About
Atalya Laufer works between personal memory and collective history, reactivating overlooked stories through drawing, collage, installation, and archival research. Her works transform across contexts, often mixing intimacy, play, and irony with reflections on displacement, cultural transmission, and intergenerational memory. Shifting between tenderness and critique, she explores how histories are told, silenced, and reimagined.
Born in 1979 and grew up in Kibbutz Hazorea, Atalya is based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a BA first Hons. in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts in London UK (2005) and an MA in Art in Context from the UdK, University of Arts in Berlin, DE (2012). She has participated in an exchange program at the Pratt Institute in NYC and has completed a year scholarship in drawing at the Royal Drawing School in London. She has taken up art residencies at the RU NYC, PELEH Berkeley in the USA, Dumfries House in Scotland and is recipient of the MAX Studio Scholarship from the Brandenburger Gate Foundation since 2020. Laufer has works in private as well as public collections, including The University of the Arts (UK), HRH The Prince of Wales (UK), Central St Martins (UK) and the Jewish Museum Berlin (D).
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