Exhibitions
YAEL VISHNIZKI-LEVI: NÆVUS (BIRTHMARKS)
Space 204 (Vanderbilt University) / 1204 25th Ave. S. February 13 - March 19th (Reception: February 13 3:00pm - 5:00pm)
Yael Vishnizki-Levi
In the past year, Yael Vishnizki-Levi has been exploring the first footprints her child has made in this world. The product of automatic and impulsive actions, these footprints seem to originate in an unlocalized realm in which creative energies are not dictated by artistic concepts and agendas. They are a production of an intimate choreography contained by our domestic space and routines of caregiving resonating with artistic references. The banging of metal spoons on the dining table makes inscriptions in the wood and echoes noisily in the room. Levi began documenting them, reflecting on the poetics and possible mediums of this process. These “birthmarks” have marked an interweaving of motherhood and artist practice.
Yael Vishnizki-Levi is a visual artist, researcher, curator, filmmaker and educator. Her practice is rooted in visual arts, yet she incorporates curatorial practices and educational methodologies, archival research, fieldwork, and bibliographic and scientific research. These are being processed and analyzed both into academic and poetic texts as well as into visual mind-maps which are developed later into artworks.
Yael exhibits her work internationally across various venues such as the Wrocław Contemporary Museum in Wrocław, Poland; Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, the BHROX Bauhaus Reuse pavilion in Berlin, Germany; Biennale Warszawa in Warsaw, Poland; BWA gallery in Wrocław, Poland; Forum StadtPark in Graz, Austria; Pavel Haus in Bad Radkersburg, Austria; Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York; among others.
In the framework of her career, Yael has participated in residency programs at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews In Warsaw; the Nida Art Colony In Lithuania; Styrian A-i-R in Graz, Austria; among others.
She is the recipient of numerous grants and scholarships among the Puffin Foundation Project Grant; Asylum Arts Exhibition Grant; the University of Warsaw Rector Grant for Excellence in Studies; the Pilecki Institute Exercising Modernity Research Scholarship; and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Travel Grant for Polish Artists.
This project is a village and possible with a collaborative spirit between Yael Vishnizki-Levi, Simon L., Sarah Dunham, and Reza Filsoofi.
Image: Yael Vishnizki-Levi, "untitled," 2025, risiograph, 8.5in x 11in. Collaboration with Sarah Dunham.
