About
Atalya Laufer works with drawing, collage, painting and installation. Her practice brings together archival research, family histories and personal experience. Through fragments of text, images, objects and architectural forms, she explores how memories are carried, altered and passed on. Rather than reconstructing the past, she works with what remains: traces, absences and partial memories.
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 PELEH Berkeley and RU NYC in the USA, Dumfries House in Scotland and from 2020 to 2026, she was a recipient of the MAX – Artists in Residence at Schools scholarship awarded by Stiftung Brandenburger Tor. 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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