New Releases: Beryl Korot

VDB is thrilled to welcome Beryl Korot to the collection! We have acquired eleven works from across Korot's multi-faceted career, videos spanning the years 1972–2009. Korot's body of work carefully explores technology, text and image relationship, informational patterns, textiles, and historical lineage.

Beryl Korot is a pioneer of video art, and of multiple channel work in particular. By applying specific structures inherent to loom programming to the programming of multiple channels, she brought the ancient and modern worlds of technology into conversation. This extended to a body of work on handwoven canvas in an original language based on the grid structure of woven cloth and to a series of paintings on canvas based on this language. 

Korot co-founded and edited Radical Software, the first publication to focus on the potentials of video as an art form (1970-74) and tool for social change. Two of Korot's early multi-channel works—Dachau 1974 (1974) and Text and Commentary (1977)—have been installed in exhibitions on both the history of video art and the history of textiles. She has two video and music collaborations with Steve Reich—The Cave (1993) and Three Tales (2002)—which brought video installation art into a theatrical context and have been performed worldwide since 1993. More recently, she has created drawings which combine ink, pencil, and digitized threads, as well as large scale "tapestries" where threads are printed on paper and woven. 

Korot's works have been shown in countless museums, galleries, and institutions around the world: Whitney Museum (1980, 1993, 2000, 2002); The Kitchen, New York, NY (1975); Leo Castelli Gallery (1977); Köln and Düsseldorf Kunstvereins (1989 and 1994); Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (1990); bitforms gallery, New York, NY (2012/2018); Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2014); Tate Modern, London, England (2014); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2015); SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2016); and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2025), amongst many others.
 
Explore Korot's work below, and on her artist profile!