnic patterns to abstractism.
The underlying essential statements and narratives behind her works deal directly with her experiences of multiculturalism and switching frameworks. it aims to bridge extremes by embracing opposites: secular and holy, traditional and contemporary, order and chaos.
Artist statment:
"Transformations in cultural frameworks and the annexation by overwhelming waves of extreme shifts of mind, often leads to the temptation to abandon the challenges of sophistication and seek the warm cradle of traditions. I often use this concept as a canvas to illustrate the vicissitudes of existence over time, emphasizing the thin line between primitive and supreme - That, as an attempt to challenge the infinite conflicts between creeds and cultures and distinguish the essence of separate entities."
EXHIBITION LIST, from 2010
2020 Voorjaar Salon Pulchri Studio, The Hague The Netherlands
2019 Verse aanwas Pulchri Studio, The Hague The Netherlands
2018 Au coeur du Levant Pulchri studio, The Hague The Netherlands
2018 Opdat zij niet vergeten worden Monument Rabbijn Maarsenplein, The Hague The Netherlands
2017 Orient 2.0 Pulchri studio, The Hague The Netherlands
2017 Visions Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice Italy
2017 Alchemic Body NYC Video Art Festival, New York Usa
2017 De Vrije Val van het Woord Installation Arab film festival, Rotterdam The Netherlands
2017 Alchemic Body Laura Haber Gallery, Buenos aires Argentina
2016 Freedom in A Public Space Video Installation Arab Fim Festival, Rotterdam The Netherlands
2016 Installation ''Reviving Alepo'' Arab Fim Festival,Rotterdam The Netherlands
2016 The key Caravan, Middle East Project, New York Usa
2016 The key Caravan, Middle East Project, London England
2016 The key Caravan, Middle East Project, Cairo Egypt
2014 Beeld voor Beeld Pulchri Studio (Expo&Book),The Hague The Netherlands
2014 Heemtuin Verbeeld Heemtuin, De Houtenkamp, Leiden The Netherlands
2013 Rembrandt In Zwart Wit Museum Het Markiezenhof, Bergen Op Zoom The Netherlands
2013 Rembrandt In Zwart Wit Westvries Museum, Hoorn The Netherlands
2012 Art & Jazz Lurdeskerk, Scheveningen,The Hague The Netherlands
2011 Nacht Van De Hoop Installation & art Performance, The Hague The Netherlands
2010 Weaving Poems European Patent Office (EPO), The Hague The Netherlands
