Katja Lee Eliad

(b.1972, Tel Aviv) is a pluridisciplinary creator, working mainly with drawing, poetry, painting and video art. Starting from meditation, self-reflection and research, her conceptual practice is a complex process of abstractization and healing, dealing with cultural mythologies that shape our collective body as divided according to various categories of differences such as race, gender, sexuality, nationality etc. While acknowledging the historical treatment of difference, Katja Lee Eliad makes a space for mourning, transformation and desire for change. 

Bucharest White World, 2017, series
Mixed media on paper
12.5 x 9.5 cm
My Wet Lab, 2022
Video
27’57”
Vivre Rouge, 2017
Mixed media on paper
26 x 21 cm
Cerc, 2019
Oil on wood panel
122 x 122 cm
Frica mea, România, 2018
Mixed media on paper
18.3 x 22 cm
Fevrier Mic, 2017
Mixed media on paper
36 x 25 cm
Fevrier Mic, 2017
Mixed media on paper
24 x 13 cm
Fevrier Mic, 2017
72 x 61 cm
Installation View – Perform, Fundația Calina, Timișoara, 2018
Installation View – Perform, Fundația Calina, Timișoara, 2018
Installation View – Perform, Fundația Calina, Timișoara, 2018
Installation View -Bucharest White World, Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest, 2017
Chercher la Vague, 2017
Digital photograph
Perform, 2014
256 typewritten moleskin pages
Pour la forme touche la faux / fragment Perform, 2014
64 typewritten pages
14 x 9 cm
Xanax series, 2014
Polaroid
Low Riser, 2011
Pastel and ink on paper
65 x 50 cm
Lemn Dulce, 2011
Pastel and ink on paper
65 x 50 cm
Seed, 2011
Pastel and ink on paper
50 x 65 cm
Reflechir les Normes, 2011
Ink on cardboard
32 x 23 cm
Talmud, 2009
Assemblage on wood
122 x 122 cm
Talmud, 2009
Assemblage on wood
122 x 122 cm
Intervention in Richiș (Sibiu, Romania), 2009
Cities of Icons (series), 2007
Oil on wood panel
One Atomic Second [2007-2008]
11 pieces
oil on wood panel
various dimensions
This is my Prison, 2007
Oil on wood panel
30 x 20 cm
P 34-44, 2007
Oil on wood panel
122 x 122 cm
La barul de zi, 2011-2012
Mixed media on paper
65 x 50 cm
Menirea, 2004
Ink and pencil on paper
75 x 50 cm
Mama, 1996
Mixed media
5.5 x 4 cm
  • Solo exhibitions
  • 2019
    • I Want You to Touch my Book, Posibilă Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2017
    • Perform, Calina Foundation, Timișoara, Romania
  • 2016
    • Bucharest White World, Posibilă Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2009
    • Super8, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
    • E A TA, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
  • 2008
    • Horizons, Galerie Nathalie Fiks, Paris, France
  • Group exhibitions
  • 2022
    • From the Shore to the Modpool, Verksmiðjan a Hjalteyri, Iceland
  • 2021
    • You Feel And Drift and Sing, Triumf Amiria, Nicodim Gallery, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2019
    • Lay me Down Across the Lines, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
  • 2011
    • Desire is war, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania
  • 2008
    • Only Cowards Die Without Having Fun, Arcub, Bucharest, Romania
  • Artist residency
  • 2008
    • The Nanji Residency of the Seoul Museum of Art
  • Publications
  • Katja Lee Eliad Lexicon, artist book, Galeria de Artă Contemporană, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu
  • Valentina Iancu, Map Maker Likes Lyrical, Ed. Punch Bucharest