Dani Gal
Dani Gal
Dani Gal’s sound, film and slide installations manipulate the original narrative logic and address the difference between the “truth” of collective memory conveyed by media and subjective feelings. Many of Gal’s performances and elaborately produced films are based on the reenactment of a political events by professional actors, like the film “Nacht und Nebel" shown at the 54th Biennale in Venice. Dani Gal’s specific way of dealing with oral narration is also reflected in his collection of long-playing records with historical speeches of the most various politicians and radio broadcasts now comprising more than 500 records. Not seldom combined with the propaganda of dictatorial regimes, these kinds of records were a popular medium up until the 1980s for disseminating political and historical contents.
Dani Gal (IL 1975) participated in documenta 14 (2017) and in the Venice and Istanbul Biennales (both in 2011). His works and films have been shown at renowned museums including solo exhibitions at the Jewish Museum New York; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich; the Turku Museum Finnland and participations at exhibitions such as at Kunsthalle Wien or the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Dani Gal has participated in exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt, the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, Kunstverein Hamburg or Staatsgalerie Stuttgart among others. His works are part of museum collections such as Centre Pompidou Paris, Migros Museum Zurich, Vuitton Collection Paris, Kunsthalle Bremen or the Art Collection of the Federal Estate of Germany. Works by Gal were recently on display at the Kunsthaus Zürich in the exhibition "APROPOS HODLER. Currently he is part of the exhibitions "Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld. Von (un)wirklichen Grenzen, (Un)Moral und anderen Überschreitungen", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE, "KNOWLEDGE IS A GARDEN. Uriel Orlow im Dialog mit der Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst", Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CHE and "Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet. Stories from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and an intervention by Simon Fujiwara", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE.
