About
Atalya Laufer works with drawing, collage, painting, and installation. Drawing on historical research, archival materials, personal experience, and family histories, she creates works that connect individual stories with broader historical narratives. Her focus is on memory and the ways stories, experiences, and histories are passed on. Fragments of texts, images, bodies, and architectural elements are brought together in layered compositions. Rather than reconstructing histories, Laufer is interested in what remains: traces, absences, memories, and the stories attached to them.
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).
©Photo: Ronja Falkenbach