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 (born 1975, IL) participated in documenta 14 (2017) as well as the Venice and Istanbul Biennales (both 2011). His works and films have been presented in major international institutions, including solo exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, New York; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; and Turku Art Museum, Finland. His work has also been shown in group exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Wien and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, among others. Currently, Gal’s work is on view in Cold as Ice. Coldness in Art and Society at Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (DE). In 2026, his work will be presented in Die Stifterin, der Nationalsozialismus und das Haus at Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg (DE); Everything Forgotten at the Jewish Museum Vienna (AT); and Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE). Further exhibitions have taken place at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Kunstverein Hamburg; and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Recent presentations include Kunsthaus Zürich; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (DE); and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (CH). He also participated in ein Haus ohne Mauern bauen at Amerikahaus, Munich (DE), and his video work Dark Continent was recently shown at ajh.pm, Bielefeld (DE). Gal’s works are included in public collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; the Louis Vuitton Collection, Paris; Kunsthalle Bremen; and the Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany.
