Ruti Sela

Ruti Sela is an artist whose works are created at the intersection of cinema, performance, and video art. Sela documents and engages with various power dynamics. Her artworks were shown internationally in numerous exhibitions and venues, including the Biennale of Sydney, the Istanbul Biennial, the Berlin Biennial, Manifesta, the New Museum Triennial, Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou, Art in General (NY), Tel Aviv Museum, Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, ZKM, Ludwig Museum, HKW, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In 2009, she initiated, together with Maayan Amir, the long-term art project Exterritory, for which they won a Young Artists Award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2011). She studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she graduated with distinction, and proceeded to the MFA program at the Tel Aviv University Film Department. Sela is a senior lecturer in the Midrasha Faculty of Arts, and she is a lecturer at the Art Department in Haifa University. Throughout 2011, she was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. A book about her works titled “For the Record” was published by Archive Books in 2014. She also edited the anthology “Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds” (together with Maayan Amir, Punctum Books 2016).