CORNERED BY ANAT KEINAN
SOLO SHOW ZAZ10TS GALLERY
September 4, 2025 - December 31, 2025
10 TIMES SQUARE | 1441 Broadway, New York, NY 10018
Opening in September, Cornered, a solo exhibition by Anat Keinan, brings together a curated selection of works in the ZAZ10TS lobby, accompanied by a special video presentation on the building’s digital billboards (ZAZ Corner) for a limited run.
The exhibition reflects Keinan’s ongoing investigation into the charged geometry of the corner, both as a physical intersection and a psychological space. Through drawings, sculpture, and video documentation of her kinetic installation, she examines how these seemingly static points can confine, anchor, redirect, or invite movement, prompting viewers to consider their own bodies in relation to architectural structures and opening possibilities for shifts in perception and motion.
Keinan’s artistic approach is conceived from questions regarding the built environment, how places are inhabited and experienced, how they change over time, and an exploration of how space, body, and sculpture relationships can open positions of dialogue. She creates large-scale architectural installations that revolve around the human body in space, exploring how the architectural environment and physical objects shape our movement, stability, choreography, and emotions. In doing so, her work challenges and rethinks how the human body reacts to and is activated by material and tactile space, reimagining and deepening our understanding of the complexities of our shared world.
Her practice develops a distinct visual language that traverses sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, machinery, and kinetic objects. “My sculptures breathe, move, and dance like the human body,” she explains. “I think about the movement I want both the sculpture and the viewer to create in space, and ask, what are the aspirations of any given space?”
On view are graphite and charcoal works on paper, including Corner #1, Corner #2, and Corner #3 (all 2023), alongside mixed-media drawings such as Day 22, Bridge, and two untitled works from 2023. Also featured are Tilted (2022), a cast iron sculpture, and Monad (2021–2022), a video of a motorized sculpture made from plywood, steel, gears, and hardware that moves in a circuit trajectory, revealing itself from shifting perspectives.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anat Keinan. Photo Credit: Natalie Ibis
Anat Keinan (b. 1989, Jerusalem, Israel) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated with an honor BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel (2017), studied Fine Art at the HGB Art Academy in Leipzig, Germany (2016), and graduate with honor MFA in Sculpture at Yale School of Art (2023).
Her work has been exhibited at various galleries, museums, and art spaces, including The Israel Museum, The Jerusalem Artist House, The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Natural History Museum in Tel Aviv, YvYang Gallery in NYC, Atelier Shemi Gallery’s sculpture garden, The Jerusalem Print Workshop, "Fresh-Paint" Art Fair in Tel-Aviv, The New Gallery Teddy, and more.
Keinan has been awarded the Artis Contemporary Residency Grant (2024, NYC), The Alumni Travel Grant Fund from Yale School of Art (2024), she is the winner of “Keren Tarbut” for independent Artist grant in Israel (2024), and the recipient of Vermont Studio Center fellowship, VT (2023). Keinan received the Susan H. Whedon Honorary Award from Yale School of Art in recognition of an outstanding graduating student in Sculpture (2023), and the Dean's Travel Fellowships from Yale School of Art (2022). She is the recipient of the Young Artist Award from the Jerusalem Print Workshop (2018), The Herman Struck Prize for Artistic Printmaking (in 2015 and 2018), and received the Departmental Award for Excellence from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2017).
Keinan was recently a studio assistant fellow for Blacksmithing at Haystack Mountain School of Craft (2025), She was a fellow artist at Vermont Studio Center, VT (2023); she was an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center, CO (2024), and received a residency fellowship award for material studies in Iron at Penland School of Craft, NC (2022).
Special Video Presentation on ZAZ Corner’s In Between | September 4–30, 2025
As part of Cornered, Keinan’s video work Monad will be featured on ZAZ Corner’s In Between programming. The location, at the corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue, echoes the exhibition’s exploration of intersections and edges, extending the project into the public realm.
Monad documents a motorized sculpture built from plywood, steel, gears, and hardware, moving in a continuous circuit trajectory and revealing its form from shifting perspectives. Displayed for 15 seconds at a time on a large LED screen, the video artwork appears briefly amid the constant movement of Times Square, giving passersby a short but striking glimpse into Keinan’s exploration of movement, form, and perception.
Artist’s Other Works & Past Exhibitions
