During the opening week of the Venice Biennale, from Monday 4 May to Sunday 10 May, a room at the Hotel Metropole becomes the site of an exhibition by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
“Bracha. The Room Is Shared” transforms the room where Sigmund Freud partly wrote “The Interpretation of Dreams” between 1895 and 1899, into a space of painting, slow looking, psychoanalysis, resonance, and shared presence.
Seven paintings made between 2006 and 2025 are installed within the lived Venetian atmosphere of the historic hotel room. The exhibition unfolds over seven days — the same number as the seven paintings— creating a quiet correspondence between duration and image, time and attention. Veils of mauve, deep red-purple, and milky white release spectral faces and trembling forms that surface and recede as the viewer gazes. Several rare video works premiere in this exhibition and accompany the paintings, extending the artist’s language of layering into moving image, where cinematic time becomes another membrane through which memory and resonance unfold.
This is arguably the smallest exhibition in Venice and, due to limited capacity, booking is essential and open to everyone. Details of how to book and attend in person in Venice will be released on 15 April, 2026.
Photo M. L. Gioffre courtesy the artist
Hotel Metropole, Venice
From Monday 4 May to Sunday 10 May 2026
Book from 15 April: link in bio
Artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger has been developing a body of work for nearly forty years, deeply rooted in personal and collective memory.
Marked by the history of her parents, survivors of the Shoah, her practice explores generational transmission, trauma, amnesia and unconscious co-emergence.
Produced in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, this catalogue brings together works, installations and notebook images, offering a comprehensive view of a major oeuvre shaped by beauty and the matrixial feminine.
Meet the artist for a book signing event in our Paris Boutique (28, rue de Grenelle) tomorrow at 6pm.
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Artiste, écrivaine, psychanalyste et philosophe, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger développe depuis près de quarante ans une œuvre profondément liée à la mémoire personnelle et collective.
Marquée par l’histoire de ses parents, survivants de la Shoah, sa recherche explore la transmission générationnelle, le trauma, l’amnésie et la co-émergence inconsciente.
Ce catalogue, réalisé en collaboration avec le Centre Pompidou, offre une vision complète de ses projets, de ses installations et de ses carnets, célébrant une œuvre majeure autour de la beauté et du féminin matriciel.
Rencontrez l’artiste à l’occasion d’une séance de dédicace de l’ouvrage au sein de notre boutique parisienne (28, rue de Grenelle) demain à partir de 18h.
#contemporaryart #skira
This coming Thursday, January 22, a Book on the artist Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger will be launched in Paris, at the Skira library. The Monograph, that includes many photos of her art works, was published by @skira_arte in collaboration with the @centrepompidou , following Bracha’s solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 2024. Contributing writers: Laurent Le Bon and Xavier Rey, Laure Chauvelot and Marie Siguier, Laetitia Pesenti, Donatien Grau, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev [@carolynchristovbakargiev ], Griselda Pollock, Gavin Delahunty, Arne Vanraes, Hans Ulrich Obrist [@hansulrichobrist ] in conversation with Bracha L. Ettinger [@brachaettinger ], Orna Castel, and Leore Sachs Shmueli.
This coming Thursday, January 22, a Book on the artist Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger will be launched in Paris, at the Skira library. The Monograph, that includes many photos of her art works, was published by @skira_arte in collaboration with the @centrepompidou , following Bracha’s solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 2024. Contributing writers: Laurent Le Bon and Xavier Rey, Laure Chauvelot and Marie Siguier, Laetitia Pesenti, Donatien Grau, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev [@carolynchristovbakargiev ], Griselda Pollock, Gavin Delahunty, Arne Vanraes, Hans Ulrich Obrist [@hansulrichobrist ] in conversation with Bracha L. Ettinger [@brachaettinger ], Orna Castel, and Leore Sachs Shmueli.
This coming Thursday, January 22, a Book on the artist Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger will be launched in Paris, at the Skira library. The Monograph, that includes many photos of her art works, was published by @skira_arte in collaboration with the @centrepompidou , following Bracha’s solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 2024. Contributing writers: Laurent Le Bon and Xavier Rey, Laure Chauvelot and Marie Siguier, Laetitia Pesenti, Donatien Grau, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev [@carolynchristovbakargiev ], Griselda Pollock, Gavin Delahunty, Arne Vanraes, Hans Ulrich Obrist [@hansulrichobrist ] in conversation with Bracha L. Ettinger [@brachaettinger ], Orna Castel, and Leore Sachs Shmueli.
Bracha L. Ettinger.
I is for Interiority.
In: La Pausa from A to Z, by Alphabet in collaboration with CHANEL Arts, culture & Heritage. Edited by Donatien Grau
#chanelofficial
@brachaettinger ’s exhibition in on view at @kunstsammlungnrw until 31 August.
The exhibition includes her most recent paintings, examples of her early work from the 1980s. Early on, Bracha used the photocopier to create images, mixed ashes into pigments, and explored the possibility of reproducing documents of mass murder. In her paintings, which evolve over a period of four to nine years in an unconscious process, female victims of the Shoah encounter figures from ancient myths.
Photographs: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
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With great care everything is set in place for Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger’s first solo exhibition at a German museum. Join us for the opening this friday at 7 pm at K21! The exhibition includes paintings, works on paper and notebooks, some of which are shown outside the artist’s studio for the first time.
#BRACHA #KunstsammlungNRW #Düsseldorf @brachaettinger
Mit großer Sorgfalt wird alles für Bracha Lichtenberg Ettingers erste Einzelausstellung in einem deutschen Museum vorbereitet. Besucht uns zur Eröffnung diesen Freitag um 19 Uhr im K21! Die Ausstellung umfasst Gemälde, Arbeiten auf Papier und Notizbücher, die teils erstmals das Atelier der Künstlerin verlassen.
ℹ️ „Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger“ vom 22.2. - 31.8.2025 im K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
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🥂 Eröffnung am 21.2., 19 – 22 Uhr, Eintritt frei
💬 Talks mit BRACHA am 22.2., 12 – 22 Uhr mit @karenarchey , @carolynchristovbakargiev , @bourriaudnicolas , Rosi Huhn, @kolja_reichert und Andrea Viliani.
Study at GCAS. Apply now for enrollment starting with Jamieson Webster and Bracha L. Ettinger’s Paris seminar in September (online and in person).
Apply here: https://gcas.ie/academics/degree-programs/masters/psychoanalysis
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